The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-10-21


expected and his high opinion of Ha-
waiian royalty and its surroundings, has
consequently, somewhat abated. We are
afraid that disappointment in place-hunt-
ing and also owing to the fact of his be-
ing somewhat summary discarded, as an
inefficient editor of an obscure sheet, has
rather soured the temper and Furthermore
affected the memory of this worthy sea-
man and in confirmation of what We say,
we beg to call attention to an extract from
his misty political diatribe addressed to
planters.
Mr.. Moreno being installed as a practical fac
totuBa under the Crown, the other Cabinet portfo-
los were assigned TO men who were either DESTROYS
Of up holding Autocratic rule, or Incompetence
oppose II. Accordingly we find Mr.. Kuaea, the
minister to q native congregation, intruded as
Minister of Finance man utterly ignorant Of
financial matters-witE Mr.. Bush as Minister of
Interior. and W. c. Jones as Attorney-General.
And now the game was TO be tried on. Mr.. Bush
Immediately hired Mr.. Gibson, by a deed dated
Aug. %, 1880, 10 work the ADVERTISER On behalf
Of the existing Ministry. To Mr.. Gibson was also
granted 2 contract for the supply of sheep from
Lanai for the use Of the Leper Establishment on
Molokai. Another friend was to be paid a hand
some salary that he might go to California to pur-
chase materials for the Government with a hand
some percentage allowance on all purchases he
might make, nature Of materials or need for them
not specified. The proverbial beggar, in the per-
son Of Moreno, now seemed 10 be fairly on horse
back, but his very greediness- FASTENED his arrival
at the prover5ial goal One of the first acts of the
Moreno Ministry was. in order 70 sweep away any
possible distractions from their path, TO demand
the recall by their respective Governments of the
three Resident Commissioners. This was too Seri-
Gus a step to be so lightly undertaken, and the rep
reservations of the gentlemen who had been SO
grossly insulted, both in their representative and
their personal character, sufficed TO necesSitate the
removal of Moreno from the Cabinet. The very
critical aspect which affairs were now assuming led
to n great public meeting of really representative
men, who depnted a committee to lay before the
King resolutions c~ondemnatOry of the recent pro-
ceedinSs. The value of public meetings and the
right Of petition were at once assaulted by Mr.. Glib
son in the ADVERTISER and Elete, as no doubt he
considered himself bound to do by the terms of his
contract with Mr.. Bush. Moreno driven from the
Foreign Office. was nevertheless entrusted by the
Crown with diplomatic or ambassadorial powers,
so strangely drawn and SO vaguely worded that
they puzzled every one to whom they were shown"
Now any one familiar with the events
referred to, as familiar as this quondam
naval editor is, or ought to be, would re-
cognize at once the deliberate misrepresenta-
! tions, and untruthful implications of the
above statement. Mr.. Gibson had nothing
to do with the ADVERTISER and ELeLe,
whilst Moreno was in office, who held his
portfolio only three days,-and the state
ment about the "proverbial beggar in the
person of Moreno" is in the connection
mentioned, without foundation.
But our political sailor is liable to mis-
takes. He has not been Il success so far :
and as he made Il miserable failure in try
ing to be "a political instructor of the public
through the press his fiasco is still more
notable, as a p%retentious political poser be-
fore the planters.