The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-10-19

this was several pegs above his ina
and quite a mile above his
cheek. Uaughter) Now this reso-
luton has been brought in, not for
the purpose of gaining favor with
the great United States, because il
upon such resolution as this-I am
speaking of the second section
Cabinet were to be voted out, the
Legislature would have the distin-
guished honor and pleasure of being
laughed at in Washington. | hope
that they will not be laughed at
not but what they may vote the
Cabinet out, but don't do it on that.
| am, though an American citizen, a
Hawaiian by residence, by denizen-
ship; my sympathies are with the
Hawaiian people, to which people
you all belong, and if there is any
thing in Gods world which | do not
wish to see the Hawaiian people do,
it is to make themselves ridiculous;
and this part of that resolution
dragged in by the hair with such
necessary violence that there are
large blotches of scalp off its head
are the miserable and palry excuse
for that once great man Mr.. Thurs
ton to advocate the dismissal of this
Ministry, and that is all he can
advocate it upon. Now then, | will
state to this House as | stated be-
fore, that | am not standing here in
defense of the Cabinet and | will
state that the action of this House
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immaterial. 1t has no honor to con
fer, it cannot cast any dishonor upon
me by its vote, | care nothing about
it. But for the sake of truth, for
the sake of fairness, for the sake of
justice, ask your leave simply to
explain myself.
1t has been said that the Cabinet
has shown no policy. The Cabinet
has lined out, and anyone who is
not wilfully blind could have seen,
that it has policy of economy and
retrcnchment, an estimate to raise
what money may be necessary to con-
duct this Government without run
ming further in debt and without
further enhancing the taxes which
the people of this country pay. 1t
is the policy of aiding the industries
of the country, it is the policy of as
sisting the planting interests, it is
the policy | may say of renewing the
credit of this Kingdom abroad which
suffered under the reckless admins
tration of the Thurston Cabinet very
much.
Noble Thurston-The bonds sold
for 113
Minister Neumann-They did?
Noble Thurston-They did.
Minister Neumann-If they did, it
was long before your crowd was in
Office. The bonds sold for 80 when
you got in, and when you squander-
ed 100000 that you dragged out OF
the Postal Savings Bank. (Applause.)
| do not want to retaliate upon
the honorable member from Maui, |
mean Mr.. Thurston, who has to-day
robbed me of one of the dearest il
lusions-that is, my admiration for
him, by taking away something from
him which he claims; but if the Ha-
waiian bonds were ever worth what
he said, it was none of his doing.
On the contrary, will say this, that
100000 of the peoples money that
were deposited in the Savings bank
have disappeared, have vanished, are
invisible, not accounted for, as | had
occasion to say once, certainly not
stolen under his administration, fol
| will confess that he is honest, but
he has fallen nightly in sense
Qaughter.) But that money is gone
and there is nothing to show for it
unless we can hunt up little of it
on the Punchbowl road. Now | dc
not quarrel with his Cabinet, Mr.
President, but | will ask this ques-
ton of you in this House: Is the
whole Cabinet responsible for one
man? l will freely say yes, they have
got to stand and fall together. Then
it comes with peculiar grace from
the Noble from Maui to speak about
this Cabinet being anti-American il
its inclinations and hostile to Amer,
lean interests, when during his in
cumbency the treaty which Mr.. Car
ter had prepared and almost brought
to perfection and acceptance was re-
iected. Whose Cabinet was it then
Why, Mr.. Thurston's! He will say
that he is not responsible. No more
these colleagues of mine for what ]
may have done. 1t has been well
stated by the Minister of Finance
and | will not repeat it, that by the
grace of His Majesty, the late King
Kalakaua, the honor was conferred
upon me of denizenship in this
country, and l am to-day to all in
tents and purposes a Hawaiian, but
| say frankly to you that | am first
an American and | shall remain
one, but while here, while | en-,
JOY the friendship, and while ]
en- { : the courtesy, and while / enjoy
the encouragement of my Hawaiian
fellow citizens, | propose to make
the interests of this country my first
and my most earnest desire. | dc
not need to be for that purpose il
the Cabinet, and therefore l shall
not certainly thank you too much j.
you leave me in. / understand thai
the question as to the vote of con
fidence was cut and dried. | be
lieve it, or it would not have beer
brought. 1t had been thoroughly
canvassed, and it was found tina
some of the gentlemen who did no
support it before had suddenly thei