The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-11-06
FnpEtGN POLICY

last, from the London Times with
out being impressed with an irresis-
tible suspicion that the greater part
of it and the report of the Hawaiian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr.. w.
NJ. Gibson, are indentical in their
origin. So close is the resemblance
both in sentiment and style between
the Thunderer's utterances and the
terms of the Minister'S report that
the one seems to be but an echo of
the other. The writer of the article
in the Times, if not the author OF
the report from which such copious
quotations are made, must have ac-
cepted it with degree of gullibility
that is simply inconceivable on the
part of n writer in a journal of the
standing of that paper. The posi-
tions assumed in the course of the
argument are so consumamtely ridi-
culous that it is scarcely possible
for them to have been taken by any |
person not inflated with the pecu-
liar inspiration of the Hawaiian
Foreign Office. Under any other
circumstances, how was it possible
for London journalist to contem-
plate seriously and with approval
the wild project put forth in Mr..
Gibson's report of the Hawaiian
Government establishing sort of
political tutorship over the distant
islands of Polynesia? "Recent
events" says Mr.. Gibson, "have
evoked on the part of His Majesty n
deep sympathy for communities
kindred in race with the Hawaiian"
etc. Another NATTER" echoes the
Times, Gin which the Hawaiian
Government is deeply interested is
the condition of the neighboring
Polynesian communities. The con-
dition of neighboring communities
is surely one that ought to evoke
very deep sympathy in Hawaii.
They have not been brought under
the beneficent influences of licensed
opium, unlimited gin and hula, and
are, worse than all, without armies
and navies so literally provided for
in Hawaii. These are some of the
claws, on civilized pattern" which
the said communities might be "as
capable as the Hawaiians of forming
for themselves, A Kahuna Act,
too, "with suitable advice and assis-
tance,'' might also he adopted by
the Gilbert Islanders, in kindly and
grateful appreciation of the ''deep
sympathy of His Majesty for CON-
munities kindred in race to the
Hawaiian"
That the writer of the article in
the Times was grossly misinformed
or was wilfully misrepresenting
facts, for purpose, is as clear as
the English language can make it.
He does not get through two SEN
tences until he is among the break
ers of misrepresentation of facts.
The community governed on con-
stitutional principles" would have
been truthfully represented as
community living in passive sub
mission under gross and repeated
violations of the constitution, while
the irresponsible ministry" as that
phrase is understood by English
men, has not yet been announced in
the Hawaiian Islands.
The expression of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs that "Her satisfac-
tory relations with foreign nations
constitute the bulwark of her indie
pendence" is echoed in the sentence
"Thus the keynote of Hawaiian for
eign policy is that of national indie
pendence." The writer or inspirer
of these sentences should have been
honest enough to add that Hawaiian
independence and Hawaiian intlu-
ence in other Polynesian commune
ties are two entirely different mat
ters, and that those satisfactory
relations" will be best maintained
by Hawaii confining her paternal
sympathies with communities kin
dred in race to the Hawaiian" to the
care of her own people, and to such
judicious management of her reve-
nues as will render her Independent
financially of the citizens of foreign
countries.
The closing remarks of the writer
for the Times that Hawaii is "well
qualified to assist kindred communi-
ties" finds curious corroboration in
the fact that the Hawaiian Govern
, ment's independence is unequal to
the task of providing the Kingdom
. with adequate foreign mail accom-
modation. And yet Ministers pirate
, about their foreign policy. ''It is
, proposed" says Minister Gibson,
"to send commissioner to the Gil
bert Islands,"
:, 1t was also proposed" in the
Legislature of 1884 to subsidize q
fortnightly steamship mail service to
: and from the Coast, to have beer
t performed by the Oceanic Steam
ship Company. If the Ministers OF
this independent Kingdom had pro
posed and enforced contract will
S the company, in terms of the Act
y they would only have done what
h every Independent government il
9 the world does in similar crcum
stances. But the independence
y proved itself in the fact that al
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