The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-01-22

LOYALTY to the Crown and institutions
lis not the strong suit Of the Independent
Opposition party.
The noble army of taxshirkers are
marshalling in force under the Opposl-
ton banner to swamp honest taxpayers
at the coming election.
We hail the change of management on
the Evening Maggie" with delight.
The Doctors bird has already effected a
marked Improvement in its editorial
column.
Since the tramp" campaign on Maui,
gin has become luxury there, and
plantation managers report fewer abb
sentees from the effects of drink than
formerly. The visible supply of gin was
all consumed by the tramp ticket"
The Opposition declares that any ma
tive Hawaiian who holds an Office under
the Crown, and who honorably serves
his King and country, is "needy adj
venturer" unworthy of public respect or
confidence.
There is only one foreigner on the
National ticket; there are only ten Ha-
waiisns on the Opposition ticket. 1t
follows, therefore, that the Opposition
distrusts the natives and seeks control of
the Legislature that it may carry out
measures injurious. to the Hawaiian
people
Mr. j. o. Carter is credited with a
scheme for selling all native kuleanas
and Crown lands, and investing the
money for the support of the King and
native landowners This scheme, if
carried out, would Fsdestroy the political
influence of the native people; who
would soon spend their money after hav-
ing lost their property qualification.
They would then become shiftless de-
pendents upon the foreigners who had
bought their land.
This is the most far-seeing and ruth
less scheme yet propounded for blotting
the remnant of the native people out of
existence In British possessions where
there are aboriginal races, and in the
United States of America also, ample re-
serves are set apart for the maintenance
of the native people. In New Zealand,
where kindred people is found, the law
prevents the sale of native lands and ex-
empts it from taxation, wisely providing
for preserving the life of the people
the land.' But the Hawaiian OppOsi-
ton, led by Messrs. Carter, WaterhOuse,
dole, Thurston, Kinney and the entire
tribe of expectants, would take away the
= lie Of the people-their land-and get
rid of the native race in few short
years from now.
What Ali is on the side of the Oppo-
sition against the King and Govern
ment? Who among the natural leaders
of the native people stands up to advo-
cate the cause of the Opposition? If
there be any who sympathize with it
they have yet to show themselves. There
is only one party among the Hawaiian
people and that is the National party.
The Opposition party does not represent,
in a single particular or impulse, the
national sentiment. 1t is bent upon its
own ACKNOWLEDGMENT at the expense of
the natives, and its attacks upon the
Government are made to cover Interior
and unpatriotic designs.
If single Hawaiian native votes for
candidate on the Opposition ticket he is
attacking the independence of the coun-
try and signing away to strangers the
graves and bones of his fathers. There
is no middle course for native Hawaiians
to take. 1t is not a struggle between
two great chiefs as at former elections.
The aliis are now all on one side. 1t is
an attempt by section of the foreign
population to set aside the natives in
their own country, and absorb and con-
troll all the functions of Government.
Patriotic citizens of foreign birth have no
sympathy with this movement, and viii
vote the National ticket. Let native
Hawaiians be loyal to themselves and
they will maintain the independence of
their country and increase its influence
abroad.
The prevailing opinion among men is,
thatit is a cowardly but eminently char
acteristic proceeding on the part of the
Opposition leaders to prevail upon a
young writer to bear the brunt of their
criminal libels. 1t is believed that they
will drop him when they get done using
him for their own selfish ends. But
what must be thought of party which
claims the monopoly of morality, intelli
gence and purity to resort to such dis
creditabIe practices as the Opposition
have done and are VIGOROUSLY doing.
As Denis Kearney said of the Old City
Hall ring of San Francisco, the man
in the moon must hold his nose when he
passes over the Opposition headquarters
in Honolulu.
The daily libel declares that 1.-The halt,
the lame and the blind will be brought