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

(FrOBa he Daily Pacific Commercial Adrertiser.)
THE Premier must have INDUCED i'm a
broad grin over our Wednes ay contem-
POraTy's last issue, after CHANGING over nine
solemn articles of which Mr.. Gibson and
his colleagues were the sole topic, as fol-
lows:
1. They ordered 10000 feet of lumber
from or through a gentleman not in the
lumber trade.n
Oh, the reckless extravaganza and mis-
management of the Ministry to order a
small slOop load of lumber all at one time,
and not let anybody i'm the lumber trade
here know anything about it! BAIL! There
has been no order given or sent, but merely
an enquiry about quotations preliminary to
the proXimate purchase of 800, 1000 feet Of
lumber which il is now, and was then, in
tended should be rendered for in the usual
way. To learn something about the state
of the market before going into it's that
so new and strange a thing with Hawaiian
Ministries that some cock and bull " story
must be invented as more likely of belief?
,. The country is not interested i'm "Mr.
GibsOn's antecedents," but in puttingI
down absolutism."
Nevertheless, the staple and entire dis
cuss.on of the sore head opposition is Mr..
GibsOn's 'antecedents, and they propose to
put down absOlutism by unscrupulOusly
opposing the gentlemen who have cut off
the opportunity for irresponsible transfers,
and who have established an Auditor-Gen-
eralshiP.
8. 1.-The Government running about last
Eriday to- borrow money to start off the new
ENJOYS for Japan and Europe" "There
was trouble with the party II was eX-
pected to shell out on demand, to two
millions"
drumming about to borrow two millions?"
What ass could have invented such a story?
such an ass must be possible however, rs
there are asses to believe such a fabrication.
There was NJ hesitation about the credit for
the Envoy to J~apan;none was needed for any
Envoy to Europe, as none was sent there.
But a credit was arranged for Immi-
grafton purposes without the least trouble
beyond the adjustment and preparation of
the necessary forms. Flow, indeed, could
there be any hesitation about a credit for
such a sum as $50, 600 when the govern
ment * i'm receipt of over S35. 900 a month
from Customs duties paid, and will-from
taxes and other sOurces-be i'm receipt of
hall u million of dollars during the next
three months.
4. MI. Gibson is assured that "the same
gentlemen who talked with him about GO
ing into the Ministry " will not now pur-
sue "a " dastardly waTfare;'' although after
the course he himself followed, II hardly
seems to- be consistent for him To OBJECT tn
personalities from any source"
But the gentlemen who talked about
going into the Ministry are reasonably rx-
pecttd To be sOured on account of not being
i'm the Ministry. We can't hell that. some
body must he out you know.
D. Mr.. Bishop (banker) carried the
usual courtesy OF appointing a prominent
opposition memberupon an important COM
mittee, very far when he re-appointed Mr..
Gibson on the Finance Committee in 1850
but he took good care to put enough good
men on with Mr.. Gibson-to prevent him
from doing any great HARM"
1t is not a " usual courtesy" to make q
prominent opposition member; chairman
of an important parliamentary committee.
But we may ask, whom else could Mr..
Bishop have appointed tout of the elements
from which he had to choose) without incur
ring the reproach of being animated by per-
sOnal feeling. Since that brought up by
DIR Mott Smith in 1874, what, i'm the way
of "A Finance Committees Report, have we
seen except what has emanated from Mr..
Gibson?
:. "The Premier, like all people of strong
and vivid Eastern imagination has no head
for figures.r HE is decidedly not a bust
ness man."
The Premier was not bred in a counting
house or behind n counter, but businesslike
capacity Is not confined to those who have
had that advantage or Invariably developed
hy these methods of instruction. Who was
the Secretary of the Hawaiian immigration
Society of 1872, whose report was so
highly thought of, and ELECTED so many
compliments from leading public men?
Who but Mr.. Gibsony Gan any one peruse
the published records Of the Premier's
speeches and of the measures he has pro-
posed and fail to recognize the sound prac-
ticaI character which distinguishes all that
is most important among them? That rapid
grasp of tine relations Of things-that quick
recognition of the bearing of what has been
done and thought elsewhere among men,
upon the affair." of his own country which
this writer nicknames ian Eastern
-these belong to the highest
range of business faculty, and is precisely +