The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-12-20

United States based on the cessiOn Of Pearl Har-
Dor, and that in so doing we were z~ealously if not
ably seconded by the Gazette. We look upon the
cessiOn scheme as n dead issue, and do not propose
to become lachrymose over it's remains. Our pur-
pose is and will be to seize upon the opportunities
which the present may offer, in order that if pos
sible the future may be more fruitful Of good ;
and If we fail herein We shall have nothing TO re-
gret. Because we favored that measure however
it does not follow, now that the Ministry have
given it the finishing stroke of defeat, that we
should be blind to the faults of some of those who
supported it, and for this reason we think it un-
fair that the Gazette should say-sIt is well
known that David Malo's resolution, which con-
t~emplated the Punishment of 4 gentleman and his
family for political expressions, arose from bitter
national hostility" IL is well known that Mr..
Malo's resolution was brought forwards at a public
meeting which pretty fairly represented the dis
triet OF Honolulu, if indeed it did not represent
the then prevailing native Hawaiian sentiment of
the Kingdom. It Is also well known that the
resolution in question, lin reference to the Danish
ment Of Mr.. Castle) did not find n supporter;
that in fact it fell still-born. In view of this
truth, is it fair to cay that the resolution 'arose
from bitter national hostility % How long since
Mr.. Malo represented the nation? Indeed, the
action of the meeting in refusing to give a support
to the resolution, and in point Of fact refusing to
place it in order for discussion, plainly showed
that amongst the hundreds present Mr.. Malo had
not a sympathizer. In our opionion, any efforts
to fix a stigma upon the native population, or to
create ill-feeling with the foreigner, or sympathy
for Mr.. Castle, based upon Nh. Malo' s resolution,
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to create mischief. However, knowing the loose
way in which our contemporary uses adjectiyes,
we do not believe that 80 national " was the word
intended to be used, but rather 50 personal" We
can readily believe that Mr.. Malo's resolution
''arosc from personal hostility
Again to quote from the Gazette: land at a
later period the threat was openly made that no
person would be allowed to speak in public in adj
vocacy of the Pearl River scheme" This foolish
threat was made, it is true, but only in the native
columns of the Nuhou, which are understood to
be inspired by the anne Mr.. Malo above alluded
to. That the threat however was nothing more
than idle vaporing, is evident from the fact that
the two purely native newspapers, 10 Ha,caii POI
moi and the KuOkOa, both staunch supporters of
the measure, lost no subscribers thereby; the ma
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was to be said in favor of the scheme. 1t cannot
in fairness be averred that the natives made any
effort to prevent free discussion, although they had
the power, at least by virtue of numbers But
taking the threat for all it was worth, 1t was only
a Roland for the Ga@etfe's Oliver. We refer to
the covert menace of that journal of government
employees who opposed the cession.
To return to the Gazette: The attempt to
put down Mr.. Green at Kaumakapili Church
certainly showed antagonism towards the speaker,
if not towards foreigners generally After
reading this sentence one would suppose that Mr..
Green had been speaking in favor of cession at
the time but it is well known that the subject
under discussion was a resolution petitioning the
King to appoint n successOr-a measure that this
Journal had advocated and which has since found
favor with all classes in the community. In ad-
dressing the meeting, Mr.. Green was pleased to
refer to the Hon. d.. Kalakaua as ga snake in
the grass" The noisy demonstration against Mr..
Green which followed was only a proof of the
COlonel's popularity with the people, and it is
certainly quite gratuitous to say that it " showed
antagOnism towards foreigners generally" Such
I statement rather shows a disposition to breed
discOrd by assuming its existence, and we must
again beg off for the Gazette by declaring that
we do not believe the writer meant to say just
that.
Moreover the Gazette informs us that AT
Waikiki, also, the luminosity of n few natives
towards foreigners was clearly shown, and came
near terminating In open rupture" We must
here give our contemporary credit for furnishing
one item of news, for we confess that this is
news to us. The efforts to prove that the late
Ministerial measure Was popular among the ma
tiyes have doubtless crowded out of its columns,
for some time past, any accounts of opposition
thereto. 1t may possibly be that the tardy re-
ceipt of any evidences of opposition led Ministers
into the rather unpleasant position in which they
now stand before this community. They were
perhaps misled by the accounts given by their
own Organ of the popularity of the proposed
measure. and so the Organ is to be blamed for
having manufactured bogus accounts for foreign
consumption, without giving the Ministers a
wink, by way of an aside
And last, but not least, the Ga=effe writer
thinks that The truth regarding these threats
should be placed on record, and not suppressed
or ignored, even though the occasion which led to
them has fortunately passed away without any
open collision, and it is to be hoped may not
recur." just here we must take decided issue,
and for reasons which viii appeal to the judg-
ment of every right-thinking man IN the commu-
nifty. The letter of the Hon. D.. Kalakaua is
conceived in n conciliatOry spirit, and
the disposition thus shown by n native chief,
occupying so prominent a position in the King
dom, to harmonic the somewhat discordant ele-
nents of our society, should be cordially recog-
nized, rather than repulsed by petulant criticism.
In preference to endeavoring to keep alive the
smbers of diseord engendered by the discussion
IF c%essiOn, we shall aim to extinguish them by
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