The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1888-02-14

IT Is gratifying to be able to say,
on the eve of another mail being des-
/ patched abroad, that the political
! armament is cloudless. While there
is some dissatisfaction over the de-
/ cision of the Supreme Court uphold
! ing the Kings absolute veto power,
/ vet. until constitutional measures
can be brought into play for over
/ coming this source of obstruction to
1 free legislation. adverse public opin-
ion viii expend itself upon the de-
cision in a legitimate way. No one
! doubts the good faith of the Judiei-
+ airy in the matter, the worst that is
I thought of it being that the four
fifths majority were too conservative
"a good fault sometimes-to admit
certain considerations that the dis
senting Justice held. we believe
rightly, as vital to the issue. How
ever, there Is no agitation, or move
ment. or plan of campaign on foot to
/ disturb the result in the meantime.
Since the collapse of an incipient
movement on the part of few dis
appointed politicians, when feeling
ran high during sundry crises at the
/ special Legislative session, there has
! been nothing that threatened in the
slightest degree the peace of the
community. 1t was that brewing
/ tempest in a teapot-denied by
! the same coterie in local newspapers
which exaggerated the fact in letters
sent abroad-which gave rise TO the
sensational news lately so damaging
/ to Hawaiian interests in America and
Great Britain. There is a general
I feeling that Hawaiian politics Will
run for at least a generation in
/ constitutional grooves. This senti-
ment has been strengthened by the
recent death of the late Premier Glib
son. who nobody doubted was filed
with the idea that his power had only
suspended in this Kingdom, so that
only a slight reaction would ensure
/ him an enthusiastic welcome back.
The news by last mail that Mr..
Wnders railroad enterprise and the
! Honolulu street railway had been
/ taken up in London has enhanced
/ the hopeful anticipation of better
times from larger crop with
/ higher prices of sugar. Those who
know the territory that the Hawaii
railroad is to traverse, besides being
conyersant with all the agricultural,
commercial and marine factors in the
case. are confident that the English
capitalists who embrace the scheme
will never regret their investment. 1t is
perhaps not so much advertised abroad
/ as ii should be that there is no surer
or more equable tropical climate, and
no soil Of greater productiveness,
wherever deep enough to be scratched
with the pillow, on the face of the
globe than the climate and soil of the
( Hawaiian Islands. What has been
done in sugar here is patent to the
/ Occident and to the Orient, being
ample security of equally profitable
! returns from other productions that
require similar conditions To re-
turn to the subject of the late IN
quiet Vaccinations, before closing
/ these remarks. there are some facts
that should be published. 1t viii be
/ remembered that one cause of pos
sible trouble mentioned IN the dis
torted rumors from hence was the
Kings obstruction of the Cabinets
viii in filling It's own vacancy and
other high positions. His Majesty
/ receded from that extraordinary posi-.
ton before the news had appeared in
foreign parts, thus allowing the es
Enlistment of q precedent that Is
not likely ever to be disturbed. Not
withstanding the reverse sustained
by the Legislature in the judicial
support of the veto prerogative, it is
recognized by all thoughtful people
that many constitutional advantages
remain to the cause of responsible
government. 1t is scarcely probable
that the King will ever venture to &c
the length of encroachment upon the
privileges of his constitutional ad
visers, to which he may be counseled
by irresponsible and unscrupulous
politicians on the strength of certain
views in the recent decision At all
events, that Judgment cannot affect
the provision for the independence
of the Legislature contained in the
Constitution. When that bulwarI
of liberty goes, it Will be time enough
to despair of having good govern
ment with assured autonomy.
Our San Francisco correspondent