The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-10-25

room is more likely, if reached at all, t,
be the result OF a compromise, or OF IN
difference, even recklessness produced b.
weariness or by anxiety to go home, thai
by any desire to do justice. These re
marks are suggested by the sight of th'
haggard worn faces Of the jurymen, WHIT
in two recent cases, at the present term o.
our Supreme Court, were in the jury room
from about five O'Clock in the Afternoon
until late in the night, or three o'clock tbs
next morning. In neither case was any
verdict rendered. In the case of Lazarus
against DR.. Trosseau, there seems, as fal
as we can learn. to have been no question
about the facts: direction by the Court
I to render a verdict for the one side or the
other. would have left the parties full
opportunity to define the law of the case
before the full Court.
The paper prepared and read by Hon
H NJ. Whitney before the Planters Com.
panv. upon the result of the Hawaiian
Treaty OF Reciprocity with the United
States, which we publish to-day, will be
found 10 be a cogent and mastery
statement, and perhaps the best which has
yet been made on this subject. This able
paper was prepared at the request of the
Trustees of the Planters Company, and
viii be published by them in pamphlet
form for circulation among public men
and journals abroad Mr. Whitney shows
by figures the great gain to the Pacific
Coast which has resulted from the Treaty
by our increased imports from and trade
with California. This gain to be sure is
not in the form of revenue flowing into
the United States Treasury; but, and this
Is the only suggestion we would have
added TO Mr.. Whitney's convincing argu-
ments. q Is for He interest Of tie United States
net 10 Increase is national rCreHues. The
great and increasing difficulty now before
the American statesmen and political par
ties, is how to reduce its presen: surplus
revenues. in such way as to avoid injury
10 any particular product, industry or
trade and so as to make no undue dis
elimination In favor of any one over the
rest. The recent flow Of American capital
into Mexico indicates that American capi
talists are confident that something akin
to the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty will
ere long be established between the United
States and Mexico The doetrHaires. we
may say the educated classes, as a rule in
the United States desire TO encourage free
trade, as fast as can safely be done The
Hawaiian Treaty is a good illustration of
the benefit of remitting duties upon
staple article like sugar If the same
thing could be done with Cuban sugars
without affecting the Eastern traders and
reineries, and the Southern producers, it
certainly would be done, and with results
very satisfactory TO Eastern consumers.
The fact that Californian consumers and
traders have not felt 1t to be for their IN
terest to distribute the profits made in i'm
porting. refining and selling Hawaiian
sugar is not an argument against the
Treaty itself. When those profits shall
become so great as to exceed tie power of
a monopoly to control the Hawaiian crop.
as Is likely at some day to occur, the pres
ent defamation against the Treaty may
cease, but Hawaiian planters may see little
ii any advance or decrease in the prices
they will get for their sugars.
Mr. Whitney strongly reprobates the
action of the Legislature in taking from
the Justices Of the Supreme Court. the
of the District Magistrate
and giving the appointment to the Gov
eTnors as ''most mischievous and fraught
with evil for the future tits remarkable
that the Premier who Is responsible for
this measure, by advising Its approval by
the King. does not cry out against Mr..
for Juggling politics into the
Planters Company The measure will no
doubt be repealed by the next Legislative
session. but meanwhile our planters and
the community at large viii lay the blame
for it where 1t belongs, with Mr. Gibson.
Mr.. Whitney fully admits that from the
American standpoint the Treaty was a
" political measure, partly to prevent
other foreign appropriation of these
islands, and partly to obtain American
precedence here. Our views of the
United States shall obtain such precedence
IN such shape as viii satisfy its public
men and people, are well known. We say
20 the United States. we have kept our
pledge in not selling ont nor offering to
iell out to any foreign power. We under
stand that you prefer that this country |
ihall remain independent, and that you |
10 not seek Its annexation or protectorate. |
State definitely what you do mean, and |
what you want, and anything that is |
'easonable and proper will be agreed to- |
One word and we close this scant re
'iew of Mr. Whitney's paper, and that is
" saying that its writer deserves public |
not by giving him subsi-
liary official position, as the Adre1iser
Gems to intimate; he ought to be in the |
jabinet Ill the place of the man who now
eeks to prop up his own weak tenure of |
,ffice by claiming Mr. Whitney as his
hampton Mr.. Whitney has too good
tuif in him to take office with men who
laye not the confidence of this country
t remains to be seen whether his judg
nent IS as easily swayed as Messrs. Gibson
nd Bush undoubtedly think It is, by "ori-
ntal'' fctions
Everyone would be delighted to see Mr..
Whitney in the office of the Post Master
ieneral; but there is not the slightest
occasion for him to give himself away"
T swerye from his formerly expressed
Jews and principles for that end. If he
: WISE he viii bide his time A man who
5 capable of writing such valuable public
documents as Mr.. Whitney's paper on the
'reaty is well able to hold a Cabinet
'ortfolio. His absence from Honolulu
uring the political agitations of the last
nw years may render him all the more
vaiable for such a position.