The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-07-22

certainly Toint no other way but n violation ct
both are held az justifabie IN this case, upon
tie ground that iinperfection Is 4 common attri-
butte Of humanity, and it, removal in one case
no guarantee against it's re-introduetion in an
other-an existing evil warranted by it, possible
succession in kind.
The importance Of Office and the determination
TO cling as long as possible thereto. is too mani
testify the sentiment of the Ministry to be hid by
any parade of disqualification that may be made
by them. What though they do gain an ex-
preston Of confidence through the influence of
votes cast by assessors and would-be collectors2
Is the conclusion to be made that support has
been received from either the majority or the
Intelligence Of the land? Far from it, when il
is too well known that dissatisfaction Of their
continuance in Office is the expression of almost
every intelligent person in the country, and viii
sooner or later compel them to resign, notwith-
standing the support got from those the tenure
OF whose Offices may be largely Influenced by
their disposition 10 reciprOcate in this way. The
Minister knew he was talking 70 a class too
much interested, or too dull, TO arrive at any
other conclusions than he himself might indicate,
when he dared to say, in regard to the excess of
S'NA PNhu as hiChAACbC OS NAN
Finance Committee, that the figures would sho,c
Just the other 'cGy, virtually asking them to
believe that borrowed money should be con-
sidered as revenue, and that money spent should
be deducted from the current outlay. Such as
these he may influence by a mere array of figures
arranged without regard to method, or by asser-
tions so unreasonable and false, as he has made in
regard to the report Of the Finance Committee,
that the ,Chole tenor and aspect of their report
upon deprecated coins has been changed By the
corrections there made. The corrections there
made are Insignificant, and are not of a nature
TO exculpate the Ministry from the charge which
forms the burden Of that report. that the Min
istry, with full kno~Iedge Of the fact, received
into the treasury deprecated coins at more than
their current value.
In his speech of Thursday, the Minister
showed no little d~exterity in avoiding all allu-
sion to the more general and more important
part Of the indictment in the resolution, by
going into a lengthy description of the nature
and value Of coins in general, and thus leading
the native mind in bewilderment upon a branch
of the subject they had instinctively grasped at
as OF paramount Importance. This elected from
the Hon. j.. Mott Smith a very able reply, in
which he took occasion to say that the Minister
speech seemed to be an answer to the report of
the Finance Committee, rather than the resolu-
ton before the House, and that it was only to it
as such, that he intended to reply. He reminded
the House, that the Minister Of Foreign Affairs
had originally thought so little of the Importance
of the report as to advise against the printing of
it, but that, az evidenced by his speech, he had
since found it important enough to warrant a
very deep consideration, and he thought that the
Minister would find that its Importance had not
at all been exhausted by the extended speech ne
had made in answer. The Minister saw fit how
ever to Immediately have put into print his own
speech, which contained damaging assertions of
the nature of a report which the newspaper
reader had not had the same chance of perusing.
His argument was directed mainly against the
assertion that the corrections made in the
Finance Committee Report, had changed its
whole tenor and aspect.