The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-10-02
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER ,.

EleTlSe1FeS. O1ASTSDI 4CclI1CleS anu 1l-1OQ1l traits
Of character create different wants so that the same
constitution, laws and regulations rarely answer for
two nations. The free constitution of the American
Union would never serve for the British nation, each
system Of government being best adapted to the
wants of 6s own people. Yet, in each of these two
governments, the popular voice enters largely into
and is a powerful element in controlling the admins
tration. Every individual in them, especially in the
latter, is entitled to q voice in the formation and
complexion Of the administration, and to de5ar him,
in any degree, is considered an infringement of his
constitutional rights. According as their interests at
stake increase, their rights are supposed to increase
also. So, too, in our own Kingdom, the opinion of
the foreign residents, although they may be debarred
from participating in the government, should have
great weight in its administration. They have gem
orally resided here a long time, become familiar with
the wants Of the people, and contribute by far the
greater part of the means by which government is
supported. and are in fact its main support. In some
cases, Government has wisely been governed in its
acts by public opinion, where it has been sought fer
and expressed. But in many cases, the policy of the
Ministry has been not to seek any expression of pub
lie opinion, bat to act without it and in the NEST
quiet manner.
Among the events of the past month, has been the
appearance of a curious but very interesting pam
phlet, containing the views of General VIM. Miller,
drawn up in 1915, : in order to show and put on
record his views with regard 70 Sandwich Islands af-
fairs, such as he on several occasions expressed to the
Hawaiian Rulers. 1t is a fictitious speech purporting
to have been delivered by DR.. Judd, at the first meet
ing of the Legislature or Parliament in 1876" Its
interest consists in It's portraying with the fidelity of
q mirror the public opinion Of that day, and by COM
pairing it with the present state Of things, the reader
can see the advance that has been made. We should
be glad to publish it entire, but not having the space
to give It, must refer to the P0IyResian Of Sept. Is,
il which a portion of the pamphlet is published, and
ourselves with 4 few extracts. It's publication
this time IS very opportune, for owing to the blum
made and advantages taken by those in author
public opinion is justly becoming walked up to
demand a more strict accountability in the admins
ration Of affairs.
The orator, after q hasty exordium, in which is
shown the advance of the nation from a state of bar
barism to its then condition, adyerts to the response
bility of ministers in the f5llowing paragraph, on
which it wiz be well for our present ministers to
ponder:
s.Listen attentively, Ibeseech you, Mobiles and Rep
resentatives, TO what I am about to say. In bec0m-
ing a free and independent people we entail upon our
selves great responsibility, great duties towards those
whom we govern, IOWaFuS OtHer nations anu towards
foreigners living among US. If we perform those du-
ties well, by improving the condition of the people,
especially of the hitherto poor oppressed kanakas by
the opinion of those Governments that
have given us political existence, and by treating for
eieuerS with Justice and fairness, we shall be respect
ed and upheld by foreign powers, whose agents and
or citizens, residing here viii, in that case,
gladly assist and strengthen US, and we shall accord
ingly increase in numbers, in wealth, and in power.
But If, on the contrary, we have recourse in our
Ic1lfprS n STbfprflTa and aTTr1r1nPP and establish (
4 price for f9voritiSm which would tend TO pervert
good men. and certainly make bad men worse We
shall weaken, if not lose, the good will Of our best
friends and become the reverse of respectable. How
can we expect that maritime and commercial nations
would willingly permit us, by folly and misrule, rath-
er to embarrsss than facilitate their liberal policy,
and phiIanthropic views, which they have SO gene
rousIy extended towards the King and native chiefs
Of these IsIlnds?"
The necessity Of showing at least n decent respect
for residents here, "who represent a majority in
wealth and intelligence, and who have a right to be
treated with some consideration is fifty shown in
the following lines, which we specially commend to
those whose acts have lately brought our government
disgrace, by their tampering with the public
faith and violating corporate rights
"I Will here remark, that in other countries, for
form SO insignificant a minority when compar-
ed to the native population, as to numbers, wealth, and
intelligence, that they have no intervention, nor can
expect TO have any, III the affairs OF government, out
en- these Islands circumstances arc widely different.
Foreigners here represent q majority in wealth and
intelligence, they are the greatest. contributors to the
revenue and therefore expect. and have a right, to
be, treated with some consideration with regard to
public. matters. We cannot expect them to submit
to an usurpation, de fIctO, of supreme power on the
of any one foreign individual to the establish
ment of what might be termed inquisTtorial courts
to the revival of any thing like the Blue Laws Of Con-
n~ecticut, or to 4 mock administration Of justice"
There IS nothing that SO interests a people az the
administration Of its finances, and i is proper that
they should be so fur interested in it as TO require
accountability from their servants The following
paragraphs. as wen as those we have quoted, would
seem to have been penned for this present time, so
aptly are they suited to the existing state Of things.
but we are assured that they we're read to his late
Majesty, several years before his death
ssThe Finance Department is an object Of primary
solicitude and importance IN all well regulated Gov
ernments, and consequently most eficacious checks
sre imposed upon those who have the direction and
management Of the public treasury indeed, a most
strict accountability Is exacted from all who have to
receive or di.burse public money, without which 1t
would hardly be possible to prevent malversation-
"FIn the mean time strongly recommend that forth
with q monthly account be published In the Hawaiian
and English languages, clearly showing every sum re-
ceaved and paid by the treasury, which [ am Of 0pTn-
ion, it Is extremely desirable should be placed under
the strict surveillance Of the four cabinet members,
as ex efdcio commissioners of the treasury. Such an
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