| Show BACK FROM HAWAII Captain W A Kinney In Salt Lake Once More TH RECENT REVOLUTION RIDICULOUS STORIES OF CRUEL TIES TO PRISOXERS Annexation the Solution of All the Difficulties That Face the Government Govern-ment Says 3Ir Kinney Sentiment Senti-ment on the Island Strongly in Favor of It Captain V A Kinney of Honolulu and one of the central figures in the recent revolution on the islands arrived ar-rived here from San Francisco yesterday yester-day and after spending a few hours with his mother meeting old friends and attending to some personal business busi-ness will leave for the coast today and in a short time will sail for Hawaii Ha-waii Revolutions appear to agree with Mr Kinney He js as brown as a frontiersman and has gained much in avordupois since he practiced law in the local courts as a member of the firm of Letcher Kinney I will be remembered that shortly after his return to the islands Mr Kinney married an accomplished lady there and on rsuming the practice of the law soon regained the political and social prominence formerly held by him on the islands In this last uprising of the royalists he was cortspicuous and tit the trial of the rebels exQueen Lil being one of the number he acted as judge advocate advo-cate with the rank of captain To a Herald reporter who cane upon him last evening Mr Kinney talked freely and entertainingly I came over said the captain with some witnesses in the case i against the schooner Walberg that was i used to land arms for the rebels The case was dropped however the I i authorities nothing holding that they could do On Annexation How Is the sentiment on the islands I with regard to annexation Strongly in favor of it The present pres-ent government is firmly established estab-lished and is as strong as any government can be in that country but any government there must take Into consideration the possibility possi-bility of revolutionary movements Why there have been six revolutions I there In eight years and the fact is that < the government i to weak to stand alone Annexation is the solution I i solu-tion of the difficulty We do not look for that from the present administration I administra-tion but we do after the next presidential presi-dential election I the United States will not take us then it should leave us free to go to Great Britain The Population Objection has been made on the ground that there are so many Asiat ics on the islands They however area a floating element and the influence of 1000 white families added to the population would overcome that diffi culty With annexation the many dangers that threaten from an influx of Asiatics would be averted The scale of wages paid laborers would go up and it would in the end prove a blessing to the country There is plenty of room on the islands for the right kind of people and plenty of opportunities op-portunities for them > to get along The Kanakas The natives are quiet and peaceable peace-able people Their inclinations are all right but these adventurers who get among the occasionally get some of them started on the wong track As things are now we may be made the expedition at vidtims of a fiilibustering epedlton any time A comparatively small crowd of properly armed men might descend upon us and overthrow the I government We can take care of things at home I think but may not b able always to ward off these stabs in the back It all resolves itself down to the annexation proposition and it Is coming too I the United States dont want u England will < tako us Those Alleged Atrocities What is there in the alleged cruelties cruel-ties upon prisoners Nothing at all That hoax has already al-ready been exploded All that was done by the police authorities was to place the prisoners who participated I the revolution in dark cells in order to get them to tell where they has concealed their arms No cruelty w4 practiced upon any one and surely tltji action of the government toward a e prisoners sentenced to death was ciful The Country Prosperous Our country is quite prosperous We have felt the general depression but not as you have in the United States The plantations will pay good dividends divi-dends and there is a general improvement improve-ment in the manufacturing plants We can make cane sugar at as little cost as any country in the world now Sot His First Experience This is not Mr Kinneys first experience perience with revolutions Back in 1SS7 he was one of the men who framed the constitution presented i to Kala kua at the bayonets point and compelled com-pelled him to sign i |
