The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-01-23

the business managers of private under
takings of Minister be not supported by
salaried sinecures paid from votes Of pub
lie money. And that innumerable in
stances of maladministration which might
be quoted from the history of the last two
years be summary ended.
Third. that the government of the coun-
try be conducted according to the proyis
ions of the Constitution. That we never
again see one man holding for a long pc
rod two of the most important posts in
the Cabinet. and for shorter time hold
ing even three, and using this Illegal power
unscrupulously to provide n job for q
friend or stab for a foe.
Finally, the game as recently played
between the Crown and the Ministry, the
former pleading the responsibility of the
latter. and they in turn claiming shelter
from the presumed irresponslbllity OF the
Crown should be brought to an end.
The Legislature should represent the
property and intelligence OF the whole ma
ton. The Ministers should he as il We're
the representatives of the Representatives
where these conditions are impracncablC
or unfulfilled the existing Ministy should
be replaced by another This, the verlesi
alphabet of popular government has not
il seems, as yet reached thus far.
The Independent Party, as opposed (
the Palace Party, is independent Of all
hope or desire of gain, other than the
achievement of their great object, the gan
to the country at large in q strong, able
honest and popular government Tn,
Palace Party are welcome to all the star
and initials they can collect from Siam II
St Petersburg. The opposition Is so fal
Independent of personal pecuniary gan
| that II can doubtless furnish men who vii
serve the country well, though at the cos
of certain inconvenience 10 themselves
and possible detriment 10 their privat,
undertakings.
We believe that there are in this King
dom possible Ministers of Finance who's
names have long been familiar to tinancler
and merchants in San Francisco, in New
York and Liverpool. in Boston and Bre
men. and a man such as this should be on
Minister of Finance. There are IN TIN
| Kingdom possible Ministers OF Foreigl
Affairs whose names are frequently in re
view in every Consulate whence we draw
and whittier we consign the commodiue
which go TO make up our foreign trade anS
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lister should be chosen.
There are men here who have dotte'
this country with their own roads an'
bridges, their fumes and railroads, theI
mills and engine houses, their wells an'
reservoirs. and from these should be chosel
our future Minister of Interior. For tn
post of Attorney General, the present in
cumbent or any of his predecessors NIGH
stand on the platform, it might not be in
dicious to name names, here or elsewher
of any individual member Of the prOfes
sion. vet there can be no harm IN entering
an emphatic protest against one personag
Who is not member of the legal or o
any other profession he has been tmcug
many adventures, has seen many men an
cities, and has lately posed in Honolulu
under the somewhat foreign-sounding COG
nomen of Interim-him We reject.
These then are our aspirations, on
hopes, not unmixed with fears, for are Their
not autocracy and places, salaries 10 es'
or in posse against us? However we hop
that such a Ministry may be obtainab.
from such House of Representatives a
we trust may be returned next month.
But it may be said-will not such
l obdl am '4AN -
swer is, it must be radical and may b
startling To substitute such men as W
have sketched for those who have been IT
Gently in power, will be change indeed
4 surgical operation almost, but it shout
and must be done, our great treaty impel
lied. our best friends suspicious, our IN
migration system hindered, our peopl
threatened with dire disease, the apple;
ton of brakes though of vital importanc,
may at first be felt with jerk. We shaI
survive it, though the stroke be alarm
ing to the present drivers, the State ma
not be shunted into autocracy or left o
unrepaired roads.
This then we say with Portia, The la
allows it, and we hope to add The court
of public opinion, national feeling ''award
it"
Electors may now know what is our pla
form. whereof we are Independent an
how we hope to carry out our wishes f
the welfare of everyone in this Kingdom