The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-04-30
Joaquin MILLER coSrRADIcrED.
Government in Hawaii Model OF It's
Kind-Dole and His Colleagues Men
OF Indomi liable VIII and Courage.
Sense OF Duty and Patriotism, Etc.

newly established Hawaiian Govern
ment, have no foundation in fact, ac-
cording to statements made yesterday
by Mr.. III. G. Campbell, manager of
the city and suburban street railway
lines, who has just returned from a
fve-weeks' sojourn in the Paradise of
the Pacific, says the Portland Ore
gonian of April 18th. Mr.. Campbell
arrived in Honolulu Immediately
after the revolution, while the city
was still under martial law, was an
interested spectator during the trials
of the rebels, and studied with some
little care the causes and effects of the
recent revolution. He became per-
sonally acquainted with Joaquin Mil
Ter, and had the pleasure of making
the home voyage on the same steamer
with the eccentric poet and newspaper
man.
fI have not had an opportunity of
reading MilIer's articles in the San
Francisco papers," said Mr.. Campbell
in an interview yesterday, "but have
heard so much of their sensational
character that I feel called upon to
tell what have seen and know to be
the facts of the matter. When [
started for Honolulu there existed in
my mind strong prejudice against
the Hawaiian republican government,
due, no doubt, to the fact that had
read a great many of the highly
colored reports published in the press
concerning the harsh treatment ac-
corded the dethrOned queen. 1t was,
n fn TO
find in the place of the gang of pomp-
Gus and swell-h headed officials Presi-
dent Dole and his colleagues were
represented to be, set of modest,
retiring and, 1 might almost say,
timid gentlemen, who demonstrated,
in almost every word and action, re-
finement, education and intelligence !
far above the ordinary. L had the |
pleasure of meeting these gentlemen, |
not once but many times, and L |
formed the opinion that they are men |
of indomitable will and courage, who |
have undertaken the establishment of |
a republican government, not from
choice but out of a sense of duty that
bespeaks true patriotism. The result
is that the Hawaiian Government is
today conducted as economically and
Systematically as any business house
in Portland, and is model govern
ment of its kind.
Joaquin Miller's sOjourn in the
Islands was of comparative short du-
ration, and he must have evidently
looked at the revolution through
pair Of sensation seekers glasses.
When the truth is told, the recent
revolution was small affair at home,
but was sufficiently enlarged upon by
the sensational press to make it APP
pear q great thing abroad. Joaquin
Miller, was told, at the commence
ment of the trouble, was an ardent
follower of the Dole faction, and was
always in the forefront of battle to
pose as war correspondent. When
the excitement died out, he suddenly
became a rebel sympathizer, and up
to the time be left Honolulu, was 4
very intimate with the people OF that
class. Miller, L believe, has the repu-
Iation of being somewhat of ro-
mancer.
During my stay in Honolulu 1
mingled freely with both rOyalists
and republicans, and [ heard no COM
plant whatever of ill-treatment on
any hand. visited the Government
prison, where the state prisoners are
confined, and talked personally with
many of the guards, who are all
natives, and the prisoners themselves.
All told the same story that they
were well taken care of, and had no
to make. I spent a portion
of one evening and took dinner with
a man who was prisoner for forty
two days when the public blood was
at a white heat, and visited a family
from which a loved son and brother
had been sentenced to thirty-five
years imprisonment and to pay fine
of $4,000, and yet I heard not one
word of cruel or inhuman treatment.
The prisons compare favOrably with
any have seen in the United States,
and / have visited a great many. The
state prisoners are all attired in light
suits, with broad, black stripes run
ming from head to foot, and light
weight calico hats. They are guarded
by native guards-in fact, the
entire police force OF Honolulu is
made up of natives. The political
prisoners work q few hours each day
on the public roads, but are never kept
under very great restraint. As they
pass along or are at work, you can see
then saluting friends along the way
as cheerfully as if they were at liberty
and perfectly happy.
'The political prisoners of more i'm l
portance live quite at ease and are
permitted to receive the best the land
affords from their friends. The ex- '
queen occupies two large rooms on the
upper floor of the palace, and has
balcony, where she can take air and
Up to the time left Homo
lulu she had not yet made her APP
pearance on that balcony. The very
fact that the wardens and guards of |
.he prisons are natives would seem to j
Indicate that public sentiment among
he natives Endorses the verdict OF the
courts. The trials of all of the rebels
we're conducted with all fairness, but
he preponderance of evidence was so
against those convicted
nat acquittal would have been i'm
possible. But the general opinion
GEMS to prevail that only few of Z