The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-10-21
THE PACIFIC
Commercial A0Oertlser.
sAIURDAY....... OCTOBER 81. 1882

IT is with regret that we note that so
much prominence was accorded in the pro-
ceedings Of the Planters Lab and Supply
Company to what, for want of a more suita-
BILE name, we must call party politics. In
the report of the Trustees on the essay of
Captain Mist, and on the memorial to the
King, there is to be found plenty of declama-
ton, bat no practical statement of tangi-
BILE grievances for which redress was sought.
1t is OH the other hand satisfactory to note,
that the planters rs II body were indisposed
To waste much time in discussing politics,
but devoted themselves chiefly to practical
matters. Had the Planters any real griev-
ances to- ventilate, they would as business
men, have taken a different course and left
no stone unturned in their efforts to find re-
dress.
In this connection, il may be we'll to re-
view briefly what the present Ministry,
short as their term of office has yet been,
have done for the planting interest. In the
first place they secured the loan for Immi-
grafton which had been denied to- u former
Ministry specially representing the plant
ing interest. Again they obtained IN extra
vote of $4,000 for the purpose of promoting
the renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty-and
this against a decidedly adverse feeling in
the House. They-or the Immigration
Board in pursuance of their pOlicy-have al
tered the terms on which Portuguese immi-
grants are allotted to planters, by paying
the passages of women which for the Han
sa's people alone represented $4,000. In
doing this, they have accepted the liability
to censure OH the ground of using public
funds to favor one class of the community,
baIiayIuU tIraf they wore aptinp i'm accorI-
ance with sound public policy. Again, (al-
though statements to- the contrary nave
been openly made; they have agreed to as
sist the immigration ot German laborers by
similarly accepting the cost of the passages
of women as a charge proper to be borne 10y
the country.
We may add that when the planters
made application for their agent tai e, o.
Japan as representing the Government, the
latter had no funds available for such IL pur-
pose. In consequence of the friendly rela-
tiOus established by His Majesty with the
Emperor OF Japan, the & ,vernment j. fav-
orabIy situated for securing immigration
from that country /; and, as we understood,
i. was in compliance with the Emperor's
personal wish that a Hawaiian was sent as
Envoy. Thus through his friendly reIa-
ions with foreign countries, the King has
paved the way for the fulflment of the pop
ular wish for immigrants; even as we all
know that we secured the Reciprocity
Treaty through His Majesty's presence in
the States and his friendly relations with
eminent American statesmen.
We may repeat the words of an eminent
planter, who has lately said that the pres
ent Ministry is the most favorable to the
planting interest, and the best friend that
the planters rave ever had. And this-in
spite of their misunderstanding and of their
injudicious ap~positlOn-wil be proven to
all the fair-minded men of the influential
organization which has held its meetings
here during the past week.