The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-09-30

$1,000 "1f~4 HeC N~NAH-N y I
Mr.. Richardson about two years ago for $45,-
600, was sold by him on Wednesday last for
500 500, to Mr.. James Campbell of Lahaina.
As there has been little or no increase Of stock
on this ranch whilst in the hands of it's late
owner, the advance of $lS, 500 on its first cost is
mainly due to a higher appreciation Of property
in these islands through the influence of the
treaty. We learn that an advance of $4,000
offered to Mr.. Campbell, the purchaser, for
his bargain. And good judges regard the ranch
as a bargain at S75 900. This speaks well for
our grazing interests, and sustains our state
ments previously made in this Journal, that the
pasture Of these semi-tropical islands is remark
able for its c~loseness and abundance and for its
capability in carrying stock, and makes sheep
farming one Of our most profitable industries.
The Kahuku ranch, of about 80, 900 acres, can
no doubt carry a stock Of at least so 1000 head of
sheep. The manienie or Bermuda grass, which
Is oVcrrunning our pasture lands can sustain n
dozen sheep to the acre, and as a judieious and
'enterprsing mar having means will stock an
estate advantageously, it may be readily seen
that 5000 is but a small price for Kahukue
because it can be made to net that much per
annum and as there are many other runs in the
lclduu5 WIFI Clldi CdpdNiIy " SuoldluioS cbOCh
may venture to predict = great advance in our
grazing interests. And so we hope in all our
other interests which have been held for some
time past at a deprecated rate, but which will
be rapidly enhanced in value as capital seeking
investment gains confidence in the future devel-
opment of the country.
:" REPRESENTATIVE institutions are ON their
trial - xuac fbo rarnarU &c tLo 1,Ka Dr,,oo Hopcorf
of England ON q certain occasion long since.
In little Hawaii nei they have been on trial for
nearly twenty-five years, and the result of the
experiment is to-day anything but satisfactory.
Particularly of late years it must be confessed
that every succeeding Legislative Assembly in
stead Of improving has fallen below the level Of
it's predecessor in the qualities of sound sense and
intelligent patriotism Our history, since the
granting of the first Constitution by Kameha-
meha III in 1852, should prove an interesting
study to those who believe in the doctrine of
giving the ballot to all men, rich or poor, igno.
rant or educated, without distinction-for this is
what we have practically had. The choice of
the men to make the laws of the country has
been confded to the least experienced, the least
instructed and the least responsible portion of
IL DOB0AANAOhH w HAA hON GJ AA " 49,
that representative institutions are u failure but
we do say that the system is anything but a sue
cess on these islands. To define the exact line
where it becomes either a blessing and q bulwark
of libertysto q people, or q nuisance,-or worse,
q palpable injury to their best interests,-is more
than can be undertaken in a newspaper article.
Misery loves company; and perhaps while lam
enting the failure of representative institutions
IN these islands we may derive some comfort in
contemplating the status Of some of the British
West Indies and the Southern States Of the
American Union, where the ballot has, as with
US, been given to the least experienced, the least
instructed and the least responsible. Through
the working of the system, as we see, those com.
munities have been brought to the verge of bank
ruptcy and ruin. And are we not rapidly drift.
ing in the same direction, and through the
operation of the same causes?
Our Legislative Assembly has already become
q farce at home and a laughing stock in the eye:
of. other nations. Nay, far more serious thar
this. it is the bane of the country, a clog to pros
perity and q check to progress What more
striking example of the failure ofSrepresentativC
Institutions in Hawaii than is afforded in thu
career of the Legislature of 1876, just brought t.
"a Close flNc WLIOIc l1Oul1S HIS lilL5 DOuJ DGti
in session. hundred and thirty weary days ha
it spent in p~roftless talk, occasionally saying ye
and amen when an unskillfal ministry happened
for the nonce to get the management, but gener
ally spending the time in the ventilation of tn
4 merest balderdash and twaddle, with a ~sufieien
spice of mischief and wrong headedness. TIL
ministry took their seats at the commencement o
this Long Parliament, their brains p~ositivel
teeming with schemes to raise the country from
poverty to afiuenee, from decline to progress
from q feeble independence to a condition of per
petual stability, from a declension of race to re
population. But we have seen this same minis
try, with apparent comfort and unconcern, 81
and dawdle away the time during the five month
masquerade. What became of their 90 policy?
A most lame and impotent conclusion indeed
only that it has cost the country some $4,000
worse than thrown away, beside the imposition
of q variety of new burdens in the shape c
taxation.
And this reminds us that we are now and hay
been for some years in the position of bein
taxed without representation. The intelligenc
and the wealth of the country has absolutely n
voice in the representative body that makes til
laws of the nation. II is too late at this day t
think of educating 4" our masters ;" up to
proper appreciation and a wise use of the ballot
but the intelligence and wealth Of the country,
it would protect itself and save the country fror
ruin and bankruptcy, must arouse itself and il
the future determine to exercise-peaceably bu
frmly-that powerful influence upon the leas
instructed and least responsible portion Of tn
population which it unquestionably possesses an,
which has hitherto lain dormant. Let intelli
gence and capital see to it that this feature o
our political system, the representation of th,
people-so liable to become dangerous to the in
terests and safety of all-shGl in the future be il
other hands than it has in the past. If however