The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-08-09

1T Is CLAIMED by the OppOsers of the Ministerial
policy OF Reciprocity through n cession of Pearl
Harbor, that they have the : entire native pOpu-
lation " on their side. This fact-if indeed it be
n fact-does not by any means prove the sound
ness Of their view, nor does it follow that they
will continue to retain a majority. The discussion
of the question of 4 cession was commenced among
the natives by the public address of the Both of
June, in which extreme ground was taken and
views advanced that were so clearly untenable,
as to be repudiated by the "sober, second
thought - of the more intelligent among the peo-
pie. The only capital the anti-cessionists really
have to work upon with the native mind, is short
sighted prejudice and the suspiciousness that
always accompanies Ignorance, whether in the
native or the foreigner. The extent TO which this
species of capital is being worked, and the depths
of absurd but vicious misrepresentation to which
some members of the anti-cession party will stoop,
are rather astounding. Every little circumstance
that can be distorted, is used to impress upon the
native mind the belief that any and all foreigners
who support the Ministerial policy, as recently
declared, are simply selfseekers ut the expense of
the Hawaiian people. Such teachings must in
eyitably result in one Of two things-either in
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mon sense and reasoning from experience or it
must end in destroying all confidence and good
feeling between tie native Hawaiians and dOmi-
ciled foreigners. We believe however, that the
intemperance Of statement and the very bitterness
of opposition displayed by the anti-cessiOn party
will prove in the end the main cause of their
defeat. The image they have set up before the
people is like that mentioned in Holy Writ, the
upper portions of which were Of brass and iron,
but the feet were of clay.
Great questions, we learn from history, are not
at first favored by majorities. 1t took many
years agitation before the British Parliament
decreed the abolition of slavery in the West
Indies and the nucleus from which sprung the
great Republican party in the United States, was
for 4 long time n despised handful of abolltiOnists.
Had WE TIE SPACE to spare-and the game was
worth the ammunition-we might quote col
umns of labored editorials from this Journal I'M
der its former proprietor, piling up arguments
freely emphasized with italics and staring capt.
tails to prove that constitutionally, legally and
morally, the Ministers of the King were alone re-
sponsible for the government policy, and that it
was cowardiee and mean trickery in them to drag
the Royal name into politics. In those days, and
under its then management, this was the ADyER-
Users strong hand. To-day, the same writer,
no longer an independent journalist, obeys the
magic - presto, change " and sagely pronounces
an exponent of the doctrine of Ministerial respon-
sibility a 8 simpleton, - and guilty of & preten-
sious hypocrisy - The two last words, are evil
IDENTIFY thrown in at the end because they are
high-sounding, but without any regard to their
applicability. 1t is an amusing though sometimes
perplexing popularity of this writer, that he APP
pears to possess very little appreciation of the i'm
port of words and their uses.
" In his brain
Which Is as dry as the remainder-biscuit
After a voyage-he hath strange places crammd
With observation, the which he vents
In manglsd FORMS
The Shah of Persia, we beg to inform the sapi-
ent Gazette, is one Of the most absolute mOnarehs
on the face of the globe, within whose dominions
its EDITORS head would be in imminent danger of
parting company with his bOdy-and 4 Minister
of State would not be able TO save him from de
c1pitatiOn.