The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-02-01
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written tor the P. {. ADVERTISED
Mr.. EpIroR The Government Organ in its issue
of this week refers to an " oft heralded paper" and
judging from the tenor of its remarks must mesn the
Lunalilo paper. which was not announced in any
newspaper until after it was published and the
Organ speaks of being I" disappointed and sold" in
making which remark it must refer to some loss of
the valuable time of its busy editor in its perusal,
inasmuch as the sell could not have hurt his pocket
he having received a gratuitous copy.
This paper contains a good portrait, cabinet size, of
the King, and the only published biographical sketch
of His Majesty. 1t also contains a resume of events
leading to the popular election of a King of these
Islands. An original sketch of the founder of the
Kamehamehs dynasty. Some particulars relating to
the individuals of the dynasty. Facts concerning the
Hawaiian nation, and the most important campaign
documents in the recent election of a Sovereign.
Much of this information is important and inter-
esting, and not heretofore published and should have
been furnished by a salaried public chronicler; but
inasmuch as it has not been done, the public is
g sold " by being obliged to pay for a chronicle that
is usually q mere collection of clippings ycleped the
Gdsette.
The comments of the Organ Of the official cliques
upon the paper in question. and the circumstances
IL olSSuSoCSi IN uiuii ahu uhti
First, it says that the recently elected Sovereign
would by right of birth in the absence of any con-
stitutional provision have assembled the Throne
without one single soul in this Kingdom. who
could or would have disputed his right - and yet
the press that prints this Organ issued a SANDER
against the genealOgy of the successful candidate
it also published the opposing manifesto of a well
known claimant of the Throne; and formally de-
clared its neutrality in respect to the pretensions of
the contending aliis or chiefs.
Secondly it says that the true Prince, as a mere
matter of legal fOrmality, issued an address to the
people, to which they responded, and the election
followed in due course whereas the doubtful con-
dilon OF the Princes prospects, not among dis
loyal masses" of Hawaiians, but among d~isloyal,
and now tOadying foreigners, induced the then adj
visers of the canvass to prompt the issue of an ad-
dress or plebiscitum, which the Organ would not
publish merely as a matter OF news and this
plebiscitum along with other discussion, az every
intelligent man in the community feels, during the
Owl-like silence of the authoritative paper, consti-
tuted the decisive policy and influence which con-
%centrated and organized public opinion and
made intended opposition. and secret intrigue,
which had at least a sympathetic cooperation in the
Government press, both dangerous and impossible.
This is the story believed in by every thinking man
IL tnlS country ldmlllaF WIN recent events, ana VINO
will say, if his mouth is not shut by an office, that
but for organized effort through a press devoted to
the true Prince, his election by loyal and devoted
masses might have been endangered or made not so
decisive and triumphant.
But this effort is characterized as q pretentious,
and unnecessary interference; and the work of an
" adventurer," seeking an opportunity to "experi-
ment on his pet theories, imPracticable and visionary
- tbar ,o ~ > , - oI,@-t,.o. .-Iaol TIL.
seems a reflection upon the whole foreign community.
For where shall we find a foreigner on these Islands
who is not an adventurer2 But probably one who
comes here in quest of a living, who starts with a
~clerkship AM gets advanced to an edito-
chair, and writes for two or three hundred
readers is not an adventures. Or it may be that
another who begins at a dollar a day, and arrives at
the consequence of a money-lender on collateral, or a
must not be SO considered. Or possibly
one who sought this country as a journeyman printer,
and arrives at the dignity of selling gridirons and
grindstones must not be so classed. Surely a builder
rests upon a better foundation; and a lawyer whose
chief merit is in being native and to the manner
born must not be thus designated. But what shall
be said of judges or lawyers, who crossed stormy
to find a bench or a brief here? Or of even
sailors and sea cooks, who landed high and dry on
Hawaii's happy shores and found here a subsistence
and a home
Oh, no. not at any of these must any one fling q
hout, or fix the faint of adventure on any in this
honorable category. Then where shall we look for
this especial object of official and conservative sneer,
the adventurer? He was found in a Columbus, in a
Raleigh. in an Oglethorpe, and a Boone, among a lot
IF Pilgrims, and later in a Livingstone and a Stanley.
But where shall we find him in this conservative land!
It must be the man of " visionary and impracticable
theories :" or ideas, and as the Gazette has not been
guilty of any we cannot look there. 1t must be the
nan who started the Immigration Society to which
King and His Ministers and all the solid
subscribed. 1t must be he who has
discussed the bringing of people TO these unpeopled
shores from some quarter or all the quarters of the
World. 1t must be he who has urged the disposal of the
public lands, and who has discussed the freedom and
interests Of this port as a great emporium of the
'uture. 1t must be he WHO worked hard for an i'm
perfect or partial reciprocity treaty. and who would
worked harder for a perfect or a real one. 1t
must be some such man of ideas and agitation, who,
Though he can live without q salary, yet being
anxious to experiment on pet theories, and these,
however, much appreciated and important to the
are sufficient to those content with a state of
hamilton TO constitute him as prominently an
Idventurer.
The contented negatives must beware of such
dangerous positive men, and give their confidence
to dealers in hardware, harberdashery and lum-
per- No one doubts the value Of such dealers
md certainly the writer of the Lunalilio paper
las not sneered at their honorable occupation
mt he has sneercd at. or criticised the iobberies in !