The Hawaiian gazette., 1883-02-14

Tn Blatant Coronationists7 have had
their day. IT were charitable to hope that
they enjoyed it. The consistently right
cons Opposition will have theirs, and may
the Palace Party enjoy that also, at latest
when the bills have to be paid Their
Recommendations and criticisms have not
proved utterly of non-effect andwill prove
more effective every day as the people
awake to the cost of this worse than use-
less display.
Space and time forbid that in this arti-
Gle should he elaborated an exhaustive ex-
hibition of the evils wrought on this PEG
pie by the present Ministry, first, in their
| efforts to obtain power. and next in their
use Of that power when acquired The
Premier who climbed into his place by
unwearied repetitions of his devotion to
the King and native people, has rewarded
the former by exchanging the character OF
docile sycophant for that of exacting
domineer. and the latter by letting loose
liquor and leprosy throughout the islands
He who pretended to be so jealous for the
native race led the way in the first great
alienation of Crown Lands.
As TO foreign affairs more particularly, dc
We not remember the difficulty with oul
envoy in Paris, and was there not on the
Coronation day Minister appointed Il
our most important foreign post awaiting
his credentials until after the show? Oh
the same day, were there not three ocean
steamers at the wharves, their business
lretarded and everything out of gear OIL
account of the show? our main stree
made temporarily passsble for foot passen
gers. though plentifully besplashed by tn
galloping marshals, while the merely bust
ness streets were impossible for mud ant
sludge. and this for the show? And tn,
show-what was it? The feeble explana
tons and lame apologies of the Premier
paper proved of none effect in collectin,
absentees, the introduction of the boy
from the Refornatory, amongst the schools
or the invitation of one lodge TO the mem
bers of another failed to swell the process
sion, the solitary Special Envoy failed t,
redeem the bombastic brag about tn
hosts of distinguished foreign officials
not even one special correspondent OF tn
foreign press came for the purpose, a
though 1t does seem that the signihcan
notice that invitation cards need not b
presented at the entrance succeeded i
filling the ampithestre- somehow-an
then the browning act of all, how was
received2 "a dead silence One oversight g
least our astute Premier was guilty OF, b
did not remember the value of we
organised olaoqus, feeble shutting of fee
few hesitating raps of umbrella point
were the only indications of applause, th
olacqucrs were neither numerous nor heart,
in fact failure
In fact the spectators of the crownin
of the dread King may be easily divide
into three classes, viz, officials bound j
duty to be present, mere sightseers VIII
wanted to see so unique a show, and other
who went to show off their fnery an
criticise that of their neighbors.
Thank heavens this is over, possibl
without any immediate results worse tina
few score colds in the head from wet fet
and few score extra cases at the polio
! station.
What didblerio may next be invented fc
wasting public money, who can say.
the past, this may be said, the nine month
administration of this Cabinet has bee
an entire failure, its epitaph will 500
be written thus, FAILURE.