The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-06-09

patch, the public can have but one, and that IL
if the French Minister at Washington had sen
the same message to Mr.. Cas-, he would hay
been politely notified that his passports could b
withdrawn. This grand finale is in perfect han
mony with the treaty, and should accompan
that remarkable document.
From the Polynesian we learn that the Gov
eminent CT somebody in it, thinks that "thre
out of the six points in the now famous a
referendum article, are accepted, VII hose re
ferring to internal regulations of tI~Nhe an
spirit trade, and to a limitation of the consula
privileges in the 18th and Goth articles ;-th'
three other points, referring to the French Ian
guage, Ne power of local courts in cases of in
testate Frenchmen, and the recognition of French
and Hawaiian vessels as such according TO thu
particular laws Of the respective countries, art
in toto and unquali6edly declared inadmissible.
In respect to the 8. internal regulations Of thu
wine and spirit trade which is SO vauntingly
claimed as yielded to the Hawaiian Government
the position of the French Commissioner is very
equivocal. He says of it:
Thus 1t is that the 10th Article Of the Treaty of 10Th October
which consecrates a principle established in 1889 and maintained
the goth june, 1851, renders also inadmissibie the first para.
graph Of the proposed additional act
The law of June, 1851, referred to is this, we
suppose
soRBrDISG THE EErAI OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS AT ANY orHER
PLACE EXCEPT HONOLULU.
WHEREAS, there have been numerous applications from places
AND WHEREAS, it is feared that greater evil would grow out OF
such licenses on other islands: Therefore
Haudiian Islands in Legislative Council assembled.
That aner the passage Of this resolution, il shall not be Lawful,
wines and other intoxicating drinks, at any other place in the
kingdom than Honolulu.
Put this and that together and what do you
make of it? Why, that this law of June 20,
1851, is deemed by the French Government as
- inapplicable to 4 Frenchman," and eonse-
quently that a Frenchman must be licensed any
where that he chooses to reside, or out of
Honolulu. Does this wok like allowing the
Hawaiian Government to regulate its internal
liquor traffic?
Our readers may be under the impression that
this treaty will expire at the end of ten years
from September sth, 1859. Very far from that.
Should the French Government insist, it may
hold the Hawaiian Government to abide by the
offensive articles for fifty years if it chooses, and
no power ON earth can prevent it. the 26th
article rends
ARTICLE XXVI-Thisp present treaty shall be in
force for ten years, counting from the day Of the ex-
change of the ratifcations, and if, in one year before
the expiration of this term, neither the one nor the
other of the two contracting parties announce by an
official declaration its intention that it shall cease to
have effect, the said treaty will remain still obliga-
tory during one year. and so EDWARDS until the expi-
ration of the twelve months which shall follow the
ofncisl declaration in question, at whatever time it
may be made. Ii is well understood that in case
this declaration come to be made by one or other of
the contracting parties, the provisions Of the treaty,
relative to trade and navigation, and contained in
tho articles e q 10 IL ID liz Ia and "a shall no
alone considered as having ceased and expired, but
that, in regard to the other articles, the said treaty
shall remain, nevertheless, perpetually obligatory,
and cannot be modified except by n mutual agree
ment between the two contracting parties.
By the last clause of this article it will be seen
that sections l to Z, Is to %, and 25 to 81. in
elusive, . shall remain perpetualIy obligatory
unless a new treaty can be fixed on. The sections
excepted are almost the only ones which are in
any way overbearing or burdensome.
Thus it will be seen how we are ensnarled in
this French network, not by chance, but by the
strenuous and voluntary efforts of his Majesty's
Ministers. 1t is of no use for them now to grum-
BILE, they must SO grin and bear it," The treaty
of 1916 was infinitely better than this new one,
and we might have continued under it for ten
years longer, as well as for the last ten years, if
our Ministers had had only the resolution to say
in respect to the Ministry, No. That little word
is after all, one of the most powerful, whether
for peace or war, for quiet or anarchy. We cam
not conclude this French dilemma better than by
quoting a paragraph from our review of it year
ago:
The treaty is now ratified and must go into force
in 1859. WehHye endeavored to show its faults and
lime alone can fully develop its work
1t may work smoothly, if an honorable and Just
represents French interests, or it may be made
an instrument of oppression to this nation, should one
a contrary disposition have the Interpretation of
its articles. In case of dispute, and we risk little in
predicting that twelve months will not elapse from
the date of its enforcement before serious dispute will
have arisen in regard to its stipulations,- we see no
chance for settlement other than by that rule which
is too often brought to bear on feeble governments,
and of which Tahiti and Pomare are lasting monu-
ments, that g might makes right In vain will it
be to talk then of the sympathy and power of Eng
land or America. They will only point the finger Of
scorn to US and tell US that we willingly employed a
Ministry who have brought on us all this evil, when
fully warned against it. And here we leave this
treaty. Though designed to be a "laurel wreath
to bind the brow of gallant statesmen-a ~capstone
to crown the pinnacle Of Hawaiian diplomacy, it will
only remain and be viewed as a monument of diplo-
matte folly, pointing out to succeeding generations
The day when the glory of Hawaii departed, when n
and feeble government, slowly advancing in
commerce, science and the arts of industry, was
in its youthful career by burdens and re-
which she could not bear, imposed on her
BY a Ministry unanimously condemned by public
opinion.
The TariG or lS59-Nbeud doe. n M s.ne