The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-20
"gin and hula are not unknown factors
in ODpOsitio,, tactics

'gin and hula" are not unknown factors
in Opposition tactics.
The Hawaiian is no fool" the " Ga
zette says, land he proposes to be
treated as Il child no longer" We re-
joice that our contemporary has at last
discovered this. That is what the National
party has been saying all along, but the
Opposition would not admit it, This is
the reason why the native vote will be
cast for the National ticket. The natives
object to be treated as children any longer,
and most strenuously also object to
| return to the old regime. They want to
enjoy the same rights and privileges as
! full and complete as their neighbors,
who come and go at pleasure. Why
| should it be a crime on the part of
! native Hawaiian to go abroad either for
| adventure or pleasure? This and all
| other laws or regulations which imply
| inferiority or homage on the part of the
Hawaiian people should be abolished
But the Opposition will not consent to
their abolition. 1t would much rather
return to the old order of things, when
native Hawaiians were indeed treated
like children without either sense or dis
cretion.
"The country voters" i. e., native
Hawaiians, propose to stand by the
King and themselves" quoth the co Ga
zette" We are delighted that our Oppo-
sition contemporary is finding this fact
out for itself 1t is not so very long ago
that the " Gazettee " published column
after column of reasonable abuse OF the
King and institutions of the country, and
when it was taken to task by the ADvER-
TIsER it reiterated them with intensified
raalignity, I" almost under the windows
of the Palace" And the defunct 81 Press"
and its daily successor did the same
thing not once, but many times. Even
the Bulletin followed the lead of
these rampantly disloyal organs of a
rampantly disloyal Opposition.
But now that native votes are TO be
secured, the Opposition candidates
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift may follow fawning." The
native voters understand full we'll that
the Opposition does not love the King or
the institutions under which its members
live in affiuence, security and peace.
They know that annexation or a Re-
public is their aim and knowing this,
native Hawaiians propose to stand by
the King and themselves" and do not
intend to be % subservient tools of a herd
of needy adventures any longer" as the
" Gazette " phrases it. Wherefore native
Hawaiians viii vote the National ticket,
despite the corruption fund which the
Opposition is distributing.
A law licensing the sale of opium is
certainly required to break up the opium
ring. OF course it is opposed by the
ring organs upon "moral grounds. !"
That was to be expected. ''Great is
Diana of Ephesians." The great gain
from opium smuggling is sufficient to
blind the eyes of vOtaries of MammOn to
its moral as well as statutory heinous-
ness.
''The Independents offer Honesty and
J Common Sense platform comprehen-
sive enough. - Gazette"
Who are the Independents? ?" The
Squires-Marques combination claim ex-
elusive use of the independent" brand,
and deny the right OF the cold Opposi-
tion," or Gazette" men, to use it. Ii
, that be the case then the representatives
of the old dominant political party have
no platform and lack honesty and
common sense OF course we don't
pretend to settle the conflicting claims OF
the rival parties, but we are inclined to
think that both are fairly entitled to be
styled independents In other words,
they are alike independent of Common
sense" Their "honesty" may be con-
ceded-in a Pickwickian sense as it We're.
We do not hear Il word about city
sanitation now from the Opposition
papers. Formerly they were full of the
subject, but the dread of exposure has
shut their mouths "Mum's the word
apparently, and extra dry mum" at
that.
The Gazette" has the temerity to
brand the National candidates as NEEDY
, adventures, who are not to be trusted
the Legislature, because forsooth they
are men qualified for the efficient dis
charge of important public functions.
: The men thus branded as "needy adj
t venturers," and held up to public odium
and contempt in Opposition newspapers,
, with single exception, are native Ha-
waiians-not foreigners by birth, nor
even men of foreign parentage born in
the country; but native Hawaiians,
with the blood of their race cours-
ing strong in their veins. These
; men are told by the foreign Opposition
papers that they are NEEDY adventur-
) ers' in their own country, unworthy
to be trusted with making laws for the
Government or their own race and
kindred, but that men of alien blood
are to have absolute control over them.