The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1895, Page 14

14 i THE SAN FRANCISCO, CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1895. JOAQUIN MILLER SCORCHES DOLE THE POET OF THE SIERRAS HAS RETURNED TO His RANCH. LEFT. HONOLULU WITHOUT NOTICE, CARRYING ONLY A BOOK OF HIS POEMS. HE CALLS FOR A RESCUEPARTY For REeLIEF oF PoLiTicAL PRISON- ERs. WHO HE Says ARE FAMISHING. Joagnin Miller - -arrived unexpectedly from Honolulu yesterday by the steamship Australia. The Poet of the Sierras looks haggard, haggard and hairy, like the rem- nants of a stockyard, or as if he had been hunting bear and “found a pretty big one after a hard winter. He came ashore by the Australia from Honolulu without bag or baggage and his name does not appear on the passenger list. ‘“Were you deported, Mr. Miller?” he was asked. No, I was not deported,” he replied, but I did not publish my intended depart- n the newspapers. I told. Minister that I intended to leave on the steamer. He ‘was my only confidant. I came on board with this package which you see in my hand. which contains a vol- ume of my poems and a few manuscripts, ther with a letter to mv publishers. I ht on the whole I had better leave as 1 did, for if I had stayed a little longer they might have put me in jail. There are too many people in jail there now, so when I came on board of the steamer I left word I i return by the pilot-boat, but you i didn’t. Oh, yes; the condition of there is something terrible. can stand hard work up on my ranch, but 1 can’t very well stand to see men suffer for air and water withont suffering also. I have more gray hairs from the past three months than from the seven years' work on my hills. But we won't talk of that. 1 will'tell you of the sea; the great sapphire sea of glass, the deep, deep blue and the blue, blue deep. Six days and seven nights to Honolulu and every day a serene and restful Sunday. Fancy That is what the six Sundays in a string. trip to Honolulu seems like to me—a string of pearls to be laid up your recollection as *he most precious of all your treasures of travels. “The ocean is sounlike all others; a great big lazy, loiling, good-natured thing that would not get angry or even get yon angry if it could help it. The waves are big blue elephants that take the ship on their shoulders and carry it along day after day and night after night without ever spilling so much as a glass of wine. I tell you, my boy, the man who has not seen the Sand- wich Islands, in the heart of this one great ocean’s warm heart, . has not seen the world; in fact, he has not been to sea atall. And then the color! The Atlantic is gray, wrinkled, cross and crabbed. This ocean, a dozen leagues from land, is as serene in its deep blue hue as a day in June. “‘Indeed there is no blue so hlue; there is 1o tranquillity so sublimely tranquil. No mail. no sail, no sound. The ship refuses to creak or groan, as on the Atlantic or Mediterranean. The great, big, lazy, blue elephants keep right along with the load on their shoulders till you sail under a rainbow into Honolulu harbor, and you bardly know you have been to sea at ‘all. And indeed you have not; as seas go. “You sit up late at night as. you near the islands. R‘ou want to feed your body on the soft, warm perfume of the sea, and feast your soul on the boundless blue above, with its SBouthern Cross. And then the world of starsand the world of blue below, where the stars Like swan on sweet St. Mary’s lake Float double, swan ana shadow. “I tell yon, boy, on the night of the sixth Sunday out, I saw ‘the blue above folded down on the blue below, and fastened there by star-headed nails of gold.” ‘“‘But the men in jail down there? You got back all right ?” “All right! Right as 12 o’clock. You see a man who would not rest and get all right in the six Sundays’ ride up to San Francisco would have to be a corpse to be- gin with. You sail right up in the eye of the sun. One morning a little girl cried out, ‘Oh, mamma! I know where Califor- nia is now. Itis rightahead yonder, where the sun rises. Ican almost see California every time the sun rises!’” “But how about Honolulu ?" “Great place! great place. Iam almost tempted to pull up stakes and go down there. If I had two lives to live I should spend one of them there, and have half a mind to give what little I have left of one. ‘Were I young, like yourself, I should go right down there and make a fortune. Statistics show that it is the richest place on the globe, per capita. The land is rich beyond description, and not hard to get hold of. The coffee is the best on the globe. All the best rice, sugar, bananas, Ppineapples come from there.” ‘“‘But the war in Honolulu—were you in that?” “Oh, that’s all right—no war there; nothing but rainbows of peace and rain- bows of promise—the biggest and the brightest rainbows ever seen. It is a little world all of itseli—everything little but the rainbows and the big crops. They areend- less, literally endless. have seen rain- bows in a complete circle there. The clouds cling to the crags above the woody town till torn in two; then they driftabout and spill out and make rainbowsand do all sorts of things in one end of town while the sun is shining in the other end of town. It is one continual poem and panorama of color and change and illusion—great big yellow trumpet flowers, big and bright as the trumpets of a brass band; tlowers of fire hanging down as you ride by around the island under the crags, as if rooted in the clouds, and the brightest birds and the noisiest I ever saw or heard.”” “And everything quiet down there ex- cept the birds?”’ ¢ “Everything; peace reigns in Warsaw! And now, young man, that is about all I have to say. put I would like if you would put one thing in bhelpaper for me. It will save me a task, and I want toégo up home, for my mother is not well, and my place is at herside. I was asked last year to speak to the women of the Century Club of San Francisco, and I had it in my mind to do it now. But you can say what [ want to say to them. - I want you to publish the addresses of Calonel Ashford, Major Seward and T. W. ‘Walker, so that they, or any of the women of San Francisco or anywhere, or anybody of any place, can send them something to read. They have almost nothing to read cxc‘efpta few armfuls of books and such stuffas I could pick up from time to time in Honolulu, and they are pent up in the penitentiary down there among hundreds of other poor creatures, and must have something to break the monotony of their misery. Their cells are only 5 by 8 feet. Men are two In each cell. They are locked in at 4:30 p. M. and are kept in this ‘tank,’ by twos, till 8:30 A. M. Then they have for breakifast a little piece of meat, a like piece of bread and a cup of tea; then they are let out to get air for one hour; then they are locked up till 12 u.; then they have'a cup of tea and poi; then an hour of air; then locked up again till 4:30 p. M., when they have one cracker each and a cup of tea. “This bill of fare and of air I took down from the lips of Georlge Lycurgus, a man well known in San Francisco and Hono- lulu, last week, when he was released after fifty-one days in prison on that fare. He was never told why he was arrested. He was simply arrested, kept fifty-one days and then turned out. He had been a friend of the novelist, Robert Louis Stev- enson, and you know they didn’t like the great mnovelist in Honolulu. But I must not get into detail or I shall never have done. “I only want to say that there are hun- dreds down there still in prison, and they are lonesome, miserable, desperate, dying! They are also very weak. They do not want any solid reading stuff. I want the women of California to send them their | magazines, light novels, illustrated papers | and so on. Their address is Homnolulu | Penitentiary, H. L—may be ‘The Oanu | Prison’ would be more strictly correct. | Perhaps the latter is best, for I know that | any technical advantage will be resorted to sweet Sunday air of Honolulu with those hundreds of hollow eyes peering through the bars, and those livi llg‘s) uspin, for breath, I don’t know. I don’t thin! he ever saw one of those men in prison. I know he had not seen the prisoners when I first went to beg for them; to beg breath for them!”” ; “You saw the ex-Queen, Mr. Miller. ‘What do you think of her?” *‘I saw almost nothing of her except as a risoner in the dock, although I satall her earful trial through. But I will say this, that of all those who participated in her arrest and trial, and of all that was said and done, the only Christian was that poor dusky old woman in the midst of hundredsof cruel men; the only Christian act or utterance came from her. Get her statement, written by herself in Kanaka, and translated b¥ the Government and read, at the end of her long and needless trial. But don’t read the version which has been published by the Government. As an example of the justice (?) shown her on trial, the prosecution moved to strike out portions of her statement, and it was done! to keep the matter from them by some of their persecutors. But they have a good | warden. Captain Lowe is kind and con- | siderate, and will deliver all that comes to | his hand to the poor fellows, after looking | to see that no ‘politics’ is smuggled in. | “Bear in mind all they can hope to set | is legitimate matter. Possibly the sender may be required to put her name on what | nt. I‘?@ncc my name was put on what- I handed in. | “When I tell vou that two of these three old Union soldiers, merely for their politics, are in there in stripes under sentences of thirty-five years each, you will see that | they need something in which to forget | for a iittle time at least their awful situa- “Annexation? Yes and no. What the masses want is annexation, and they may force the head of the Government to want it. Of course, the big planters can’t af- ford it in a strict business sense. You see, that would break up the slavery, or con- tract system, fostered by the Dole Govern- ment. Bur, as said before, the honest middle masses, such as real estate men, merchants, grocers, and even bankers if they own Government bonds, all these want annexation. “But the idea_that those big men with big offices and big salaries are going to step down is nonsense. Why, look at Dole. He had a place as judge under the Queen. A\ NS ff/,q\..