The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-09-30
EDITORIAL ARTICLES.
cFyom he Daily Pacific Commercial Advertiser

How much knowledge of aud respect for
constitutional government the opposition
havesmay be judged by the advice they are,
through their journals, rendering 10 the
King to dismiss his present ministers. 1t
is, perhaps, scarcely proper to use the word
advice in speaking OF the screaming talk in
which these papers indulge, talk which in
the vulgarity of its detraction and TIE
cOarseness of its invective, is a feeble imita-
ton Of the lowest class of radical journal
ism to be found in London, mingled with a
strong dash of the meaneSt sort of american
~electioneering SANDER. Still the gist of
what these people are bowling out is '.send
away those wicked ministers" To get rid
of the Ministry is the idea at the base of all
the hurry burIy they have been raising.
Their attacks on the King lave been made
under the childish impression that they
could Brighten him, and that in his alarm
(did any Ofthem notice how ''the oppressor''
rembled last Thursday nightly he would
send a midnight messenger to give min
listers "the sack, I" and humbly request the
secretary of the Planters Supply COMPANY
to furnish him with a list of the gentlemen
who are conducting the present lombard
ment of mud, in order that he may ask
them to take their places. We understand
that the gentleman just referred to has
among his friends as large a reputation for
cabinet ware as the Able Sieyes used to
have for constitution making. He has a
list ready we have no doubt, and has had
his privase residence connected with the
telephone system in expectation of His
Majesty's message.
And suppose this King whom they accuse
of unconstitutional conduct should have
been induced or hectOred into fall ng into
their trap. What a spectacle of constitu-
What morearbitrary and auto
conduct could be suggested to the
King than the dismissal of ministers under
circumstances like troSe which exist here
at present. His Majesty entrusted the
of a Cabinet to Mr.. Gibson be-
cause he had received the direct votes of a
larger number of electors than were ever
pOlled in this Kingdom before for any one
and also because it was quite
that MI. Gibson had an important
following in the Assembly. A Cabinet was
OF prominent, and influential men,
and as a natural consequence il found a
majority in the House ready to sup
port it. All the measures brought down by
the government were passed, all the bills
by private members against
which ministers set their faces were de-
His Majesty's judgment and the
,onstitutionality of his conduct i'm the Sc
ection of his ministers, were amply vindi-
lated by the most crucial of all cOnstitu-
iOnal tests-their ability to lead the Legis-
allure. Now the King is asked to send
.hese popular Ministers about their usi-
less. Nothing whatever has TRANSFERRED,
ince the session of the Assembly closed, to
1--WE a ground for this demand. Ministers
lave been quietly, but industriously pur-
uiDg their several tasks, carrying OUT the
of the constitutional Legislature of
he Kingdom. They have fallen away from
10 promises, thwarted no purposes of the
allowed no legislation to fall a
cad letter. All these things former Min
sters did, and in doing them showed their
unconstitutional tendencies. But this Min
stry selected in a constitutional manner by
constitutional King has conducted the af-
airs of the country in n constitutional man
er. Now, this TOoley street opposition
to have. them ousted. 1t is really
to see how the necessities of an
which has no raisOn az etre except
he vanity and Office-seeking of u few in
ividuals, drive its opponents to all kinds
f Inconsistency and double dealing.
hese prophets of constitutionalism want !
King to commit an act so unconstitu-
onal that neither they nor We, nor any
lie else, would have any more faith in him,
ow or as long as he lives, should he CON-
mt to stultify himself by doing it.