Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-02-05
SATURDAY PRESS.
FEBRUARY s, 1881.

WE are not yet free, it seems, from the
Vaccinations of this irrepressible Moreno.
Our neighbor the Gazette publishes the full
text of the European papers from which we
quoted last week. We have no wish to make
or to multiply troubles, but is it not time that
our Government parted company with Moreno,
absolutely and completely? AS long as he is
in possession of the Royal autograph, and can
draw money from the Hawaiian cxchequer, it
must be expected that he will be credited with
an official position, though he has ceased to
hold it,
letter from one of the "youths" is pub
lished in the Kuohoa. Not without comment,
we hope. We do not propose to give the full
text in this issue, but merely to draw atten-
tion to the more particular subjects. We learn
that Moreno, having established himself for
the time at Berlin, writes to the Hawaiian
Consul at Bremen to "conae orer to him at
Berlin! This the "haughty Consul" as our
letter-writer calls him, very naturally and
necessarily declined to do, :" as great deal of
Consular affairs keep me in my Office" Mr..
Moreno writes to the Hawaiian Consus in
Paris and Berlin that he is "instructed by
His Majesty the King and by his (Moreno's)
colleague, Mr.. Bush," etc. Now, this letter
is dated December 23d. Had not Moreno's
official position been annulled long before that
date, and was not the fact known to the Con-
sus long before that date? Furthermore, we
are informed by this ingenious youth, that
"Since we left Honolulu on the Both of
August to this day, we have been supported
by Mr.. Moreno's own purse" He took away
with him $4,000 for the purpose. A prominent
official here is said to be "a downright viii
lain" Other well-known gentlemen of this
city, who had the misfortune to travel in com
pany with this gentle shepherd and his flock,
are accused of publishing "hes'' in San Fran
cisco. The missionaries" are said to be
"jcaous of our coming abroad, lest we should
know more than they, and thus the admins
tration of the Government will be in the hands
of Hawaii Ponoi. y = All the foreign Con-
suis are in their ring" etc. n
Now here is the outcome of the education
these youths have received in the course of
the first four months
Is it not too bad that public money from
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such a mischief-lnaker and sanderer as this
Moreno? for we acquit the boy of anything
worse than, perhaps unconsciously, doing evil
at the bidding OF an evil instructor. How
comes it that the youth is able to copy, YER
batim, into one private letter no less than
three Consular letters of purely official ma
ture? Who but Moreno dictated the whole
production What sort of public servant is
this! What sort OF man is this to be entrusted
with the education Of young lads at the public
expenses What sort of difficulties may not
be brought upon us, if he meet the King in
Europe and gain his ear, as no doubt he will
endeavor to do? We trust that the Govern
meut here and Mr.. Armstrong abroad will
keep keen eye on this man, and wholly re-
pudiate every sort Of cknowledgment-that
the youths be taken out Of his hands alto
gether Here are four months gone by aud
neither the place nor the nature OF their edu-
: cation yet decided upon. 1t is said that one is
to be sent to Kiel for naval education. We
doubt II the shores of the Baltic be the most
advisable locality in which to place Haw allan
youth for his first Winter away from his sunny
home. And when-or if-this young gentle
. man returns, an accomplished naval officer,
what shall We do with him There are plenty
of educational establishments, bosh in the
United States and in Europe, where these
, youths might have been taught some useful
{ civil employment, law, physic, commerce, etc
Why are they not long ago at work at one Of
. these! The fact is, that the unde rtaking was
illdosignsd and put into the hands of mar
. eminsn,ly unsuitsd for carrying it out. "Pu,
! money in Thy purse" says Iago some Other
: hody's, says Moreno