Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-09-23
".ADY7cEs FRou HONOLUzU"

II the general public and the citizens of the
United States of America in particular are
desirous of hearing anything concerning Ha-
waian affairs, it is natural to suppose that they
desire to hear the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. We were not aware,
until recently, that official reports were being
sent to the Coast from this kingdom reports
favorable to the Government and the Min
istry, and unfavorable to all those who are not
in absolute sympathy with the Ministry-more
especially the present Ministry. 1t is true we
have suspected it no one who has taken the
trouble to read the "advices from Honolulu, ~
has observed the tenor of those advices can
have failed to note that in color and creed they
are one with the sentiments Of the Premier.
We were not aware, until recently, that the
Premier has the confidence of the associated
press /; that even the highly respectable BuNt-
I'm accepts his statements without question ;
that the Commercial Hf,aM ami MARKET Re-
vie7o does not care to verify these statements
before publishing them to the world that the
Sacramento Union is hood -winked and that
the AHa-as for the Alta, that old lady has
believed blindly ever since her two eyes were
first opened, if indeed they were ever opened
The "advices from Honolulu, ~ bearing
date OF August ~, that appear in the Bulletin,
Aha, Sacramento Union and Commercial he
raid are one and the same, line for line and
word for word, almost throughout, and they
must have emanated from single source.
These "advices" say "The new Amer
lean Minister, Daggett, was received by the
King and feted by society. He will likely
become popular in the islands,
May we be permitted to ask if the Amer.
ican residents are prepared to accept the
last line of this statement as literal factp
These "advices" say "The Gibson Min.
istry is already realizing on the loan. About
half a million dollars OF the loan will be taken
in the islands /; the remainder, million and a
half, will find takers in San Francisco"
Is this fact BY any stretch of the imagin.
alton can it be called in the slightest degree a
fact1
THE Gibson Ministry" they say, is getting
along smoothly. If spirited and continuous
opposition form ninety-nine out Of every hun
dred individuals native and foreign, on the
island, is "getting along smoothly" the state
ment is correct.
These "advices say-"The new Ministry
is assailed very sharply by political malcon-
tents, through the opposition press, especially
Premier Gibson. The hostility against him by
the clique is very strong, but he apparently
has the dominant national independent party
at his back"
Does the intelligent reader begin to see a
clue to the authorship Of the "advices ?" We
would respectfully call attention to the epithet
Political mahonfsnts, and ask il the readers Of
the Commercial .Advsytiser ever met with it in
the columns Of that journal1
These "advices say "a small clique of
American politicians residing here have been
attempting to get up political excitement by
discussing annexation. The effect is to unite
all the natives and other foreigners as deter
mined national independent party. The clique
got up torchlight procession to welcome
Daggett, who acts very judiciously, wins good
opinions from all. and offers no encourage
ment 10 any political sentiment"
II any further evidences is necessary to prove
that the " "advices from Honolulu as they are
now simultaneously appearing in the BnAtfin,
dha, .Safyamfnfo Union and Commercial He
raid are written by one hand and that one a
hand employed in the office Of the Commercial
.fdps,fiSy, our readers will probably find it
in future installments Of the ' advices as they
appear from month to month in the above
named journals.
What We would like to know is, who subsi,
diles the California press, and where does
the money originally come fromi Possibly the
museum appropriation which is already ex-
hausted--~ith nothing to show for it--may
have been disseminated beyond the sea. Ger
tainly the "advices from Honolulu" now run
ming serially in several journals at the Coast,
are sufficiently remarkable to be gathered into
our national museum for the edihcation Of pos.
terily.