The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1885-09-23

WHY Respectfully CdItlulIs Moiueu
memorial, addressed by some half hundred
of the leading business men of San Fran
cisco to His Majesty the King, is stigma
tized by the Foreign Office organ in big
type as " An insult TO the King"
Although the article in the AdDetiSer Is
not marked ''aot inspired it smacks too
strongly of the Foreign Office to leave any
doubt as TO the source of the suggestion.
The Minister in his very greediness for
showing an artificial loyalty, which is so
excessive as TO take the form of abject ser
Witty, cannot understand that 1t is only
they whose rank, or claim to exceptional
consideration is doubtful or undeserved,
are they who cry out insult or indignity
when neither is intended, or cans. s.be justiti-
ably deduced from word or action of an
other Thus His Majesty's dignity is i'm
perilled or rendered liable TO question 10y
the undignified plants of his too humble
Yizier
We do not find the President of the
United States cried ont Insult or "For
eign dictatiUn," when Honolulu merchants
respectfully forwarded a memorial sug
gesting the retention of Mr.. Mckinley in
his office as American Consul at this cap
ital. neither was there any timeserving
parasite at hand TO drag his dignity in the
dust as has been done to King KalakaUa
in this instance.
That which is intended for reasoningin
the article referred TO Is on a par with the
heading and the e1ordium.
A large number of prominent merchants
most frequently brought into business re
lations with the Hawaiian Consul at our
principal produce market, are surprised at
the summary dismissal of the official
through whom they have for many years,
transacted their Hawaiian business, and
they feel regret that this should have
taken place, but their expression of sur
prise and regret is taken as an insult by
whom? it may be asked.
The writer in the AdUo1iser ''presumes"
that the document was drafted at his lthe
late Consul's) own request, and on the
strength Of this pure presumption justities
the action of the Minister after the event.
But. to Minister who has had the effron-
terry to address public meeting of various
nationalities as subjects of the King"
phrase hitherto unknown to Prince or Po-
tentate, still less to an alien Minister all
things snobbish are possible.
There should be, Says Mr.. Turveydrop,
"only one opinion regarding the impro-
priety of this method of approaching the
constitutional ruler of this Kingdom" 1t
may be safely said that there is but one
opinion on the subject, and that is that
the impropriety Is manifest only to the
very damaging defender of the Kings
dignity at the Foreign Office and its pro
priety 10 every one else.
II the method used by these San Fran
sisco merchants be improper, perhaps our
drbiter elegnfidrna lour master of cere-
monies) will enEghten us as to what might
be proper under the circumstances. He
does however, enlighten us as to whose
names really would have carried weight.
The signature of one prominent firm, vii
liams Dimond a Co, is absent, so also, we
are reminded those of Jno. d. Spreckels
a Brothers, and the Oceanic Steamship
Company, TO which may be added the
names of Claus Spreckels, and the Cali
fornia Sugar Refining Company and the
officials or representatives of the Hawaiian
Agricultural Company, and perhaps few
other equally distinct and independent I'M
dertakngs. To conclude. with the croco-
die tears of the -Idretiser: 1T is with
deep regret that We are compelled to make
these comments etc Though the regret
may be doubted, the compulsion may not.
The article is Foreign Office article and
nothing else.
The summing up is admirable. The
removal of Mr.. Severance from the San
Francisco Consulate was clearly justifable
and proper and yet not one syllable in
defence or in proof of justification or pro
pIiety.
The Elc'c, a few years ago pointed out
to its native readers the ''insolence and ar
rogance" of those who, with petition,
dared to approach the King-here, we have
arespectful memorial spoken of as a gross
and fragrant attack upon the rights of the
King
Can there be two such writers? If so -4r
ordes -An,bo