\ N B\ \ N | A S\ JOAQUIN MILLER, LATE OF HONOLULU. [Sketched yesterday from life by Kahler.] tions. So please say for me that I never asked anything or had anything from any- body in my life, as most people know, but I ask now with all my heart that papers, eriodicals and all sorts of light reading e sent, and at once, and often, to those men in prison. And please say this also: They are not criminals; they are only Eoliticnl prisoners, yet they are in stripes. ven Russia does not do that. ‘‘Lycurgus, a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson and a widely traveled man, who knows Russia well, told me every time I saw him that there wasnothing in all Russia nearly so vile in all ways as is this prison where those hundreds of men are shut up in stripes on such food and with only three hours of air out of the twenty- | four. Of course I could not be allowed to | measure the size of the ‘tanks,’ or observe | too closely the food, but the facts of detail | are from Lycurgus, and I believe wiil not be contradicted. When I was being shown through the prison the first time Isuddenly saw two | faces pressed against and four eyves peer- ing through the bars as we descended a stairway that looked like death-heads. The thin lips were parted and the men were gasping, gasfing for air, as fish gasp when taken out of the water. These cells bad only little iron gratings above the doors, where two bottles of water are set, | through which to get air. The average temperature is about 80. | ““Those not convicted by court-martial | are not in stripes. But they suffer all the same. When the young brother of Colonel | Ashford got out and was driven to my cot- | tage by his wife, so that he mightsay a word for his poor brother who is in stripes in the penitentiary, he was so ghastly that he looked like a corpse. He had been lib- erated on aifinir:ig a }EBPH; they were afraid he would die. ecould not get a copy of the paper for me. Four men— spies—followed him and his wife and stopped at my gate. When they drove away these four men followed them. He sailed next day and is in California or Canada, I guess, but would soon have been in nhis grave if he had stayed in that fearful tank. He, with lots of others, signed all they were asked to sign and got out as best they could. I tell you truly that the blood of poor ex-Attorney-General Peterson is on the ing, for he was too weak to take care of himself when turned out of that Black Hole | of Calcutta. He died, as dozens of other poor exhausted political prisoners in Hon- olulu will die if this persecution goes on. But some stronger men, like Lycurgus, re- fused to sign and still refuse. .““Please, please send them something to divert their minds. They may go mad. ‘I went there the day Ileft. I only got to see Ashford and Seward. Their minds are growing weak as their bodies. They look like ghosts., Ashford is so weak he can only shuffle along in his slippers by holding on to the wall.” He is a Canadian gentleman of the best. His mother lives near Niagara Falls. He served four years in‘the Union army and was commander of the Grand Army post in Honolulu—the only one at the time outside of the United States. He was for four years Attorney- General to the late King. "The present en- terprising Attorney-General at one time had two of his predecessors in the peniten- tiary. He is a stanch pillar .of the fash- ionable church and is of the missionary ‘contingent,” and, by the way, let me cor- rect @ popular error. There are and were missionaries and missionaries. The real ones were allright. It is the ‘contingent,’ the camp-followers of the missionaries, that have been wanting and have gotten the earth down there; the gedngogues, the doctors, the demagogues, the butchers, the bakers and the candlestick-makers. h_“B?n't you like Dole, and took sides with im? ‘‘President Dole attracts you, then re- pels. He is, perhaps, the noblest-looking man to be found at the head of any gov- ernment. Ionly wish I was only half as good as he looks. But how he-‘can go to church regularly as he does, walking under the green trees and breathing the fresh hands of Mr. Dole and his desperate follow- |- Instead of resigning when he wanted to betray the trustful woman he held on and drew his pay from the Queen; and with the Queen’s pens and with the Queen’s ink and on the Qneen'sdparvcr he wrote his treasonable papers and proclamation; and not until the Queen was driven from her palace and he had _possession and was sit- ting in_her place did he resign. He did not miss one day of salary. President Dole did not even take ‘the usual half holi- day off.” “Such men may make the people down there think they want to bring about an- nexation, but_nothing short of a South American or Japanese gunboat in sight will shake them out. I was asked to speak to the Annexation Club at their next meet- ing, and I should have said just that. ‘“What'do 1 mean by a South American gunboat? Well, there are idle gunboats in South American waters—one was in Honolulu the other day, and there are idle millions in Honolulu. As an excuse for demanding and taking that money, and the not think there will be any great secrecy about it, either, No effort need be made at concealment, for no Government will interfere with any expedition that goes forth to liberate men imprisoned as these are. ‘‘As for the damages that Mr. Dole may claim, who will collect them? There are lots of idle ships along_the Atlantic. Walker sailed ~ from New _ Orleans. Lopez from New York and Crabbe from 8an Francisco. These men had big armies before them and almost no money in sight. To-day there is big money in sight and almost no army. The loftiest motive on earth, human liberty, gold, a little kingdom! {What a temptation. And do you imagine such men as Walker, Crabbe, Lopez are all dead? And who shall say nay? The weakness of Hawaii was, as with a’ good woman, her strength. But ‘he who wins by the sword may perish by the sword.’ These ruthless men who betrayed that woman and have imprisoned their betters haye broken the halo that once made sacred the ‘isles of peace.’ They have comned their halo into gold and bought cannon, Let them now see to it th‘abAtlaey kxnow how to handle the:rg&n&" ‘And so I suppose you are done wil e islands?? ° PPOse YO > ‘‘Done! I have not begun. I am going to wait and see who goes down there to liberate those men. Possibly they may be set at liberty when their captors get badly scared, for tiey are awful cowar bought another cannon last week and made great presents of money to the police; 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 and Queen under the name of the Crown lands, then I shall go to Japan. You know one of the big Jap generals spent nearly a year with me over the bay at my home before their war, and so I am no stranger at court. - I think I shall only have to state the case and promise politi- | cal rights 1o the oppressed 20,000 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 a | kingdom wailing for whoever will liberate those good men?’ That is the true situa- tion. No, the soldiers down there won’t fight for Dole. They won't fight to keep those men in prison. It is not human. Nobody with good sense would expect it. They get $40 a month and lots of good things besides. But ten cowboys and ten minutes, with a brass piece or two. would be guite enough to elect a 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. I think Dole has more enemies in prison to-day than he has disinterested | friends at hisside. Indeed,Idoubtif he has any friends at all who are not under pay as ivil or military officersor in some way selfishly interested in his oligarchy. *‘No one now pretends that it is'a repub- lic, for it is simply 1000, more or less, offi- cers and interested people despotically rul- ing by prison bars and bayonets the 99,000 under them. “But I don’t want to say anything about Hawaiian politics. I only want to say, | ‘Send those men in prison something to | read.” For whatever I may say will be disputed by such men as defamed a dead priest, bullied a dying genius, plundered a contiding woman, and imprisoned honest men without law or reason. But one thing they will not dispute, for I have the fol- lowing from one of themselves in black | and white: ‘Number of political prisoners | in Oahu Penitentiary, 185, March 2. 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 L was debarred, for it was soon found I was taking notes and digging up ugly facts. I can’t tell half. “T%ere has been nothing nearly so mon- strous since thé Reign of Terror. The yard in front of the penitentiary is crowded with poor native women waiting turns to see father, husband, son. I have often gone early in the morning and waited the | whole day through without venturing to | intercede. I had to be very careful for | fear I might do harm instead of good, and even now must not mention names. But the number I had are the fearful facts. | I call the attention of the world to these, | after waiting already too long. Too many in jail down there. If that prison was | here the women of California would not | let it stand two days; no, not two hours. Meantime please, please send the poor fel- lows something. Y,et them know we at least have hearts.” HAWAII'S OLIGARCHY. Despotic and Unjustifiable Acts of the Government Which Now Con- trols the Islands. HONOLULU, March 20.—The news of | the failure of the cable scheme and the THE PRISON IN WHICH THE MEN WHO WOULD NOT BOW DOWN TO DOLE AND HIS ASSOCIATES ARE INCARCERATED “LIKE BRUTES WITHIN AN IRON DEN.” [From a photograph.] islands, too, there are at least 20,000 Catho- lics there who are cruelly oppressed by less than 2000 Protestants. See? Of course I hope mnothing of the sort will happen. These islands belong to the blue-eyed peo- ple. The excuse for Latin interference will be but a Jame one at best; but still it may be forty times more plausible than was that of the present Government for driving out the Queen. But Canada or any land flying the union jack has ample excuse. ‘‘There are British subjects down there dying in stripes for wishing to see a woman have her own restored to her, for wanfing the majority to rule. Mind you, they di not hurt anybody. They did not even bear arms, and nobody was hurt in the so- called ‘war’ for which™ they are sentenced to wear stripes from one to thirty-five years each. I was in that ‘war’ I was on Dole’s side. It was a sudden thing, and ‘blood is thicker than water.’ True, I did not fire a shot. I did not think my gun was a three-mile gun, as others seemed to, and we could get no nearer to the few natives who fired down from the lava- peaks. “We killed one poor native farmer who got between us, -and they killed one good white man who went fo see the police search for guns, where he had no business; also some one slightly wounded one of our soldiers. That is all there was of a disturb- \ance for which Dole has had about 1000 men arrested and for which so many are still in jail, in sm}pes. ?)