The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-07-18

whether in the precincts Of the Palace, the Leg
~islatiye Hall. or even the Supreme Court, who
would place in the hands Of the Government the
financial power to supplement, or supplaEt the
liberal . : capital - accommodation of these isles.
What patriotic and statesmanlike soul viii not
rather range himself on the side of the & lenders,
or men whose credit is good, " rather than on the
eide Of the = borrowers with almost exhausted
credit -? The lender at twelve, or twice twelve
per cent, represents success, although it may be
merely individual gain and associated with na-
tional disaster whereas, the borrower represents
failure, although it may be only individual loss,
whilst his work of life has been national gain.
But the " sound man will espouse the cause of
the successful accumulation. Shall his hopes of
years, anziously nurtured in the retirement of
his Office to swallow up an estate with a first
mortgage, be defeated by machiavellian "
schemers, vino would c~ontrive a plan to save the
wretched worker and producer, who has sweated
and agonized and grown gray over his battling
acres, spotted with his hearts blood, and by
prompt and easy accommodation save to him his
estate? Forbid it, Oh wise craftsmanship Of
Hawaii, that has brought her to her present pitch
of wealth and glory
Statesmanship-of which We have an overflow
ing abundance in Hawaii, so that each street
corner represents some enlightened political pol
icy-statesmanship, we say, that is our Hawaiian
craftsmanship, is to be only exercised to protect
the operations and to quiet the anxieties of the
men of means, who will not risk a dollar except
upon q collateral which is under lock and key
and worth twice the value Of their money and
should not be diverted aside TO encourage or pro-
tect those who are so unwise as to build new
houses, open up new lands, try new products or
who foolishly soil their hands in fields and ships,
and who battle at the risk of failure for a coun-
try's real progress by sea and shore. Forbid it,
we say, oh Hawaiian craftsmanship to let the
Government acquire in any way the means of be-
coming a factor for the producer, because in that
case we might not behold the interesting specta-
Gle of a man with fifty thousand dollars worth Of
sugar in the field begging in vain for five thou
sand dollars to help to get it to market. If the
Government were such a factor, what would be-
come of the generous enterprise of Hawaiian
- capital -? If the Government were to open
new ways, irrigate new lands, bring new people,
and to meet the man of produce with prompt
cash for his product, even as In the planting
countries of South Carolina, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, Mauritius, Java, India. or elsewhere, whilst
the product is yet In the field, what would be-
come of the chances of a first mortgage eating up
an estate? 1t is alarming to think of it; and if
this rash machiavellian influence does not
have it's hand stayed, and its spirit withheld from
our legislative councils, the worst results may
happen. The boarded cash, meant only for those
who don't need it, may leave us and we may
Boya n unillion &C dollarS SpraaH W. tba IoDd ~
new roads, reservoirs, fields and ships, for the
benefit of which our innocent posterity would
have to pay.
Shall these things be? Shall the golden era
of Hawaii Felix be disturbed by " machiavel-
Ian =" dreams of Paper? Shall any new states
manship rise up out of the Nazareth of politics,
and with unhallowed action open up new founts
of means, to flow out for the benefit of mere
workers and battlers on Hawaiian fields, and so
withhold from the country the delectable specta-
Gle of seeing such wretches sluHg around by the
hair of the head? Shall the lender leave US, and
the borrower cease his groans? Shall the past
prosperous policy of this happy Hawaii be jos
tied out of its ancient ruts? Shall there be a
new deal, new vigor, and a pernicious activity
impaired to every struggling enterprise of the
country, and the blessed old fogyism of the past
showed to the wall? Oh beware beware of
the machiavellians, who might bring upon the
country an era of unsanctifed action and pros
perity but rather trust to the safe and respect
able influences of the past, which have placed
Hawaii where she is. Look at her. Respect the
craftsmanship of her street corners the enlight-
eminent OF her legislation the magnanimity and
enterprise of her moneyed So capital -; the sani-
tary and moral condition of her population the
charity and sympathetic determination of her
society and especially the president sagacity of
her oracular journalism and don't do anything
rash.