The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-04-26
M" of the Gazette.

through a tainted atmosphere, which reflects nothing
but deprayity. Their mental vision is a sort of
camera obscura. which distorts everything. The
world outside Of their seething view of corruption,
is q fata mOrgaaa, where the images Of vice and
t~urpitude assume gigantic forms. Whenever such
men appear before the public, it requires no extraor-
binary effort of mental analysis to detect them.
There are fanatically blind bigots, like the self
righteous Jews, who thought no good could come out
of Gallilee, and revied and insulted the purest and
best that ever walked among men. The writer of
"M." reveals his position in characters as flaming as
the hand writing on the wall of the Babylonian King,
without its mystery; and exhibits the fact that he lives
in an atmosphere of vice and immortality, or is so
blindly sigoted that he cannot see the civilization,
social progress. and moral influences that are oper-
ating around him. Like the hypocritical Pharisee,
who prayed in the synagogue that he might be seen
of men, and thanked his God that he was not like
other men, he can see no good in others. He is
typical of those " false prophets, who come to you
in Sleeps clothing, but ~inwardly they are ravening
wolves Like the cuttle-fsh that darkens the water
behind it, as it swims along, so he has left the black
stain of falsehood upon nearly every sentence Of his
article in the last issue of the Gazette.
l stand in an independent position. 1 held no
Office under the last government, nor do 1 hold Office
under the present. L view the state of affairs on
these islands, with a calm aud unprecedented vision,
and l will briefly point out q few of ms" false
hoods.
1t is false that Hawaiian social life has been
horribly increasing in its state of disease and rotten
ness" The moral and social condition of the Ha-
waiian people. is sounder and healthier now than it
has ever been in the past, and none but a dOgmatic
bigot would see otherwise. The disease introduced
ON the re-discOvery of these islands by Capt. Cook, is
not so prevalent now as it has been i'll the past.
Medical skill, the increased intelligence and better
condition of the people, are rapidly eradiCating it
from our midst. Its lingering remains, are to be
found among the so called lepers, and these are fast
becoming isolated, in order to arrest the spread of
the virus. Any medical man competent to judge,
would say that the general health Of the people of
these islands, is as good, as that of the same amount
of population on any intertropical climate. Beyond
the immediate vicinity of our chief commercial port.
among the rural population of our islands, there is
scarcely any disease arising from social vices. The
large amount of leprous patients from Maui can be
traced to the time when Lahaina was the chief whal-
ing rendezvous of the islands, and a principal COM
mercial depot. In Hawaii the case IS different. Now
as it regards the introduction Of laborers here,
whether Cinnamon or Europeans, positive facts show
the falsehood of " Ms conclusions. The halfwhite
and half Chinese population, are BY far the most
healthy and vigorous portion of our population, and
less subject to disease;
The officers of the late government, whatever may
be said of their ineficiency in other respects, labored
assiduously for the benefit of the native population.
They had no more substantial friend than the late
Minister of the Interior. He was untiring in his
exertions for their benefit. lie did all in his power
to give the people medical aid and remove disease
from among them. A hundred new cases of tainted
life have not sprang up, under his efforts. On the
contrary general disease is on the decline. The land
and the people are cursed with such selfrighteous
croakers as M
\ 1t is false that the administration of justice has
been corrupt, during the last decade. During the
greater portion of that period, our Supreme Court
for learning and integrity would compare favorably
with the bench of any other civilized country. As
at present composed, We have a fair share Of ability,
honesty of purpose, and a sincere desire for the cor
rect administration of justice. We have had an
Attorney General efficient and jealous in the per-
formance of his duties, and the present incumbent,
though young, is not behind his predecessor in zeal,
honesty of purpose, vigilance and industry. We have
had and still have an able and efficient Marshal,
conscientious in the discharge of his duty. know of
no country where the laws have been more certainly
and efFectually administered and justice executed,
Aoh AZ nc 1hO pAOPOA " u OhNlCNLOn
to acquittals, has been greater than in any State of
the American Union, and statistics will bear me out
in the statement. Conviction and punishment as a
general rule, follow the commission of crime in these
islands. The finger of scorn cannot point to a Laura
L. Fair or Stokes case in these islands. 1t is a
SANDER on our Supreme Court to suppose that it
would sanction conduct Of the inferior tribunals as
presumed by M"
If"M." will examine the report of the Chief
Justice, to the last Legislative Assembly, and COM
pare it with the reports of the last ten yearg, he will
find himself convicted of falsehood, as far as our
inferior Courts are concerned. As a general rule the
inferior tribunals have been very efficient, and if any
blame is to be attached TO them, it is for over zeal in
the conviction of persons charged with offences, not
with screening them. There may have been indi-
vidual instances of ineficiency, ignorance or cor
ruption; if so, it must have been somewhere in the
moral atmosphere in which NJ. moves and has
his being.
It is false that the law to mitigate has % debauched
the nations conscience" except so far as it's influence
has extended to M" 1t has done incalculable
good in preventing and arresting disease. 1t has
taught the rising generation to look with loathing
and contempt on a toahine laitini, and TO draw the
line Of distinction between vice and virtue, thus
having directly the contrary effect attributed to it by
on" There is as little RIGHTEOUSNESS on these
islands as you will find amongst the same population
in any commercial portion of Europe or America.
The employee of the government who gave the adult
erous estimate to M" should be known, in order
that he may be suitably rewarded by the government
for the performance of his duty. ON" jumps at
the conclusion from that information. that there must