The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-09

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To the Editor of the Pacific, commercial Advertiser.
Sm.-I have read the remarks in the Gazette on
the letter OF mine you were so kind AS TO publish
in the last number of your paper. The criticism
is as candid as l could expect, and as courteous
as / could desire. f.tHtr
My letter was written with the double purpose
first. of drawing attention to certain transactions
now matter OF history, which, according TO my
judgment or want OF it, appear not only Injurious,
but pregnant with danger to Hawaiian interests
and second, Of offering a suggestion which, il acted
upon. | thought might effect a happy solution of
the difficulties which have beset the country since
the commencement Of the present reign.
The writer in the Gazette says, =. 1t really seems
to us that Mr.. Rhodes cOnfounds q differing in
opinion with himself as to the feasibility or desir-
ablenrss OF getting people here from India. with a
plot full of treason stratagens aud spoils."
There is no accounting for the ~vagaries of some
men, imaginatiOns, or the Authorizations that take
possession of their minds. What can the Gazette
be dreaming about? l have not spoken of any
mans opinion. Quite the reverse. Whatever the
Gazette may believe, or think il sees. | did, and do
again. call attention to certain public acts but |
have been careful TO keep them distinct from either
opinion or mutive and | would, if possible. sepa-
rate them from the persons doing or performing
them. but that is beyond my power. What then does
the Gazette mean when it says, 1 I'm /" ready to
assail the motives of others who fail to agree with
him (me)?" Who is the person whose motives l
have assaulted | have called attention to public
acts. The motives governing those acts not
having been avowed by the actor can only be in-
ferred from the acts themselves. This I have care
fully abstained from doing.
have no desire to enter into a controversy with
anyone, but do hold myself tree to call attention
to, and criticise, public acts. Let me repeat. 1t
is not motives | question. but acts-U will not
dignity them by styling them policy the means
by which certain results have been obtained that
l consider are opposed to the principles OF truth
and justice, and therefore u nj subject for criticism,
or even denunciation.
As to the desirablrness ui these East Indians,
although the matter is kept as quiet as possible, it
is perfectly well understood that their undesirable
ness, to those who have so successfully cOntrived
to prevent their coming, consists in the fact of their
being British subjects. II they were not so, /
believe they might come, aud welcome but being
50, We will have none of them it we can, by any
means. prevent their coming. This reason is more
than abundantly sufficient. No other need be
given. 1t is not my own discovery or invention.
but is of public uotoriety.
The gentlemen who have hitherto prevented the
Introduction of East Indians 10 all possibility pos
spsS Sneicinnt inHuanna a oOntinua tho onpratinn
of their veto unchecked for the present. Until the
inter vention has borne its fIuit, the defeat of this
East Indian measure may be considered as an
accomplished TACT.
From the eloquent articles on English love of
liberty, and the frmness and determination OF
EnRlisb-speaking races never to submit to i'm
proper or arbitrary and demonstrations acts, that
have lately appeared In the columns of the Gazette,
one would be led to believe that the rights of all
nationalities. being securely guarded by treaty
stipuiations. all English speaking races, whom the
Gazette has lately been pleased to patronize as a
unit. would be only too happy to unite in securing
abundance of cheap labor from the dependency of
libertyloVing Old England. and to enter into a
general alliance to procure that labor, as wsil as
to promote the reign OF Constitutions law and
even-handed Justice on Hawaiian soil. And who
ever believed so would be correct in his conclu-
siOns ; but, at the same time. be would be disap-
pointed to learn that the acts of u few individuals
were sufficient 10 defeat the desirable measures
proposed by snch an organization.
Now Intervention has commenced, whatever may
be done in the future, I US earnestly desire, as the
Gazette deprecates. a full and exhaustive investi-
CATION by the great Powers OF the world into
Hawaiian affairs. and the establishment of a system
of intelligent and responsible government that will
protect all alike; the Sovereign and the people. from
incompetency on the one hand and conspiracy on
the other anything rather than drift alternately
from hard death-dealing rocks to treacherous and
equally fatal qnicksands. either ut which unless
the vessel be faithfully steered, may cause its speedy
destruction.
l beg TO ten der my thanks for the opportunity
you have afforded me to express my views on a
very important public matter.
GoDFREY RHODES.
October 7. 1880.
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