The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-09
1.-THE Royalist Cause"


EDITOR BuLLETIN.--
The new man set to turn the Ad-
vertiser crank is dishing up the same
old solo of "the royalist cause" be-
ing fatally smitten with vacillation
and weakness, that has been worn
threadbare by his predecessor He
reminds me OF the man in the COM
cdy of the haunted house, who vain
lv tried to keep up the courage of
his followers by yelling out that
there weren't any ghosts in that
parish Or, perhaps a more appro-
pirate illustration would be that of
the unknown individual who played
i}rUtus in he first act of the L. G..
comedy At the first lines of his
Romans, cOuntrymen and lovers"
his knees shook visibly; but upon
hearing the shoulder arms" Of
Uncle Sam troops over the fence in
the adjoining lot, he braced up like
the real patriot and the good
judge of The value of patriotism that
he has since proved.
We are told 10y the crank-turner
of yesterdays Advertiser, that the
nation feels that it has at last lifted
itself out of the rut of semi-civiliza-
ton, to which it would not, could
not return. Now, if you don't read
the Advertiser you don't get the
news, and it must be admitted by
the most rabid opponent of despo-
tism, or -royalist, that this is real
live news. In my ignorance | al
ways thought that representative
government, i. g., a system under
which tho people had a supreme
voice in electing the men who made
their laws, and spent their taxes,
was in no sense semi-civilized and
that q system of government in
which these elements of popular
representation are wanting, as i'll
Dahomey and Russia, were semi
civilized. We now learn from the
new DR.. Birch of the Advertiser that
this is all wrong, and bow our heads
in meek submission, as in duty
bound, by the new treasonfelony
and coercion laws of that eminent
son of Solon, w. O. Smith, to our
new teacher
The Native Hawaiian" is the
phantom that troubles the perturb-
ed spirit of the Advertiser man, yet
his party declared from the first
| that the native was not to be con-
suited. But Thurston and partners
having failed to annex the United
States according to plan, the natives
are now politely requested to step
into the annexation operating room
to inhale the p. G. gas and effect
their own political extinction. How
nice. How obliging and forbearing
the bakers dozen of usurers and
landsharhs who own the Advertiser
have been, we learn from the follow,
ing: "Since the Kamehameha line
became extinct the rulers of Hawaii
have been allowed to continue the
matter of courtesy rather than
right" 1t would, obviously, not
suit the faction represented by the
Advertiser to inform Commissioner
Biount-whose name is with bad
taste more than once introduced in
to this article Of yesterday-that be-
fore the Kanehameha line became
extinct the Republican principle OF
electing the head of the govern,
ment was incorporated in the Con,
stitution and the present Queen j:
Queen by vote Of the people, quite
IS much as the liiustrious Grover
Cleveland is the ruler by choice oi
the American people.
The organ Of scmj-demi "civilizeC
government" winds up its TRADE
lstilI harping for Commissioner
Biouut). as follows: "lt is quite a.
likely, however, that Commissioner
Biount already sees what the vast
majority Of the residents of Hawai-
saw before his arrival, viz: That the
royalist cause is a fake, gotten VI
by shrewd politicians to trade upon
and that it has had no existence IL
fact. If fthe Advertiser party have one
fiGtieth the courage of their profes
sions, let thom urge the government
to take vote Of the people and
would even have it on the "Nobl'
vote" of the present electoral roll
which is largely the white vote
The Commissioner would then SET
Just what "falle" the royalist caus
is, and somebody would then have
chance to be the nations laureat
} by writing a new version of ''Beauti
full Snow" MAKEE AUPUNI.