The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-01-16

a case in point. There are no more ade-
quate means for supplying the wants OF
the town than were in use two years ago,
and vet ample money was voted for this
purpose by the last Legislature, a few
large pipes lying idly along our principal
thoroughfares, and causing our horses to
shy, cannot be regarded as an act OF ad
ministrative ability which is calculated to
inspire confidence in any one.
As
Though we may be content to laugh at
the now dead and gone Protest" we can
not, as citizens of this country, view with
anything but alarm the mismanagement
which has given the British government the
right 10 make claim against ours. The
owner of the Madras has laid hiscase before
the British Foreign Office; enquiries upon
the subject have been made and any mail
may bring demand which 1t will be no
slight thing to meet. This position OF af-
airs ia due 10 mismanagement, for in the
end the government did what It ought to
have done at first, tacitly acknowledging
that it was wrong.
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Objections upon other points might be
multiplied, but this is needless; sufficient
have been cited, for all purposes of argu-
ment. These great issues are laid down.
Aiismanagement Of leprosy and conse
quent danger TO the citizens: reckless ex-
penditure of public funds and lack OF
administrative ability in dealing with the
internal affairs of the kingdom. These
are quite important enough for men 70
ioin together to attack, and these the men
Of the Independent Party mean to attack.
There is moreover, one more thing which
the Americans. Germans and Englishmen
especially feel called on to resent; and that
is the tendency of the government to autoc-
racy. Step by step has the Premier striyeu
to put power into one hand. This, as the
sons Of freemen, as the descendants OF men
who in Europe and America have bled, aye
and died, that power should not rest in one
hand. we are bound to combat.
The teachings of history are too plain
for every one Of us, who intends to make
his home here. not to strive to the utmost
to prevent that which has caused so much
misery elsewhere The United States
show us how a great party dropped away
in an instant from a great leader when the
mere appearance Of CRsarism was even
mooted. In such a country, with such
people. there could have been no real fears,
but the very idea startled the nation.
What to the United States was but shad
ow. in Hawaii Is a reality. Men, educated
TO freedom, educated in the theories Of
American and English government may
well start when they see such strides being
made in a direction which they know must
lead to civil discord and strife.
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Here. then. are in fact the grounds for
the existence of an Independent Party, at
variance with the present cabinet. They
are sound, logical grounds, and no man,
entertaining the views expressed, need be
ashamed of them. We are proud to hold
them. and to the best of our ability we
Will uphold them. This Is no personal
hostility; it is the advocacy Of sound prin-
ciples On the broad platform of civil lib
erty, financial reform, protection of our
wives and children from leprosy and re
form in internal administration, the hide
pendent Party OF Hawaii stands, and
standing on this. II merits the support of
every Hawaiian, American, German and
Englishman here. Long live, then, the
Independent Party We are sure its hon
est principles will meet with the support
of every thinking man. The struggle be
fore us is really for Freedom, and Byron's
immortal verse tells US that
Freedoms battle once begun,
Though bailled oft is ever won't
So we have no fears for the ultimate
future.