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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: themselves of the new government and prophesying annihilation to
all rivals. The time of raising a tax is the harvest of the
merchants; it is the time when copra will be made, and must be
sold; and the intention of the German firm, first in the time of
Steinberger, and again in April and May, 1888, with Brandeis, was
to seize and handle the whole operation. Their chief rivals were
the Messrs. MacArthur; and it seems beyond question that provincial
governors more than once issued orders forbidding Samoans to take
money from "the New Zealand firm." These, when they were brought
to his notice, Brandeis disowned, and he is entitled to be heard.
No man can live long in Samoa and not have his honesty impugned.
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