The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-09

was merely in the exercise OF legttl-
mate right in anticipation OF a posi-
biIitv of q legitimate restoration IL
IA u6fortunatP, Is il not, that when
This Commission il called upon to ab
sorb that statement, hecircumstances
should be such that it turns out that
out OF eleven men who were commits
stoned, "Iegftimately and as q matter
of right" nine are now in jail, one OF
them being in Jail at the time, Ma
wahi, the intended governor or the
island of Hawaii. 1t is unfortunate
that at the time this Commission Is
called upon to absorb this statement,
it turns out by the undisputed evil
dence, that this new constitution came
direct from the hands OF the three Of
the leading conspfrators who had
charge Of this rebellion. Saml Now
lein, Mr.. G.. T. Gulick and Mr.. Rick
ard, forsooth, drew the document
which was to inaugurate new era OF
liberty and conteDtment 1t Is
strange, is it not, and unfortunate,
that those proclamations, the procla-
nation of martial law, the proclama-
ton to rally to the assistance OF the
nroposed government and the an
nouncement of the appointment OF
certain persons to hold commissions
under this would-be Government,
were drawn in the hands OF &. i.
Gulick, and found their way into the
hands Of innocence we know not how
or when. 1t all may be true, but is 1t
not unfortunate that these documents
fitted from the hands OF innocence 70
the hands Of treason back and forward,
until discriminating public did not
know who was who, or which was
which-until the learned counsel
stepped upon the stage and dividing
the two and separating two, labeled
one as innocence, and the other as
high handed treason. It is certainly
astonishing, Is it not, that these docu-
ments should have passed from the
hands Of the accused just at the right
time into the hands OF trattors-men
who had q musket in one hand and
these declarations in the other. Un-
happy coincidence, strange coinc1-
dence, Is it not? We are called upon
to believe it without any hesitancy,
and our oaths invoked as the only
stumbling blocks in the way OF be-
lieviug 1t.
1t is an unfortunate circumstance, is
it not, that in 1889, out OF the prem
Uses OF this accused marched WILCOX
and his men from Palama. Unfortu-
nate coincidence, strange coincidence!
An easy going public accepted the
declaration that her premises were
used at that time without her knowl-
edge, consent or authority, but when
the thing comes back again in the
shape of Washington Place turned
into an arsenal without her knowl-
edge, consent or approval, and while
in the insidious pursuit OF peace and
diplomatic discussion" IL this Com
mission can swallow 1t, well and good,
but / submit that 1t would be rare
exhibition of fortitude If the Commits
sion can be led TO the block. With
whom, in the "pursuit OF peace and
diplomatic discussion" the discussion
was going on, the learned counsel has
not vouchsafed US information. 1t Is
to be hoped 1t Is not going on upon
Hawaiian soil now, or under the nag
OF the Republic, and I do not believe
that it II.
However, with all the pursuit of
peace and diplomatic discussion, and
avoidance Of internal strife, and the
assurance Of the accused that If she
had known Of this thing, she would
have dissuaded the promoters from
the venture, with all Of this para
phernalia Of peace, was concealed
such an arsenal as was disgorged from
Washington Place the other day that
God knows what would have hap
pened IL the lady really had turned
her mind to war instead Of peace.
Whether we would have q Gibraltar
in that acre lot, she probably could
have divulged, but II these are traits
Of peace, then by all means let US
take our chances at open war.
The accused has spoken feelingIy Of
q charge of bloodthirstiness on the
part of Hawaiians. I have not heard
those charges. Has any one here at
these trials charged the Hawaiian
people as blood thirsty people
Whose long bow was drawn when the
assertion was NADER 1t Is made in the
shape of an extra edition to send off
on the steamer, but here in this tri-
buna1 where all things are to be
weighed and tested by the truth
and nothing else, that aceu-
sation we must believe in Difference to
the lady, who has put it there, she
signed without realizing what she
said. It Is true that the talk Of whole
sale decapltation, Of forfeiture Of pro-
perty, and of Punishment Of wives
and children, has been discussed in
think any man laid It to the Hawaiian
people, nor has any man before this
Commission charged that they are a
bloodthirsty people, nor has any man
thought so. Any riot Of any race IL q
bloodthirsty affair, and thing to be
avoided, q thing to be dreaded, q
thing TO be crushed. But more than
that, no such accusation has come to
my knowledge or with my consent be-
fore this Commission.
Now, it has been said here, and
truly said, by the accused, that it
would have been cad indeed If that
doctrine Of the Christian missionary
fathers "taught to my people by them
and those who succeeded them, should
have fallen like the seed in the para
BILE on the barren ground" This rev.
erence for the missionary fathers, and
a. evinced between the lines, to their
descendants, surely must effect all of
that blood and lineage who have
heard that announcement. I unfor-
tunately, not being one either Of that
original stock or the descendants, can
simply say that it IL to be lamented.
1 think it Is lamented by the
learned counsel or any one undertake