Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-08-05

paid to look alter that business.
And IL / say it myself l think you
have not been trusting to a broken
reed. think | am leaving that
matter in the hands of man in
whom you have confidence. II |
thought that any man in whom ]
did not have confidence would be
put IN my place l would have put
my foot down on it. (Applause. }
l have attended to feeling the
pulse Of the Royalists on the
other islands as we'll as in Homo
lulu. When l came back here
the air was full of rumors of fill
busters coming here, in fact the
ships were already here, and that
at least five hundred cutthroats
would be here shortly. L am
happy to say that l take no stock
in it although l have been told
that there are four ships loaded
with cutthroats ready to swoop
down here. II l believed that /
would stop here and see that
thing through before L went back
to Hawaii. But your late Mar
shall takes no stock in that. There
is possibility of that happening
just as there is a possibility of the
suns not rising tomorrow. There
are dirty people here still, L am
sorry to say, and white men, who
are still making the natives be-
Iieve that woman is going back
on the throne, who say that there
are 500 men ready to come in and
restore that woman. They have
their spies just the same as we
have, but it does not appear that
they are paid the same as we pay
ours. These ours encouraged
the natives to fight, but
when the day came they
were not found fighting in
the field. They are telling the
natives that those claims are 60
ing to be pressed. 1 am informed
that they have told the natives
that there is a British claim of
$245, 900. John Mitchell of Ala
bama has a claim, and our friend
Norrie is said to have one, be-
sides Durreel's already presented.
Now, gentlemen, if they get those
claims you will have to pay for
them.
Captain McStocker-They'll get
it where the chicken got the axe.
Mr.. Hitchcock-The natives
say next time the haoles will have
to go first. You must remember
that l was only loaned to you. My
people say, "You have been there
long enough and now must come
back to us. White men stand
by US staunchly and red men stand
by us just as staunchly. You
cannot be right unless you have
the Hawaiian on your side. L
feel that perhaps the Government
has not done all it might in put
ting the proper facts before the
Hawaiian. They have just put
forth our constitution, although
they have agreed with me that it
was the proper thing to send a
man to the natives who could
show up facts, and the natives
would come over and be true
friends of the republic. 1 do not
believe there is a man here who
is more particular about hoohiki
that is an oath to the Govern
ment--than the red man. They
make no mental reservations as
some of us do. In lands where
the gods are powerful, such Ms
this country where the sharks are
omnipotent, an oath means some
thing. cannot say it about Ho-
nolulu because / think that here
in Honolulu you have the worst
natives in the country. And If
there is not niger in the fence,
where the white man has not got
his foot on their necks, the natives
are not afraid of the white man.
l think | oan do as much as any
man in setting the minds of the
natives right, for / have slept in
their hammocks. l believe / can
get those people to come over Ia
the Government in large numbers
and take the oath. 1t has some