The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-02
To the Editor of the Adyertiser.

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SIR,-In a paper published here, l found this -
6 Here follows the protests OF the English CON-
munity, and those representing English interests,
signed by eleven beads of important business
houses. addressed to the English Consul General"
Now, Sir, this is just d sample of bow a few folks
here-merchants and landowners-take on them
selves to say, zoe are the people. The English COM
munity is made out to be protesting because
eleven business men, some of them Germans, sign
a document which they did not care to let other
Britishers know anything about. l should just
like to tell these moneyed men that they are badly
mistaken if they think they would get all the
British on these islands to stand by them if they
put in deeds all the threats they are so ready
with these three months past. What they want is
to rule this country, and have the King for their
puppet. All they care about is to make the laws,
and have the spending of the money so as to ELL
their own pockets fnller. There is a good many
of us here who like their ways just as little as
King Kalakaua does. There are more Britishers
here than this handful OF merchants, and the store
keepers they have under their thumbs. And / will
make bold to say the SAM for lots of Americans
here too. l have lived in America, and know they
AS well as us understand what it is in our own
countries when moneyed men and landowners get
things their own way with Government. What
gave Dlsraeli and the Tories years in Office, which
they might have kept yet if they had all been of
the same grit as their leader? 1t was just because
those that call themselves the Liberal party have
got all the upstairs among them that manufactur-
ing and trading have made rich. All the laws
that have really done good to the people have
come from the Tories. or from outsiders that made
hobbies of them. Just so it is with these men here.
All the laws they care about. like British Liberals,
are those that help themselves to do more bust
ness. and get rich faster. What do they care for
this country. or for them that is in it-pxoept to
make money out OF it. and ont of US that they look
down upon? l tell them. beware / do not
believe in my heart that they have the spunk to
go for a revolution but if they have. and think
their money will pull them through. why, / say,
let them try it on. l do not know but it might be
a good thing for this country if some of them that
have got hold of so much land would go in for q
little treason. There might be more chance for
poor men to get on if they did. am
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
The above reached us on the day the new
Cabinet was announced, and is in that respect
out of date. But as it comes from one of a
class who seldom speak their minds through the
press in this country, we have deemed it proper
to give it insertion, and the opportunity seems q
good one to invite those who have, by word of
mouth and through the medium OF certain jour
nails, been uttering innumerable vague threats
for months past. and especially during the
last few weeks, to consider for a moment
what they meant by them, if, indeed,
they were not idle wind. The articles
paragraphs and correspondents letters that have
been published in their interests lately, bristled
with threats, some open, some disguised, which
IT they had any distinct meaning signi6ed to His
that unless he should retrace his steps
and do precisely what their party dictated to
him, his throne would be overturned and some
new order of things introduced. In this respect
believe that their newspaper organs have but
faithfully reproduced the language which a por-
at least of the mal-contents have quite OPEN
INDUCED in. 1t is scarcely possible that these
have given AM reasonable consideration
20 what is involved in the word IS revelation"
Few, perhaps none Of them have any idea of what
war means to those who are engaged in il,
'r to those who have the misfortune to live in its
midst. Ii they had they would not talk 30 glibly
about involving the country in which shey live,
md in which their own and their friends posses
ions are, in all the evils Of q reVolutiop. Neither
an they have considered well the state of things
hat wouid BE- likeiy 20 follow g succeasful at
enpt to apes sA usnssentsd government ana
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