The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-03

tary plan, which We hope to see adopted.
A VERY REMARKABLE Though characteristic)
display of libellous statement is made in the Ga
zefe Of Wednesday, in a totally unwarranted
and unjust attack on the Attorney General. 1t
is a boiling over of personal spite and enmity.
Both the editor and his correspondent appear to
have been excited to a condition of rabies, be-
cause of a quiet and truthful article in our last,
in which it was shown by the simple logic of facts
that the above named official has done the State
some service. The entire editorial article under
the heading Political Force vs.. Personal Rec
ord, !" is so absurdly false in its assertions and in
ferences, and so outrageous a libel upon the Rep
resentatiyes land Mobiles as wel) lately assembled
in the Legislature Of the country, that one is
equally astounded at the temerity and the shame
lessness Of the editorial management that puts it
in print. 1t only shows what a perverted judg-
ment and n diseased Imagination will lead some
men into, who are so unfortunate as to get pos
session of types and a press.
Z Occasional drunkenness there may have been
among a few individuals in the Assembly, but we
can honestly say that there was no more intern
perance apparent among the members than dur
ing any session in previous years. n 1t is a wicked
ilDtl, Il flCiOuS sldD At tue IcpuidllOu y Tue III
waiian people, to publish abroad to the world, as
is done by the Gazette, that "Rum alone influ-
enced the votes of our Representatives" in the
Session of 1874. 1t is just as false to say that the
lunches provided for the House Included beers
and stronger drinks as it is false and absurd to
lead readers to infer that the Attorney General
had anything to do with providing lunches, or
with the apocrypkal supplies of Rum that so fear
fully haunt the dreams of the Gdzete writer.
1t was not to be supposed that minds of the
Gazette calibre should comprehend or appreciate
the value and Importance Of political force in
public men. To such minds, the study Of history
is as a tale that is told, and the passage of con-
temporaneous events fixes on them no lessons of
wisdom. They learn nothing of the necessity of
political force in a Ministry from the records of a
triumphant mutiny Of a score Of soldiers an ill
c~oncocted and ill-managed cession scheme; q
petty mob temporized with until it becomes dan
gerous; or a body of Representatives who openly
exhibit their contempt for the absence of that
same political force in those who seek to lead
them. All this goes for naught with our shallow
pated critics, while they persistently burrow
among the rubbish of 1" private records " of pub
lie men.
Perhaps there never was q period when this
country was so much in need of a full Cabinet of
strong men-men of political force-as just now.
The Legislature, which our contemporary SO Wilt
fes, has done more than any Hawaiian Legisla-
ture ever did before, in clearing the way and
affording facilities for a live Ministry to advance
the prosperity of the Islands. The prospects are
apparently good that an efficient embassy will be
sent to the United States to negotiate for reel
procity; but it will need to be cordially supported
at home by a Ministry that will be energetic and
united in using every effort to carry an agreed and
declared policy.