Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-12-22

il, unworthy servants. The national
faith has been pledged We have
danced to Mr. Gibsons piping and We
must pay not the piper exactly, but
the man who furnished the pipe,
Let us then pay Mt Sprcckcls all he
is "ou, ON the transaction and keep
| the dies, etc. II the next legislature
docs not repeal the coinage act, It will
then bc in order to manufacture the
coin 0ooyf,Rg h law Mr Sprcckcls
ought to bc satisfied with this, and we
trust he will bc
As to the other matter which dc
mands Mt SprcckcS attention the
Mail Companys protest we trust that
there also his sense oi Justice will com
pei him to abandon an untcnablc
position And We say this with no
predictions in favor OF the Pacific
! Mail
The Advertiser never "gavc itself
away " more conspicuously than on last
| Tuesday. Its editorial was an appeal
to the ianaticism OF believers in the di-
vine right OF kings an argument based
ON the obsolete theories OF the Scottish
Stuarts There is but one right divine
acknowledged by constitutional Eng
| land by republican France, by liberal
Italy and by the democratic United
States that is the right divine OF free
men to choose, to regulate or to dcposc
their rulers. There is too much OF the
modern spirit in the clstii,c monarchy
of the Hawaiian Kingdom to make the
retrogradc policy OF the Advertiser
worth the paper II was printed on. We
think the King knows this as well as
any Of us. II not, Attorncy.gcncral
Neumann is just the man to tell him
"Whatcvcr may have been Paul
Ncumann's private reasons for entering
the cabinet at the recent crisis, his
presence thre is a distinct public gain.
He is known rs personal friend and n
public partisan of Claus Spreckcls /;
but he is known also as hatcr of
shams and an uncompromising enemy
of jobbcry. He is man of the world
in the broadest sense, hail fellow
with the cornwall, wit and humor-
ist yet he is the indulgent head Of n
loving family, and compels the invari
able respect of the most rollcking Of
his bohemian friends"
Docs the quotation sound like the
panegyric of partial friend2 Such it
undoubtedly is but in the judgment of
the writer (who expresses here an in
dividual opinion) it is fully deserved.
II is not unnatural that islanders should
view with suspicion the swift elevation
to power of 4 man who is compara-
tive stranger and who is known as the
close confidant of powerful parsonage
at present out of perfect harmony with
the community. But the writer be
eives that if Paul Neumann were as
well known here as he is in San Fran
cisco his acceptance of the attorney
generalship would be welcomed by the
wisest and the most patriotic.
|
We must remember that we of the
opposition have made no end of fun
of the ad interim arrangements of the
imposition. We ought not to stulify
ourselves by captious criticism of one
who has taken the office IN the teeth
of public sentiment-unless he have a
bad record, or until he prove himself
of the same kidney as the three Sir
Galahads who sit among the webs and
weeds of their i'll conducted portfolios.
1t is not to be expected-nor is it, per-
haps, desirable-that Mr.. Neumann
should fully share the prevailing detes-
tation of the imposition. We are con-
vinced that he will find out more by
being a month in office than he could
know in year by remaining outside it,
And if he puts no instructive heas into
Mr.. Spreckels' ear, we shall be very
much mistaken.
The hour is ripe. 1t is waiting for
the man. The man of men who stands
out before the people of all nationali-
ties, as qualified by brains, by expert
ence and by personal magnetism to
head the administration of a govern
ment conducted in the interests of Ha-
waiians and whites alike, is Samuel G..
Wilder He is the strongest man be-
fore the people to-day. Planters and
merchants are his friends He is trus-
ted by natives and trusted by foreign
ers Missionaries and anti-missionaries
respect his intellect and admire his
courage. He has conducted the most
progressive of recent Hawaiian admin
istrations. With vigor, frmness, tact
and infinite patience he carried a cabi-
net through the perils Of a legislative
investigation, and came out stronger
before the people than when he took
office.
In an evil hour the king dismissed
his ministry. In dismissing Mr.. Wilder
he sent away his best friend. Surely
the king must see to-day that the bull
ding of a palace and the wearing Of a
crown can but poorly compensate for
the loss of a nations confidence. The
king can not more surely buy back the
nations confidence than by restoring
to office the most capable Of its citizens.
A strong man IN the department OF
the interiors, G.. Wilder; a strong
man in the finance Office. O. Carter |;
an honest man of the world for the at
torney -generalship = Paul Neumann /;
a diplomat and gentleman for
minister Of foreign relations-J. Mott
Smith. There is not one of these men