The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-29

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.


the political campaign ut public meet
ing held in the Armory on the 23d in
slant The speakers put forward upon
that occasion are persons of SO little i'm
portance individually, and their opinions
carry 50 little weight in the community,
that we would pass their utterances
without comment did we not know that
they have been selected by older and
wiser heads, who deem it prudent to
hide themselves from public criticism
and observation. 1t is to them and not
to their trencher-mea therefore, that our
criticisms apply. Messrs. Kinney and
Thurston are noticeable simply as mouth
to say what irresponsible and callow
youth utter for them, without hesitancy
or dread of correction.
The ADVERTISER published report of
the meeting in question on the oath in
slant It's accuracy in substance and in
fact was admitted by Mr.. Kinney in his
explanatory statement which appeared
editoriallY in the Bulletin of the same
day. This explanation did not improve
Mr.. Kinney's position in the least de-
gree. 1t simply enlarged upon Mr.. j.
o. CaTter's qualities as leader, based
upon his financial ability which, as
the ADVERTISERS report truthfully i'm
pied, was acquired In, and confined to,
the counting-house. We have nothing to
say against them but it does not follow
therefore, that good accountant is also
a good political leader, any more than
that an embryo lawyer would make
good Chief Justice and Chancellor of the
Kingdom Both might in time develop
the requisite qualities for political leader
ship and the supreme bench; meantime
the country would do well not to take it
for granted.
Regarding Mr.. Carter's opposition to
the planters and planting interests, we
understand that change has come over
his mind since he made his fight against
the Labor Act, which, by the way, COM
PEELED change in the ownership of the
P. G.. ADVERTISER, and led to Mr.. Car
ter's abandonment of the field of journal
ism for the more profitable one of COM
merce.- His success in the latter, and his
Identification with planting interests,
would naturally induce change of opinion
on the labor question, and therefore we
accept the correction, so far as Mr.. Car
ter is concerned, that he is not the
sgreatest enemy of the planters" We
should be sorry to think he was, being
friendly to the planters ourselves; but
we are by no means satisfied that MIR.
Kinney did not, when he mounted the
stump, give utterance to the same kind
of exaggerated and miscellaneous nonsense
regarding Mr.. Carter, although from a
different motive, as he did in reference
to Colonel Spreckels Whether or not,
his speech was of such character as to
insure It's condemnation by all men OF
sense and discrimination in the Kingdom,
and in this condemnation the entire OPP
position is inoiaded.
This remark equally applies to Mr.. L.
A. Thurston's speech. Would that
Young and immature politician, who
holds brief from the Opposition, tell
the country whose water rights have
been acquired Dy OOIOlAc4 A1PAOCAOAo
without full compensation. Would he
also state what the gross annual product
resulting from the independent use ofthe
water in question by its private owners
amounted to before the vast expenditure |
ON the water system on the Spreckels- |
Vile plantation took place? Mr.. Thurs (
ton left the impression by his speech t
that Colonel Spreckels had unlawfully /
taken or confiscated the water in Waihee |
and other places. This is doing gross |
injustice to a man who introduced more /
capital, employs more labor, puts more
money into circulation, and stimulates
Trade and commerce more largely in his
various business enterprises, than any
other man, or than any other half-dozen OF
men in the Kingdom outside his busi-
ness associates.
Furthermore, the social condition OF the
native people along the line OF ditch