“lpinfi for breath, survmq. dying. T say Dole advisedly, for I am told and believe he is supreme. “I don’t know from what course, if at all, the private English expedition with a few guns and sharpshooters may come or when. But I believe it will come. I do general apathy thati s now manifest in the States regarding annexation has tinged the community here a deep cerulean hue. The missionary element is feeling deeply, darkly, beautifully blue over the dim prospect for the realization of the cut and dried programme. ‘What they have been waiting and hoping for is a protectorate and not_annexation. The latest advices from tbe United States do not encourage this hope. A protectorate over the missionary oligarchy would have been a very fine thing for them, with Judd, Dole, Castle, Billy Smith and others hold- mfi all the fat offices for life. 'he Government papers are in a state of great excitement over what they are Pleased to call false reports of cruelty to They | A MAN WITH A GONE OCCUPATION. THELLO, you remember, was ‘‘a man ‘with a gone occupation,”” and that is just what our 'ad’”’ man would be if the great shopping crowds of Monday and Tuesday last would come here without be- ing informed by the newspapers of what ‘we are doing. On Sunday he told of 2500 Lace Curtains specially bought and to be srclllly sold. We’ve got about one-half t quantity left now after three days’ n{a Prices remain the same ’till all e sold. CURTAINS. NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, in new floral and scroll pattern: 1895 styles, in ecru only, length 3 yards, for. i 49° Pair NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, in pretty scroll and flowered pat- terns, white or ecru color, ze 3 yardslong, 40 inches wide, charm- ing chamber curtains, only....... 75° Pair NOTTINGHAM LACE CURTAINS, the patterns all that could be de- sired, both white and ecru, in the following sizes and at these unap- Pproacheble prices: 3 yards long, 45 inches wide ....95¢ pair 8 yards ong, 48 inches wide. #1.00 pair 314 yards long, 46 in. wide....81.25 pair 31 yardslong, 60 in. wide.. . 81.50 pair 4 yardslong, 50 inches wide..81.7 5 pair 4 yards long, 60 inches wide..82.25 pair GUIPURE LACE CURTAINS (so called), a shade finer in_auality and deslgn than the best Notting- hams, the meshes perfectly geo- metrical and small, the patterns dainty and effective: 814 yards long. 60 in. wide....$3,50 patr 814 “vards long, 60 in. wids 38 vards long by 50 in. wide..%3.50 pair 814 yardslong by 50 in. wide.$4.00 pair , for parior windows, a $q,on buy at an opportune mo- €Dt — than real ~ TO 30.00 BRUSSELS LACE CUR- FINE TAIN spec ment—oné-third less value. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. |ACE WRTAIN-SELING: 15 THE SPE(AL FEATURE AT HALE BRoS THIS WEEK | THREE WOMEN IN A BIG QUANDARY. HERE WERE THREE OF THEM. They came in yesterday while the { girls in the Trimmings Department were marking a large stock of MILLINERY TRIMMINGS JU. 15 RECEIVED. One of these women wanted a jet bonnet ; two of them had been trying to buy jetted hat shapes at the millinery stores, but the prices asked were 50 much beyond their means that they couldn’tbuy them. They were the first customers who saw our new Spring stock. They bought. They had money left—and are happy. Milliners’ Trimmings. JETTED BO! F Just received from the Parisian makers. The very latest conceits in fashionable Millinery at a full one-third less than exclusive mil- | liners’ prices......%3.00 to $5.00 Each JETTED HAT CROWNS, in black cut jet (no gelatine imitations, but real jet), and in iridescent blue and’ gold effects 50¢ to $3.00 Each BLUE WINGS, heavily jetted, the latest French novelty for Spring and Summer millinery.. ..%$4,00 Each AIGRETTES, in black and assorted colors; iridescent effects 20c to $1.00 Each CUT JET NAIL HEADS, for studding, in all sizes and dozens of odd and beauti- ful designs; prices range from. z <eeene. BY5e to "Dozen NEW HAT BUCK Ore of the most comprehensive s ever shown in San Franci: Novelties in gilt, gold and steel, sterling silver, Persian en- amel (the very latest), cut steel, etc. -6¢ to $1.50 Each GOLD HAT LACE, in plain and iridescent effects, striking patterns; the very cor- rect thing for Summer miHlinery Z = 50c to $1.50 Yard FANCY HAIRPIN ling silver, gol new design: . white metal, ster- 1 c.; entirely LL HAIR ORNA- pretty scroll and filagree 5¢ to 50¢ Each . [ #/(mcoxmmtm 937, 939, 941 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. BugiNess HERE 15 REAL AND EARNEST: SNGLE SALES ARE- NGT ouR GOAL. , IF [oWEST PRIEES WiLL ENTICE you, ' I ALL yolR (UsToM WELL ©nRoL. I | THE BUSIEST STORE WE’VE BEEN IN. HAT'S WHAT WE HEAR DAILY. When we began business in our Frisc, store (we've five other stores in Cali. fornia, you know) people said we wouldn't be doing business in a year; that nobody could do business in the store we occupy, because somebody else had sunk money and had to “‘cry quits.”” In less than three | years’ time we are known es the busiest | | and most popular store in the city. Think that out. It may be folks don’t care what they pay If they get what they want, but we don’t believe it. I SPECIALS. PRINTED SAT, kind, bl floral eff value in cts in colo; Tisco at.. kind you used to pay 8 5) for; our