The Hawaiian gazette., 1882-12-27

Coronation, and especially the means by which
the expenses could be lessened to the Government
but I think he has made great mistake in tack
ing on 10 an event of public rejoicing, the subject
of leprosy There will be plenty of time after the
Coronation 10 talk over and write about this
melancholy affair. In the mean time let us fall
back on very old saying "iet the dead bury the
dead
Now, Mr. Editor | wish to say few words to
you, as public journalist: you have not exactly
done what You ought to have done in the premi-
SEES. Allow me to remind you that 1t is not only
your duty to criticise the movements of the gov
eminent, but when an occasion occurs when you
can endorse their action you ought to come ont
boldly and sustain their views. This would add
greatly to your public reputation as a peoples
journalist
/. Some few weeks ago there appeared an article
in the Premieris Journal stating that there would
be quite a revenue derived from the extra sale of
gloves.
regret this article has created false impress
sion abroad. As il would seem from a letter in a
local journal, from San Francisco that they are
under the impression that gloves are all that are
necessary to constitute full dress suit. think
when this overture was made about the revenue
from gloves, you ought to have seen at glance,
that IT was intended as a feeler to ascertain
whether the public would 60 in for a selfsupport-
ing Coronation. You ought at once to have lent
your valuable aid to the furtherance of this idea,
suggested things to carry out this point. You not
having grasped this self-supporting idea-pardon
me III state you nave misseda giorlOus OppOrtun1
ty of making yourself famous.
You. Mr.. Editor, as an educated man, and no
doubt remarkably well versed in ancient and COM
paratiyely ancient history, ought to have given
and the Government an idea how these things
were managed in the days of Caesar How, on the
occasion of the great carnvals these always took
place after a successful campaign in some neigh
boris vineyard, when they brought back immense
spoils and eminent captives, that these carni-
walls were paid for by the spoils gathered in war,
and the ransoms paid for eminent captives. The
Roman citizens proper had not TO pay one cent.
But 1t is not necessary for you to go back SO
far. Some forty odd years ago, in a small room
In London, few eminent gentleman organized
themselves into n committee to carry out fully n
| patriotic useful and benevolent enterprise. The
meeting must have been an unit, for the resolu-
| tons passed without one dissenting voice, viz:
=" That every member who went out to gather up
the hidden treasures of the EARTH the ancient mon-
ments etc. should pay their own expenses and that
they especially privileged to pay the postage
on their letters, and the freight on all discoveries
they made and sent to headquarters
Now, could not something of this kind have
been limited by you to the Government after they
| spoke about the revenue on gloves.
II the foregoing idea had been suggested at the
proper time, have no doubt it would have been
acted upon; the result would have been a net
duty on gloves in consequence of the Coronation
And you might have further stated the number
i of Hawaiians, say about thirty five thousand all
told that would receive the distinguished visitors
| and all under the sway Of our Majesty the King
This would We doubt not have suggested to those in
vited desire to pay their own expenses.
| ANOTHER HAWAIIAN OF FoRHIgS BIITH