The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1886-08-03

the scheme. which however, was not ex-
actly originated by them.
The fact remains that the Wilder Admin
iStration converted the wilderness OF the
Plains, into the vills-sprinkled garden it
now is, and their successors received the
purchase money.
The Wilder Ministry left the country
owing only $4,000 beyondits cash in the
Treasury, the five or six Gibson Min
istries have raised the debt to S2,0O0,oO0
and still cry for more
'THE present Cabinet is disliked." So
MARBLES the Government organ. The truth
is so self-evident that even this paid ad
mirer has at last developed symptoms of a
conscience and felt obliged to acknowledge
it The dislike to the present Cabinet is
indeed wide and deep, and it is not by
any means confined to those who repre-
sent the Opposition. 1t extends to, and
includes members of the royal family and
household. who are open and unhesltatlng
IN their denunciahOn of the "malthiRl'
Spreckels Cabinet :the Government officials
almost without exception, the very clerks
in the departments OF the Ministers con
denim the Cabinet and the policy that has
placed them there As TO public opinion
IN general-it is almost unnecessary Tor
us to state that with the exception of one
we'll known ring, its employer and admir-
ers, there is one unanimous verdict against
the present Cabinet This universal dis
like is based not upon what the Ministers
as a Cabinet, have done, for they have as
vet done nothing. 1t is based first, upon
what they are, and second, upon what
they are not First, as to what they are.
It is not necessary to quote history con-
corning Mr. Gibson's record; irrespective,
and outside Of the dislike toward him en-
gendered by his unpriucipled character,
he is now disliked as a Cabinet Minister
because he is acting as the tool OF Claus
Spreckels. Mr.. Spreckels holds mort
gage on his ranch, which places him in
the grip of the capitalist, and as events
have shown, the latter has not been slow
TO use his advantage. Mr.. Dare. Well,
who is Mr.. Dare? Prior to his appoint
ment as Attorney General there were
hardly a hundred people on the Hawaiian
Islands who knew him by sight, and no
one knew him by reputation. He is a res
ident of but few days. He himself has
stated in the Assembly that he has been
in the employ of Mr. Spreckels in Califor-
MIA and in Honolulu. Well, that is who
Mr.. Dare is, go far as this country knows
Mr. Creighton. the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Is almost an equal stranger, known
only to the country for year past as a
newspaper writer who never scrupled to
misrepresent facts to suit his purpose, that
purpose being the gloriication of his en-
ployer and everything connected with him.
1t has been said in the Assembly that Mr.
Creighton worships the ground on which
Mr. Spreekels walks. That is mistake;
he only appears to do So He knows on
which side his bread is buttered. and If
the Devil paid the salary of the editor of
the 4dcsrtissT, any reader of that journal
would soon learn that the gentleman with
hOofs was the most enlightened Christian
character of the age.
Paul P kanoa, Minister of Finance, is
an honest, well meaning native Hawaiian
who has shown no special capabilities of
any kind. and was put into office as fig
ure-head. and may prove less a figure
head than his colleagues had hoped for.
That Is who the Cabinet are; and the
statement of who and what they are, is a
statement of what they are not. They are
not representative OF the country, the peo-
pie IN it. or OF any portion of them. Mr.
Gibson has constantly proclaimed himself
IN favor of Young Hawaii" and has made
Hawaii for the HaHaiians7 his motto
The official announcement OF the present
Cabinet stated that Mr.. Gibson had been
requested to make up Cabinet. and what
his choice was, is shown above. 1t shows
that as between young Hawaii or old Ha-
wall either, for that matter, and Claus
Spreckels, the latter viii skim the cream
and the former take the skim milk every
time, so long as Mr.. Gibson remains head
of the Cabinet The universal dislike to-
wards the Cabinet is because the people
feel Inundated and indignant that ALSO
lutte strangers should be foisted into power
and authority over them without shadow
of reason being given, and without there
being any necessity for so doing. It dis
gusts the thinker and alarms the property
holder and the capitalist. With an adj
Tenturer Cabinet having no property in
terests In the country, and subject to the
direction OF a foreign capitalist, no one
knows what to expect, and money is forth
with locked up from investment.
The Cabinet viii continue to be disliked
until it consists of men who represent this
country and not San Francisco; OF men Of
known good character; OF men who show
disposition to check the squanderiDg of
public funds instead OF aiding it: of men
who viii look to the public good first and
private benefit last
TIE debates on various appropriations
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