The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-07-15
THE PACIFIC
Commercial OOertiser.
|SATrRDAY. IVY Is.

@~LAAN~ nm - = AAI [aA1[ III NHN H@e
and yacillation attending their actions, the public
has conjeetured in vain. This manifest want Of
a policy or ruling principle of action, and the an
certainty arising out Of it as to interests largely
dependant o for better or for worse " upon the
sort Of action government might sec ft TO take,
naturally enough gave rise TO an expression by a
large number Of our most influential citizens Of
their views, in the now historical 9 memorial -
The attitude Immediately assumed by the Min
istrY on the receipt Of that document was one Of
a most bristling character, and the answer hurled
at the signers was full Of pugnacity in behalf of
injured innocence with a spice of thoroughly
snObbish disrespect. The public were then for
the first time apprized that the government was
not without an underlying principle-although
as to it's particular quality, or the sort of action
likely to result, they were still denied any light
but what they might find in the glamour of a
pseudO-diplomacy, altogether too ambiguous to be
deciphered by others than those who had been
engaged in its construction; leaving the impress
sion, however, that as the spirit Of the memorial
had been altogether mistaken, the answer was
consequently wanting IN perspicuity. But the
spirit evinced was significant and decisive in char
acter, and needed only the co-existence of pru-
ucutc 10 gam bOiHc SOtI VI IcSptct. TOR III IdcI
here was exhibited a feeling Of constituencies to
any hint of reproach that might fall from the
public, that was in most pleasing contrast with
the stolidity and reserved imperiousness OF the
cabinet of one former dynasty, and leaving people
to infer that by the support of the country alone
would this spirit, so jealous of its honor, allow
its pOssessors to retain their offices. And the
support of the country alone was the avowed
basis upon which one of the Ministers, in a prin-
ted sheet and over his own signature, declared
himself ready to stand or fall, and signifying
that the memorial would have had its desired
effect had it been more comprehensive in it's rep
resentation Of what he deemed tue different
&c classes - of society.
How different the result has been from the ex-
pectation! Beneath the exterior of manliness so
bravely put on, behold the extreme of p%ueriIity,
and underlying the fiction of unity and strength,
the extreme of discord and weakness What
further are we to expect from a Ministry whose
course has been so checkered with Inconsistencies
and contradictions as to have become the butt of
ridicule, and whose influence in the Legislature
of the Kingdom has VIGOROUSLY become almost
nil? Beginning with the sway Oft large major
ity, many of whom acted rather from subser-
viency to supposed power than from principle,
they have at length lost the support of even these,
and have reduced the House from it's original
condition of : administration - and "opposi-
tion," to one of many sides and absolute confu-
sion. The measures (if they may be called such)
introduced by the Ministry to the consideration
of the Assembly, are now generally met not only
with an apathy and unconeern which as clearly
betoken an entire want of confidence as if an open
vote of censure had been cast, but they are
treated in some instances to a form of personality
as inconsistent with the honor of gentlemen to be
submitted to as it is subversive of the dignity of
the State they are there to represent.
To what but their own acts do they owe this
contempt of an assembled parliament, OF the con-
demnation of the public? when by their very
votes we see discord where unity alone should
prevail, and personalities taking precedence of
State policy one Minister calling in question
the morality of a trade in which a colleague is
largely concerned ; a Minister to-day reversing
his vote upon q question which but yesterday had
called forth his most enthusiastic approval,-ex-
pecting the country to place confidence in the
counsels of one who could desert the dictates of
his own reason in the brief space of twenty-four
hours. But what shall we say of the altered
gentleman who now sits submissive under the
denunciations of his colleague at his elbow of
one who a little time since could brook no rebuke,
however mild or tempered by argument, or by
whomsoever offered? Perchance his portfolio is
only now held in readiness for a successor whom
circumstances may create, since bis fall has been
decided by the removal of the prop which he
himself once indicated should be his support.
Cko,,I1 o,1osad oDoa nm rr;1o;,Jo 20 b,;,c;oo
the treaty before the House, he nevertheless
yielded and doubtless to this plant principle
we are indebted for the change of base that has
taken place upon the subject of immigration.
But recently His Majesty's government were not
acquainted with the existence of I" any such peo-
pie - after the lapse of a few days we are in
formed that government intends to use such
means as they can command to further the intro
duction of the very people Of whose existence they
previously had no knowledge.
Two months and a half gone by with the Legis-
lature in session, and so far not a single measure
brought forward by the Ministry looking to the
progress of the country or the benefit of the race ;
the sum total of their efforts of a national charac-
ter being a budget, wherein they propose to ex-
pend during the next two years a much larger
sum of money than they expect to receive. And
now we have the currencymuddle, and the demora-
LIKING and damaging circulation of many thousands
Of debased coins throughout the entire commu-
nifty, for which fact and the consequent loss to
the Treasury, the Ministry are clearly responsible
and must be held accountable. More than three
months ago they had full warning of the impor-
tation of this Objectionable coin, and yet they
deliberately, and contrary to the sound advice of
parties both in and out of government, received
it into the Treasury on a par with the legal
tender of the country.
Slight discrepancies and mistakes in the action
nf q NI;n;4rr r,nn hn nrnnroI Enr n tine H.