The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-11-09

The remarkable article in the Times Lion
DOM of September 22d, has been reprinted
and commented on by sundry Of our con
temporaries.
Like all Leaders" in the same paper 1t
has been written by powerful and prac-
tised hand-at newspaper writlng-lt dis
plays a considerable amount of lnforma-
tion-but no knowledge of the subject.
Its information is evidently supplied from
without. not from within, the boundaries
of this little Kingdom.
The statistics of the writer may be cor
rect. but his deductions are incorrect. The
whole article is based on the report of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs in Hawaii, but
the writer evidently does not know that
the said Minister is equalled in mendaclty
only by the Barrere of Macaulay, who lied
when it was disadvantageoust to do so, lust
for the sake of keeping his hand in"
The article in question quotes Mr.. Glib
son. thus: Recent events have aWalled on
the part of His Majesty, QIalakaua) deep
sympathy for communities kindred IN race
to the Hawaiian, and as capable as the
Hawaiian of forming for themselves, under
guidance, governments and laws on a civil
lied pattern" etc. Here, the under guild
ance'' phrase is good, very good. Under
the guidance of the men who formerly adj
yised Hawaiian Sovereigns, and under the
sway of sovereigns wise enough to honestly
ask, and conscientiously act upon the ad-
vice given, the Kingdom of the hameha-
mehas rose to place of consideration and
Importance somewhat perhaps, dlspropor-
tomato to her legitimate position. But
now the veil is thrown aside, the hd0te IN
huence is solemnly buried by kahunas,
and we-not the T'imes-are boldly told
that the haoie has had his day, and that
Hawaii for the Hawaiians is the future.
Yet, through all the twists of the kaleido-
scope for the last six years, an alien has
ruled absolutely, his so-called colleagues
have been picked up or imported from here,
there, or the other place. The (somewhat)
more permanent official who does the work
of head of department, and prepares all
the documents, and does all the work to
which the Minister puts his name, Is IN
variably, because necessarily, hdole Not
one Minister of Finance, for instance, from
Kuaea till to day knows more OF the subject
than did his unbreeched grandfather.
The writer in the Times knows nothing
of this, he takes the words Cabinet, Min
lister, Government, etc, as if they meant
the same thing here as elsewhere.
His Majesty Government have deemed
it their duty to make a decided effort to
secure for those Polynesian communities
which have not been already brought I'M
der foreign rule an assurance OF their IN
dependence" Where are the communities
referred to, and what is the effort that has
been made? The Hawaiian flag has been
hoisted on a worthless reef, but Its latitude
and longitude are yet unascertained sclen-
tifcally, and now it remains for Mr.. Glib
son toshow where Hawaiian benefcence is
next to be exercised.
That Mr. Carter, the Hawaiian Envoy,
may have met with polite but empty re
plies in London, Paris and Berlin is prob
/ ably the fact, but what then have England,
/ France Germany, OF Spain kept their
! hands of, and left to Hawaii the generous
/ task of Gibsonising them?
With regard to Reciprocity Treaties to
I be multiplied, it only means free trade, an
/ idea abhorrent to both parties to our pres
ent treaty, and likely to damage it sooner
than to accomplish any other,
Any attempt in that direction would
shake the prospects of continuance for the
existing treaty, more surely than it would
open the door to new ones.
1t is well to imagine that we have more
than one string to our bow, but one string
may be broken before the other is in work
ing order.
The Times unfortunately has been taken
in by an er-parte statement. 1t might be
advisable for the usually astute leader
writer Of that paper, to examine into THEN
authorities little deeper, before they
commit themselves to the support of a pol
icy of which they evidently are capable OF
being egregiously misled.