Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-09-27
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The faciotum in ordinary, secretary
out of ordinary and editor eytraor
dlnary, eho divides his time between
the foreign Offoc and The editorial
rooms of the Court Journal, has done
the nation q service While the por,ly
IIes,ian Who is now IN San Ffsncisco
remained IN charge, here and there one
was found 10 believe IN the honesty N
The Court Journals utterances. Now,
happily, we know jus, where we stand
The hands arc the hands of Esau, and
the voice also. The funeral baked
meat, of the foreign office arc nov
daily served IN stew, croque,tes and
other mysterious compounds while
every one knows tha, they come from
that " inspired intellectual hash house,
whose mental mutton has been fattened
on Lanai
DO you think to deceive ", . webb,
JS.2
, WI diliiDI anu ll'Nff VIII
Whenever, wherever, however you
press,
The scent NJ the ministerial mess,
T. hanging around yon still
Scandalous personalities harm
only those whose scandalous char
acteb have given them scandalous
reputations Men who are known oi
men TO be honest, capable, patriotic,
are seldom denounced by the public
Wcss When they are 50 denounced
It is by papers of the same stamp as
the Court Journal Of Hawaii
lust now the king and cabinet are
vastly exercised over the question Of
labor supply We say "king and cab.
met" because the king ought 10 be in.
tcreslcd, If he is not and because he is
responsible to the extent Of keeping
his ill-adyisers in office. Being so
much exercised, they thUs display their
enrontcry (whiIc admitting their power
lessncss) in the Court Journal: Mr..
| Spreckels has, We understand, retired
in disgust, and is no longer ready to
assist the country through any financial
difficulty into which it may be plunged.
| The government will be very unwisc il
it moves a step towards any expendi.
ture, however vitality necessary for the
interests Of the country, unless assured
beforehand OF the necessary funds.
Tha, would indeed be playing into the
hands Of its enemies, and actually
couring political disaster"
/ The delightfully."- naive admission
that the country may be plunged into
/ financial difficulty--this splendidly de
yeloped country which " and my col
leagues" and ",he king, God bless
him" have done so much to develop
is vigorously Offset by the gratuitous i'm.
pertinence Of the threat that the gov.
ernment will do nothing for the labor
needs Of the islands unless assured
Of the necessary funds" The imperti.
nence, however, is re-offset by another
delicious bit OF irankness "That
would indeed be playing into the hands
Of its enemies, and actually counting po
litical disaster In other words " II
is no matter what becomes OF the in
dustrial needs of the nation. and
my colleagues must remain in power
And the nominal king keeps selfcon
demned time-seryers in office Faugh
1t makes one sea-sick.
The king and the cabinet are unfor
tunate in their illusions. They say
through their organ-"The grea,
national want is the prosecution OF oul
immigration policy" In a measure
the statement is true. But who is re
sponsible for the existing hitch9 The
king and his cabinet II we have had
economy in administrations even
intelligence without especial economy
Hawaiian bonds would be taken here
eagerly. But who can have any faitf
in the future OF country governed BY
the rule-or-ruin policy Of the present
king and the present cabineta The
problem OF Hawaiian progress is toe
big an one to get into the nutshell o
any general statement, but there is ;
great deal of truth in this nutshell
cracked recently by one of our shrewd
est thinkers; King and cabinet ar,
Jointly responsible for most Of our gov
ernmental ills, and eath Is trying Z
e1aas lis relb0nHbil,t."
And yet il would be unjust to deny
to the king at least, all parental interes
in the industrial advancement OF hi
kingdom. The king is interested il
row boats His most imperial majesty
the notorious Nero, fiddled contentedl
. while Rome burned. King Kalakau
is building and buying race boats an,
, training crews, while his ministers ar
. commencing the industries Of Hawai-
, to the dogs.
! "We rise, Messrs. ministers, to NOV
the abolition Of the priyy council O
5 state. Our reasons, your excellencies
are manifest. What the deuce of club
is the use Of keeping lot OF gentlemen
from lawful business, merely to registe
the resolves OF his majesty We know
: your excellencies, that the eminent
$ progressive government you so abl
: represent wants to abolish two OF tn,
| three boards on which your excellen
cies, and the faithful patriots who sup
port you so nobly serve; and we think
r Messrs. ministers, it will be dodgas,e'
/, good scheme to abolish the priyy couu
!. ell Of state also With vn,r 1910,