The San Francisco call., 1897-10-28
UP
DEBTS FOR
UNCLE SAM
Burdens We Must Bear
in Case of Annex
alton.
NEW BONDS FLOATED
BY HAWAII.
Natives Hopeful That Political
TriCkSterS Will Be
Foiled.
HAVE FAITH IN AMERICAN
WISDOM.
Ths Islands Flooded With Opium,
Landed by Means of an
Endless Cable.
Natives Hopeful That Political
TriCksterS Will Be
FOiled.
HAVE FAITH IN AMERICAN
WISDOM.
Ths Islands Flooded With Opium,
Landed by Means of an
Endless Gable.
Special Correspondence of THE CALI.

HONOLULU, Oct. 2O.-The Minister of
Finance has offered for sale $500, 600 in
per cent bonds, out of the proceeds OF
which it is proposed to build the new
wharf at Hllo at once. This raises the
national debt TO about 81, 500, 900, OF which
amount the United States will be RESPONSE
bic under the annexation treaty, when
ratified, for 81, coo, 0O0. The Minister is un-
der the i'm preston that Congress will find
a way to settle this little balance.
J. B. Castle, formerly Collector General
of Customs leaves by the steamship
Australia to-day EN- route for Washington,
D. c., where he will be seated IN the
Hawaiian legation as successor 10 the
late Frank F. Hastings.
The annexationists are making great
fuss n regard to a delegation of Hawaiians
going to Washington in connection with
the anti annexa ton memorial. II has
been definitely decided this morning, as
l have predicted, that no Hawaiian will 60
to the capital from here. The estimated
cost was $12, 500. but the amount could
not be conveniently raised in the first
place and in the next it was deemed. un-
wise to place untraveled HawaiIans at the
indiscreet friends.
The memorial has created such a COM
motion among the snnexationists that
their journals have not dared to publish
it. They have contenied themselves with
attempting to besmirch the characters of
the four gentlemen who signed the call,
but popular opinion compelled them TO
sullenly withdraw even from this attack.
The memorial has been presented to the
representatives of all the foreign powers
and sent BROADCAST all over the world, so
that it cannot be said that the Hawaiian
people have allowed their country to be
conquered without at least protest and
a PRAYER to bo heard.
The hope of the Hawaiians in q favora-
BILE verdict by the American people is
strong, and they place no reliance in any
possible foreign intervention, but solely
in the love of justice with which they
confidently credit the American nation.
They fear being placed more strongly un-
der the bondage of their present rulers or
having laws enacted for their control by
their enemi 8.
An honest annexationist who was pres
ent at the Hilo mass-meeting condemns
Senator Morgan as an untruthful man.
de says that the meeting was the most
! influential and numerous gathering of
| Hawaiians that he has seen for very many
years.
Thoughtful men think that the United
| States Government is not scrutinizin g
sufficiently closely the title TO the So
called crown islands. If taken over with
| simply the title that the Government of
| the republic can give we may have the
repetition of California experience In
| Mexican and Spanish grants. l see that
| some cases | was familiar with twenty-five
years ago are still undecided, and so it
| may be here.
Who are 10 be the five Commissioners to
draft the new Hawaiian code when we are
| annexed? 1t is thought that the two Ha-
waiians will be Hon. w. R. Castle, ex-
Minister to Washington. and Senator
Cecil Brown. They are leaders of the bar.
| experienced in land titles and speak Ha-
| waIian huentIy. General and ex-Judge
| A. S. Hartwell would probably be a
| stronger man than either in many re-
spects w. A. Kinney, though q young
man, is high in favor and making his
mark as an earnest lawyer, while the ire
pressible and most indefatigable laborer
| in the annexation vineyard, Lorin A.
| Thurston, is the most rapid compiler of
| all. The AttorneyGeneral would like
the position as giving him another lift to
| the throne of immortal fame.
Travellers to Honolulu will be glad to
learn that Mr.. James, formerly of the
steamship Australia, has associated him.
| self with Mr.. Macfarlane in the control of
| the Hawaiian Hotel, which is now being g
placed in proper condition for the winter 5
| guests.
Somehow or another quite a cargo of
| opium has got into town without the
| stated knowledge of the customs authori-
| ties. DEVELOPMENTS are anticipated be-
! fore long. The only open index to the
fact is that it is plentiful and very cheap
| but then nobody seems to deal in it. A
popular officer has the credit of discover
| ing an endless cable affair which ran thu
profitable cargoes ashore from the vessels
| and under the water. He found the cable
and an empty waterproof sack, but no
| "dope."
p c. Jones, ex-Minister of Finance, is
| about to start bank.