price. Yard | 5-4 PILLOW-CASING, bleached and Qic || unbleached; a grade in every r O3 | spect equal to the Boston.. Yard I UNBLEACHED CANTON FLAN. () (] NEL, one of the heaviest, flufliest 34 | kinds; worth 1234c, special at Yara || HEMSTITCHED CROCHF | SPREADS, Marseilles patterns, a very heavy quality and a very ro | Y special valné ac the size 80x84 inche: FOUR TOWEL SPECIALS. ALL- LINEN HUCK TOWELS, price asked fringed_colored borders, 18x38 910 inches: you can't get them else- 122 | where for 15c. Each ALLLINEN HUCK TOWELS, a size larger than tho above, 20840 | 50 inches, worth 20c at least; special 1¢) 8% e P ALL-LINEN HU TOWELS, broche colored horders, soft, heavy fringe: 2 sizes of this lot, 1 and 20x40 inches: cheap ()0 c each; a big barzain at special price, $2 25 dozen or...... Each BLE "HED TURKISH TOWELS, W 6x36 inches, were a big special b at 9c each, now Y Off; price..... Each | prevented them from being in power to- aay. f oe Carter is the only one of the whole crowd who has had the courage to expose his opinion and to hold his ground, though it has been at the expense of his bread and butter. ~Notwithstanding his financial difficulties the Government cannot make him budge an inch from the stand he took at the outset. He maintains that the Gov- ernment is based upon fraud, and that it cannot and must not be permitted to stand. The natives are solid for Carter, and if affairs should ever take shape again they will rally around him as their leader. The attempt to bring them into line by taking the oath to the Government and’ joinin the Annexation clubs has proved a dismal failure, and this has been a sore disap- ointment to the Government, which has en working Sam Parker, John Colburn, Charlie Wilson and other ex-leaders of the Hawaiians to bring them into line. In the meantime the Government is keeping up its military expenditures. It is importing Hotchkiss guns and shiploads of ammunition, and this is called popular government. The Council has been busy the past week making a lot of new laws, among which is the old “dangerous person” act, which is a disgrace to our Government. Another is the indemnity act, which provides that nothing the Government did during the *| reign of martial law can be made a matter of damage claims by any foreign citizen who may have been injured in person or property during that time. The Executive Council amended the law relating to sedition and President Dole has approved its action. The press is silenced by thislaw. This is the amendment: If any person is convicted of the offense of the pugllcllion of a seditious libel with refer- ence to the x;‘ublicntinn of words in a news- paper of which he is an editor, publisher, owner or proprietor, the Judge or -filstute trying the case may, in addition to the sen- tence awardced against such person suspend the further publication of such newspaper for any period not exceeding four years. Every such suspension of the publication of a newspaper el axtend to npd iholhde. ah newspaper that may be started in place of such suspended newspaper, having the person so convicted of It raatTIOeE tx anefttor: publisher, owner or proprietor thereof. This is the full text of the statement which the ex-Queen, Lilinokalani, made: In the year 1893, on the 14th day of January, at the request of a large majority of the Ha- waiian people, and by and with the advice and consent of my Cabinet, I proposed to make certain changes in the constitution of the Ha- weiian Kingdom which were suggested to me as being for the advantage and benefit of the kingdom and subjects and residents thereof. These proposed changes did not deprive for- cigners of any rights or privileges enjoyed by them under the constitution of 1887, promul- gated by King Kalakaua and his Cabinet, without the consent of his peopie or ratified by their votes. Ministers at the last moment changed their views and requested me to defer all action in connection with the constitution, and I yielded to their advice, as bound to do by the existing constitution and laws. A minority of the foreign population made my action the pretext for overthrowing the mon- archy, and aided by the United States naval forces and representative established a new Government. I owed no allegiance tothe Provisional Gov- ernment so established, NOT to any power or to any one save the will of my people and the Seliase of jny qountry. The wishes of my people were not consulted political prisoners, and other information that is being disseminated in derogation of Government methods. 