The Hawaiian gazette., 1874-09-30
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S1R-The Ad1erfiSer'S article on the recon-
structiOn of the Cabinet will tend to enlighten
those at home and abroad upon the material
available in the country for the purposes Of Gov
eminent. Certes II would i'll become the i'm
mdculate publishing and editorial staff Of the
Pacific Commercial Advertiser to object on
account Of any5ody's record but when they
blazon the statement, Because it, we entered
into such q scrutiny we might have to contem-
plate unfavorably every member of the govern
ment and perhaps too large proportion of our
community" it is time to take notice of such
foulmouthed and seandalous libel upon our citi-
zens generally ergo we are a community Of
deaulters, betayers of trust, renegades deserters
and apostates. 1t has gone forth, wherever the
p. c. A. goes that these Islands are the rendez-
vous of social offenders, and that we have hardly
respectable citizen among u.s. in fact, we are,
as far as the foreign population are concerned, a
Botany Bay settlement. This is the tenor Of
the AdrertiSers utterances. Verify, a mans
worst foes are those of his own house"
The new idea that political force is of more
consequence than personal record" is to be
the watchword that shall elevate Hawaii in the
estimation of the world, so that the man who has
barely escaped the gbbet or the state prison.
any one, for instance, who has defrauded his eli
ents and whose record is the meanest and most
contemplate on earth,-is the kind of person to
whom the administration of the country should
be entrusted Shades Of Victoria Woodruff,
Boss Tweed, Sweeny & Co., where are ye?
Come hither and raise US from the dust you
will be received with open arms in Hawaii nei,
for it is only record of successful vilainy in
public men that can save US from ruin, or insure
for US the coveted boom Reciprocity. Political
force rs Personal record Frivolity rs. Integ-
rity and unassumng zeal u Cheek, Vanity and
Velvet rs. Common Sensell Faughll !! Eng
land and America may learn lesson from this
new dcton. Depose President Grant, and put
in George Francis Train remove Gladstone or
a Disraeli and putin Odgersand Bradlaugh can
any one doubt the beneficial results to the coun-
tries interested by such a change. How they
would be elevated in the eyes of the Courts and
Powers of Europe, and how would these coun-
tries, hitherto ruled and governed by Gentlemen,
prosper upon the advent to power of stump-Ora-
tors Adventures aud scampsl
To come to the point perhaps the Adoertiser'
may yet be convinced that we have some respect
able citizens amongst US, and that neither they
nor the people, the masses" will longer con-
tinue to be outraged or dragged down to the level
of the AdretiseT clique. Their patronage of a
" bird of their own feather" will not help that
" Bird to soar to the height they would like.
Their denunciations of respectable and worthy
citizen, called to Office TO the satisfaction and
with the loud acclaim of the people of the whole
Islands, will not hurt him. nor will those who
know his singleness of purpose, his sterling up
misunderstanding though it be,-withdraw
from him their support until, as you have justly
observed, he has had fair trial
political force rs. Personal record" At the
most momentous crisis. probably of this eountry's
history, it was by the judicous appointment by the
newly-elected King of three Ministers whose per-
sonal record far exceeded their "poltical force"
that the country saved and political excitement
allayed lit was felt throughout the length and
breadth of the land that the "personal record of
these gentlemen was guarantee of faithfulness and
Integrity 10 the trust eonfded to them, and no
political force at that time,-no, not in the
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represented by the Minister at Law,"-could have
attained that object. 1t is always however, to be
lsmented that a government of such character
could not hold together, giving, it undoubtedly
did, great promise to the future of the reign.
Sir it must not be inferred that support the Min
lister Of the Interior paragon, and most excel
lent on every point" but 50 long as the Advertiser
continues to insult common sense and deeeucy by
It's advocacy of the Minister at Law as a leader of
men," so long shall my pen be used in resisting the
degrading incubus" and in assisting to remind
the AdueTtiseT that they after all but very "sma
Try" indeed in the estimation of all honest and think
ing people; and that an astute and indiscriminating
Monarch may possibly reverse the maxims of the /
' Pacific Commercial Advertiser and elect for his
adviser, in conjunction with the Minister OF the In
eriOr, of personal record " and merit, rather
han those who lay claim to such proud dis
nction but whose characters are represented by the
ambiguous phrase political force" knowing full
we'll that the latter does not embrace as great poet
ellis
"That divinity that should edge King"
lam prepared to return to this subject again,
hould it be found necessary, and to show that the
much Wanted "political force" Of the Minister at
.aw is far exceeded by the unpretendug Minister of
he INTERIOR and that wherever the latter has put his
weight into the scales the Minister at Law has
kicked the beam"
Let US hope for the interests ofo adopted coun-
~ that you may soon have TO record the political
cath of the Minister at Law, and let this aud this
My be his epitaph-
He FULFILLED the duties Of clerk Of the Legislative Assembly
with satisfaction
Another for the consideration of the staff OF the
(Palnam qui merut ferat)
Let there be IRE in the rear experience makes fools
wise"
Yours. SC.
FREDERICKSBURG.
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