The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-03-18

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cepts the Interpretation of your Address.
namely as the desire for a change of Ministry,
which [ have already stated must be placed
upon 1t, and it hastens to inform the public of the
array of influential names appended to the doc
ument, and which comprise, it says, with a suf-
hclently close adherence to the truth. five out
OF eight OF the foreign born mobiles of the King
dom. the leading members of the bar, all of our
leading merchants, the whole of the editorial
fraternity, along with numbers of the most re-
spected and influential citizens of every creed,
CLINE, and pursuit to be found in this commu-
n'ty.' Truly a formidable and a goOdlv ar
ray, and that there may be no mistake as to
what 1t means, the same article goes on 70 say,
" that in our opinion those who are called
upon and who are capable of furnishing 10 the
government, plans or more definite and practi-
cal suggestions for the repOpulation of the
country, should have that opportunity TO carry
them out which the present incumbency has
enjoyed, and at the same time has so signally
neglected" And again in another article
suggesting the system of u Ministerial Pre-
mler 1t endeaYors TO give effect to the recon-
mendation for a change of Ministry by under
valuIng the efforts and the character of every
Minister OF this country, past and present, that
1t can call to mind, reserving only the loyal
and lndefatigable Wyllie." And it winds up
with a patriotic determination to forget in the
emergency, past enmities and the chickering's of
years, In the following appeal. "And if our
contemporary will join with us in sustaining q
healthy public sentiment for reform OF govern
ment, we may yet hope for the formation of a
responsible Ministry and the establishment of
an order of administration of public affairs, that
shall stand or fall only when it receives or is
denied popular support" Who are they that
thus invoke popular support? You must have
perceived, Gentlemen, that those who man.
aged for you this Address, have in this whole
matter ignored the pure native element,
they have neglected TO give due consideration
to that part of the Hawaiian population
which has really the most interest in the
matter, and the most right to be heard on this
important question. This oversight, however
is to be explained, if those gentlemen were
more strongly impressed with the advantages
which this country will derive from a change
of Ministry, than the particular steps which
would be ultimately unnecessary for the intro
duction of people. They have been literally
reckoning without their host" and it is a
remarkable coincidence, Gentlemen, that any
portion of the Press should at the same mo-
ment make the same mistake, and one of such
magnitude. If to have another set of men at
the head of affairs, was the object of the trainers
OF your Address, as no doubt it was, it was a
grand mistake, a mistake which ought to be,
and which is, fatal, absolutely fatal, to any
such result as a change of Ministry at the
present moment, that there should not have been
appended to it the name of one single man of
pure Hawaiian blood.
There would seem to be also another re-
markable omission in the "get up" of this
Address-the large and important class of
mechanics and others of foreign extraction in
Honolulu are not represented. 1t would surely
have been proper that on a question which it is
now admitted on all hands, was mainly the de-
voting as much of the revenues of the country
as possible for the importation of people and
labor, those who pay their full share of the taxes
of the country and add the most to its wealth
should have had a voice. Here is another
compact and united regiment of men, whose
interests are identical, having many times
fhp nrn1harl that n cOrInt HaDttaman-
and, who, may we not say, are perhaps your
equals in intelligence, and of whom at least it
may certainly be said, that they possess,
Mems sana in cOrpore sano, who have been
utterly ignored in this affair, although they
have more direct interest i'll this question of
the Importation of labor than have many of
those who append their names to this Address.
But this may yet be remedied if it was through
an oversight that their names are not there,
and when this Address may be supplemented
by the signatures of these men, and the sigma
lures of such n fair proportion of the native
Hawaiians as may be entitled to represent tie
people, need i tell you, Gentlemen, how gladly
L would then resign my portfolio and join you
in helping whOmsoever His Majesty might put
in my place to accomplish as far as may be
proper, that in which you may consider L have
failed.
L have already explained how the trainers of
your Address, Gentlemen, may have been led
into making one omission, but it must have
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a few at least of the class OF mechanics
from having this opportunity of displaying
their loyalty and patriotism. It may indeed
be Ineligible why both these important
classes were by them forgotten, but it is as.
that "the Press" the palladium..of
popular rights should in this instance,-have
forgotten the people!
1 may say the PRESS for the Gazette after
having had time to reflect, and at the moment
it filings back with scorn the offer it had
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Journe ii, with vacillation and inconsistency"
in on Jung the ministers, still takes its tone
from it's more able but not more honest con-
temporary, and in a minor key endorses a
milder Interpretation of the Address
than the one which that Journal holds, and
says, that population must be had, by the
present administration, if it can procure it,
by a new one. "-Another nuSt-but
how mild, how gentle, after the thrilling tones
of the Address, whilst the equally mild al /
for the country and the ad,
ministratiOn, is the withdrawal of " popular"
support from the latter, as represented by the /
Gazette. What would be the prospect for the s
Ministry, thus deprived of every popular" 6
support they might fairly hope for, except t
of the people 20 Temporal! o Mores /!
But Gentlemen it may be better for US all,
leaving on one side rhetorical fourishes which
seem to be now somewhat in fashion, to place l
i'll the simplest possible languag e just the po-
sition of this matter to-day-a position which
most of you have already gathered from what l
precedes, for there are those who having COM
mand of press and types and therefore to a
certain extent having influence in this comum-
nifty, who with the best intentions never see
anything but what is placed before them in the
p~lainest language, and not always then, and
which has caused this kingdom much trouble.
The position is just this, and one which the I
address and the circumstances connected with
it have intensified and forced prominently be- {
fore the public. On the 3lst of this month,
the payment of money for immigration stops,
and there is an end of that important part of the
and however much the press " or
a few designing men may rant and rave, unless
the King and his Ministers see fit and desire