The morning call., 1893-03-09

"If Prince Albert were whatihe ought to
be" is a lament one hears every now and
then, from some one Of the higher class,
then we would show the Americans that
we want and would support king"
But Prince Albert, the last Of the old
high chiefs, is but a renegade Prince-a
hopeless drunkard, married to a native
woman of low degree, whom the natives
would never tolerate as Queen, and besides
him there is not one living of the ALI.
The Provisional Government has caused
a thorough overhauling and cleaning in the
palace, and a restoration to the royal fam
lily of ali their personal property, and upon
the return of the commissioners from the
States with the hoped-for news that an
nexation has been consummated a grand
housewarming will doubtless be given
there. This will be the formal setting up
of the new order In the former hannt of
royalty. The palace is very handsome
structure, surrounded by beautiful grounds,
and if the future Governors of the Terri
tory are quartered there. they will be far
better housed than the President of the
United States has ever been.
The governor act Of the past regime was
repealed February q by the councils, so
that Colonel Cleghorn is no longer Cover
nor OF Oahu. There have been several
attempts on the part OF the royalists and
interested halt-wbtes to arouse the natives
to the point of some active demonstration
that would indicate their opposition 10 an
neXatiOn. 4 grand mass-meeting OF natives
in Thomas square was planned to take place
on the morning the Australia is advertised
TO sail. The idea was 10 take the other
side by surprise. and so arrange that only
the indictments side should reach the
United States by the outgoing steamer and
perhaps produce a reactionary sentiment
on the other side.
This brilliant project has fallen through,
owing TO the inability of its projectors TO n-
duce a single native Hawaiian OF any prom
inence to have anything TO do with such a
threadbare scheme. They went to John
Ena, one of the brightest and best informed
native business men in this city, but he re-
fused fatty to cOuntenance any such meas
ure, taking the ground that IEwas worse
than foolish. Ths speeches to be made
were to bear upon the matter of extending
the franchise to the natives, which Mr. Eua
argued it would be time thrown away to
plead for at this stage of the play. When
the Hawaiians were educated to the point
Of democratic citizens and the islands were
ready TO come into the Union under State
government. then would be time enough to
talk of the franchise. Before that it would
be useless. Apparently the rest of the
prominent native business men were Of the
same way Of thinking, and not speaker of
any account could be obtained from among
them, and the effort is abandoned, although
there is prospect that it may be renewed
on the occasion Of the next arrival OF the
Monowai.
There is a band of discontented ones very
active In the exploitation of a scheme to
petition al once for admission as State.
There is now organizing. with c. ii. Ash
ford as prominent mover therein, a
"Citizens' Civil Rights League" which is
to have an organization in every voting
precinct in the islands, with its object
ostensibly the protection Of every citizen in
his exercise Of the franchise-in reality its
ultimate purpose the enfranchisement of
the natives. AS these outnumber the
whites by large majority. and as the ma
tive vote is VIGOROUSLY purchasable, the
possibilities Of corruption and manipula-
ton of the body polite under such state
Of affairs is not pleasant to contemplate.
A territorial form of government is at
present the only feasible one for the
islands if annexed. 1t will be good many
years before The new citizens Will be ready
Tor the duties of citizenship; and until they
are. the white men are for the most part
content to remain under the known ills OF
territorial government. There is no more
delightful companion on a pleasant day
than Kanaka. but they are wholly lack
Ing in anything like prudence or foresight,
while the halfcaste is usually of the
smart Aleck' order, with Just enough
Of alien blood to make him impatient of re-
straint, without enough to temper his i'm
patience with good sense.
No one has yet succeeded in obtaining
copy of the muck-talked. OF new constitu-
ton. 1t is believed that all copies have
been destroyed. The provisions wherein it
differed from the constitution Of 1877 are
said TO have been that the Queen should