The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-02-03

works and city sanitation Will DC SUI
nitted to the Legislature.
10. Important improvement enter
Drises are contemplated and will doubt
less soon be inaugurated.
What was the picture on the other
side when the Opposition held the reins
Of Government?
l. Under the Bishop Administration
the American Admiral on the station re-
ported the Hawaiian Government on the
verge of bankruptcy. Its public credit |
abroad stood at zero. The Hon. G. r. |
Bishop, an Minister of Foreign Affairs,
in an official communication to the Ca |
zette" embodying the policy OF his Gov
eminent, advocated the cession OF Pearl
Harbor and a strip of territory to the
United States, as last and only re-
source. This surrender of territory and
harbor commanding Honolulu to a
foreign power was urged as the only
means of restoring prosperity and
preventing the exodus of white labOrers
and artisans from the Kingdom. That
was before the Reciprocity Treaty, under
the best Administration the Opposition
party could possibly get together. The
country was admittedly in a very bad
way.
After the treaty in 1880, under the
Wilder Administration, the second best
quality of Opposition material, things
were rather worse. Although the Treas
ury held 1898, $50 A of coin in excess OF
appropriation, the planters and merchants
were on the verge of bankruptcy, and
total collapse was threatened unless this
money were loaned out, which was done
Advances were made from the Treasury
to pay taxes, and private credits were
also sustained by loans from the Treasury.
Commercial paper could not be dis
counted, property had only nominal
value, and mortgages on gilt edged secur-
tiles were very difficult to negotiate at
twelve per cent.
8. During the succeeding Administers
| ton we had a visitation OF smallpox
through its culpable neglect, and the
"unexplained expenditure" OF some
5000 900 already alluded to. There was
a business reaction, but it was short-lived
Exchange was at the caprice OF Bishop
& Co. Large sums of money were ex
pended on embassadorial processlon'
around the world, which yielded M
fruit. A loan commissioner visited Lon
don, but he was as unsuccessful as tn
Armstrong immigration commission. l
was Ffzzle," but was in perfect han
monv with the costly impotence OF Oppc
, sition Administrations first and last.
1t is very odd, but when the Oppos
ton are caught out in shower they II
: variably seek shelter under Mr.. Gibson
skirts. They have been caught In yer
table cloud-burst of their own making
n and forthwith rush to Mr.. Gibson Il
n shelter. The Wilder Administration an
Bishop & Co., by their newspaper o
+ CANS, the daily libel and Gazette
4l><--p .ia1a- NJ
signed the report of the Finance Con
mittee in 1880, saying that the securiti
= were good and that we were right in
ing as we did? Then why do you l
that naughty ADVERTISER lay pickle
9 rod upon our scarifed and smarti1
backs? Stop it, pray. You know tn
n we did no end of good with the none
} and saved the shaky members of OF
party and your inveterate enemies fro
:, bankruptcy" That is a free but acc
i rate summary OF their plea for mercif
u interposition by the head of the Admi
= istration.
e For reply we say that it will do thel
/ no good Having committed legal al
d moral offenses az Ministers of the Grow
they must take their punishment; al
they have reason indeed to be grateful