The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-08-04
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ABOUT OFFICIAL CHANGES.

Our contemporaries are not satisfied
with things as they are. They seek
change, political and otherwise, yet with
singular inconsistency they object to
change unless it is suggested by them
selves, or happens to be in accord with
their own views. Their lot is not a
happy one, however, because their sug-
gestions are of no avail and their views
are usually treated with contempt.
Changes are made from time to time in
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sno nlSeTest of the public service, aud it
is satisfactory to know and understand
that what the Opposition organs con-
denim is generally approved by the
public. What our contemporaries and
their party do not understand is this,
that the country has long since ceased
to be an experimental political farm for
a few governing families In the
golden age" of political nepotism and
prescription in this Kingdom, that was
the exact condition of affairs but al
though that " age" has passed into the
limbo of useless, if not of forgotten
things, the descendants and survivors Of
the ruling caste have not yet realized
present They are like unto the Bour-
bons, who learn nothing and forget
nothing, and whose inherited peculi-
arities in this respect led to their recent
expulsion from France.
Certain Cabinet changes were made
without the formality of consulting the
political coterie referred to, although it
was well understood that it had a new
Administration "cut and dried" for the
Kings approval. This was a deadly
sin for which there is no political atone
ment. His Majesty should have con-
suited men who heaped personal oppro-
brium upon himself, his family and his
race, condoning these and other of
lenses against his dynasty and Govern
ment; he should have been advised and
guided by party which is VIGOROUSLY
committed to an anti-national policy,
an | whose advocacy OF local expendi-
lures is very thin disguise for designs
that look to the abolition or surrender OF
Hawaiian independence, as a conse-
quence Of the withdrawal of the Govern
ment from international affairs and sink
ing into status of insular insignifcance
and unconcern.
But the King did not choose his ad-
visers from the anti-mOnarchial party
from men who would have accepted
office as stepping-stone to the accom-
plishment of their purpOse-therefore
the new Administration is censured and
abused, not for anything it has done or
left undone, but because it is not COM
posed of the right material in the mind
of the Opposition.
Certain changes of permanent heads
of bureaus have been made, and al
though the new appointees are native
and to the manner born" the Opposi-
ton objects. Being Hawaiians by birth
and descent they are not likely to sell
their country, or to wink at and abet
those who would willingly do so. Per
haps this also is an Offense of an unpar-
donable character, viewed from an OPP
position standpoint, but if so we fail to
perceive where the transgressiOn comes
in. To our thinking, and in the judg-
ment of all right-minded men, native
Hawaiians have the first claim for en-
ployment by the Hawaiian Government.
This is their own country. Their hopes
and fears are centered in it. They have
no prospects outside their native land
and although they are dependent to a
very great extent upon foreign skill, in
telligence and experience, they certainly
are entitled to appointment to every
place they can worthily fill. A test OF
their capability must be made at some
time if they are to be employed at all,
and hence it is that the public at large
have pronounced an unmistakable APP
prevail of the appointment OF Mr.. kau-
Iukou as Marshal of the Kingdom, and
of Mr.. Aholo as Postmaster General
If they are incapable, time will show it ];
hat if is absurd to assume that native
Hawaiians are not to be trusted with the
higher Offices OF the Government because
thew have been studiously kept in the
background by the Opposition as party.