Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-06-03

present excited state Of political feeling this is
like holding ont red rag 20 bull but OF all tho
candidates available for this honor he Is tho ono
should prefer and havo had many years oypor-
ence to war; mt me in coming 10 this concluaion.
Wo can't all 20 10 Washington.
do confess that ! feel somewhat chagrined
that after having conducted tho department of
Foreign Affairs during tho whole limo that tho
Reciprocity Treaty was last being negotiated up
to its final conclusion In 1876 and having fought
u through the Legislature against the grossost
prOjudice and Misrepresentation for few repre-
sentativcs really knew what Reciprocity meant in
those days. say that do feel that have reason
to be annoyod, that newspaper which boasts of
being free lance" should he influenced by tho
one sided stories oi party, who thinking 1t neces
sary to do something" for Reciprocity, havo
made u bunglo OF II, and have now to find an
excuse for their action by accusing me OF being
opposed TO IT, or what is just as bad of doing
nothing TO help 1t.
The events arc perhaps only what we might look
for from average mortas under the circumstances.
There was one thing that became quite clear to
everybody and that was that after the late rather
sudden attack upon it, Reciprocity WAS in danger;
| but just exactly what should have been done at
| the moment nobody knew, and certainly no one
but prophet could have foreseen that the attack
| would he made when il was. II Is falling
| of weak human nature that when sudden danger
comes upon MS there often arises mn uncomfortable
! instinct TO do something quite irrespective of
| whether IL is the right thing to do or not. Thus
| in u sudden fire, IL is well known that men here
| tofore credited with the usual amount of common
sense, think 1T necessary to do the most idiotic
| things, such for instance as throwing the looking
| glass ont of the window and carrying the feather
| bed down stairs, whereas If they had kept quiet
| till they were quite sure OF what best TO bo
| done they would have beon much more useful.
During our recent alarm aud general excite
| ment it go happened that we had n newly organ
| lied body of iircmen who felt that the RESPONSE
bility was right upon them, nnd that they had to
| do something about it, They did "do something"
but they are not quite satisfied with the result.
However the last issue of tho gazette tells us that
| one result Of the radical change in the Govern
| mcnt Of the country which these gentlemen arc
mainly responsible for, whatever may be said
| about the admitted internal disorganization of
the late Ministry will be, that may all have the
| pleasure early next year of shaking hands with
| tho Prince of Whales and rhakombaw, and who
| knows but what the latter potentatc may bring us
| the new twenty years Reciprocity in his pocket, ut
| least If the nature of his cotume admits conyo-
| niently Of that appendago.
| Ono word more. The Gasctfe says that have
| arraigned nearly every foreigner here as being
| either rcd hots" or the Indian Coolio Party
| This is not correct. II he had said that ]
arraigned nearly every foreign sugar planter hero
| as being either one or the other ho would have
been more nearly right. do so arraign them. |
have not hesitated to arraign them before, and ii
| may be necessary to arraign them again and to
| join young Hawaii" in rebukinR men, who in the
too eager pursuit of their particular interest not
| only forget tho principles oil common fairness and
justice towards the best interest of tho rest Of tho
community, but even mistake thor own.
W. IT, GRErH.
Honolulu, Juno LIST, 1882.