3 They are already talking of ;;utt[n on detectives to find out who.is furnishing this information, and are advocating the severest punishment. Itis believed they will resort to the spy system and the over- hauling of private correspondence through th;l mml]s. i N Martial law was lifted yesterday, but there will be no essential di%ference in the methods under the civil order of things than has characterized the proceedings for the past ten weeks. Russian tyranny is nuthm§ to the arbitrary and high-handed way with which the Government is con- ducted. Unless aman is in sympathy with the Government he has no show to trans- act business here. There has been too much yielding to those in power by men Who are perfectly independent of them financially and otxenvhn, and who, if they had made the proper stand, would have as to this change of government, and only those who were in practical rebellion against the constitutional Government were allowed to vote upon the question whether the monarchy should exist or not. To prevent the shedding of the blood of my people, natives and foreigners alike, I opposed armed interference and quietly yielded to the armed forces brought against my throne and submitted to the arbitrament of the Govern- ment of the United States the decision of my rights and those of the Hawiian people. Since then, as is well known to all, I have pursued the path of peace and diplomatic discussion and not that of internal strifa. The United States, hlvhlf first interfered in the interest of those founding the Government of 1893 upon the basis of revolution, concluded toleave to the Hawaian people the selection of their own form of government. This selection was anticipated and prevented by the Provisional Government, who, bein; possessed of the military and police power ol the kingdom, so erampéd the electoral privi- leges.that no free expression of their will was rmitted to the people who were opposed to em. By my command and advice the native peo- ' ple and those in sympathy with them were | restrained from rising against the Government | ower. H he movement undertaken by the Hawaiians | last month was absolutely commenced without | my knowledge, sanction, consent or assistance, directly or indirectly, and this fact is in truth well known to those who took part in it. I received no information from any one in | regard to arms which were procured or which | were to be procured, nor of any men who were induced or to be induced to join in any such | uprising. do not know whg this information should | have been withheld from me, unless it was with a view to my personal safety or as a pre- cautionary measure. It would not have re- ceived my sanction, and I can assure the gen- tlemen of this commission that had I known of any Such intention I would have dissuaded the prometors from such a venture. But I will add that had I known, their secrets would have been mine and inviolately preserved. That I intended to change my Cabinet and to appoint certain officers of the kingdom, in the event of my restoration, I will admit, but that 1, or any one known to me, had in part or whole established a new Government is not true. Before the 24th of January, 1895, the day upon which I formally abdicated and called upon my people to recognize the Re- | public of Hawait ‘as the only lawful Govern- ment of these islands, and to support that Gov- ernment, I claim that I had the right to select a Cabinet in anticipation of a possibility, and history of other governments supporis’ this right.” I was not intimidated into abdicating, but followed the counsel of able and generous friends and well-wishers, who advised me that such an act would restore peace and good will among my people; vitalize the progress and prosperity of the isfands, and induce the actual overnment to deal leniently, mercifully, char- itably and dispassionately with those iwho re- sorted to arms for the purpose of displacing a government in the formation of which they had no voice or control, and which they them- selves had seen established by force of arms,| I acted of my own free will, and wish the | world to know that I have asked no immunity | or favor myself nor pleaded my abdication as & petition for merey. My actions were dictated y the sole aim of doing good to my beloved country, and of alleviating the privations and pains of those who unhappily and unwisely re- | sorted to arms to regain an_independence | which they thought had been unjustly wrested from them. | As you deal with them, so I pray that the | Almighty God may deal with you in your hours | of trial, To my regret, much has been said about the danger which threatened foreign women and children,and about the bloodthirstiness of the | Hawaiians and the outrages which would have | been dperpe(mted by them if they had suc- ceeded in_ their attemptto overthrow the re- | publican Government. They who know the Hawsaiian temper and | disposition understand that there was no foun- | dation for any such fears. The behavior of the | rebels to those foreigners whom they captured | and held shows that_there was no malignancy | in the hearts of the Hawaiians at all. I would have been sad, indeed, if the doctrine of the Christian mistionary 'fathers, taught o my | people by them and those who succeeded them, | should have fallen like the seed in the parable upon barren ground. i must deny your right to try me in the man- | ner and by the court which you have called to- gether for this purpose. In your actions you violate your own constitution and laws which are now the constitution and laws of the land. There may be in_your consciences a warrant for your action, in what you may deem a me- cessity of the times, but ‘you cannot find any | such ‘warrant for any such action in any set. | tled, civilized or Christian land. All who up- hold you in this unlawful proceeding may scorn and despise my word, but the offense of breaking and setting aside for a specific pur- | pose the laws of your own nation and disre. garding all justice and {airness may be {0 them an you the source of an unha; much {0 be roeretied logacy. By would