Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-07-29
SATURDAY PRESS.
MIR. GrBs0Ns LOAN RECORD.
JULY 20. 1882.

In speaking of the Ten Million Loan Bill
the p. c. 4. daily of the oath inst. says
"Before leaving this subject we desire to say
emphatically, in contradiction to statements
which have lately been made that never at
any time did Mr.. Gibson encourage or favor a
loan Of $4,000, 900, or 81 900 900, or $4,000
900, or any loan except for specific and we'll
defined purposes" In our columns charges
have been made which are capable of proof
favor Of the Ten Million Loan during the
Legislative Session of 1880, after having de-
nounccd it in his report of the Finance Com
mittee; and that again, during the present
session he had voted for the bill. We fail to
understand the qualification put to it's emphatic
contradiction upon the matter, where it says,
"ecccptJ for specific purposes" (italics arc ours)
inasmuch as no charge has been made by us,
or any one else that we are aware of, 10 the
effect that Mr.. Gibson had favored Ton Mil
lion Loan for non-specifc purposes. Without
this qualification, any emphatic contradiction
on the part of this paper would simply amount
to palpablc falsehood; while with it, it forms
10 contradiction TO what has actually been
said. We simply asserted that Mr.. Gibson
had voted for tho Ten Million Loan on two &C.
casions; and it is q natural inference that a
person favors what he votes for; and all the
rhetoric of the Premier, or the lengthy ex-
plantations of the organ that has pledged
itself to snoring up tottering ministry, will
not make one sane man believe otherwise.
For our part we have not been so bold as to
charge Mr.. Gibson with favoring large loans
for non-specifc objects The Ten Million
| pill Baker we believe was for specific objects
| at least his manifesto declared its object to
| be to provide for Notifications and coast-de-
| lenses; and for an extended system of rail-
roads," more particularly to provide for the
| rapid transportation of troops from place to
place, and sundry other objects of like i'm
| portance. We have had no opportunity OF
| perusing the Ten Million Act presented to the
| Legislature now in session, by the Hon. Mr.
Lilikalani; but infer that its objects must have
| been specific from the fact that Mr. Gibson
voted for it.
Seeing that Mr.. Gibson has voted in favor o.
the Ten Million Act presented by Mr.. I.ilika-
lani the advocacy of which formed the mos
Objectionable feature of the platform upol
which the LilikalaDi ticket was run in, W.
are at loss to understand the seeming eager
ness Of the Gibsonian organ at this time t.
prove his political isolation, and disconnectior
with the other members of that ticket. Why
he should be more ashamed Of his fellow
| representatives now than then, we cannot tell
They certainly have not gone back on thei
original platform as stated in their origina
campaign document which bears the signatur
of W. NJ. Gibson as well as those of L. X
Lilikalani, H. w. Lahilali and J. A. Nahaku
Then they advocated free rum and a ten millio
loan, and they are yet holding bard to thei
pet shemes.
The +. c. A. daily pettishy remarks in il
issue Of the 9th inst: "Tho statement tha
Mr.. Gibsen gave his support to the schem
known as the Ten Million Loan, has been re
peatcd in spite of the most positive denial @
this journal" Huxley says: 'This is an az
OF demonstration and not of DOGMA" and W
can see no reason why persons should b
bound by any positive denial" that has n
basis in fact, oven though it be uttered by til
journal in question. Denas as to dark facts
aud promises of explanations which never ap
pear, have been too common with the p.
Advertiser for some time past, and it must as
consequence suffer therefrom when the ques
ton Of veracity is raised, as is the case in IL
present instance.
On election day, between three and for
hundred runners were employed to solicit vote
for the ticket containing the names of Gibson
Lilikalani, Lahilabi and Nahaku. and ten
porary booth, for the free distribution of COTE
and other drinkables among voters, was erectc
in Mr.. Gibson's yard: and we would not be
unjust as to suppose that he had refused
pay his quota of the expense incurred
secure the election of himself and those upc
his ticket. Having done this, and having alt
failed to deny the rightful use of his signatu
to tho campaign document before mentioned
is but logical Inference that he had idcnt
fled himself with tho spirit of lis contents, al
that free rum and ten million loan LA
, found favor in his eyes. Aud this infercn,
is not at all weakened when we find his vo
recorded in favor Of ten million--cmphat
dcnials to the contrary Notwithstanding.
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