The Hawaiian gazette., 1888-01-31

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to be adopted.
As mail after mail from hence
reaches San Francisco, without bring
ing intelligence in confirm alton Of
the sinister rumors of previous mails
people over there will come to think
that Hawaii has more than its share
of sensation makers and mongers
While there was some truth in the
reports of a few weeks ago, in Sc
much as they told of movement on
foot to bring about another sudden
change of administration and polity
yet the stories that went along there
with to the effect that nothing but
foreign intervention could prevent
another revolution were utterly with
out foundation. People having the
largest stakes here never doubted the
adequacy of Government resources
for maintaining law and order. Some
mischief makers are still trying to
stir up trouble in the hope of bring
ing themselves out on top of what
ever wreck of existing things they
might procure. But their spasmodic
attempts at agitation prove not to be
based on race antagonlsm, of which
there is little or none despite several
movements that tried to secure motive
power in that undesirable condition.
The latest development of the opera
tions intermittently conducted by a
knot of professional demagogues and
place-seekers betokens, as result of
the success that they are not likely to
achieve, division among the native
Hawaiians themselves which would
destroy all their legitimate political
power Speakers at an open-air
meeting held by the band referred to,
held on Saturday last, are reported
to have uttered sentiments regarding
the sovereign which merit their pro-
secution; but it is not likely that this
license of speech will be interfered
with until the last extremity, as such
performances probably serve as a
safety escape for their authors
high pressure discomfort with them
selves and everybody else. The most
uniustifiable reports that have gone
abroad to America and Great Britain,
however, are those representing the
Ministry as being upon the verge of
collapse, and the people in general
AS being more dissatisfied with the
present administration than with the
run by Mr. Gibson under
the name of government The King
did take a stand against the recon
struction of the Ministry instead of
its resignation when one member
thereof saw fit to retire, but His Ma
iesty soon discovered that such posi-
ton was untenable in both theory
and practice. There is no reason to
doubt that the country as whole is
with the reconstructed Min
Istry. While there is not by any means
an absence of grumbling at particular
acts, there is general confidence that
the Ministry is doing, and will con-
tinue to do. as well by the country as
any four men that could be named in
their places. There has as yet been
no formal resistance, on the part of
interested individuals, to the action
Of the Legislature in ignoring the
Kings irresponsible veto. So long as a
chance remains of anybody contesting
issues before the Sudreme Court, it
cannot be said that the constitu-
-lonal crisis has passed. At present.
here Is nothing like general anxiety
over the outcome of the question. the
belief in the ultimate supremacy of
.he people being little if any less es-
.ablished and grounded than it was
IN the first of July last. Still anoth-
II injurious impression sought to be
treated abroad is that borne in
he statements Of business and fnan-
nal instability and want of conf
ience prevailing in the Kingdom.
Whatever anxiety exists in that |
,egard has relation more to
fiscal changes by the
United States Congress, which would |
deprive Hawaii of large measure of |
he benefits flowing from the Reel |
lrOcity Treaty, than to want of faith /
4 the political institutions and the
Industrial and commercial resources
# the Hawaiian Islands. In one or
more of the San Francisco papers the
tatements now referred to were ac-
ompanied by facts very largely re-
uting them, to the effect that the
increased sugar crop and enhanced |
'rices of that staple meant an income
f additional wealth to the Kingdom
mounting to five or six million dol
airs for the current year over the last.
/ sense of duty toward the country
nd no partisan motive inspires the
remarks on the situation.