ask you to consider that your Goy- ernment 1s on trial before the whole' olvilieed world, and that in accordance with your ao- tions and decisions will you yourselves be judged. The happiness and pros erity of Ha- waii are henceforth in your fa’un s alone as its tulers. You are commencing a new era in its history. May the Divine Providence grant you the wisdom to lead the nation inty the paths of forbearance, forgiveness and peace, and to create and consolidate a united peopl ever anxious to advance in the way of civiliza. tion outlined by the American fathers of liberty and religion, In concluding my statement I thank you for ave shown to me, notas the courtesy you ionr former quieen, but as an humble citizen of woman, I you, who his land and asa assure you are faithfully fulfilling ‘a public believe dut{,elhlt I shall never harbor any resentment or cherish any ill feeling tow: may be your decision. X A R SOME UNWELCOME JAPS, Recent Arrivals in Honolala Who Are Said to Bo Trained Soldiers. A' private letter from a well-known jour- nalist and publisher in Honolulu to an ex- ilein this city conveys some inbapesti items of news such n); are not mdcg abroad from the housetops in Hawgii. It also hints at a possible menace to the stability of the present Hawaiian Govern- ment from the far west—the victory-flushed empire of Japan. In this connection the letter says: *‘More than 800 Japanese arrived a few days ago in a German steamer. About 150 of these were ‘students’ and had $50 each in tlleirPockets. as required by our immi- gration law. The Government was rather startled and has forbidden further immi- gration of that kind. In the meantime the Japanese Consul smiles and points to our constitution, the treaty and our immi- gration laws, and he whispers that he be- lieves there will be 1000 Japs coming here every two months. The Japanese ‘students’ are not taken to with any great show of welcome, because they look too much like trained soldiers in disguise. A few hun- dred more of the same sort may change the history of these islands and alter our coloring on the map of the world.” As an jllustration of the cautiousnessand doubting feelings that dominate the leaders of the Government, the letter-writer says: ‘‘Our gracious Government has permit- ted the American Admiral to land his men for drill once a week, but they must be without cartridges. The Government is evidently afraid that the ‘boys in_ blue’ might not return to their ship without taking a hand in an insurrection. ‘“‘Our ‘bogs’ are of course in jail and are scraping the walls of their prisons. The poor food and hard labor have rather dis- pirited them and they feel depressed. “No disposition of a definite nature has been made of the ex-Queen. The idea pre- vails that she will be sent to -Washington place, there to remain either as a prisoner under lock and key oron parole. Bush, the newspaper man, has come out with his Ka Leo (the Voice) in favor of.the Govern- ment and annexation, and the natives have boycotted him. Speaking of laws recently enacted by the Executive and Advisory Council this cor- respondent has this to say: “I pointed out to my esteemed friend, Tim Murray, that the ‘Dangerous persons acts’ and other like laws were not ‘meant for the defunct royalists, but for the very lively annexationists. The language of | my friend and his immediate followers was awful to hear, and the Star demanded the killing of the bill. But Brother Dole couldn’t be stopped, and upon Hatch's statement that evil-minded persons now abroad might bring an_invading army to the islands and take the Government the Council became frightened and passed the ! act by a unanimous vote. “You will notice that no claims_can be brought in our courts against the Govern- ment, and that all acts committed under martial law have been legalized. That saves us the trouble of exhausting our remedies for redress hereand therefore our | Government can take up our claims di- rectl L brave supporters of the republic do not like the actions of President Dole and his cohorts. They claim that we are a re- public with a big R, and that a Legislature was duly elected last year. They object to the lawmaking of the Advisory Council and the active part of Mr. Dole in the in- troduction and passing of bills that should- be left to the Lezislature.” Dr. M. Soule, surgeon on the steamship Australia, was seen at the Occidental last night. In speaking of the present condi- tion of things in Hawaii, he said: “Bverything is quiet and the present Government;scems to have a firm grip on affairs of state. But you can’t always tell what may happen. One thing, however, is certain. = No insurrection will ever be started by the natives again. I think they have had enough of that sort of thing, and now they have settled down to their ordi- nary mode of life again. Other elements, however, may stir ugetrouble again.” E. Burleigh, member of a wholesale mer- chandise firm, was a passenger.on the Australia and is a guest at the Occidental. In speaking of the aftermath of the last- attempted insurrection, he remarked : *It’s all over with. There are no more risoners in jail to be tried. for treason. (here are a few natives still in durance vile, but the general impression is that they will soon be set at liberty without going through the formality of a trial.”