The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-07-31

been absent a. Incentives to action in the meas
ures Of that body and it IL useless for the de-
PENDANTS in the case 70 protest that IL is a high
sense Of duty alone that supports them IN their
determination to hold Office against the strong ex-
preston Of public opinion that has more than
once been manifested in disapproval of their con-
duct. The assertion that in order to efficiency it
is necessary that in the constituency of the Board
men Of the medical profession should be included.
il simply an absurdity, which the experiences of
other countries will disprove. With laymen
only in the Board. doubtless a more just and
even distribution Of the Offices under their con-
troll would be had than could ever exist
with men endowed With the power to appoint
themselves. We know that q kissing, goes By
favor and in this case il il preferable that it
should 60 by merit.
Our VERSATILE CONTEMPORARY "a does not now
hesitate 10 endorse tie personnel Of the Kings
Cabinet taken as a whole" What its exact opin-
ions may have been previously, it would per-
haps he an impossibIlity for any one not connect
ed with the = party - staff Of that paper to i'm
agine, for Its uttennces in regard to the politi-
cal aspect has been always clothed in ambiguity.
BY the utterances Of that paper. official conduct
very opposite in character might have found an
equal enforcement. From an editorial, however.
in its issue Of June 9th, replete with powerful
and sOnorOus adjectives. and before noticed by
us, a cue 10 the real political sentiment Of that
paper was supposed to have been found, and that
sentiment could have been interpreted to mean
nothing less than that neither the King nor his
Cabinet were endorsed. We were there inform
ed that the servant will surely be like his mas
ter " that an ignorant, dishonest. weak. low
bred or licentiOus chief will have ignorant. dis
honest, weak, low-bred and I~icentious retainers;'
and are reminded, furthermore, that the above
. applies with peculiar force to appointments of
Cabinet officers" But when we attempt to ex-
pose any fault coming within the scope Of any of
these wonderfully effective adjectives, as applied
to others than the King. we are Immediately tax
en- to task as displaying a cowardly subserviency
to the royal power. Exactly what the Gazene's
writer is aiming at is not apparent. First, GER
tain officials are weak. ignorant, and licentious.
lack intelligence, and squander money, and after
wards, become metamorphosed into beings in
whom the most implicit reliance may be PLACED
1t hints at the necessity of party icing formed,
but gives no indication offtde nature of the plat
form proposed Tor Its adoption. If there is any
thing reasonable in the proposition, anything that
Is lptSaded to enhance the well-being of the ma
j55rity, anything that would bear the light OF day,
why not give intelligent publication? Good men
would most assuredly flock under the standard
and render the powerful aid of numbers and it,
iuenee in its support. if such were the case. If,
on the contrary, the formation of the party pro-
-
class, and is OF a nature that will bear no full
public investigation, wisdom in such a matter
would keep its own counsel, and dark hints at
the possible reservation of occult power, antago-
nistic to government should be suppressed.