The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-31
EDITORIALS.
Rfom the Daily.)

W propose n peaceful solution Of the difficult
ties by purely legislative means
So says n contemporary, with naive
simplicity, offering the inference that other
methods have been thought about, and
planned but are abandoned as manifestly
impraeticable in this free country, which
as it is, has been formally admitted
into the family Of nations, with three of
the greatest nations on earth for sponsors.
The "dihicuIties' referred to are manifestly
how to get rid OF the Kings present Min
listers, and how to alter the Constitution so
as to take power out of the hands of the
King and the people, and centre IT
in an OligaTchy of those capitalists, who,
forgetting the existence OF any Deity save
the greatGod Mammon, believe that they
have made the country"
Well. this peaceful solution by purely
legislative meansU is lust what the present
Administration would nave them try. No
body in this land is more anxious to see u
good representation of the planting interest
In the Legislature than are His Majesty's
Dresent Minister'S. This peaceful sOlu-
tion - is precisely what the Premier pointed
to in his reply to the memorial which the
Planters Association presented to the King
We are half inclined to believe that what
the Minister said was taken at the time for
chafR, but il was meant in sober earnest
enough, and intended as a well-merited re-
buke to a handful of men who, for no al
legged reason but personal dislike, asked the
King TO dismiss n Ministry which had the
commence Oh the mig anu vi lht ptOllitf
and of the peoples representatives. The
Premier showed the memOrialists then the
way that was open to them-the peace
full" and constitutional way, which, i'll
every free country, is adopted by every pO-
IticaI party which seeks to acquire the
reins of power. 1t is curious ut this late
day to see one of their organs gravely put
ting this solution " forth as if it were a
new discovery. But the old adage Better
late than never" still holds good. We are
glad to see the craZiest of men, when we
find them "cIOthed and i'm their right
mind"
1t may not be out OF the way to remind
these people that if they want to capture
the celebrates they must put forward some
thing like "A programme that Will find favor
in the eyes Of the electors. Money Will not
do everything although IL may be potent to
initiate men with an undue sense of their
importance TO the body polite. This thing
was pretty fairly tested during the late
election. Influential men as this editor
would have them, tried their utmost to Sc
cure what they deemed would be "a good
representation in the legislature" They
were busy with their means and their in
huence, in opposition to n candidate that
was not spending money, hiring carriages,
or using any of the similar methods by
which the capitalists influence i brought
to bear on an election. Should il be retOrt-
ed that the %"ignOrant masses" are led
away by the willy tongues of the dcma-
gOgue and that property in consequence
cannot secure its Legitimate influence in
the councils of the nation, what can we
reply? Will you abolish the cOnstitu-
tiOnal order of things so rs to put power in
the hands OF a class? III such a peaceful
solution as this could indeed be attained
in peace il could never be maintained in
peace in a country where men have been
trained to- liberty as to a bi~TthTight.
We put il to the Opposition as Il challenge.
Use all constitutional remedies that be in
your power. That we are we'll assured i
what the government desire. Let Us have
n fair and square and honorable fight on
the constitutional questions ON which we
dfffer-not a fight in which detraction and
malicious i%nsinuatiOn are the only weapons.