The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1883-10-24

Mn. SEAHLE has been venting his spleen
against this country in an "interview'
with New York Her0ld reporter He has
to state that the object for which his en-
ployers put him on the sugar commission
failed: that the so-called fraud" was a
mares nest. that he makes the most he
can out of garbled figures, suppressed
facts, and so forth, dear to the heart of a
man who has to make a showing out of
poor material
1t Is amusing to see Mr. Searle hang
ing up the Chinese and the Portuguese as
political factors They have no political
influence whatever Mr. Searles figures
| have been answered again and again.
He talks OF a S16O0O.0OO bonus We have
only to point to the very small shipment
of coin which Is made to iquidate the
balance between these Islands and the
United States, and we maintain that no
sugar growing country in the world re
turns SO much of its profits to the United
States as Hawaii does
With regard TO machinery, we reprint
from the Planters NolMiy the remarks of
Messrs Theo. H Davies x Co:
Al the plantations under our control have pro
cured their machinery here Except one which the
owner catered for, and as the Iron Works Co
get all their engines. pumps, copper coils, tubes
boiler heads. and other important work from the
Farrell Foundry National Tube Works and other
American factories. 1t Is impossible TO say what
proportion of the machinery given rs made here
is imported from the United States We have
ascertained. however. that during the seven years
from May. 1876, t. April. 1883. the imports bv or
for account of the Honolulu Iron Works Co. have
been in the proportion Of:
I. $. Ports. ......-...-. .s$9o,ooo 70 per cent.
British Pugts.......-..-. 122 O0Q-24 per cent.
To take Mr.. Searle's trade argument to
pieces We have not leisure for now: we
eau only indicate as above. There is no
point in II which cannot or has not been
met
1t is far harder to meet the attack upon
the condition of ow Government Mr..
Searle SAYS:
Wen, the Government consists mainly of kinu
kalakaua and a man named Gibson. who is Prime
Minister-a sort Of opera bouffe affair. The King
has lost the confidence and respect Of the majority
Of the best people OF the Islands Gibsun's life is
partially told IN the Congressional record of 1856
II seems that thirty years ago he arrested in
Java bv the Dutch government on the charge Of
strrlng up treason, and was condemned to DEATH
lie escaped, and ON his return TO the United States
our government demanded OF the Dutch q large sum
FOR his arrest but the State Department soon aban-
doned his claim. He next turned up IN the Ha-
walian Islands rs an agent, am told, of Brigham
there but Brigham Young .iually dropped him
Then he became editor OF q newspaper, which
always took the ground that kalakaua was the
most enlightened poimtate Of modern times, and
50 he Is now chief adviser and right hand man of
King kalakaua. am fully satisfied that the Ha-
waiIan Government does not favor the increase of
American influence in Hawaiian Affairs.
Let Mr.. Gibson consider this His
miserable way of misconducting affairs
here has given the enemies of the treaty a
handle, and they mean to use it. And let
also King Kalakaua ponder over the mat
ter too, it Is his viii that put Gibson
where be is. 1t Is pitiful when one thinks
of how rashly has the good repute of the
Hawaiian Government been besmirched
by a clever but unscrupulous adventurer.
and how the folly of two men jeopardizes
the interests Of the merchants and planters
of this community