The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-11-07
SATURDAY ;: November It'll.
UNFAIR CRITICISM.

No one can object to legitimate OPP
upon any Administration; but when
party or cOterie assume to them
selves all the virtues and assign all
the vices to their opponents, there is
no room to doubt the character and
object of this kind of opposition. It
is not honest to begin with; and lack
ing honesty as a starter, its ultimate
object must be dishonest also. We
are now speaking of politics, rot of
p0lemics, in which latter, sanity
casuists aver that the end justifies
the means. And applying these re-
marks to recent newspaper attacks
upon the Administration, we come
to the conclusion that being devoid
Of truth and fairness, these attacks
are dictated by an unworthy spirit
for dishonest ends. IF it were peril
nent we might 60 behind the news
paper veil and show just why this
course is pursued, but that is needless.
It is sufficient to note the fact in this
place.
Perhaps the most fragrant of the
stock charges preferred against the
Government by the Opposition
organs is that they are extravagant
that they have had an enormous
amount of money at their disposal,
which has been made away with
and that they have likewise added
million and a half to the public debt.
These charges, IL true, would justify
impeachment. But they are not true,
and those preferring them know it.
They are wilful and deliberate faIsi-
ications, put forward to influence
voters. A more despicable resource
Of political bankrupts never was
tried, but it will avail them nothing.
Let US take the single question of
the public debt, upon which all kinds
OF imaginative newspaper essays
have been written. Instead of in
ereasing the public debt by million
and half of dollars in round num-
bers, as has been repeatedly charged
against the Executive, the bonded
debt of the Kingdom to-day only
stands at 81, O79, 900. OF this amount,
half a million dollars, in round
figures, have been incurred by the
present Administration but for what
purpose 1t was TO promote immi
grafton. Every dollar Of the amount
raised by the Government under the
Loan Act was expended in the pro-
motion Of immigration. So far as
the existing Administration is con-
oerned, the debt was incurred for the
benefit of the planting interests in
the introduction of labor. Not only
SO, but SUM considerably in excess
of the amount raised by loan, has
been drawn from current revenue and |
applied to this purpose also. Yet the
is charged with oppos-
ing the planters, and cherishing a
design to crush their interests.
In the face of this statement of fact,
with the knowledge thereof available
TO Opposition writer's at all times, ac-
eusatiOns of dishonesty, extrava-
gance and naladministration con-
tinue to be hurled against the Gov
by Press champions of the
isparty of moral ideas" What opin-
on can be formed of the morality
md honor of any man who could
adopt such weapons to promote his
Swn political and personal ends? 1t
,annot be an exalted one at all
events Yet there are men in this
who have elevated them
elves upon moral stills above the
reads of their neighbOrs, who hope
~ these discreditable means to hum
,ug the voters and crawl into the
Legislature to promote and further
heir own private ends. This is the
act. We state it simply as such,
nd because we dc not believe in
matters.
Now, let us ask was it wise or an
IA wise thing in the Government to in
ur debt and draw upon their general
for the sole purpose of in
population to develop the
Eaple Industry of the country? If it ]
as urwise to do so, the Legislature '