The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-10-18
THEIR POSITION.

upsetting the Cabinet gave their
reasons as the following: They were
against the registration bill. They
were against proposed labor legisla
ton. They were in favor of relax
ing the segregation of lepers. They
were in favor of new constitution.
The registration and labor bills were
introduced for the benefit and at the
instance of the planters. Yet the
planting members of the House 81
lently heard these measures OF vital
Importance to them decried, and the
Ministry condemned for having as
sumed the responsibility of the bills,
without uttering one word or max
ing one sign to show that they did
not acquiesce in the attacks on the
Ministry for those causes. Loose
dealings with the lepers made one of
the causes of the revolution of 1887.
Yet men who were concerned i'll that
movement utilized the native preju-
dice against segregation yesterday
as means of defeating the Minis
try. 1t reminds one of the angry
question of the Earl of Chatham, in
denouncing the methods of the war
against the American colonists,
"Shall we associate to our arms the
murderous tomahawk of the saw
age?" Who does not remember the
pepper and salt rhetoric of Mr.
Thurston in 1890 and again this
year, as he denounced the supreme
native idea of constitutional con-
vention? Yesterday he voted to ex-
pei the Ministry on grounds, one of
the most tangible, or else one of the
least phantasmal, of which was that
the Ministry promised no support to
constitutional tinkering. The Min
istry has gone out partly on the
charge knocked to pieces by the
Minister of Finance, that it had no
definite or declared policy to pre-
sent to the Legislature. 1t is there
fore proper to ask what sort of a
consistent and practicable policy
can be formulated or effectuated by
any Ministry depending for support
on the thirty-one votes that have re-
tired the Macfarlane Cabinet. An
swer will doubtless be made that the
majority of the House being against
! this Ministry it should have been
retired and the future left to take
care of itself. But such is not par
, liamentary government. No set
r of men who have no policy of their
own with majority at their back to
ensure its carrying out have right
or can afford, as representatives OF
the country at large, to associate to
their aid lot of diverse factions
! and overthrow a Ministry. The
country will condemn them for sc
, doing. This premier island has un,
mistakably, in the late special elec,
ton, declared in favor of retaining
the Cabinet just voted out by the
Legislature. There is not the slight,
est prospect of any Cabinet that
may be formed holding the support
of the majority of the Legislature
either for the perfection of good
measures or the defeat of bad mea
sures. The measures on which the
more intelligent and conservative
elements of the Legislature com
bined, for placing the leading indus
try of the country on footing tC
: battle against adverse circumstances
are the very measures for which the
turncoats who made up the requisite
majority with the straight party op
!. ponents of the Ministry condemned
the Ministry. Those who expect tc
secure office and party advantage
from the overthrow of the Cabinel
r are among the ones who desire the
V measures in question. How are they
r going to secure them?. Possibly b,
! the desperate and disreputable me
thods employed to gain their origina
and main purpose-the defeat of {
=, Ministry not of their political stripe
g However, they have made their bed
n Let them themselves now test it
Q comforts.