The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-17
FUNNIEST YET
Moreno's Letter to His
Friend Tesla.
How Don Caesar Talked to the Com
mittee in His Customary
Fearless Manner"

The organ of the Lost Cause printed
the following letter from Celso Caesar
Moreno yesterday which is calculated
to increase public gayety.
The two emissaries Of the mission
airy ring in Hawaii, viz: HartweIl
and Smith with barber Armstrong as
their laquais (lackey) without livery,
arrived in Washington some time ago
with plenty of money, very little of
wisdom and much of Boosting in a
very silly way, such as being able to +
defeat any opposition to their views /
anu carry triumphantly everything be- /
fore Congress.
They, Hartwell and Smith, thought
| that money would buy men and
| tongues and began their work by
/ layishingly spending money right and
| left in giving sumptuous dinners at the
| Hotel Shoreham to Senators and Con-
! gressmen, taking special care to have
| it we'll advertised in the newspapers
beside parading themselves in company
with their laquais, barber Armstrong,
as the three great statesmen from dis
tant Hawaii and multi-millionaires.
This is a very unwise way Of doing
business and very soon they became
| flQlculOuS IN urDe.
On Monday, the 22d of January, there
was meeting of the committee on ter
ritories of the house and lawyer Little
of Hilo appeared as the first orator on
the subject Of the Hawaiian Territory
Bill and the missionaries bad govern
ment.
The second orator was Robert w.
Wilcox of Honolulu with an eloquent
and to the point speech of over half an
hour in behalf of Hawaii, of the Ha-
waiians and of the Chinese residents
in Hawaii, and also giving the exact
history and status of the Crown lands,
ending with severely blaming United
States Minister Stevens, Captain Wiltse
| of the U. S. S. Boston and the mission
aries, for having wronged Queen Liliu-
okalani. The speech of Mr.. Wilcox was
| highly appreciated. by the chairman
and members of committee, because il
has thrown much more light on the
| Hawaiian question.
/ The third orator was lawyer Hart
well, who has been very unfortunate
not being able how to talk nor how tt
keep silent-a big fiasco.
The fourth orator was lawyer Smith
/ who has been more loquacious and fal
more able than his missionary col
ileague Hartwell, utterly incompetent
for the mission Entrusted to him by tn,
Dole oligachy; Hartwell appeared to M
ito be on the road toward fermentation
I The $1,000 given to Hartwell for tn
fjob of coming to Washington to defent
fthe Dole government, have been none,
tthrown away.
On Wednesday, the oath, appeared be
fore the same committee lawyer Cayp
Hess as the fifth orator on the Hawai-
Iian Territory Bill, his eloquence wa
twarm and his logic very stringent an
tboth far superior to those of the othe
three lawyers, Little, Hartwell an
Smith. The speech of Mr.. Caypless wa
lattentively listened to by the chairma
! / and the members of the committee jus
: as much as that of Robert w. Wilco
I and can be styled a severe but just al
> raignment of the missionary ring
Hawaii and strong defence for the OF
pressed native Hawaiians and tn
workingmen in Hawaii, who ought
u be thankful to lawyer Caypless and
rs r. w. Wilcox.
The sixth to appear before the con
mittee was myself and in my customa1
fearless manner, l gave to the mi
sionaries in Hawaii the last dose
blame and reproach deserved by the
for having so long oppressed and d
=. mOraliZed the good native Hawaiian
and also l made and appeal in homat
- to justice, that ex-Queen Liliuokala
should receive an indemnity for Il
wrong done to her.
! Now the poll tax or the qualificatit
a to be elector and elected to the sena
and assembly of the territory of H
waii is reduced to $1.00. in this w
every poor man in Hawaii can be ele
tnT. 4 oil 10 Ho 10 nd f0
assembly of the territory and tn
re change the face of affairs in Hawaii
~ transferring the political and legis'
tive power from the missionary ri
into the hands of the Hawaiian Peep
Hawaii for the Hawaiians.
CELSO CAESAR MORENO
Washington, D. c., Jan 81, 1900.