The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-09-07
The Advertise ON 'Disloyal Sentiment

The following letter was sent in for publication
last week, but was unavoidably crowded out, we
apologize fer the delay.
The Advertiser of August 9th, states that " two
foreign journals in Honolulu" were, in the same
month Of last year, representing strong disloyui
sentiment" Now if the Saturday Press, under its
late management, be referred to as one of these
two foreign journals, ! beg , state emphatically
to be found therein.
Now that the events of the period referred to
have passed by, and we are able at the distance of
twelve month to look back upon, and review the
matters then under discussion, coolly and dispas-
sionatey ask fearlessy, where lay the disloyalty?
with those who upheld or thoss who opposed the
men whose wicked councils btought about the Ia
mentable state of affairs of August and September
last Were those loyal advisers who taught the
natives, that the respectful presentation, of re
spectful petition, by a small deputation from a
most thoroughly representative and influential
meeting, was Treason, Insoence, DC, &C., that it
emanated from a lot of foreigners and on ?
That those who supported and did their best TO
maintain the perpetrators, or would be perpetra-
tors, of all the mischief and iobberies and dis
graces of the six weeks, we're loyal? and those who
opposed their disloyalty reasonable? Ipause for
reply :,
the 1drefffSef, great Cnange mas come over
the opinions of men who uttered and listened to
such (treasonable) Language" "Now His Maj
esty has won golden opinions everywhere, and the
reyilers have become the foremost hatterers."
Here again the Adrertiser is hopelessly astray as
far as the above remark is supposed to apply to the
Saturday Press. That paper never reviled, did not
change its opinion, nor ever take to hattery.
About year ago mistakes grave mistakes were
made, and the Saturday Press said SO. During his
foreign tour, the King has won golden opinions
everywhere, and the same paper gladly reported
that it was so.
Where then is the reviling where the hattery
The mistakes were regretted and opposed, that by
opposing they might be ended; the reports from
the Royal travelling party we reioiced to receive
and to publish. Both the mistakes of the one
perio / and the golden opinions Of the other are
historical facts, and were reported and discussed
impartially, without reviling here, or fattering
there.
For my own part, would rather look back on the
files of paper which refused to call evil good, or
good evil than on those of print which bad
nothing but the most servile adulation for every
action of the King, whether he we're struggling in
the grasp of the hungry Adventures who came
upsetting this poor little ship of state year
ago, and yet has only the same vocabulary to draw
upon, when His Majesty as the guest of the most
famous Courts of Europe is winning golden
opinions" wherever he goes.
The writers in the Saturday Press did not regret,
or pretend to regret the manly and loyal remark
of the King, that mistakes have been made in the
past which might serve as beacons for the future,
nor did they humbly sigh forth, Be it fer from
thee, o King, to speak of mistakes, knowest thou
not that KINGS can do no wrong Suffer then thy
most humble slave to "regret" thy utterance =
H.W.M.