The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-01-11
THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0Otrtlsrr.
SATURDAY. JAN. II.

LuNALILo is King. The will of the people has
so far triumphei, and VIC hope and believe that
the nation has entered upon the career Of pros
periry which tie perfect accord Of King and
people should inaugurate. This journal, in adj
yOcating the claims Of the Prince who has now
succeeded To the Throne, only gave that expres-
sion Of the popular will of which it aims to be
the exponent, and in now abiding 10 the subject
Of the Cabinet Of tho rev King NC do not assume
or pretend b dictate any persons for the high
Offices Of administration, but we arc confident We
still reflect the popular hopes and desires when
we assert that the people hope that old things
are passed away, tn Il new King means i
new regime.
We have no desire to refer to the dreary past
Of Official ineapacity and " King Government,
except % draw needed lessons for the future.
The tendency Of Government Is very strong in
all small countries 10 degenerate into rings
centnlism Is their bane. After the Offices have
been gathered within a few hands, it is difficult TO
resist the temptation to use the favor and patron
age of Office for private ends. a Cabinet Min
iser's Office should never be the basis Of operations
for commercial, financial, or real estate specula-
tons.
Among the names which have been prominent
In our community for Cabinet positions the last
few days, are some which have been too frequently
known in connection with such operations t.
promise we'll for the impartial fulfllmcnt Of the
duties Of Cabinet Offices.
The public hope that one OF the first steps Of
the new administration will be 10 procure the
necessary supplies for public institutions by open
and fair means, 20 that through competition in
the open market, the Government will be more
economically and fairly served, and the benefits of
Its patronage not be reserved to 4 few ministerial
lavorites. Nor when tenders are to be called for
should a minister or Lis subordinates give such
previous information Of Government needs as will
enable friends to Inopopolize the needed articles
to the loss of the Government, even if they have
no direct pecuniary interest in the profits derived.
Ministers should keep themselves above suspicion.
Rival interests will force their claims upon our
new King especially will a false conservatism
urge, so far as possible, a continuance Of the old
order of things in the tone if not in the personnel
Of the new Cabinet but we trust that our new
King will rightly interpret the enthusiasm which
has greeted his accession to the Throne, as the
uprising of a people desirOus of Kidding themselves
and their country of the incubus Of an dminis-
tration selfish in its motives and detrimental to
the national prosperity in its policy.
The people trust that their new King will seek
for councillors, not in the tailings of the old adj
ministratiOn, but in the pure metal of a new
and that he will avoid too a patchwork
Cabinet, where new metal will be basely alleged
by the old.
All our exultation is in our hopes for the
future, not in our memories of the near past.