The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-06-29

| be Delteri or n don. MEMBER 70 lTuul Dy IT. lOLOW I
leadership of Intriguing persons who hope to make lii
credit or something else out Of the proceeding. I don't ca
but regret that they allow themselves 10 be led by false light
for, in so doing. they inure the Hawaiian people and the
exeTtions OF a native gentleman the Hon. member for LahaiI
(Mr. GihsonJ would never have arrived here. What measu
look at his history for the last seventeen years, and tell II
what reason You have to follow him have not said | al
willing TO have my sheep taxed; L have no sheep.
Mr.. Gibson-What does his EXcelency mean by these II
situations: Does he wish disorder? Ne iIlhaye il.
His ExceIency the Minister Of Interior-I am talking froi
The record. Hitherto l have handled the gentleman wit
gloved hands. Were l to unroII his history 10 this people.
would make him shiver in his boots. What measure has i
brought into the House causing him 70 be trusted {? His Wis
gesting the publication of a medical book as a compendium
health. II were going to suggest a subject TO the gentleman
Judd, who was a true friend of the Hawaiian people, was IN
Grtt 70 make ms suggestion-the IDEA IS not original wlih Nj
Hloson-and advocated the education OF Hawaiian youths
Qualifying them TO practice medicine, from pure love and phi
lanthroplc motives, not personal ambition. These frequen
changes Of the Ministry prevent the investment Of capital {
carry on necessary improvements, and some day or other tn
Hawaiian people will rue il to their hearts core. The oppOsi
ton has not shown good and sufficient reasons for a change o
At the late hour OF IL P. ~, the Committee rose. without
coming TO a vote on the resolution, and the Assembly adjourned
till Monday ct 10 A. II.
The session Of Monday was mainly occupied with
q continuance Of the discussion of the resolution Of
the remarks Of the Hon. Mr.. Gibson, the mover Of
the resolution
When | brought forward this resolution OF want OF
confidence, L reasonably expected some strength and
heat Of debate. But | was surprised, and | feel as
sured that many others were surprised and panied
at the exhibition of ungoverned temper and defective
judgment by one of the Ministers on Friday night.
l appeal TO you. Mr.. President, and to this Assembly
to say whether | have in any instance sWerved from
the strictest decOrum of debate. In my remarks
sustaining the resolution | confined myself solely TO
particulars relating to official action and pertinent
TO the question at issue.
But what have we from Ministers? We have an
cry disjointed talk, instead of argument, and per-
sonal insinuatious as the strength Of their discussion
something of this / expected from the Attorney
General, as it is in consonance with his training and
the school of thought in which he was brought up,
TO make up for any lack Of ability in debate, by
raking up something about an opponents antece-
dents. But l did not expect this from the Minister
of the Interior; he and L were pleasantly associated
together during the larger part Of the year 1869 in
the city Of Washington. lie then represented Ha-
wall before the Great Republic. / assisted him n
little in his official duties; and | now preserve many
letters from him, and also from his chief in Homo
lulu, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, and who
is now the Chancellor of the Kingdom, in which
my services and cooperation are spoken of in terms
of high approval and warm commentator. And
since then there has been no cessation Of courteous
intercourse between myself and the Minister until
last Friday night.
1t may be said that l broke off intercourse by my
opposition TO his ministerial course. | have seen
elsewhere that political antagonism did not destroy
personal relations amongst honorable men; but it
has so affected this Minister.
He says he has handled me with gloves heretofore,
but now he takes them of, and | must expect the
full strength of his k%nuckles, and all the ferceness
of his claws. But | don't propose to take mine of,
as 1 think L can handle him without dirtying my
hands or rufiing my costume. | have it is true I'M
sheathed the sword for the battle Of debate, but |
don't propose to throw away the s%cabbard; because
1 come here not to represent myself or my feelings
or interests, but the Hawaiian people. If the en-
counter is to be personal,-the street and not the
forum is the proper arena. Surely this Legislative
Hall was not the proper place for such an exhibition
of unseemly temper as we witnessed here on Friday
night. What an example of the decOrum Of debate
among foreigners for Hawaiian legislators The
Minister said if he should unrayel my history |
would shrink in my boots. Now L don't think so.
l think if all my vicissitude of life were uniolded, |
pair. If my history was fully set forth by the Min
lister, and he should
"Naught extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malce,'
1 sincerely believe it would be a very lucrative work,
and make me much more popular than what | am.
