The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-04-08

The Government organ, or p. C. 4. con
tinues its proposed argument of the cur
rency question and affairs here on prin-
ciple, and its promise to lay aside the
personalities which had attended previous
discussion.
Thus far the new departure of that jour
nal amounts to this:
1st. 'Those who advocate gold currency
IN the United States are trying to deceive
and grind down the poor, who banker after
a real, cheap silver currency. The gold
advocates there bribe all the best news
papers in the Eastern States to oppose
silver"
2nd. "Those who advocate gold currency
in Hawaii, do so because they hate Messrs.
Neumann, Guick. Kapena. Spreckels and
Gibson, and besides that, are disloyal to
the King, and wish to drive mechanics
and capitalists out of the country by scar
ing them into thinking that this Govern
ment does not keep its pecuniary obliga-
tions. The result being to prevent enter
prlses requiring capital and labor"
The journal gives much gratuitous
advice to the other newspapers, and to the
public generally, upon their duty to fall
into line with the p. c. Adcertiser, and to
lay aside the false notion that the personnel
of the Government has anything to do
with Its credit or prosperity.
Now we are not aware that the Cabinet
have personal enemies We doubt if
Messrs. Gulick, Kapena and Neumann.
hail fellows well met, as they are, ever had
an enemy in this country. They certainly
would not keep one, if they had, twenty
four hours. The so called Premier, nearly
destitute as he may be, as he declared in
the Legislature that he was, of personal
friends, Except the King,) is not, we be
heve, man who arouses personal antago-
nisms against himself.
Personal like or dislike has, moreover.
nothing to do with the merits of a gold or
silver currency. The dearest friends or
most abject dependents upon the Cabinet,
or of Mr.. Spreckels cannotmake these silver
dollars equal in value to gold Nor can
they deny that the Government has or
many weeks defantly repudiated its olli
CATION to redeem its certificates in gold.
and from the first to cancel the certificate es
which We're redeemed.
1t may be true that during the darkest
time of the civil war of the American Re
public, Its bonds were below par. and also
that some one has been found amongst
Hawaiian Office holders and their friends
to buy of the present Government the
enormous sum Of seven thousand dollars
ot its bonds. But will It be pretended
that the overdue interest has vet been
paid on ali the old bonds, or that there
were funds prepared with which to pay It
III full! Has the Government long kept
and Is it still keeping its debtors waiting
for their money? We have had no public
calamity or emergency to exhaust the Gov
ernment revenues or impair IFS credit.
Public works are not brought to stand
still and public debtors delayed their dues
because of the fall in sugar, nor in conse-
quence of the fall in Egyptian or Turkish
bonds. People do not refuse to loan money
to this Government because the newspa-
pers condemn its doings. nor because. the
national resources are diminishing. for
they are not
1T Is solely owing to the distrust which
Is generally felt in the men themselves.
who are pretending to govern this coun-
try, that money is withheld. 1t is their
own errors of Judgment, their failure to
meet their official obligation which dis
credit the country.