The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-11-26

! States and Europe, by steamers which arrive
every month, with Il large number OF through
passengers, we seem 10 have got an lntrouuc-
ton into society, the advantages accrulhS from
which will probably depend upon our good De
hayior.. These steamers add to our pleasure Dy
constantly bringing s. troups " of caterers Tor the
public amusement of different kinds on their way
from one continent to the other, and who remain
over a trip and in Honolulu may now often De
heard first class actors, singers or elocutlonlsts-
Circus and negro minstrels are quite common
whilst Japanese !jugglers and Chinese giants
90 come like shadows, so depart
These recently inaugurated steam enterprises
have given us the idea of ultimately getting steam
lines or ramiicaIions extended in various direc-
tions. We expect indeed that from our situation
in the Pacific, webs will be spun for us connect
ing us with all the main ports, and ID other re-
spects we are anxious to make the port OF Homo
lulu as attractive as possible to the shipping OF
this ocean and then, like the patient spider we
will wait with open arms to catch some OF the
yearly increasing transient INNER ahoat on the
broad Pacific.
Our form of Government is a limited mon
archy, adapted to our state originally by men OF
republican principles. 1t seems to work well,
but from the fact of there being no educated
native middle class, from which to select, and the
native chiefs being nearly all extinct, the sover-
eicn has. to obtain his ministers, judges, and
advisers from amongst the foreign residents, who
have become naturalized, or to send abroad Tor
them. Again, although the people, by their
representatives, have the power OF passing OF
rejecting laws, yet as they sit and vote with the
House of Mobiles, that are born chiefs, or mobiles
created by their sovereign, and with the King {
Ministers, who belong to that body eGz0Dtao
1.-THE practical result is, that the country Is gov
erned by a Bureaucracy, tempered by the views
of the sovereign and by public opinion. We dc
not know that hitherto our liability to such q
! mode of Government has worked practically te
our detriment. 1t, however, throws a grea'
i responsibility upon our leading men, and be-
booyes them to study with more than ordinary
care to win and preserve the respect and affection
of the people, both for themselves and for thu
sovereign.
Perhaps our greatest danger is that we have
too few educated men amongst us of foreign birth
who are prepared and intend to cast in their 10
T with the native, and be permanent dwellers in th'
land. The King has had difficulty sometimes il
finding such for various responsible offices
, There is thus an opening for intelligent men witt
!, some little means who desire to settle here per
; manently, and who wish to combine. occupation
with the qualification of a modest ambition-an'
I, without the racking work or risk of a fall whlcl
l the, attainment of high places in most countrie
entail. We have never yet beheaded a minister
e or hardly impeachcd one. As long as we are
; governed with an ordinary degree Of justice an
n propriety, we seem to be rather inclined { t
D bear the ills We have than fly to others that W
: know not off,
We look upon our group of beautiful Islands
t with it's charming climate, and its mild tractabl
!, inhabitants, to say nothing of it's full treasury
, and no debt or paper money, as a delightful llttl
T Kingdom to rule. Nay more, We look upon it a
. a delightful little country in which to dwell an
s be ruled. All we ask of our rulers is to deserV
It the respect and esteem we are anxious to accor
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