Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 288, 22 August 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Advertiser is gre;»t on fiI nances. «t le.»st its editor s«ys ■ so. bat its chief reliance seems to be Minister Damon. Never t does tbe sapient aceountant (?) I who writes these screeds give either facls or figares for his as- | sertions, bnt simply reiterates, j over and over again. “Mr Da- , mon’ssuperb management/ J “hia eeonomieal adminis^^ation, ,, “his reform of abnses." until one wonders whether thers is anvbody else in the gnvernment bct Mr. Damon. or whetber knowing that Mr. D.imon has a good reputation in the commonity, the Advertlser scrawler isn't sheltering tbe fanlts and blanders of the whole P. G. behiud the aegis of Mr. Damoo s poeiiion and repntation aa a bnainesa man and bw»ker. lt maai be rather tirw- : : . .. .. . i.-..

i some, if not ol>noiioas, to'Mr. j D.uuon. who is rejint<.Hl to ha\e , some eommon sense, to tii.il !um- ; self thus fulsomely («raded as : tbe be-all aml eml-all of every- • tiiing that is virtuons and t ' and great and gooil. witbout oue j solitary little fact beingproduced j I in evideuce to support the slub- ? | bering adulatory tw«ddie. It , , must also be ratber galling to j Messrs. T. C. Porter aml P. C. Jones to find that tbe Advertiser scribe has appare«itly lost all ap- j }>reciation of their erforts and abilities as financiers and has, in his miud, relegated theni to that royalist limho to whieh evenrthing prior to the miraculous advent of Mr. Damou belongs in his ideas. Tho Advertiser asserts that Minister Damon has crossed fiuaneial swords with the Royalists and that the latter have thus received a “knock-ont.’ We shall pass over the Celtic nature of this mixed metaphor borrowed from the duelling ground and the prize-ring-places, both of them, in whieh wo bardly expect ever to see Mr. Damon —and siraply sav that Minister Damon. so far from overthrowiug the fiuancial criticisros from the Koyalists side, hus admitted the fairness aud truth of them by invariably granting all their demands iu the way of explauation aud detail, thus showing that the criticisms on the previous statemeuts were well founded. But let us look at tbe matter ‘ sqnarely in tho f.»ce. Sir.ee Mr. Damon’s miracnlous Advertiser advent, it is trne that we are told if the funds hold out, we are to hi«ve about $80,000 spent on publie works during the remainder of the perif>d, tbat is «t the rate of about $10,000 permonth, while the military aml diplomatic, and special poliee frills unauthorized by the late Legislature, still go ou at the rale of over 117,000 a month. That isthe Advertiser asserts the finaucial genins and ability of a gentlemun and tho stability of a government, whieh proposes (miml you. ouly if the funds hold out). to spend $10,000 a month on public works against $17.000 a month, (certain, whether the funds hold ont or not) on militarism, rifics and dimo museura expenses and dividends. That is to say in a (>eriod of financial depression aggravated by their own existeuce. the work (whieh is nseful to the pnhlie, and whieh would furnish food and clothes to the laboring classes who are mostly men with wives and families, and many of whom at the present time are ont at elbows and starving for want of work), is to be cnt down in order that a lot of nn«narried «nen, of bv no means the best reputation for either industrv or character, may strnt ronnd with a new deathdealing weapon on their shoulder and clad in fine raiment (made by Tregloan and Martin). and poison their overloaded stomachs with too mueh boi!ed tongue and green peaa. while Mr. Tharston draws $5,000 a year for running » diroe museum. This is patriotism. and stable and good government. This is what we overthrow tbe monarchy for! To starve the married laborer living in tbe eounln* and feed the hnm and th« loafer just stranded on our shores 5 Hear ye, O heavens and wihl Theae be thy gods. O

Advertiser. and Damon s past | reputation is the ve«l behind : whieh you seek to bide them , from the too eurions and anleul scrutiny of their puhlie worshijv |Hrs.