The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-06-20

supreme Oh Hawaiian soil. and the uA-iv.
race. ike the native tongue, must yield u
the foreigner. Let our rulers heed the pro.
phetic voice, and check the wild notes Of On.
ministerial organ. whose course. In seeking q
abolish the Hawaiian language from our public
schools, whether intended for tina; purpose or
not, l. probably doing more % undermine
the sovereignty and wr-st the sceprer from
Hawaii ancient dynasty, than may now De-
dreamed Of.
H-a- s.i nr.sr AMI public .HFrsyemea.s are aatoea.si,
.a.. '"1-..i-- ai civilized wants tut reals and bridge
sr- pubic .-p-9'-ueat- can Only p properly appreciated by
aa. expended tes--a tLr-e ana our ia-l--i t..g-aaI Dol.
s1--s Improvements. tHd Incurred debt = a-sry
.ar- e year aa. been devoted o. sl-taa che English schools m
many g-,s- o. come. - again plead boz behalf .F the English
SCHOOLS AMI ,l-r -zraa...a 90 :a- fun exc f.; ,.at a p-rre-
i;lr- 70 legitimate receipts ~l admit Of
Here j. another specimen of governmental
whining from the ministerial organ. Talk Of
the public dr5r Of 500. 900 (nearer $50. OOO?)
having been incurred for public improvements
This l. NJ, 80. The debt. whatever II Is, has
no. been incurred any more for the public
works than TO sustain the government press
which utters such Hbellous language as that.
and u sustain q score Of s]inecure officers,
who return scarce q dollars benefit 10 the
government. Talk Of 800. 600 debt, Nearly
that has been sunk, absolutely sunk, WASTED,
LOST. in the public printing Office during
the past twelve years. over and above what
the work might have been done for. Not
one cent under 1920, 900 has been expended
in that department during the period named,
when " four thousand dollars a year" would
have amply suffced to execute all necessary
work, and viii do it now.
The government has expended literally to-
wards its public Improvements. For that all
thanks. They are the only monuments that We
have Of the large income and beneficent admin
i~stration Of former years and now are we 10
See al further improvements stopped and aban-
at the beck of the government editor,
who childishly thinks that {. there Is appar-
emily enough done in that line? Are we to
see the only substantial and commendable meas
ures adopted by the government set aside that
a few officials may still be fed and fattened
At the public crib, that the government press
may be sustained, and a paper promulgated,
one day seeks 70 overthrow the Consti-
.ution-the only palladium Of our rights-and
he next recommends a suspension Of all pub
ic improvements that it may live. and breathe
md have its being a little while longer? We
% for economy as earnestly as any, but We
would apply it in the proper place. Retreneh-
nent has long been our motto, and we have
Irged it 50 often on the government that it
would seem as if the ministry had settled on the
to ruin the nation. Poverty and bankruptcy
tare the treasury in the face, but the only
hing that concerns the ministry-the chief
Measure before its, how can We borrow money
nd increase the public debt. 10 the best adyan-
age. The great question which should be be
them-how can we retrench without affect
ng the efficiency of the governments utterly
sight of. &" After us the flood is the mot
o of the ministry, and well do they follow it.
Let the government organ talk no more about
he public debt, until it Is ready to recommend
ONE mode of retrenchment in its own depart
lent. Let it not say again, there is no money
Or the much needed harbor and channel i'm
rovements, while $4,000 a year is spent to
ustain an establishment which is neither u ne
seeks, a. occasion may offer, to subyert
ur political Institutions and create. what would
'NN' l. ''''' vi '''i ""oiO"y' O"y
n Monday last, a noble sh~iP-ofwar, the Lam
7ster, drawing only nineteen feet of water,
up an ominous muddy wake as she left
ur harbor, which tells US. in language unmis-
lkably clear. that if our channel is not deep
ned. we may have already seen the last war
-iglte enter our harbor. No, let our pub
4 improvements be a. vigorously carried on
IT the next four years as they have for
lie past four, and our government may rest
ssured that it is building u firm and solid
'undation, ON which will be developed and
established the future growth, prosperity and
of the Hawaiian people. Suspend
lem, and you stab the very heart of our internal
-~osperity.