The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-28

not think there will be any great secrecy
ABOUT 1t, either. No effort need be mace
Interfere with any expedition that goes
| forth to Hberate men imprisoned as these
are.
| AS for the damages that Mr.. Dole may
claim, who will collect them? There are
1 Ws,h OF Idle ships along the a nraane
Lopez, from New York and Crabpe
from San Francisco. These men had Dig
armies before them and almost no money
IN sight. To-day there is big money In
slgnt ana almost no army. Inc loIIlest
motive on earth, human liberty, gold,
lttle Kingdom! What temptatlon. anu
40 you Imagine such men as walker,
Crabbe, Lopez are all dead? And VINO
snail say nay2 The weakness OF Hawah
MAS as with good woman, her strength.
but ne who wins by the sword may perish
by the sword These ruthless men who
betrayed that woman and have imprisoned
their betters have broken the halo that
once made sacred the isles OF peace.
Ihey have coined their halo into gold and
bought cannon. Let them now see to 1t
mat they know how to handle their guns.
islands?"
Done! have not begun. am going
TO wait and see who goes down there TO
Hberate those men. Possibly they may be
set at liberty when their captors get badly
scared, tor they are awful towards. They
bought another cannon last week and
made great presents of money to the
ponce; but If they don't liberate them,
they or some expedition, the very last and
lowest OF political prisoners, and then re-
turn the lands they appropriated from the
natives ana Queen under the name OF the
Crown lands, then / shall go to Japan.
You know one of the big Jap generals
spent nearly year with me over the bay
at my home before their war, and SO [ am
no stranger at court. | think shall only
have to state the case and promise politi-
cal rights TO the oppressed 10000 contract
slaves of Japan down there, and so on, to
get an ironclad.
"Why, sir, what if some one should come
from some great sea and say to the world
There are hundreds of good men away
out yonder kept in the vilest prisons by
men who betrayed a woman and robbed
her, and there is plenty of gold and
those good men? That is the true situa-
ton. No, the soldiers down there won't
fight for Dole. They won't fight to keep
those men in prison. 1t is not human. |
Nobody with good sense would expect it, |
They get $40 month and lots of good
things besides. But ten cowboys and ten
minutes, with brass piece or two. would |
bequite enough to elect new President.
The fact is they are already falling out.
For Dole never had half the whites with
him, except when they suddenly turned |
out in the riot recently. And then, like |
myself they expected quiet. But instead |
of that Dole and his few friends arrested |
one after another perhaps twice their own |
number. | think Dole has more enemies in
prison to-day than he has disinterested |
friends at his side. Indeed, l doubt if he has
any friends at all who are not under pay as
civil or military officers or in some way
selishly interested in his oligarchy.
Il. - L
lie, for it is simply 1000, more or less, Off
GERS and interested people despotically rul-
ing by prison bars and bayonets the $4,000
under them.
'But don't want to say anything about
Hawaiian politics. l only want to say,
Send those men in prison something to
read For whatever | may say will be
disputed by such men as DETAINED dead
priest, bullied dying genius, plundered
contiding woman, and imprisoned honest
men without law or reason. But one thing
they will not dispute, for have the fol-
lowing from one of themselves in black
and white: Number of political prisoners
in Oahu Penitentiary, 1876, March q
Then records will show that twenty-five
natives were condemned next day, twenty
three for five years and two for six years
each, making 210 in this one prison alone
But there are two more in Honolulu
From these two was debarred, for it was
SOON louHu Was taxing nOteS ana digging
up ugly facts. | can't tell half
There has been nothing nearly so mon
strous since the Reign OF Terror. The yard
in front Of the penitentiary is crowded
with poor native women waiting turns to
see father, husband, son. l have often
gone early in the morning and waited the
whole day through without venturing to
intercede. l had to be very careful for |
fear l might do harm instead of good and |
even now must not mention names. But |
the number | had are the fearful facts. |
/ call the attention of the world to these,
after waiting already too long. Too many
in jail down there. Ii that prison was
here the women of California would not
Meantime please, please send the poor fell
lows something. Let them know we at
least have hearts"