The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-17

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Rosehill and his crew to go on board
the japanese cruiser and carry them as
prisoners of war to Yokohama.
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What the outcome would have been
it is difficult to predict The American
people are not very patient at best. of
| the incoming to America of ''the little
/ brown man" and of the aggressive
| policy of the japanese government,
| and if our Lord High Admiral of Mar
| Gus had given the bird-skinners a fight
| in defense. of the American flag, he
might have furnished excellent mate
rial for a Democratic nominee for high
office.
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AS it was, he yielded, partly to su-
, perior force and partly to the promise
of his government to protect him
through diplomatic channels The
little Japanese lieutenant of marines
refused to allow the crew of the VIVA
LEM to land. He permitted the scien-
fists to go ashore and gave them a hut
to sleep in. The chemist set about
collecting samples of guano, but the
deposits We're phosphates of lime re-
quiring the use of pick and drill and
he could do little without the aid of
laborers, and these We're not permitted
to land At the end of three days the
permission to remain further was with
drawn and all were ordered to go
on board the '"Whalen'' and sail away.
The ceremony of American deporta-
ton from Marcus Island was most i'm
pressive. Nothing like it has occurred
eli nj q
from Nova Scotia. It needs a new
Longfellow to write a new Evangeline
to depict it. In the foreground was the
wrathful Rosehill and two of his bully
eye crew. Facing him was the little
representative of the Mikado The
Lieutenant-to his eternal credit be it
said-had on pair of pantaloons, but
the sixteen marines behind him were
breechless and barefooted. Behind the
marines were the resident fishermen,
thirty in number. clothed like Godiva,
mainly in their chastity. The Lieuten-
ant read a translation from a Jap
anese manuscript which he held in his
left hand, while he pointed with his
snickarsee which he held in his right
hand, to where the American schooner
lay at anchor with a limp stars and
stripes dropping from her mast head
with the detected droop of the tail of
a down-hearted dog.
These unworthy subjects of his
mightiness the Emperor of Japan"
read the Lieutenant, ito pursue their
industry are distressed by your pres
ence. 1t makes it therefor that you the
United States get out of here quick.
My miserable self wonders at the good
ness of God that permits me to occu-
1oIIo
but it makes all the same that your
go quick on board of your worthy little
ship and sail away quick
Now look here said Rosehill, I'm
going, partly because my own govern
ment bids me, but principally because
your man-of-war will be here in a few
days and I cannot fight her, but as for
you and your gang of breech-cloutei
lubbers, and the pot-bellied bird skim
ners behind them I'd engage to come
ashore with my crew, and drive the
whole damned lot of you into the sea |
with Delaying pins in fifteen minutes"
And thus delivering himself the An |
cient Mariner boarded the Whalen and |
to Honolulu empty-handed |
and detected.
The Marcus Island Guano Company |
presented its case to the State Depart
ment in order to obtain the promised
relief through diplomatic channels" |
But the Secretary of State had a glut
of islands and seemed to have no in
terest in protecting the American ac-
QUESTION of Marcus. 1t will be an act
If gracious elemency if he refrains from
suing Peacock on his bond given to the
United States for fifty thousand dollars
that he would open the guano deposits
IN Marcus within a year
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To cap the climax Peacock, the hilar-
Gus hotel keeping buccaneer, was sued
~ the United States and a Judgment
vas rendered against him for two
thousand dollars, for having when he
egfstered the Whalen declared himself
o be United States citizen before he
vas completely naturalized. Peacock's
citizenship was for a long time a good
cal like Lord Dundreary's conundrum
lone of those things that no fellow
an find OUT |;
He was born blooming Britisher. |
lie went to Australia, then he came to
honolulu and became a denizen but not
citizen of Hawaii II
Under the Hawaiian Constitution s
enizens were accorded all the rights
f citizens including the right to vote, l
'ithout being called upon to abjure /
llegiance to their native land.
Under the act annexing Hawaii all |
ersons having the right Of citizen
hip under the Republic were made |
itizens of the United States.
Just here was the dilemma of luckless
eacock- Unlike Edward Everett y
tales Man without a country" he '
ras a man with an assortment of I
When King Edward was I
'owned, our pirate flooded his stomach &
18th bitter beer. The next day he I
as a dyspeptic Yankee, with nasal a
wang and a full supply of remorse. +
And so he aIternated On Tuesday | I