The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-02-05
SOUND ADVICE.

The following is the English version of On article
which was contributed to the native newspaper
50 Lahui Hascaii,'' last week:
70 There is said to be q considerable party among
the natives who wish all the business of government,
and all Offices to be put into native hands. to the
exclusion Of all foreigners. This is absurd. First Of
all the natives are in no wsy able or fit to carry on
any civilized government. And secondly. the for
eigners would assuredly not permit any such exclu-
sion. 1t cannot be brought about by any lawful or
constitutional means. And, note well, any great
outbreak of violence for this or any other purpose
would cause the foreigners to call for the protection
of q foreign flag, by which means the country would
lose its independence at once. The natives do not
realize how very small their country lie. They need
to be reminded that Honolulu contains the popula-
ton of a small country town, and the whole king
dom that of a single 4th rate town Of Europe or.
America. AS q political body Hawaii exists only by
the suferance Of the great powers. And only SO
long az it behaves itself decently and carries on a
respectable show of government will it be allowed to
continue. Let them not deceive themselves, they
cannot 90 back. They can never shut themselves off
from the world and return to the malo and all that
represents. No doubt the advantages of civilization
they have acquired have been dearly bought. No
doubt the white man has given the natives many
benefits with one hand, and inflicted fearful evils
with the other. All this the friends of the native
race will readily allow. There is then no going back
nor standing still. The time is critical. If the race
is to be saved the time is come to begin the work.
Well then, the native cannot expel the white man
nor deprive him of great political influence. The
white man understands the business of government,
the native does not. And I say with all the earnest
ness I am capable of, and wish 1 could drive my
words in the ears of all the native leaders. we can
not keep up our national independence except under
the guidance Of the foreigner. 1t is a great law that
where the white and colored races come together,
the white takes the lead. And it must always be SO
here. The natives can no more alter this law Of in
evitable progress than they can choke up Kilauea by
dumping in stones.
NJ They have to take the situation such as i
is, and if they are wise they will make the best OF it
What then can be done2
Let all sects and parties drop their mutual Jeal
ousies and unite upon a few leading measures. LIE
them support their King in choosing able and re
spousible Ministers, and demand Of them a clear anC
straightforward policy for getting the country clear
And let the people now choose able and honest rep
resentstives, if such are to be found in the kingdom
not men who are bribed by money, Offices or whisky
or who will waste precious days in endless discus
sions about reducing the dog tax, but who will throw
themselves earnestly into the work Of understanding
the real nature of the great evils the country is sui
fering under, aud back up the Ministers in thei
measures Of relief.
These principal measures to be:
81. Immigration-to be arranged SOFAS to faVo
not merely particular industries, but build up til
: nation.
"2. Ministers to be individually responsible.
"3. Economy and abolition Of useless offices.
"a. Public Health.
"Much that is said above viii doubtless be distast
full to many. That cannot be helped. This is Z
time to prophecy comfortable things, and prophes
deceits. The country has bad, and has too man
} prophets Of the breed of Zedekish the son Chensanal
I decline to add to the number.
! "When o food is about to break it is silly an
l cowardly for US to hide our heads like ostriches, ar
2 think we shall escape. We can either prepare Il
the food and in 8 measure guide it, or We can lgno
it and be overwhelmed by it. The one course is tn
of children, the other that of men. And men ha'
i two ways to choose from. They may on one hal
lose their heads in view Of the danger, waste precio'
l. time and their own powers in quarrels and jealousie
thus fastening their own destruction, like the JeN
of old and the French Of to-day. Or they nj