The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-04-13

SIS so SAY ALL OF U.s."

We are really concerned for our
contemporaries, who have in charge
the well-being of this kingdom. They
are confronted at every turn by
malign influence which thwarts their
best eudeavors. This malignant
spirit they have no doubt turks some
where about the Government build
ing. Now, it is rampant IN the
Foreign Office; anon it is astride the
Treasury frequently the "evil in
auence falls upon the Minister of
the Interior, and Immediately after
wards the Attorney-General is "pos-
sessed."
The Opposition press tried to exor-
else this evil spirit, but in vain.
'' This kind goeth not out, but by
prayeran fasting;" but our esteemed
contemporaries have decided aver
sion, apparently, to praying on empty
stomachs. Instead of the penitentiMl
mood, they resorted to railing; but
this only intensified the evil they
affect to deplore. 1t sticks closer
than ever. Better try another tack.
A little honesty of statement would
be an agreeable change, for example,
and it would go long way towards
restoring confidence, which is all that
is now wanting, according to these
guides, to quicken business.
But the Opposition newspapers
simply want TO embarrass the Gov
eminent for party ends, and are en-
tirely reckless of the peoples welfare.
In their hatred of the Administration
they strike blindly at the property
and business interests Of the country.
They did not scruple to print and cir
culate the most palpable untruths on
the currency question, and when their
faIsifications were exposed they had
not the candor to acknowledge their
error. This is especially true of the
epicene Press.
Failing to cause embarrassment in
that direction, they attempted to
create panic by urging workingmen
and wage-earners generally to de-
mand payment in gold; but the COM
mon sense of the people neutralized
that reckless effort to worry the Gov
eminent by running business. In
their blind hatred of the Admins
tration they lost sight of the fact that
a universal demand for gold pay
ments-we use the term " universal -
in its colIoquial sense-would have
struck their hackers a far heavier
blow than it could have struck
the Government. The necessity for
using gold only as the money of the
Kingdom would have caused an ur-
gent demand for gold at the bank by
depositors, big and little, strong and
weak; but this was something which
the Opposition pack, when it took up
the cry, did not anticipate. We Won
der what our religious Friend would
think of itself if run had been made
on the bank as a result of it's
advice to workingmen. 1t needed
only the ADVERTISER to take up the
Friends line of argument, and push
it to its logical and inevitable conclu-
sion, to bring about that result. The
ADVERTISER, however, stood be-
tween our fiduciary institution and
the madness of partisan folly, as it is
always prepared to stand in the
breach in the interest of good govern
ment, honest money, and local and
national credit. But it is impossible
to create a gold panic in one depart
ment of trade and industry without
making it general. If the riVulets
which feed the great reservoirs of
trade and finance are dried up, or their
flow diverted, the reservoirs will soon
be emptied of their contents.
Let us warn men of property and
means in this community that the
Opposition press are hurting them
and their interests much more than
they are hurting the Administration.
Wage-earners are being hurt by the
anne methods. All classes and in