The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-03-06
A FRIEND IN NEED.

Cle. Inc pOllIlcai orSu'' ho"e'N''
does not improve the position OF the
religious organ of the Reform Party. !
In all probability the Friend fell
into its misrepresentation of the Ma
tonal Reform Party on the question
of the public health through mad
vertence. That the religious organ
did misrepresent the party in that
regard is beyond the resources of
casuistry to disprove. The National
Reform Party spoke out upon the
health question, whereas the Reform
Party passed that question in total
silence. There was no more call,
either, for the National Reform Party
to he pronounced upon the matter
than there was for the Reform
Party. All this straining Of the
Friend and Advertiser to roll the
National Reform Party into bog
of reaction is futile in presence of
the plain facts.
Suppose it were admitted that
some leading spirits Of the National
Reform Party had put themselves
on record rs disposed TO items of
policy contrary TO principles of their
ultimately adopted platform. How
is it with the Reform Party in point
of personal records? We see in that
party men so influential in its coun-
sells as frequently to dictate the ac-
tion of Ministers, who were equally
p ointment as bencficiaries and wile-
pullers under the much reprobated
"old order" That party had no
less than two members of the latest
Gibson Ministries on its ticket.
Several of the leaders in organizing
the Hui kalaiaina were also among
its candidates, who had assisted in
formulating those principles of that
organization, which were especi-
ally denounced by Reformers
as involving reaction. 1t was,
moreover, out of an agitation arising
within the Reform Party itself, that
the Mechanics Union branch of the
National Reform Party sprang.
That agitation was based on the
proposition that the Reform Party
as represented in its chosen Legisla-
ture had proved recrcant to the
principles of popular self-govern-
ment that it had become false to
the profession of giving the country
government of, by, and for the peo-
pie. Mr.. w. A. Kinney, the leader
in that agitation, singled out pro.
minent leaders in the Reform Party
men without whose support the
party would not have carried tel
seats in the late election-and ever
members of the Cabinet, denouncins
them on the public platform ant
openly on the street, as pursuing ;
course designed to throw the govern
ment of the country into the hands
of the wealthy classes, and, indeed
make the country itself tenabe onl,
to masters and slaves. Reciprocally
there was no man more hearth,
cursed than this agitalor, as being
reckless, hare-brained, iircbran'
whom it was the duty of all respect
able people to despise. A littl
later and Mr.. Kinney is found sid
by side with the plutocrats he ha
so unreservedly condemned, outhel
oding Herod in violent diatribe
against the workingmen for havin
organized to secure the rights TIL;
he had represented rs outrageous
withheld from them by his party!
Such was the origin of the Nj
chanics' Union. Nobody can trutl
fully say that there was any hint
letting lepers loose, or Of building
fleet for Samoa, in the aims of th
organization. How about the Hu
or, in English, the Hawaiian Polil
cal Association? IT was organized |
Mr.. Dan. Lyons, editor of the Elc
native newspaper, with the objet
neither more nor less, OF America
izing the institutions of the kingdo
10 the extent of adopting manhot
suffrage for all elections, and Il
elective system for filling the chi
Offices under the crown. Short
before the insurrectioE last year
wing of the society led ~ NJ
John +. Bush boted, because it 4
not approve of the full measure
either suffrage equalization or Il
election of high officials. The bolte
held to the old name and adopted