Nuhou, Volume II, Number 5, 29 Iulai 1873 — "Any Honorable Basis" [ARTICLE]

"Any Honorable Basis"

vv 4 | l This espression in the Aaullainhe pi*esB ludi-1 cateB sbme erab cniwling Why not etiok to the j basis aianoiineeel in the Jt offieial cleelaration? v Oome «ow, staml to your gutiB,—llo baeklng down, ov ehange of basig, You have proposed! tlie eesBion of Pearl Harbor ? anel your 'All Saints | Btatesmeu must. Btand or fall on this ieeue. But j perhaps they fall, out of offiee at least, if they did slip up on"it. A man does not requlie , a sensē of honor in order to be enabled to draw a . galary,—now does he? Five thoueand a year»| even though drawn froin a people ;; three-fourths | disea«ed * 1 niŪi leproay, wi!l strengthen many a| man's stomaeh to swallow anything; even if eonTieted of beiug unfit for the duties of his oEee, j and of having failed in the only measure he ātj tempted, whieh meaeuve by the \vay, wais a seheme j thrust upon him, !ie not kuowiug what to do. j <<Any honorable — what do j you meau? l)on't be so base~as to nyourold |,baeis; beeause we went luto the on that. ! Say, Henr\\ have you .w miudj j that you are goiug (o try on, by aud by. īt will !he meau if you do. If this pet Pearl Harbor | propoeition is put by, then alas : ! Faitwcll thc l>usy pen: Kawwell ihb \ ■ , i ? At€wcll Uio ss>lcy iiiul aU tuc fuu l'hal towu aUve Oli, t~ ! * Far tbo avu! ihe l^uX < 1 > f To mke oiu fw, ov we omal UIo to ch®K<xU ia llii sUCvt ? Aa<l allprUc» pomp ana ciccuuwUav .*«•••% ? ; Aod oh, you MtoUier« ia <Ui;y HiKp, ' v,p cf cno> t iMewei): Thf Ni iivH >x * '

" the Oppooeots of the Mūūsterial PoL;; Wouhl be found to conffct of a ?erj *mall nenis of what ought to| be called the $QrUo.ī KL isteriai policj consisj- of one Mipii-iei, ,to ,verj general repoit, ,which we aonH ihiuk 1 :;] of Eevcral merchant& as , .anfl enterpming a» anj s in the citj. of about I.:- r | foicign popuUtion,| though the lea&t jtiye and indcbted )ialf and theiefore thc Utyr-' j no|6j, ol two thoueand out of the two thcu.r: i -L«* arid some odd and of th-j. saijid out of the nativeē, Wt d.n*t belieye that, in a fair and honomhk cūnvuā= lĪ tL.» jCOYntrj, the Pearl llarbor ceSHOLI-t c v;]?. jmcjre than five hundred| vote>. \ 53T Friends on thc other Island* will p -seiid us thc amount fov'this «eeoml volum<'*. dat qui cito dat, —|— — j We sec scvcral planting fiiei)dtj in , ! wlio eomplam of tfrougbt both to Winclwaid :.r. * J Leeward ; but fbr nll tliought thej seem to &*■ ! confident ? that the prospect i* stillgood for a . ! thē incoming season, as| aceording to our estltn.v: * !of 30,000,000 lbe. Wc sincerelj hope so ;an ' we hope moreovcr tnai: thej maj be enabled : getl bv and by a readj eash market in Ilonolul There gveat trouble now is pajing 12 per eeni , Iwiih manj additional; charges, and j wajit sis to nine for returns. We weul' j like to see the planters sell all their sugav t <y-W-: ■, ■ tobaeco and cotton at home.