The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-02-10

Mr.. EDITOR Very likely some OF the readers of
the ADVERTISER viii eevate their eyebrows lconsid-
erably at my audaciy to attempt Q reply to the
criticism Of my letter n the ADVERTISER of the 10Th
by Walter Murray Gizon Esquire. However. l hope
you will permit me a Pace in your paper. ~audacity
Notwithstanding. to Orrect q few errors Mr.. W
NJ. Gibson says in his criticism that 1 speak as q
partisan of the government takes umbrage at the
remark, " the present Ministry has turned the tables
upon the memoraists " and remarks that three OF
the Ministry, because they were of the number Of
memoralists turned the table upon themselves to
an extent that musttske the country by surprise.
1t sounds very stnnge to me to be called q par
Itisan of the Ministry because 1 sincerely approve of
! their measures, measures which l have advocated IS
early as 16 or Is years ago. l am not aware that l
have been at any time the reninient of any favor or
particular notice by any Ministry, except in the one
instance when I had succeeded in the introduction of
the cultivation of rice into this country the Ministry
withdrew from the Budget the former appropriation
for the R.. H. Agricultural Society, drove ms from
what I thought then my home, and the Society into
dissolution and made 9 ruin Of the gardens. 1
never held any Office or appointment under any
Ministry, and now at the age Of three-score and FIVE.
I am very likely too cd and useless for any. So I
don't see where the psrtisanship comes in.
The tables could not be turned by the Ministry
upon the memorialists because they had been signers
of the memorial, says the critic. 1t appears to me
that when the present Ministers signed the memorial
they signed what they thought right, as Of the
people, of the goUeraed to whom no other course
was open but that Of petition. and now as Of the
governing power they Of course cease to be Of the
number of memorialiss their former signatures not
withstanding, as they certainly could not well petit
ton themselves, and as one Of their first acts Of
Office turn the tables by telling the memorialists
we will act, but we cannot act without you what
will you dot make the first practical move" Is it
to be wondered at that the prompt action of the
present Ministry upon the memorial should take the
country by surprise when it can hardly be forgotten
that the response to the memorial was at first
rather Z" q slightly blsckeye.'' My critic says that
the Ministry cannot indeed awaken any surprise
because the Executive Committee Of the Immigra-
ton Society had asked some fifty or more similar
questions from plantes and landowners. There il
obviously o great difference in who asks these ques-
tions, an energetically disposed responsible govern
ment or the Secretary of q private Immigration
Society that has, as The Secretary states, asked those
questions as long as three years ago, and not o sin
gle Immigrant as yet except perhaps those valua-
BILE ~ additions to our population that come from
the baracoons Of E~ongkong or Macao. There
would certainly have been much surprise in the
country if after those three years past some 8 or 400
families were working their 8 or 400 small pianta-
tons.
The Secretary stats that q report was issued set
ting forth the oppor unities etc, ETC., for favorable
settlements etc, etc. Having to my regret not read
the report from the able pen of the Secretary, /
doubt not that the most kind invitations were held
out to Immigrants to come to this country blest with
bslmy Italian skies, where the palms wave their
graceful foliage, the banana unfolds its gorgeous
leaves and upon branches green the golden orange
glOws, not to forget tie fig tree and the rich juice of
the grape great inducements no doubt to any I'm
to exchange IN unsatisfactory existence for
mel. The government circular sounds more
of bread and butter, md I suppose Immigrants like
myself prefer bread and butter. To review Mr..
Murray Gibsol's, Secretary Of the Hawaiian
Immigration Society. further remarks would extend
this article too much and I close with my thanks
to my honorable Critic for having abstained from
the generally ungentl,msnly habit of critics to criti-
Else anonymously.
Hermann AUGUSTUS FREDERIC DE HoLsTIEIN,
Nobody in particular.