The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-03-25

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abroad, without Il grimace.
OUR neighbor Gazette takes us somewhat
with surprise, when referring to a recent
organization of a Planters Association"
he says There is now clearly an intention
to protect fully the planting interest,"" And
how has this unfortunate great interest
been getting along so far? Any one abroad
reading our contemporaries remarks would
suppose that perhaps the planting interest
of the Hawaiian Kingdom, had been OPP
pressed by a tyrannical Government, or en-
croached upon by more powerful oTganiZa-
ions or perhaps slandered and snubbed by
scurTillOus newspapers whereas the facts
are that, for at least ten years past, the main
action of government, either domestic or
foreign, has been engaged in behalf of our
planting interest, which has been courted
and favored by every other interest in the
Kingdom, even including the newspapers.
Therefore what new move is required to
protect this important interest ? The over
solicitous self-consituted champion of the
planting interest says moreover: What
the planters need is just taxation, no ham
! pering of their labor by unnecessary calls
upon it for military service, &c" Now we
would ask what planter has to complain of
unjust taxation ? Do not all pay alike the
same taX-Tate, planter or laborer, in this
| Kingdom ? And if there are undue assess
ments of property or growing crops, are not
these occasional overcharges liable to affect
every interest, and are only occasional
errors, perhaps of judgment, i'll our tax
administration And as for the " hamper
ing of labor 10y the unnecessary calls OF
military service what does it amount to
The sum of $4,000 was appropriated
for the military, during the two years, end
ing March 30th, 1882, of which amount the
sum of S31 1926, or about two-fifths was
spent OH our band, in which we all take de-
light. Now deduct the band expenditure
and we have the enormous sum o
S43,S47.35 the whole amount spent in
two years in this Kingdom for the support o
our much talked of military force of about
100! This military expenditure is assumed
to be prompted by an anti-planting infiu'
ence in the government of the country
Now what have the pro-planting influences
and the planting ministers in the govern
ment of the country expended during thu
same period? They have expended a full
quarter of a million of dollars on baC
roads, the most of them o better now
lldu i'clOIc a III VI llC quarter VI Z
million was spent. They have permitted
the expenditure, over and above apprOpri
alton, of $4,000 upon a palace, they hav,
expended 800, 900 in a marine railway, no
called fol as yet by any necessities of tn,
business or of the country, the.
have expended 500. 600 immigration app.o
priation, very largely upon rotten vessels
they have drawn big salaries, and travel
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expenditure of planting ministers and 0
the planting influence in the Government
OF the country, in ways not directly pro
motive of the welfare of the country, an
calculated "to hamper labor by unnecessar,
calls upon it, to about the amount of 5000
900 without saying a word about small-po
expenditure, and contrasting these grea
expenditures with the paltry amount spen
upon our few poor soldiers, so much talke,
about, may we not justly say that Their
ought now to be clearly an intention t
protect" the country in genera! against tn
planting interest ?
OF course this talk of our contemporar,
s,- well, ill considered, and not at al
called for by any existing state of things il
this county.
y. :. Hartwell, Esq, says it was his " for
tune to be born and brought up in a countr
where public debate is as free as the air.
And WIN did he not furthermore say, tina
he had become the adopted citizen of
land where public debate was equally 3
free, as in his motherland? Because hi
silence on that point leaves it to be inferred
that the fortunate freedom he boosted OF
belonged only to his natal and not to hi
adopted land and that now some new oil
/, glnization, was to develop some fres
= strength that would permit n freedom c
debate that had not heretofore existed here
Now we would ask Mr.. Hartwoci if in hi
= opinion public debate IN Looted L, Wa
/ luku, or elsewhere In this ma,