The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-07-12

Injustice is apt to recoil on the head ot
the perpetrator. A man who had more ex
perience Of place-hunters than even this
/ Ministry, described himself as having
made one man ungrateful, and scores oi
others hostile by giving away a place, but
history does not say that he had unjustly
| discharged a servant in order TO make q
place for an ungrateful follower.
|
TIM Loan Bills are up before the House
at last, and the Government organ has
rcommenced grinding pleasant tune with
regard TO the S2,OOO,OOO bill which Is
fathered by the Cabinet. There are only
a few crochety individuals" who oppose
it, but it has the support Of the mass Of
the community" In Ireland there are q
few crochety individuals" who would like
TO have their rents paid. but the 'mass of
the community prefer to live without
paying rent, and Just now they are doing
so, the argument by no means shows that
the "crochety individuals are wrong.
Who are the ''crochety individuals? In
the house they are represented by Messrs.
G. r. Bishop, Cleghorn. j. Mott Smith,
j. Brown, W. H. Rice. J. W. Kalua. G. L.
Richardson, DC Out of the House they
are represented by plantation owners.
merchants, stOrekeepeTs, professional men
andEso on. A poll of the ''crochety indi-
viduals' would give rather large num-
Der Of the most influential, best educated
and smaTtest men in the community. The
fact Is, the eels very naturally object to
skinning, and the men who are going to
be skinned by the proposed loans are of
the classes mentioned.
The eludite writer in the p. {. 4. hay
ing disposed of the "crochetyn ones. next
proceeds to inform his readers that "Debt
Is the co1relative of credit" and that
credit is the basis on which that vast
supersuuctwe-the commerce of the
world has been reared and will ever
rest" There is weight in these words,
the writer must have been sitting at the
feet Of the Hawaiian sage Lilikalani, and
must have drunk in his doctrines: what
comfort it is to know that there are such
ready pupils in our midst, and that the
precepts Of this immortal fnancier have
not fallen upon barren ground But why
stop at this stage of the argument why
not carry ii further Ruin is the correla-
tive OF prosperity; war the correlative of
peace, folly of wisdom. anarchy of order.
death OF life. Therefore do not let us
only choose debt, but let MS have along
with it, folly. ruin. war. anarchy and death
Oh. great sage of the Pacific these be thy
doctrines carried TO their logical conclu
sion, they sound most palateable to the
ears Of the wise.
The Government loan bill comes along
in very specious shape. The Administra-
ton have asked the Legislature to grant
enormous. sums of money for the most
ridiculous of items, we have coronations.
foreign guests, military, arms, palaces and
heaven knows what, and when it comes to
the real business of necessary expendi-
lures, recourse has to be had to loan.
That Is the plain English of the loan bill.
1t Is as if a man, with a fixed income,
started ont to decorate his rooms in fash
Ionable style. to buy handsome plate for
his dining table and expensive Jewels for
his personal adornment, and then when he
wanted the indispensable bread and beef,
found that there was no more cash left
and he had to start out on begging ex-
pedition to get it. II the wasteful expen-
ditures were cut off from the appropriation
bill. there would be no need of the $1,000.
600: there might be need of small loan,
one quite within the means of our own
people to take up. but there would be no
need for pledging the national credit
abroad, and bringing upon this country
the usual train of evils which follow such
a course.
If the Hawaiian loves his country, as he
would have us suppose be does, he would
have nothing to do with such a scheme
On the third reading of the Appropriation
Bill be would throw aside all useless and
frivolous expenditures, he would 90 in for
economy and would dread loan bihs as he
would the plague. The foolish expendi-
lures in the House leading to unnecessary
loans Will surely sap the foundations Of
Hawaiian Independence.
Just for one moment let the House con
slider what a sum of money they are pledg
ing for mere interest Two millions of
dollars at 7per cent. Is $4,000 per annum,
or S2S0090 for the biennial period. Our
income Is at present in very fourishing
condition, but dark times may be ahead,
and then where shall We BET Why,
swamped with the heavy interest bill we
would have to pay.
A fable Of Elsop's tells of an ass who
bolted to the edge of precipice; his mas
ter rushed after him and seized the tail:
be held on as long as his strength would
permit, but finally had to quit his hold,
and away went the ass down the abyss,
the master remarking, "a willful beast
must have his own way" Hawaii now Is
hesitating on the precipice Of debt. friendly
hands still hang on to the tail, but the will |
ful beast" seems bent on sacrificing itself |
II Is. however. in a worse position than the
ass in the fable, for not only does Its own
inclination take It to the precipice, but |
there are number of foolish advisers who |
are trying to persuade the misguided ami |
NAL that the precipice is very safe and |
desirable road. BY and bye the hands will |
get weary and the unfortunate country
VIII find itself hurting through the an,
rushing, it knows not whittier, only to end |
As mashed and mangled corpse OF a
kingdoml