The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-21

lute5 ana Tree from Partisan strife. We
recommend that Royal Commission be ap-
pointed to take into consideration the
present status of the Police and District
Courts, and make such recommendation
as shall seem best for the establishment of
the said Courts on a basis that will give
confidence to all classes in the Kingdom, as
well as to all other nations with whom we
may come into contact
11-Such Commission should be COM
posed Of the ablest men that can be found,
without regard to party or politics, and if
the Hawaiian nation can continue to escape
from the demand for the establishment Of
Consular Courts, such as have been imposed
upon China, Japan, Turkey, Egypt, and
other nations, and yet main tain the in
creased intercourse with foreign Govern
ments aud subjects that every year develops
it will be an immense addition to the pres
tige which Hawaii. has hitherto enjoyed by
International consent"
This settles the question of veracity, and
we satisfied to abide by the decision Of
the public with this presentation Of facts. 1t
will be observed that we have kept close to
the record furnished by Mr.. Davies and
although this article has been unduly
heightened by extracts from the report, al
ready published in our paper, it was neces-
sary to do so to prevent him from charging
US with classifying it, as he does not scruple
to insinuate in his letter to the . Bulletin
His words are: 81 should be sorry to think
that the ADVERTISER altered the texts of
reports and speeches. in order to fl its own
criticisms, which are apparently prepared
beforehand with simple blanks to be filed
up for publication The insinuation here
is very broad so much so in fact as to
amount to direct charge. And again in
the g Gazette - yesterday; 60 OF course the
justifcatio for the ADVERTISERS feat of
agility lies in the last paragraph in the edi-
torial-a paragraph which was probably
penned long before the P. L. & S. Co. met,
and held in readiness to be attached as a
kind of founce to anything which the Associ-
alton might say"
We do not of course know how Mr.. Davies
manages his own library work. but he is
entirely at fault in his estimate of our
method. With reference to the quotations
in our article of October 10th, which he
broadly insinuates are garbled, we refer
| him to the Planters Monthly" for Octo-
! Der, 1884, page 534, for jus tifcation of our
| allusion to his draft letter to the President
| of the Board Of Immigration and our ex-
| tract from the report @ the Committee on
| Labor in the same article, will be found in
| the same issue of the - Planters Monthly"
| pages $50 and 551. Our quotations from
his own and Mr.. HOrner's speeches at the
| late meeting were taken from the g Bull
| letin,' whose reports were almost identical
with our own, and in the accuracy of which
we have the fullest confidence. We took
| this precautiOn, however, lest the accuracy
of our own report should be challenged,
which Mr.. Davies apparently is quite capa-
BILE of doing if it served purpose.
In conclusion, let US say that We rejoice
to think Mr.. Davies and the Planters
Labor and Supply Company have confidence
in the King and his Cabinet. Mr.. Davies
says he &c does not believe that the Cabinet
would advise the appointment of bad mem
for Judges, yet he asked for Royal Com
mission to take these appoint ments out Of
their corrupt political influence. How
ever, all that is a thing of the past and the
Planters Labor and Supply Company and
the Administration have apparently 20 kissed
and made friends The ADVERTISER is the
only marplot in the Kingdom, it seems, for
saith this great political casuist: 1.-The AD-
vERTIsER is evidently bitterly disappointed
at the friendly spirit which the Planters
Association, in it's recent session, mani
l., oh
clearly that the Government may trust itself
to the good will and fair spirit of the Associ-
alton, and that the evident severance of the
ties that formerly existed between the Gov
eminent and the ADVERTISER has not been
"a disadvantage, at any rate to the Govern
ment."
Considering that at this very meeting
Mr.. Davies accused the Government of
acting ''ungenerously' towards the associ-
alton and piIloring its members On Chinese
Immigration in the naughty ADVERTISER,
this declaration by Mr.. Davies manifests a
radical change of mind. The public will
hail it as a happy omen, although it may
be fatal to the ADVERTISER. The Millennium
is approaching when the British lion lies
down with the lamb of Hawaii, and the
Planters Association has become the bull
wark of the Gibson Administration.
We have now done with Mr.. Davies. We
have demonstrated his unreliability and
regeneration as a public man. With his
private life and character we have no con-
Germ, and he may render himself as con
spicuously ridiculous as he Pleases in flu
ture without fear of recognition by US.