The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-10-24

where strong power from the out
side took care of the simple natives
as we'll as the foreign colonies of
traders-the Hawaiian natives were
tickled with a semblance of self
government into passing mortgage
laws to their own undoing. 1t is
needless to go into the whole nara
tive. When changing conditions
made the lands more valuable as
freeholds and speculative property
than they had been as sources of
tribute from the sweat of the abort
ginal brow-why, then the lands
were roped iu as had been raked in
their produce of yore. Thus to the
condition Of merchant princes was
added that of lordly landed pro-
prietors, who strutted up and down
soliciting admiration for their great
ness and having themselves made
mobiles by the royal patent of what
they, their heirs and assigns now
affect to despise as "dusky sover
eigns."
The scene changes. By the abate-
ment of the gold fever on the Pacific
Coast and the decadence of the
whaling industry, the lands of the
Hawaiians in whose hands soever
held became possessed of less value
than in the earlier days, when upon
them the kanaka delved and the
wahine thumped the tapa cloth to-
gether. Sugar began to be cult
vated on a small scale, attracting
the investment of some of that
wealth made, as previously shown,
out of the natives. From here dates
the advance of Hawaiian commerce
at bound to a position where it
was worthy the worlds attention.
Thus far all material progress
formed debt to, first, the natives
soil and toll, and, secondly, to the
natives complaisant trust in the
wisdom and friendship Of the white
man who gave him "self-govern-
ment." There were millions in it
sugar. But the millions could not
be awaited by the slow-coach
methods Of natural development Of
trade. They must be hurried up,
and here again the native is enlisted.
He is promptly forthcoming, too, in
the person of 'dusky sovereign
no less than Kalakaua, who secured
a reciprocity treaty with the United
States, under which the new order
of Hawaiian chiefs waxed fat and
kicked, like Jeshurun. These facts
are an answer to Mr.. Lyons ques-
tions, viz: "Who has constituted all
this and keeps it in running order?
Is the principle that man is en-
titled to the fruits Of his labor worth
anything?" At every stage of the
upbuilding of that prosperity aes-
cribed by Mr.. Lyons, the native was
only too cordial in his cooperation
with his foreign brother. Then by
what right does Mr.. Lyons claim, as
he plainly does, exclusive foreign
control and plutocratic at that?
The next grand assumption Of
what is not So made by Mr.. Lyons
is that the natives were responsible
for all the political confusion that
resulted in the opportunity for the
Stevens Wiltse- Thurston combina
ton to strike its assassin blow al
the independence of this country
} In cursory mention of the revolu
i. tion of 1887, Mr.. Lyons says: "Thel
r trial was made of ministerial gov
l ernment by Legislative will, and il
1892 seven months of bowling chao
was the result. Out with the Min
1 listers, In with the Minister'S; fift,
| men devoting their time ant
/ strength to useless attempts at leg
!, islation for a discontented littl
j. country" What a prodigious ski
! the learned chronicler of such re
l cent events here makesl. He goe
l flying past the scenes of wranglinI
9 and confusion, of internal part
f strife and evasion of pledges t.
. electors, Of domineering of upstart
@ and making Of unconstitutiona
9 laws, which characterized the ses
# sions of 1887 and 1888 of a Legislator
g composed almost solidly of tn
b party to which MIR. Lyons belong
il His skipping pole is long enoug
It also to carry him over the sessio
Y, of 1890, in which the split Cabine
o of his friends created a scene vi
o paralleled in ministerial government
g which showed that those who il
r augurated that system-as relate
@ by Mr.. Lyons-did not know ii
% rudimentary principles, one {
l. which is that ministry canno
h show a divided front and exis