The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-09-20

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the prosperity Of the country viii be best promoted
by a Treaty Of Reciprocity With tie United States,
On the basis % Pearl River. If the concession Of that
lagoon prove a sufficient in-duccment to secure such
a treaty" 20 says the Ga-ettc, and so far
very good. fr Of course the Ministers understand
their responsibility for the conclusion ;" 10 which
they have arrived Article 81 Of the Constitution
places the responsibility Of all such measures upon
the Ministers; this viii not, | presume. be disputed
But the Gazette goes on 20 say, without authority,
l must infer. for it Is not 50 headei,) that " the King
ordered his Minister Of Foreign Affairs 10 notify the
American Minister that he was ready 60 negotiate a
treaty on that basis and that In regard
to this matter. His Majesty has expressed the wish
that his subjects suspend their Judgment until a
reply shall be received from the American Govern
ment;'' and then goes On TO say that "a
proper respect for the King aud the action Of has
Government is not shown 10y assaling in public
meetings the measures adopted by it" King
or his Government
BY whom this bantling Of " cession =" was begotten
it is hard to say, for both the Gazette and ApvER-
User claim the honor Of ~begetting it, but it is safe
TO say that one Of them is father TO il, while the
other stands sponsor for il; however, the Ga-otie
manifests the NEST solicitude for the bantling and 50,
following the wisdom Of solomon, let us decree it TO
the Gazette.
The Ministers tor a majority Of them) having
adopted the child, it is perhaps too late to quote the
following, taken from an English paper treating Of
administrator on Commercial Principles :" I'VE
should all agree that a Minister who kasJr nothing
of the ignorance, the prejudices, the oyer-mastering
influence Of feeling amongst the mass Of a nation
would be unfit to govern it; but we do not observe
an equal agreement upon what is practically the
same thing, that n Minister rules i'll who governs
with a high determination TO be guided by what
ought to be rather than what is" As the opposi-
ton of the mass of His Maiesty's subjects is attri-
buted 10 ignorance and prejudice, the quotation is
quite pertinent.
We must all agree that the Ministers alone are
responsible for the measure, and that it is not fitting
or proper for them, or their advocate the Gazette, TO
bring forward the name Of His Majesty as a make
weight to carry their point.
am unwilling to assume the full responsibility of
this dictum, more especially when il can be rein
forced by such an authority as the ADVERTISER Of
May 30th. 1868, which says, treating a resolution in
the Legislative Assembly, charging the then publisher
of that paper with attacking the person of His
Majesty the King, and bringing him into con-
tempt - 1.-The Constitution declares that the Min
listers are responsible, and that the King is sacred.
We recognize this truth-the Minister ignores it,
and has openly and knowingly violated the thirty
first Article of the Constitution, and is responsible to
the country for their act. 1t is now the duty of the
Representatives to take action on it.
"This is not the first time that Ministers have
resorted to the cowardly shift Of dragging forward
the sacred person of the King to serve as n bulwark
81 ooron, 4Ion, AL g., Il TOO "a, tIa .-,.,
None but EDWARDS and TRAITORS would ever
treat their Sovereign thus. No native-born Hawaiian
would presume TO offer such an insult TO him and
to the nation.
such base iugratitude deserves instant dismissal
from the service of the King" p . The CAPT
tails are the ADVERTISERS.
Some one on the Ga=eAe's staff certainly has supe-
rior advantages for ascertaining what the King says
in relation to a desire % that his subjects suspend their
Judgment" SC, and again to be able to say that
&" the King ordered his Minister of Foreign Affairs
to notify the American Minister that he was ready
to negotiate a treaty." sc.
Would it not be more correct, admitting the pro
priety of using the Kings name, to say that the King,
yielding to the importantly of his Chancellor and a
majority of his Cabinet, consented to interrogate the
American Secretary of State as TO his willingness to
negotiate such n treaty?
One more reference to that authority in most
matters, the ADVERTISER, this time for March 2Sth,
1868, and l will close "We say that the Throne of
this Kingdom derives its power and permanency
from that affectionate regard for their chiefs which is
planted deep in the hearts of the Hawaiian people.
This is the basis of the theory of Government of this
nation. Destroy the affection Of the people for their
Sovereign, and you destroy the throne itself"
| think that any one who knows the Hawaiian
people will say that there is no surer way of destroy
ing their affection for the King than by persistently
charging him with Z" ordering . his Ministers to go
ON with negotiations for the cession Of Pearl River.
j. q. c..