The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-01-28

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the scabbard because 1 came here not to
represent myself or my feelings or interests, but
the Hawaiian people. If the encounter is to be
PERSONAL the street and not the forum is the
proper arena. Surely this Legislative Hall vas
not the proper place for such an exhibition of
unseemly temper as we witnessed here on Friday
night. What an example of the decorum of de
bate among foreigners for Hawaiian Legislators !!
Minister said if he would unravel my history
l would shrink in my boots. Now, / dont think
so. 1 think if all my vicissitude of life were
unfolded 1 should enlarge in consequence and
require a larger pair. If my history was fully
set forth by the Minister, and he should
Naught extenuate,
Nor set down Aught in malice"
1 sincerely believe it would be a very lucrative
work, and make me much more popular than what
/ am. Whereas / don't believe his history would
be worth the paper it was printed upon, unless
his biographer should, like him, deal in the in
uendos and insinuations of the streets, about
personal relations.
He hints of so much that might be told about
me from Kauai to Hawaii, and especially on
Lanai. Yes, and all around this wide world, he
could find particulars of a history-enriched by
observation, enlarged by encounters with fellow
men, softened by Acknowledgment never
rendered hard or mean by the strife for gain or
the struggle for position.
And the Hon. Attorney-Genera leads you to
suppose, Mr.. President, that a certain dead man,
were he abve, could tell such e. story aboutme, as
Would freeze your young blood, and make your hair
StAnu OF lke gums upon u Ecb4u pOECuPiAo'
1t is a pity that these legislators and this COM
munity have lost that story, because so many of
the good people of these islands love a sensa-
tiOnal story, whenever it is supposed to blacken
or eXtinguish a reputation. But let their Excel
lencies defer the tales of others about me for
some subsequent literary work at their leisure /;
whilst here in this Hall and as Representatives
of the honor and dignity of q throne, let them
deal with facts. and tell only what they know or
what may he pertinent to the subject in hand.
I dafv tham nc I have defeH in yaarS mast in
this country, assailants in other situations, to
tell all they know about me-if they deem such
discussion appropriate to the debate before this
Assembly.
magnify my position by charging me with being
a misleader of the nation. They tell indepen-
dent Hawaiian members. whom sometimes they
hatter with opinions about their good sense and
intelligence, that now they have no minds of
their wn,-are mere sheep, and driven or led by
me as their shepherd.
1t is true, Mr.. President, that 1 am a shep-
herd, that and no more, and on the Lanai hills
have watched my focks, for, 10, these many
years-till weary with the longings of an ardent
heart, 1 came forth from the obscurity of years,
and left my sheep in the wilderness, to look
after my other focks here. But His Excellency
assured you, that he was not a sheep, nor of
my flock.
No, sir. he is not he is of another stock. /
do not deal in animals of his kind. He belongs
TO that other stock, which shall be separated
from the sheep If not to-day, yet at some flu
ture day of political Judgment in the Kingdom
of Hawaii.
His Excellency deprecated the mischief that
might be done by political agitation against the
authorities of government, and he feared, as the
Hon. member for Kohala feared, that foreign
capital might be scared away by opposition to a
Ministry. He has reason to know whether this
would be the case or not. He has been noted as
q political agitator in years past. He Joined with
others to GUST DIR. Judd, who Is supposed by
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Hawaii has ever had. His Excellency took part
with an a~gitatiug political committee at another
time, and here recently, only two short years
ago, when he was Chairman of the Committee GA
Finance, he took part i'll an opposition and
Joined in a vote of want of confidence against
Ministers in 1876. He ought to know some
thing about this kind of business and now
perhaps when he is in Office he begins to ap-
preciate the unrighteousness and injury to pub
lie interest, of opposition to the constituted
authorities. Thus we get very different ideas OF
an object when we change our point of view.
When DIR. J.. Mott Smith tried to agitate the
emilent Judd out of Office, he felt that he was
rendering Hawaii and the world a service, and
had no fears about capital being scared but
when the position of His Excellency Minister
Smith is assaulted he feels that the best interests
of the country are jeopardized by an intriguing
and dangerous demagoguism. But let him
beware, sir.
He has sown of the winds of political agita.
ton, and he must and will reap of the whirlwiud
of political reformation.
His Excellency was a political reformer him.
self in 1876. And I as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Finance in 1878, am but repeating
part of his work. He said then that $50 i'm
properly spent was not too small a sum to bt
considered as beneath the attention of an in
vestieator of public accounts and 1 ands the
Committee say now that 1928. 60 actually lost, Ii
still less to be considered as beneath the atten
ton of this Legislative Assembly. He then re
ported that certain amounts for salaries Of
Judges which had not been drawn at the close OF
the biennial period in 1876, had been returned
to the Treasury and had not been reap
propriated whereas, 1 and my colleagues OF
the Commute have had to report unexpendeC
balances as improperly drawn from the public
, Treasury, and which were not returned to it, til
by the order of this Assembly. He had small
occasion for sgitating political reformation il
| 1876, whereas, 1 think, and many others thinl
there is great occasion for such reform in 1878
There was no accusation nor even any suspicion
of dishonesty against officers Of government il