Whereas | don't believe his history would be worth
the paper it was printed upon, unless his biographer
should, like him, deal in the inuendoes and insinu-
atoms of the streets, about personal relations.
He hints of so much that might be told about me
from Kauai to Hawaii, and especially on Lanai.
Yes,-and all round this wide world, he could find
particulars Of a h~istory-enriched by observation,
enlarged by encounters with fellow men, softened by
fellow suheriDg,-and never rendered hard or mean
by the strife for gain or the struggle for position.
And the honorable Attorney General leads you 10
suppose, Mr.. President, that a certain dead man,
we're he alive, could tell such a story about me, az
''Would freeze your young blood, and make your hair
Stand On end like quilts upon the fretful porcupine"
1t is q pity that these legislators and this commu-
have lost that story, because so many Of the
good people of these islands love q sensational story,
whenever it is supposed to blacken or extinguish a
But let their Excellencies defer the
tales Of others about me for some subsequent literary
work at their leisure; whilst here in this Hall, and
as representatives of the honor and dignity Of a
throne let them deal with facts, and tell only what
they know or what may be pertinent to the subject
in hand. | defy them, as L have defed 10 years past
in this country, assallants in other situations, 10 tell
all they know about me-if they deem such discus
appropriate to the debate before this Assembly.
Ministers exalt me beyond measure--they magni-
fy my position by charging me with being G mis-
leader Of the nation. They tell independent Hawai-
ian members, whom sometimes they hatter with
opinions about their good sense and intelligence
that now they have no minds Of their own,-are
mere sheep, and driven or led by me as their
1t is true, Mr.. President, that l am a shepherd
hat and no more, and on the Lanai hills have
watched my hocks, for, 10, these many years-till
weary with the ~loDgings of an ardent heart, / came
orth from the obscurity Of years, and left my sheep
n the wilderness, TO look after my other flock here.
But His Excellency assured you, that he was not n
Iheep, nor of my flock.
VO IT UG 10 nut, uE IL VI dUDlutI 6tDChs i 90
Tot deal in animals of his kind. He belongs TO that
,ther stock, which shall be separated from the sheep;
f not to-day, yet at some future day Of political
Judgment in the Kingdom Of Hawaii.
HIS Excelency deprecated the mischief that might
,e done by political agitation against the authorities
# government. and he feared, as the honorable men,
yer for Kohala feared, that foreign capital might be
cared away by opposition TO a Ministry. He has
eason to know whether this would be the case or
lot. He has been noted as a political agitator in
ears past. He joined with others to GUST DIR. Judd,
Who is supposed by many to be the best Minister Of
be Crown that Hawaii has ever had. His Excellen-
y took part with an agitating political committee at
mother time; and here recently, only two short
ears ago, when he was Chairman Of the Committee
n Finance, he took part in an opposition, and join
d in a vote of want of confidence against Ministers
1876. So he ought TO know something about this
of business; and now perhaps when be is in
flee be begins to appreciate the unrighteousness
nd injury to public interest, CT opposition to the
o%nstituted authorities. Thus we get very different
1eas of an object when we change our point Of
Jew. When DIR. J. Mott Smith tried to agitate the
minent Judd out of Office, he felt that be was rem
ering Hawaii and the world a service, and had no
about capital being scared; but when the posi-
ion Of His Excellency Minister Smith is assailed he
that the best interests Of the country are jeo-
ardized by an intriguing and dangerous dema-