Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 272, 31 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Adverlis»er in its hysterical Blancmange or Melange this morning tel1s us that the reason that , the puhiie has confidence in the present administration is because they have been financi>illy succes8.8 in their private business. We have in a f*>riner issue sbown that private finanoial success is a very poor criterioa by whieh to measnre the politic.il abtlity of men, and we ahall nol re-open that pomt,but we wou!d like to know where the fonr gentlemen who constitute the executive councils to-day have ever shown any great financial ability or bec.>me financial euccesses in the country. Mr. D >le has a very decent practice when he did business as a lawyer, but not so g">od bnt that, he left it with pleasure to take a sa!ary of $5000 a year ns a Judge of ihe Supreme Court. But then and since, there are lawyers in this town who make a great deal bigger “financiivl success” out of their practice, and whom we feel assured tbe Advertiser would refuse to support if tbey went into office. Mr. W. O. Smith as a finaueial success—well, we ean «mile —but say nothing. Captam King. we have never yet heard menlioned as a man who has tnade any special amount of miIlions. He bas at least been in an subordinate position until called into office by Mr. Dole. So it must be Mr. Damon sgaln who is filling ihe vacuum pan on the top of Johnstone’s neek with enthusiasm, and although we have Mr.Damon’s own word for it, that he is a great financier, we must siili assert, that we have seen no proo& of it yet,althoogh we gladly will admit him

to be a successful heir. But w« do not wish to analyse or prv into the private affairs of anybody, be thev in office or out, and we shou!d adviee the Advertiser to follow our example in this, and remember, with U8, tbe words of Croesus *‘co int no man happy (or a ”fi:iaucial success ’) before he is *'dead.”