The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-04-17
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Mn. EplroH II observe an advertisement in the
Gssctc Of this week reducing the rates of adNertis-
ing and job work twenty-five per cent. With a will
ing people 90 pay taxes, and a dcviie Legislature To
pas, tills of indemnity, the Ministry can afford 70
spend the money Of the nation in working injury 70
tMc Interests 81 any private citizen whose views may
not coincide with theirs. while such a direct attack
upon You VIII bring YOU the sympathy 81 your
friends, ~ a business matter the public viii proba-
bly, wisely judge as 10 whether advertising IN Your
paper is not worth 3S per cent. more than IA the
Gazette. But the question i not as to their ability
TO injure, but rs 70 the ~propriety II their course
Had an advertisement Appeared in that paper stating
that - per cent. more than market prices would be
paid Tor al merchandise and material nccjet by the
Government when bought ri parties known to sym
pathiSc with the Ministry, II would only express the
course pursued by the present Ministry FOR months
past. The question might bc (werc there any indie
pendent tribunal, parliament, congress or other be-
fore which a Ministry could be argaisned)-Are the
Ministers appointed, and the public funds entrusted
to their care that they may lee used in connection
with all the authority Of the Government TO injure
the private interests Of those who oppose their policy ,
The beS;owal OF the patronage Of the Government
upon their friends, provided they are equally coupe
tent, is something TO be looked for IN any Govern
ment, but the direct application of funds belonging
to the Government to iniure the business of others.
ought not TO be tolerated.
The present clique who hold the reins of power
are perfectly INSCRIPTIONS in the use Of the power
in their hands. BY a system of Capitalization highly
pcrnicious, every Board created by law is composed
of the same parties. and thus they have in their con-
troll various means Of furnishing any who may not
hold opinions favorable to their infallibility.
Ii a planter should be suspected of opposing a
Minister, a few pointed directions to the district
Judge in his neighborhood, a word 10 the boundary
commissioner, n hint dropped in the Board of lmmi-
grafton, a significant nod to the Commissioners of
Crown Lands, and, if his opposition is sufficiently
notorious. u word in the Supreme Court, such as
'swc must support the Government, gentlemen, -
will soon surround him with IA Gordon of Influences
that Will bring him into subsection or drive him from
the country. Unfortunately for the country they
generally yield to the powers that be, and if suff-
ciently badgered will soon begin to write for the
Government press. If so, the spell is broken; favors
from the Board Of Immigration are showered upon
him, District Judges and the various Commissioners
see things in n different light, and sycophancy meets
with its reward.
In the public advertisement of the Government
plan, your case differs from many others, and IN
that respect only. Any reform, in my opinion, is
impossible. Physical demonstration is the only cor
rector Of evils in an absolutism. This is not TO be
expected here. The native population are too listless
and too much under the superstitions of old to appre-
ciate the evil. The foreigners mainly come here to
make money, and only care for that.
Perhaps, Sir, in the light of the advertisement l
refer to. you will see something besides beauties in
the Monarchical system of which you proclaim your
self a supporter.
The saddest thing in the Gdectte of this week is q
communication signed by n prominent resident whose
name once challenged respect. The most emphatic
answer to his questions rs to whether the Government
would have approached certain parties in the interest
of bad schemers, is his own course for the past few
years That he should have lent his name and infu-
ence and submitted to be the willing tool of the
Ministry in their schemes of deceit, invasion of the
rights of others, and personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, would
certainly excite their hopes that others might forget
their lifelong connections and yield to the force OF
ministerial or royal fattery and n few such crumbs
as have been dropped to recompense so sad a fall.
The Ministry excite indignation-their tools pity.
Truly Yours, JUSTICE.