The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-05-16
OLD MANS
VISIONS
A Coast Critic on
itaWaii'S
Ways.

hing n ml &c mos % an ylI Move.
have been about Hawaii and Hawai-
, Iaua The former Journalists writings
are tingod with intense bitterness to-
[ ward the leading people Of the Islands
and particularly toward the Dole ad-
minlstration. He says the Honolulu
residents are scandal-mongers and that
lies are of frequent circulation.
I Here Is what the old chap says about
the time when he was mixed up in
some steamship and subsidy deal many
years ago:
Heretofore have told OF the bad
faith intended by the then Minister of
the Interior OF Hawaii towards the
steam line about to be established be-
tween San Francisco, New Zealand and
Australia, and OF how the Minister was
circumvented and Inundated. Ha-
wall for long years, had hard name
for financial and political trickery, and
1t is by no means certain that anneXa-
ton and the accession 10 power Of the
missionary party have improved it as
much as had been hoped for. For ways
that are dark and tricks that are vain
the Dole Government Is about as PEE
Culiar as the Heather Chinee. Presl-
dent Roosevelt has evidently been 80
/ Informed, for he has invited the Gov
ernor to Washington to explain things.
which he can be depended upon to do
with the utmost plausbllity, and in the
end the President viii not know who
to believe. 1t viii be emnently safe
for him to doubt all sides, a statement
which reminds me OF a little story.
when the negotiations were completed
with the Colonies to establish n steam
line within three months, the duty be-
came incumbent to appoint agents at
the different ports of call, which | did
-eNgcpt at Honolulu. on my return to
that place | had In mind three firms,
any one of whom would no doubt have
filed the bin acccptably. They were
Hackfcld Il Co. Adams q Wilder, and
In the Colonial papers which had
reached Honolulu gave away the secret
4 that | had the agents to appoint, and
nay visits to the firms named gave
away the further secret OF the direction
In which | expected to find the man
wanted. | tried to prevent the latter
secret leaking out, but failed. In Ho-
nolulu everybody and everything leaks
out, either truths or half truths, but
e more commonly downright lies.
My experience Of bad faith on the
II part Of "A Cabinent Minister was not
= to end, | very much regret to say, with
/. The attempt Of Or. Hutchinson to with
e hold the Hawaiian subsidy by trick
- m reaching New Zealand / at once de-
. iyrred my credentials to the Cover
1or, Sir George Bowen, and to the
! Prime Minister. Sir julius Vogel who.
t In some sense. was to New Zealand
q hat Cecil Rhodes afterwards became
= o South All n. Deny II as No-el's po-
itIcal enemies may, it yet remains a
net that by a bold and daring policy.
pursued with match'css ability, he lift
: Il New Zealand from obscurity into
j he very front rank Of British colo
hes. He Fridironed the colony with
'' ~ailroads which are now paying inter-
st and building up sinking fund;
60 connected New Zealand with every
$ where else by steam, encouraged the
N development of internal resources and
a external trade, and was seeking au-
o 'hority from the Imperial Parliament
X extend New Hoa'n dowain among
u Ia" ISLANDS as iir north as Samoa when
! PHYSICAL h!lTMlt!cs compelled him to
iclire IRON office. His successor. Sir
70 John sheldon. has won renown as q
$ domestic ana sociological refOrmcr, but
81 ne rs not an empire builder as were
4 Jullus Nugel and Cecil Rhodes II hap
= pened TO be my good fortune to know
, mat NoGel to use homely but eX-
preSsiNe phrase, was dead gone" on
the san francisco route. He was so,
because II made Auckland the first po"t
OF entry and the last of departure for
oceah-bound mails-a matter at that
time OF very great Importance To the
Antipodean colonies. Those who could
not read his policy by its developments
ala not understand that he must have
steam line up the Pacific to connect
with our transcontinental railroad, aud
1t was our purpose to make him be-
lieve, as at that time | did believe
myself, that the only way to get 1t
was to contract with an American