The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-08
From an Occasional Correspondent.

EDITOR GAZETTE: 1t is doubtful if you
realize how carefully your journal is read
by cold residents'' who for years have
had no other interest in Hawaiian affairs
than the "aloha" which is not to be
gotten rid of nor forgotten by those who
for half a generation were intimately ac-
quainted with the men and the affairs OF
their times.
The lapse of twenty years and the al
most total change in the names Of those
who carry on the government and bust
ness of the Islands make no difference
in us who once knew that little kingdom
as our home. Every visitor and every
letter and paper is heartily welcome, and
of the visitors some scores have called
on us first and last.
For the last year there has been only
one great topic of conversation with our
Hawaiian friends, and it has not seemed
to afford them any consolation to tell
them that while we have had no revOlu-
ton and no call for military help in keep
ing the peace, we have had to refrain
from even mentioning the shame and
disgrace of some things that are done in
high places. An occasional Outburst like
Senator Ingalls, article in the North
American Review for June, "Fetichism
in the Campaign" has nearly choked
decent people with the stencil it stirred
up and the cry arose at once, ''Wait till
the yellow fever season is past and give
US the rest in cooler weather." No
doubt his article was libelOus, and all the
more so because it was so true. But
when the Republicans and Prohibition
lists nominated clean men, the plea came
from the other party for Il campaign of
intellect" or, as Gov. Foraker puts it,
they promised not to lie about Gen.
Harrison if we could keep back the truth
about Mr.. Cleveland"
We see YOU squirm under two or three
veto messages. Wait till you have had
three hundred or more in three years.
But you will say, "There is no bribery
scandal in yours H." We don't call it by
that coarse name, but sit gets there all
the same!" The loaning of sixty mil
lions of dollars to few favored national
banks without interest is only making
them little present, " he mea aloha
paha," equivalent to $50, 900 per month.
The prostitution of the whole civil
service to carrying out of one purpose
viz, the reelection OF the president, and
the enacting OF such tariff reform meas
ures as the Old South in a new dress
demands is only the work of politicians,
you will say; but we notice that some OF
the very things which your "'conven-
ton" or mass meeting of June 30th de-
manded should not be done in Hawaii
any longer, read marvellously like what
we have seen done here right along for
two years past. The electric telephone
scandal, which is part and parcel OF our
administration, was worked up with the
hope of putting more millions in the
pockets of Acknowledgement Garland
and his partners than ever poor Aki had
thousands to invest in opium licenses.
But the votes of the people in this coun-
try will change all that, even without
the aid of the secret ballot system If
we had that system and an honest
count, we should see 1910 over again
when Mr.. Van Buren, received only
sixty-four electoral votes but even with
out it there is very little doubt that the
gallant and brave Christian soldier and
statesman, Gen. Harrison, will be the
man whom the people will delight to
honor. KAMAAINA.
New Haven, Conn. Oct. 18th