The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-15

government ran riot then. Shameless
frauds were committed. Soldiers were
transferred to Kona. What for? To
swamp the peoples candidate, and
there the king went with them and
sat all day by the ballot box. The as
sessment of taxes was delayed, in
order 10 affect a vote of want of conf
dence by the use of the appointing
power. Do you wonder, Mr.. Presi-
uent and gentlemen, that there were
men IN the country then who banded
together for decent Representative
government. They stood for that
then and they stand for &c now. Prin
ciples never stand still. You can 90
back to those days il you want to. Ii
you stand for principle you must go
forward, as we are trying to do to. day.
There are those who fear for the
future of this country, and
despair of any further progress.
do not. Few countries on this broad
earth have made more rapid progress
In political liberty than we. Only in
1856 the King had an absolute veto.
His "No' outweighted forty-eight
votes. Now bill can be carried over
his head. Office holders have been
banished from the House. We have
advanced so far that now instead of
Cabinet trembling before the King,
we have one which is over his head,
whose advice he is bound to take.
Verify, as the member from Kohala
has said, this is a new day for Hawaii.
1t is new day and a happy day.
Some day, L do not know when it will
be, but some day, as surely as the sun
rises and sets, the people will rule
absolutely in this country, and we
wont have any monarch. L don't be-
lieve the country is ready for that to-
day. Ii may not be ready next year,
nor for many years, but the day must
come, for it is the tendency of the
whole world. The time when the
monarch can ride rough shod over the
necks of the people has forever gone
by. To bring this down to the present
moment, the thirty-three signers of
the resolution presented to Her Ma
jesty supported the principle OF repre-
sentative against personal govern
ment. Some of them had no courage,
and have gone back. We don't care If
they have. The rest of us will stand to
our convictions, and if we are beaten
we will go Down with the flag flying.
The person who wrote Her Majesty's
reply, made bungling straddle, but
L believe in accepting it as an accept
dlcc ny Tier majesty III SOOu iiltH III
the principle that the majority of the
Legislature shall be consulted in pick
ing out the Cabinet. We have made
this advance. Let us not go back.
There are, however, two branches to
this proposition. First, that she shall
call leader of the majority. But the
man who is called cannot be an
autocrat himself. He is simply called
as the representative of the majority,
| and he has no right to pick out a
| Cabinet without consulting the ma
jority, and / say that Mr.. Macfarlane
in picking out Cabinet without
consulting the majority of the
House was just as much de-
| flying the Legislature as the Queen
would have been In his place.
He did not wish to be ruled by King
| Macfarlane any more than by Queen
Liliuokalani. There seemed to be some
fatal bias, some deadly microee bias in
this House when the question of MAX
ing Cabinet was concerned. When
Noble Neumann was offered q Cab
met position he forgot his position as
a legislator and his duties to his col
leagues and without even speaking to
his own faction he turned up smiling
one morning as Minister. No bee
bu2zed louder in the hive then than
Mr.. Macfarlane. Nothing would sat
isfy him but the CORY scalp of his
companion, and he had it. [Calls of
kokua1. Although Mr.. Neumann
was his friend, his boon companion,
his political associate, he must be
taught lesson. Then the hon. mem
Der said the National Reform Party
had been making draft mule of him
and he didn't propose to stand it. But
two short weeks passed, and the same
thing happened to the genial member
from Honolulu. He didn't consult
his faction nor his friends but climbed
the fence between Saturday night and
Monday morning, and turned up
where his whilom friend had done, in
the Cabinet. Now, Mr.. President,
the rest of us stand just where we did
when our two friends deserted us.
But when we presume to insist
on what we all insisted on then, they
have nothing to answer but the shrek
malice annexation land now the
Attorney weeps-it is not fair
not to give us chance. | tell you,
gentlemen, when you have rotten
egg there is no use to sit it for three
weeks under hen to see if 1T will
hatch. No, gentlemen; the situation
is plain and simple, and the issue is
clear cut. The question is, whether
this Cabinet is to be selected in az
: cordance with Constitutional prin-
ciples or by Irresponsible persons
, If the principle was good when we
,, signed that paper, it is good now. II
> it was worth fighting for then, it is
|, worth fighting for nova If it wa:
sound then, it is sound now. / do MOI
, propose to go back on it, no mattel
who leaves it, and l will fight for i
/, until, so help me God, it becomes tn
, governing principle Of this country
: You natives should not be guided by
q personal regard for the Minister o
:, Foreign Affairs, 1 yield to M
J one in that. But if you get VI
. and say you will not supper
representative government agains
! personal government, you will b
9 abandoning the rights of your con
u stituents. You must make a stan
y for principle. In closing the speake
: referred to the rumors on the streets
y The Marshal had said to him that
c was said if this resolution did not pas
! ! its supporters would use force. Tha
y was not true. They would use moth
u ing bat constitutional and legal mean
:, and if they did not succeed in enforc
- ing the principle now, they woul
- wait until they could do so.
:; Noble Peterson said there were
- number of others who wished t