The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-11-22
THAT'S DIFFERENT"

EDiToR BULLETIN The Govern
ment organ of this date says So
which is pretty good reason for not
believing it. And if the "Analy-
sis" of the hon. the Min. of Interior
had been carried to its logical con-
clusion, the above legend might
truly be written of the deduction
perforce drawn from his figures. He
should have had another "tablc,"
something like this:
Total No. Hawaiian voters,
CReps) ....,,,,. ...,,.,.., 1855
Total No.all othervoters(Rsps) 5,262
Proportion OF Hnwaiians. ... ca pc.
Total No. Hawaiian voters,
(Noblcs). ......,..... ..,... l,O6o
Total No. Foreign voters, (No-
bles) .,....... ,,........ l,5J2
Proportion oi Hawaiians. .... 353p.c.
That is, whereas the Ilawaiians
outnumber all other nationalities
by (64-36) 2S per cent. and not IA
per cent. as the Minister puts il, on
the Representative vote, yet the
others outnumber them 29 per cent.
(G44- S51) in the vote for Mobiles!
But even if true, that this mon
trous proportionate disability intlict-
ed upon the native race by the
"bayonet constitution" does not
sweep them out so utterly as the
hon. the Minister says is the general
impression, is that any defence Of
the principle? If an unequal fran
chise, forced upon the unwilling
owners of the country by the bay
onet, is to be defended by hair
splitting argument as to the degree
of the injustice done, then the array
of figures which the hon. the Minis
ter furnishes the government organ
would be in point otherwise than as
pure statistics.
But the cloven hoof of the whole
argument--if argument it may be
called, and when the friends of the
Ministry are wildly appealing to all
foreigners to retain them in power,
even though missionaries, in order
to "keep out the native" Sis this
bright idea: "When these facts (the
statistics on which the above COM
parison is based) are considered
they show the utter lack of founda-
ton of partisan appeals to race pre-
| judice based on the allegation that
the native Hawaiians have been de-
prived of the right TO vote, and are
being crowded 10 the wall" What
is it, if not "crowding to the ,wall'
when q new set of voters is manu-
featured whose only limit was theil
existing number in the country, ant
at the same time given two-thirds o.
the Mobiles voting power And then
because the natives have one-thirC
thrown TO them, this sickly defence
founded on the alleged small degree
of the injustice is attempted. More
over, everyone knows that the tes
figure (S60O per year) was so FIXED
because by going either higher o.
lower the pro rata of Hawaiian No
bles voters must have been increas
ed, for this reason: by making thu
figure (say) So per month, thu
number of foreigners ''let out
would far exceed natives, for tn
reason that the lowest paid foreign
ers Except common laborers) re
ceive over $50; whereas grea
many natives receive sums some
what less than $50; and it was t,
include the largest possible numbe
of foreigners, and to exclude til
largest number of natives, and a
temporary expedient to It'd
over the then approaching (Sept
'78) elections that this scheme 0
franchise robbery was carried out il
this particular manner. And now
q fraction and q faction of the mino
rity seek to perpetuate it, and brin
to their aid the "race" cry, 70
which, among other things, they in
duced outsiders to raise revolutio
against the Gibson regime.
EAIp-pJ Az