Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1880-09-25
ICommunicated.l

To apologize for the appointment to high
Office of clergyman ignor ant of law. finance
and ordinary business, by reminding the pub
lie, as was lately done in one of the news
papers in the native language, of the appoint
nents of the Revs. VIM. Richards, r. Arm
strong and Lorrin Andrews to important Of
fees many years ago, shows either u willing
ness to be satisfied with very lame excuse
for doing q foolish thing or utter ignorance of
the different circumstances under which these
appointments were made, and the present, and
tue great difference in character, talents and
requirements between the late appointee and
either of those above named. Mr.. Richards,
chosen AS interpreter and adviser before the
first constitution was made, and at the organi-
zation of the government in 1916 Minister of
Public Instruction, was u highly educated
gentleman, probably the best fitted for the Of
flee, OF any available ut that time. Mr.. Arm
strong had similar qualifications, and succeeded
to the Office after the death of Mr. Richards.
Mr.. Andrews was also man of learning and
OF very high character, but he never held u
place in the Cabinet. and in these latter days,
when men possessed Of legal knowledge are
not 80 scarce, would not be thought OF as
Justice of the Supreme Court. He always
did the very best lie knew in every place that
charity and nodesty. All of these men were
masters of tho Hawaiian AZ well as of tho
English and other languages. What possible
excuse eau be given for filling ministerial Of
fees now-a-days with ignorant and ihexperi-
enced men? Is it not natural that men of
sense should be suspicious of the motives
leading to such strange and unnecessary ap-
pointments Every cabinet officer should not
only be able to understand and direct the busi-
ness Of his own department-g generally, If not
| in every detail but to also give good and in
tellgent advice to his colleagues, for the ncm-
bers Of cabinet should work together under
standingly and all of the Kameha,nehns car
| ried out that system, aud were not gdity OF
| exciting prejudice in the minds OF the natives
against foreigners, and leading them TO think
that they should have the Offices whether TT
ted to do the duties or not.
DR.. Emerson was removed He foolishly
thought 1t WIS not necessary to shake hands
with oil of his neighbors at Kalawao every
m rningS though willing enough to do his full
duty in every other resi- ect. he did not covet
martyrdonl or the praise Of tile Chairman OF
the Committee of Thirleen; kind, conscien-
tious aud skillful, there was no splurge in him,
but he wickedly and openly made careful OBJ
| scrvations and took nutes of the same, and
might have gone 20 far as TO have published "a
work on leprosy, one of these days, as did
DR.. Carter who went 10 Norway aud 10 India
at the expense Of tho Brtish government for
that purpose Perhaps the beat kind OF man
tor that place 10 one whose absence nobody
would regret either on land or sea though tho
member fr Lahaina said it should be filled BY
"as eminent physician with = great soul'
We hope hs may 6nd him. May God help the
lepers, and deliver thom from hnmbugs, who
make political capital out Of pretended sym- :
paihy for them. n