The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-19
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Pacific Commercial Advertiser
PUBLIC MORALITY.

A great deal has been said and
written about the Importance of
maintaining a high standard of
morals in the Government. Indeed,
this has been the one topic upon
which the Opposition has been con-
sistent. With all their conspicuous
poverty of thought and expression
they sometimes became eloquent on
this subject. To read one of their
homilies, or listen to their solemn
platitudes, an intelligent stranger
would be apt to conclude that the Ha-
Waiian Kingdom had temporarily
passed under some evil influence.
which was blasting virtue and drying
up the springs Of public and private
morals. Indeed, one writer recently
went so far as to say that the chill
dren at the public schools were neces-
sariIy contaminated by being COM
peIled to listen to weII-chosen words
OF counsel and encouragement from
the President of the Board of Educa-
ton. There was nothing too mean
TO 1nsinuate, nothing too outrageous
PIOvS1 not fstTTfng M VsF6sT T17 1e
ment OF the printed innuendos and
ISLANDERS. hAoS anu
now while holding that the Cow
eminent should be honest and o.
slstent, we altogether deny that if i
moral agent in the sense exnreoSod
OF understood by it's censors. Eyer
government Is ruled by expediencv
representative Government at e.
oest IS simply a series of con,nro-
misses on matters of detail ond
principle. Extremists wou1d ro,,o
iutl0nlze society, but this would
NOT be government. 1t is the ;
POhcy and practice of statesmen
snip to make the best of circpno {
stances, without any violent die 1
IufDance of established order. or anv t
marked infraction of social usoo.o c
measured by this standard, which is a
ne only standard that can. be uaed Ii
VI such purpose, it must be All. t.
nICCed that the present Administra- n
ION mas been eminently successful b
mas abandoned no principle which p
enunciated as part of it's policy II fu
as maintained law and enforced I'll
rder. 1t has added to the popula- be
on and developed the resources of sc
10 hlngdom; and, in a season of To-
1usual depression, by the iudicious
lerclse of its functions, it has pa
Ored confidence to the conamunitv
alcn the Opposition press stroye fell
to destroy. ~
SO much for the Government ~;
1lch IS on trial every dav. and a q,
DIG target at which every fool and e..
ave may shoot. The self-consti- D.:
ed censors of the Government ona
Never, are not so amenable to n,h
criticism. They are irresponsible oth'
tnelr private capacity as to cues 8 do
IS OF policy. But there is a dav g.
lcn tries all men in this Kingdom No.,
proves whether they are what dies
profess to be, or shams and hmm. rIiot
8. This day is the 1st of july inaaob 60
+ on which date all property must rarn
ssessed at its full cash value: and 10 no
sworn returns of property made on5
Individuals and corporations on or -
re the 3Ist of July tell the tale of
lCy or the reverse. If it shouId
to pass that the very men who b
loudest about the absolute neces-
of maintaining a high moral Max
lard in the Government shoDI5 and F
und to be tax-shirkers, what drunk,
one naturally infer? WHY. ana We
y, that were the Government All
ney say it is, it would vet he Leong
and shoulders above themselves nuisan
ded from the standard Of com. a strea
not to speak ofthe biobar which
OF public morality. And s1cb mandet
Der, serious truth, is the fact. Charl
humlliating and discouraoin1 ting sea
is. When men swear to faIse So 20 co
tents of value, or when thew away t,
/ their property and make no Turner.
) to the Assessor, they proba-
nix they are justified in saving terda n- "