Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 280, 15 September 1891 — Another Sample. [ARTICLE]

Another Sample.

It was claimed by the missionary and ministerial organs, when that antiquatedremnaot,J.Mott-hyphen-Smitb, was resurrected frota the i graveyard of political ustiffs"—loeaited in the Back Bay District of holy Boston, that his appointment ! to the oiosce of Mlnister of Finance in the Cabinet of a (to him) foreign country, was a distinctively generous dispensation uf the political Providence, and that the natnres and denizens of these tropic Isles should celebrate the happy event with thantsgivings, self-gratula-tions and praise. The claims referred to were, or professed Vb have been, based upon the grcat and glo*rious deeds said therefore to have beei/ perforoied by the little nonresident, byphen<ited Yankee, fbr, the benefit of the Hawaiiane. If any part of the lofty panegyric laviBbed opon that ex-resident of the poHtioal limbo had been deserved, might have repeated some evidence oī his alleged regard for the Hawaiiau. upon, or since his advent to office. But what has our very little polHieian done in fulfiilment of such expectations? ] We find that about the tirae of his official advent, (our roaders will remember the time the ftiot that the earth rocked and swayed upon its axis> and tho opposition in the political scale kioked the beam the prodigv from holy Boston took his seat), there was a vacancy |n a clerkship in the Finance Office. |The public may not be aware, but is the 4hat the va«uit plaee was sought by a veiy worthy jind oonipetent foreigH-borrt re§i« dent, —a man who hae reskled herej seore or uiore of vear<, —)ias an

Hawaiian wife and familj%&iid.ai* joys the rtopw& pnā confidence of the cq)|iDiatiity-« Jt"'might bave been expected from any one out a Bostonese Yaukee that such elaime I and qnalifications as tbose of the i applicant here referred to woald be appointed over or in preference to such a man, escept one possegsing equal or greater capacity. and having equal or gseater elaimā to , nition and political preferment. But we find that, in the face of ali the theories of justice and policy applieahle to tiie case, the man of family, who pays taxes, and is? dependent upon obtaining employment, as a means of feeding, ciothmg educating the Hawaiiaii wife and children who loot to him for support,—was ignored and pass- " ed by; and in fayor of whom, do yon suppose? Unfair and impolitic as it may appear, and actually is,—the candidate in whose favor the worthy citizen referred to was? denied an opportunity of serving the public for his own and his ehildren's out to be a mere <l kid," — a boy in his early — iust out of schoo'l, atsd but lately released fi*dth the re->.

straint of diapers; — the son of the most highlv-paid oflscial in the governraent, except Stfpreme Court Judges and Cabinet oflßcers; — a youngster who, m a politieai sense t or any other, had no more elaim upon thnt offipe &13<1 salarv } than had any other school boy in th€ land. i And thig is merely another. of many eurrent samDles of th% way in whioh the present alleged administration flaunt their insolenee in the face of a disgusted

electoijate,—another instance of the "famiip7 compact" disposition and tendencies of present ministers. The poor an 4 unfortunate, though thorou|ghly competent heads and supporters of Hawaiian (or foreign) families may go to S€hool, so fai as ministers care, — while the pamjpered pets of officialdoi» are hoisted to luxury and importance over the hea&s of the more needy and deserving. It may not have oecurred to the wooden heads of the appointing power, th&t this preferred child will not have a vote for several yoars to oome, — while he who was rejected, and bis sym pathizers. will have votes enough to bury the incompetents who now draw high in return for their maladminiBtration of affairs. It sheold not be forgotten, hc^ever } that same kinds of minisfcd£ may ihink they see ihe policy of getting and keeping 4t solid" with auditor general. We wiil look with interest to the next hiennal report of the later officer, to ohserue whetjier he shall indulge in as mueh and furious u kickibg" against present minisds against t«rmeroue s. who pl«cod! no puhlie at the d\#posal of his fiiial striplings.