The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-10-20

PLANTERS LABOR AND SUPPLY COM
PANY.

The annual Parliament of Planters
as it has been called by one of our nu-
merous contemporaries, is in session,
and we naturally anticipated something
practical from its deliberations. We
have just seen the Legislative Assembly
closed after a great deal of talk and ex-
pense, and with very little results; but
we had hoped better things of the
Planters Labor and Supply Company.
Judge of our surprise, however, when
we find that it's first attempt at business
was a whitewashing exhibition, during
which the brush was fourished with
considerable skill and effect by the mem
bers principally interested.
The aim and drift of the first days
proceedings, judging from. the report,
was to renew the faded character of the
planters organization, and to patch its
tattered garments. If this absolutely
necessary work had been gone about in
a modest and business-like way, without
imputing bad motives to any one else, !
or attempting to excuse the failings of
the company by charging delinquencies
upon third parties, we should not have
said word about it but as the matter |
stands at present we most decidedly en- |
ter our protest against the ADVERTISER |
being made a scape-goat for the planters |
organization. We say this in no I'M
friendly spirit, but from a sense of duty, !
which impels us to stand up for what is /
right and proper at all times. We do !
not claim that we have not sometimes
made mistakes, but we do say these are
not to be found in the category of errors
imputed to us at the meeting of the
Planters Labor and Supply Company
To any one behind the scenes the per-
Torrance at the first days meeting was
highly entertaining. The Planters
Labor and Supply Company never took a
hand in Hawaiian politics; it never wor-
ried the life and soul out of the Govern
ment of the day; it never attempted to
influence votes or coerce opinion; It'll
never yituperated and vilified political
in it's monthly organ it never,
n short, took act or part in anything
outside the raising of cane and making5
# sugar. The members were all slaves
# the diffusion process. The company
8 a planters club, from which politics
re religiously excluded. Its trustees
nd officers are selected because of their
eutral political views, and as for Colonel
padding, that gentleman went to Wash
lgton and fought the Treaty fight at his
wn charge, out of pure love and affec- :
on for his brother planters. 1t is so
Ike him. The New York "Sun'' and
lie P. G.. ADVERTISERS are jointly to blame
r questioning the disinterested patriot
m of this able and energetic representa- b
We of the Hawaiian planters.
In short, everything one was Iehat wf
'lieve hitherto regarding. tberossing the lad
Compggrfth the fruit gently carry u 7. and
ID plan a - Is now declared to be err
Men on the outside judged
rom appearances; but we all know that
leennearances often deceive" In this
case the appearances were strongly
AGAINST the p L. and 5. Company, but
hat only heightened the deception.
Even the resolutions and written com
of this organization OF sac
,harine experimentalists are to be con
strued. like certain texts OF Scripture, IN
their spiritual, - and not in their natural
mr. literal sense. When all this has been
lone and admitted, then the Planters
Labor and Supply Company stands clean
shaven and with contrite heart before an
admiring and sympathetic audience.
In all seriousness and kindness, what
Aid the P. L. and S. Company hope to
,ain bv the performance OF Monday
asst Did it hope to impose upon the
American press and Congress; and did
+ seriously believe that anybody with
an ounce of sense, conyersant with the
acts would credit the statements put
orvyard with so much gravity and head
shaking on the occasion referred to? II
he principal performers imagined SO,
heir verdancy only equals their assur-
,nee. To be plain and pointed, the
ADVERTISER takes nothing back, makes
10 apology for its past attitude, bnt is }