The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-04-26

necessity forced upon him.
These economists in the Advisory
Council utterly fail to comprehend
the Importance Of the Legation
the great and constant services de.
manded of it, and the urgent need
OF maintaining it generously.
There is more required there, on
many occasions, than the Min
lister and Secretary can attend to.
We keep our Legation, not for fun,
but for business. We have large
stake there and have enormous in
terests to protect. Good work costs
money.
Any person who chooses to in
vestigate the matter viii discover
that it is impossible to get the ears
of public men to make their
acquaintance without social enter
tainments, which are generally
costly and frequent. Public men are
pulled and hurled about in every
direction, and the best way to
reach them is usually through the
stomach. Diplomats and nego-
tiators, all over the world know
this. Political life is thoroughly
mixed up with social life.
This country is able to main
tain a respectable Legation, but it
cannot be done with the present
salary. The many friends Of Ha-
wall from all parts Of the States
who call at the Legation, are en-
titled to some consideration, and
the aggregate cost of these is great.
Mr.. Ena and Mr.. Emmeluth are
opposed to Chinese cheap labor
beyond the sugar cane fields, but
they seem to be willing to have it
in our Legation. They wish an
economy which is only spurious.
They would cut down just where
there should be an increase.
The item for the Legation in
Washington should be largely in
creased. It is imperative. Our po-
Icy, in this respect, has been
quite too niggardly. We are not
beggars, and yet we
have done some mean "sponging"
on people.
Last year a prominent lady in
Washington devoted to annexation,
in order to conciliate certain high
Democratic officials, gave a dinner
party which cost a considerable
sum of money. These foolish men
in the Advisory Council would
have put them off with stand up
at some "hog-sandwich joint" A
friend of Hawaii, after vainly try
ing to get several prominent news
paper men to meet him and dis
cuss the situation, gave them a
theatre and supper party costing
SIS, and SO filled them up with our
ideas of the situation. We could
cite many instances during the
last year when the expenditure of
money in disseminating informa-
ton would have done good SER
vice. The Legation should be gen.
erously treated. 1t is grievous
pity that anyone in the Advisory
Council should be unable to realize |
The situation.
The matter of annexation is of |
vital Importance to us. We shall
make no Roadway by adopting
cheap methods Of furthering our
tits well understood in Washing
ton that the salary of member
Of the House of Representatives,
which is $4,000, forbids him to
enter social life if he relies upon
that only. If he does enter it, his
doubles at once. And |
yet we expect our Legation to make |
a decent showing on an insufficient |
allowance.
Both Mr.. Ena and Mr.. Emmeluth |
could have ascertained the value |
of the services of the Secretary of |
the Legation if they had chosen to
inquire about it.
Perhaps they would prefer to put
our Legation under one of the