The Hawaiian gazette., 1880-10-06

IT is now again the role of the editor of the Ad-
rerfiser TO be mal-content opponent of the
Ministry. His comments upon the present Cabinet
are that while they ''are well qualified to inspire
confidence their appointment is "a concession
to the business interests of the foreign community
and ignores representative of the Hawaiian race.
The claims of property are held paramount, and
the interests of the people, the Sovereign consti
tuent of this Kingdom are of secondary import
ance- and unrepresented in the Government"
Hence he argues, that such a change must
carry with it the bane of continued feeling of
settlement in our public affairs !" that this de-
ldrfHre from all former preeedsHtS leaves the pub
lie mind still unsettled. because it is natural that
the Hawaiians should resent an arrangement iehich
is mot only Rcrr but which apparently casts slur
upon the whole race" Thus far his Wednesday
Express. Last Saturday his Adreytiser- comes out
with the following remarkable language. to which
we invite public scrutiny: 1T is folly to sup
pose that the native population of these Islands
win sit down contentedly under exclusive foreign
domination, or that they will view with complais-
ance the spectacle of their King surrounding him.
self with foreign advisers to the entire exclusion of
their own race" He goes on to say that "they
know the sentiment of the King is wholly in ac-
cordance with their own, and feel that he must
have unwillingly yielded to clamor and agitation
raised and kept up with the view of intimidating
him. Aslf '..rg
We do not seek to exult over those whose politi-
cal lot must now be regarded rs forever damned
as far as all honest and legitimate action goes.
Nor have We ever felt called upon to ventilate do
ings of quarter of a century more ago in other
countries in order to explain remarkably paral-
lei course in this country. But we cannot conceive
that any sane and sensible man, be be in power or
not, be the color of his skin what it may can fail
to recognize the unhesitating misrepresentation of
facts in the hope of gaining influence, the readi-
ness to cater to and arouse the most dangerous
clements in society for the accomplishment of his
ends which have marked the course of our con-
temporary the Adrertiser. No one better than he
knows that the appointment of Cabinet exclusive
ly of foreigners is not new, but that with one ex
ception, no other Cabinet was ever known until
within the last six years. That one exception was
the appointment by King Liholiho of his brother
Lot kamehameha as Cabinet officer But when
Lot became King, he took good care to have none
but trained and experienced advisers. No one
knows better than our contemporary that the
present Cabinet became necessity. not from
"clamor and agitation" =" or " "intimidating;" but
in consequence of the country having been brought
to the verge of ruin in the i'll advised course taken
towards foreign nations by @ native Cabinet
with the addition of MIR. Moreno, whom Mr.. Glib
son endorsed in the Legisls tme, and Mr.. W. G.
Jones, whom he has thoroughly endorsed in his
newspaper. And the editor of the Advertiser is no
fool. he knows that natives to whom he would
not entrust the charge of country retail store are
incapable of managing the affairs of the country
He knows thntIt is such thatsurh Jobs as are
now being shown up can be imposed. No Intelligent
men with possibly single somewhat unacco1nt-
able exception) can long be deceived BY his delu-
sions. We would not for moment class him in
the low grade of his old friend Moreno The fat
tery of the latter is gross his arts are SO trans
parent, and his chimerical plans ere so devoid OF
sense that we pity the man whom he could mislead
I The recent transactions by which Mr. Gibson
induced Mr.. Bush to lavish upon him SO large \
part of the peoples money may not bear the test
of legality, as they certainly are not such as nice
sense of propriety can approve. His taking 5000
! to buy out printing establishment, and to con.
duct it in the interests of his patrons or victims
rather) may seem to him to be defensible ON DO
litical grounds But he seems to us rather like a
man of many good impulses who never allows him
self to be true to himself, or to his own sense oj
right, any more than he is true to Others We have
doubt that he will continue his efforts to arouse
the native Hawaiian preiudices against the Whit
race. He may continue to succeed in making some
trouble to others as well to himself but he re
mains man of brilliant but lost opportunities
injurious to himself If not to others.
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