The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-01-17
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
II.

= IL is a humiliating fact that here, in the
year Of grace one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, 4 journal is supported, and sanctioned
by the Hawaiian government, whose chief aim
and object is to ridicule and oppose everything
that Is good, and promote and foster evil and dis
sension in our community. The mere assertion
ON our part that such is the case, might perhaps
with all not be considered proof sufficient that
it is the fact; but TO those who may have
a doubt We have only to point to the card in
to-day's paper, headed "To the Public" a docu-
ment which has been called forth only by 4
gross and rnjustifable attack made against q
religious society on the part of the Hawaiian
g~Overnment's official organ, to which we called at
tention two weeks ago, and for which the govern
ment editor, in his simplicity, thinks that he
ought to have been thanked by the trustees and
the church which he sought to injure. The
government has no right 10 interfere, either
through the medium of its paper or in any other
way, with the internal management of the affairs
of any religious corporation in the kingdom.
The trustees of the Fort street Church have felt
themselves called upon 10 answer the charge, and
they have done it in such mild and inofensiye
language that no one can take exception to the
manner.
We - LAA- ALLAEh Nd- ANJhsttIE1tlt- - ll1l
the writer of it, or those who are respon-
sible for him, taken tine trouble 10 inquire into
the facts, he OF they would have learned that
the were far from the truth. 80
far. indeed, that we can only suppose that there
was a malicious motive prompting its publ
cation. Ii i by the continuance Of such indis-
Greet publications in the government press. first
on the part Of its editor. then, perhaps, by way
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of an under-ofieer. who signs himself Observe.
but who Is very we'll known, and who takes fire.
quent opportunity TO render his very arduOus O.
services obnoxious by similar attacks on men and
things which in no way concern him. that this
government is fast falling into d~isrepute and dis
credit with those whose influence, goodwill and
advice. will 1T no distant day De sought 10 restore
70 it that prosperity and good name which once it
could boast, and to redeem it from 4 train of
mis:Crtunes, which, from present indications, APP
pear inevitable.
The fact i. that the government, in listening
10 GratuitOus advisers, who were aching 10 sup
plant their predecessors, has already gone too far
in ignoring the services of those rs counsellors.
who choose TO consider themselves rs governed
by principles Of morality, and seeking t. fiji
every Office and gift with others anxious to be
known as the advocates Of rum, the hula. and
elevating the character and position Of the pros
tituts u the level Of the virtuous and industri-
Jus. IL Is Z humililtIng fact that an advocacy
Of the=e cardinal tenets can. in this day u en-
.ightenment, be brought forward and publicly
of a. successful recommendations 10 Office.
Ii Is this change in our governmental policy
the great mistake Of discarding men because they
side with virtue, and the great iHiiscrcctness of
employing those whose sympathy with the pro-
yress and prosperity of Hawaii nei, i measured
,nly BIZ the number Of dollars they receive. and
error Of whose policy Is steadily developing
tself in our deserted harbJrs. our decimatin.
rade, Impoverished customs revenue, and conse-
,uently beggared exche4uer. 1t i this change
hat i making disconnected our most enterpris-
NJ merchants and traders. who are really the
backbone. the nerve and the muscle Of the sup
Of the government. Ii i this that i raising
gloomy veil over the future, and filing all, what
may be their calling, with foreboiings and
.nxietv. We see these unmistakeahle signs on
very side. in the plans Of The numerous residents
Who are purp0sing an early removal from Us:
We read them in the columns Of our journals.
md even in the native paper, the Hge, while
very mail watts chem 10 - from abroad. II Is
= short time since, that We received . letter
rom . valued foreign correspondent, who has
lways taken . lively interest in Hawaiian poll
les and in the prosperity Of our kingdom. The
etter Is i private one. but We hazard quoting q
sragrlph from il u show what j. thought Of u
broad
81 have long been q the opinion that . radical
hange IN the Ministerial Policy q the Kingdom wAs
peedeI. and vas the only means Of saving it from
reat embarrassment, if not utter ruin, sui I think
be King. who naturally hesi-l;es % move IN - mo- c
lentous = matter. Will see the necessity. and sill
C before IL i too late. The great mistake Was made /
then the Missionary influence wIs destroyed in the Z
iatiOnal Councils. Although th4; influence was '
misusei, and grave errors were sometimes :
through its agency, yet sny unparalleled /
rieni q the Nation wi! admit that since Il has been
AMI ignored il tue National Policy, the
has seemed 10 have lost it, ballast. and =.
be {ri'fi1z. without proper control. occasionally .,
ithin sound q the breakers. DO not symPltLize %