The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-08-08


THE announcement. on Monday, that
Major G. 7. Gllick was appointed Minis
ter of Interior was certainly surprise.
The Premier has been running round Deg
ging here and beseeching there Tor some
one to prop his falling fortunes, ana nus
efforts have at last been crowned WIN sucn
measure of success as Mr. Glllleks ap-
pointment may give him. We VIII not III !
| this article deal with the unsultaDl!ll! Ol
Mr.. Gulick for the Office he IS trying 10
| fill. nor with the facts winch can pe
brought forward in support OF that prem
Use but we will try and get at the root Oh
tbe matter. We viii deal with principles
not men, n
II would have been as distasteful to the
mercantile. planting and mechanical inter
ests here If the very best man in the
country had been put into Office IN the
| manner Major Gulick has been. This IS
merely form Of absOlutism. In appoint
! inc tLis gentleman. neither the credit OF
the country nor its good has been con
suited: the desire OF the great interests
mentioned above has not been consulted.
As long as appointments are made IN this
manner the thinking portion of the com
munity viii be opposed to them. What Is
wanted is a ministry who will rule for the
people and not simple nominees OF the
monarch
We have only to look at the history OF
| the great nations of the earth to see that
| here Hawaii has been running on the
wrong track. Take England as an exam
pie: the great axiom Is there thoroughly
carried out of "the King and Queen reign
| bnt do not govern This is what Hawaii
must learn Our ministers must not be
men who are merely pleasing to the SOW
ereign. they must be men who are properly
fitted for their positions and who are pre-
pared to carry on the government OF the
country independently of Royal or any
other whims. Mr. Gladstone in England
was not by any means personally pleasing
to Oueen Victoria. Mr.. Disraeh was. Yet
when the latter was defeated, Her Majesty
Turned to the former and regardless of he1
own feelings. asked him to form a ministry
Thus it should be here. The King should
appoint in Difference to public opinion
and should meddle in no way with that
opinion. The bubble of autocrahc SOY
ereigntv has been burst long ago by every
advanced community. No proper dignity
of the station is taken away, but where
monarchy has been retained, 1t has become
an understood thing that the government
should be conducted by the people for the
people! =,
the most liberal one. This Is a small
state. but small states, properly conducted
can command high respect. 10 try ano
model the rising state upon the lines
which have been exploded IN England
France and the United States, and which
are even now ready to explode in Russia
for in Russia the Imperial Power, III splt(
of military, spies, executions and bamsh
ment. nightly sleeps on a powder maga
zine which must explode as surely as The
earth goes round the sun: the popular
icW must be listened to eventually
model this state upon these etete lines
must bring disaster ii Is in the power
we contend il ought net TO be, but as a fac
it is in the power of the King to take
either course, the liberal or autOcratlc
The autocratic has prevailed; let 1t b'
thrown aside and let us have new de
parture on popular lines. Let the Gov
ernment be conducted according to popu
lar sentiment and not according to mere
Roval will. Let ministers stand or fal
according to their conduct of the afiaIr'
of the people. 1t is by following such |
course that Queen Victoria stands so hgl
not only in the estimation of her owl
people. but in the estimation Of all the
world. Had our Government been con
Quoted on these lines the present admins
tration would have been swept away
months ago and the country with a unitec
front might be marching forward on tha
course Of political prosperity that IS it:
undoubted right Let us hope that sucl
counsels as these may prevail, as we have
had during the past few weeks, every reason
to suppose they would, and that unhappy
Hawaii may awake from the evil night
mare that has brooded over her so long.