The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-04-03

magnanimous as TO say, in effect, that all he de-
sires is that the Ministers will gracefully come
forward and make a '.fair acknowledgement
that they were all wrong in their utterances and
that be is all wisdom and soundnessi
a vicious kick-or series of kicks-is bestowed
upon the last Ministry. who fell we are told,
because Of their inability to prove their sagac-
ity." a very hard fate, indeed. ''If they fell
they fell from their own ineompetency in exercis-
ing less ability and ~promptness to see the situa-
ton and necessities Of the times and TO provide
for the FUTURE What lucidness and Addiso-
man simplicity in these words Here are a few
last nails in the official coffin Of the late admins
tration and presumably a warning to the present:
THAT administration allowed itself to be sacri-
fsed by the pressure of private interests, lust of
gain, and the betrayal of the dignity of its off,
cial position!
The {" associated press (what's in a name p
comes in for its share of abuse. 1t is accused of
90 ~illiterate condemnation :" its utterances are
"the whimsical opinion of a disturbed intillect;''
it deals in Unreasonable abuse and unreserved
canting of its liberty" and L" incendiary utter
ances - it is credited with tevil communIstic
designs" and the writer congratulates himself
on being able to point his finger at those who are
- melting and sowing the seeds of discord.
Both the ADVERTISER and Gazette are quoted
as having advocated, in 1874, the proposition
then made to negotiate for a loan of a million of
dollars, and the writer accuses us of Inconsistency
because we now oppose his greed for ten mil
lions. His mental vision is SO obscured by the
phantom of an incoming food Of dollars that he
fails to comprehend the change which has come
over the condition and prospects of the country
since 1874. Argument to a mind constructed as
his, is time and labor wasted.
Several pages are devoted to statistics of pOpu-
lation, dating some forty or more years back, in
order to prove tina; the Hawaiian race has greatly
decreased, on which is based an argument for the
loan with which to build hospitals all over the
Islands-and forts.
Several other pages are principally occupied
with facts and figures relative to the debts of
European nations, notably of Italy, with a debt
of about three billions of dollars of England
with three and a half billions, and so OF and
these are held up as brilliant examples of fuan-
cial ability for little Hawaii 70 follow Argu-
ments are plentifully adduced, but in a-some-
what slipshod manner (as though the writer felt
that he was acting a party to show the great ne
cessity that exists for preparing the country for
war, by putting our military and naval defenses
Oh a substantial footing. In answer to the self
propounded inquiry, Where is the invader ?"
we are told that he is to come from Russia,
China, and Japan-three of the most powerful
naval powers on the Pacific Ocean The
Slavonic, the Tartars. and the Mongol races
these are the races to be feared" The following
paragraph is a fair sample of the style of the
writer of the latter half of the pamphlet
1t is to those nations that we shall have a fear, and
business than has heretofore been given to the subject.
and not saFinkingly retreat into the arms OF blind pas
TO spend but for Legitimate purposes only, For the con-
and fortifcafoas, are not only Legitimate purposes, but
it becomes a constitutional duty for the Executive to per-
Though they may be considered by the uninitiated in the
art of military science as but the parasites of our vani-
ties and tools of human ambition, still, all the world
over, they have proved TO be but necessary adjuncts of q
nation. no matter how insignihcantly small.
In the postscript at the end of this remarkable
production we again recognize the hand that
penned the opening pages. 1t is a labored at
tempt to deny what so many saw-the disorderly
scenes attendant upon and which followed in the
streets the banquet of native soldiers at the
armory, on The 18th of February last. 1t was,
we are told, 80 convivial OCCASION" but there
' was only one member, a sergeant, who was a
little jolly" and the officers who were spoken of
as being noisy in the streets, were only cadets,
and "as no proof of drunkenness could be mad
against them they were dismissed with an admo-
nition."
But we have devoted perhaps more space to
this windy, triaing mass Of verbiage than it de-
serves. After all, il, as it is insisted, we are
bound to have u war on our hands ere long, we
will try to be philosolhic about it.
War, my lord,
Is of eternal use tohuman kind
For ever and anon when you have pass'd
A few dull years in DeR0e and propagation,
The world is overstck'd with fools, and wants
A pestilence at least if not a hero"