The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-18
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On tne w ant OF commence reSO-
luton introduced a month ago the
Ministry were able to secure but
twenty-one votes, and the adhesion
of half dozen of these was pro-
visional only The Ministry was
in a minority and should have re-
signed. 1t did not do so. 1t was
obvious that it was impossible for
the Cabinet to maintain itself, and
the crushing defeat of yesterday
brings the confirmation, the House
expressing its want of confidence
by a vote of 81 to Is.
The frequent removal of Cabi-
nets is an evil which all must de-
plore, but the appointment of Cab
inets in defiance of constitutional
methods, as we'll as Of the interests
of the country is a greater evil
still. The vote of yesterday is a
rebuke to every attempt to thwart
the popular will by the appoint
ment of Cabinets which do not rep
resent the dominant parties in the
House and in the country. Minis
tiers Macfarlane and Neumann
averred that the opposition to the
Cabinet did not proceed solely on
the grounds suggested in the reso-
luton. They are most certainly
correct. Four weeks ago the con-
stitutional principle violated by
the appointment of the late Cabi-
net found twenty-four men to up
hold it in the House. Not one of
the twenty-four has gone back, but
seven have joined them in the move
ment forward. The reason for dis
missing the Ministry on the 18th
of September has abated none of
it's force on the 18th of October.
If, in the meantime, the Cabinet
have managed to pile up three fur
Their good reasons for dismissing
them from Office, that is not i'm
putable to their opponents as a
fault.
1t is time that the significance of
the controversy which has agitated
the Legislature since September
1st should be fully understood.
The Ministry have been dismissed
for the reasons set forth in the mo-
ton yesterday, and they are-,~al
perfectly good and valid reasons
But they are dismissed for the fur
ther esupreme reason that the,
never had any constitutional RICH
to their seats at all. They wer
selected, no one knows just how
but not by any method known t
constitutional law. Somebody O
some combination selected three
and then after a weeks vain searcl
, for premier, he was found. Th
person selected as premier neve
, made the Cabinet. It existed
week before he was thought Of H
merely stepped in as a fourth an,
accepted a nominal responsibility
l for body which was formed, no
) only without him, but without an,
representation of the leading pal
ties in the House, and without an,
reference to or even pretense Q
consulting the rights, feelings an
views of the majority. If Cabinet
are to be formed thus, consti
tutional government is farce, tn
political liberty of the subject
dream, and the people which vii
stand tamely by and submit with
out using to the full all the power
of resistance which the law allow
them, richly deserve the SLAYER
for which they are surely destined
, The truth is, for seven weeks W
have been confronting a situation
which is simply repetition of tn
features of the pre-revolutionary re
gime. The characteristic of tina
period was that the constitutional
, guarantees were insufficient to Sc
cure political liberty. Usurpatiol
was possible and therefore actual
In the existing state of human ma
ture it is pretty sure to he aetna