The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-29
THE NEW ORDER.

means the destruction of the
political edifice they have spent
years in erecting, and i'll which
they expected to continue fattening
on public moneys with their ting
ers Oh their noses at the taxpayers.
The theory that the country be
longed to their patrons, the eX-
Queen and her political hangers
on and that foreigners who did
not like the way the Government
was run under the Monarchy could |
leave, etc, happily will have no
further application or influence
under the Republic.
There are, however, class OF
men who object to the new consti-
tuition because it eliminates these
very obstacles to the progress of
the nation. 1t was men OF this
character who labored so hard Ill
the days of the Mechanics Union
and later in those of the
anti American National Reform
Party TO show that republican
principles were not applicable to
government in Hawaii. Even at
that time the boodlers, both of high
and low degree, felt that any ten
dency toward republicanism should
be checked, if the political methods
then in vogue were to live.
1t is this class of men, almost
without exception of European
birth or descent, who have since
the revolution Of January, 1898,
fought for restoration and cried
down everything republican. With
out exception, from the leaders and
manipulators of political caucuses
to the humblest penny-a-liner,
these men have to the pres
ent moment worked and talked
and written with peculiar
anti-republican unanimity. 1t
has not mattered what the merits
of the subject were, in every in
stance the political mote has been
discovered in the Republican eye
without stumble over the beam
in the eye of monarchy, whose
obstruction made the establishment
of the Republic of Hawaii a de-
fensive necessity.
1t matters little, however, what
alleged defects these Royalist scrib-
blers claim to find in the new con-
stitution, so long as the public re-
members the same men proposed to
support the absolute theory of gov
eminent proclaimed by the eX-
Queen on that fatal day in January,
1898. The sarcasm that the pres.
ent constitution is a home made
document falls equally fiat when il
is remembered that the con
situations of republics are gen
orally home made, and have
been prominently so the worlc
over since the home made
document known as the Declare
ton of independence of the United
States was proclaimed on July 4
1916. The constitution which fol
lowed it is also open to the charg'
of being homemade, and it wa
home-defended, as ti-American
will probably remember having reaC
in history.
The present constitution has de
fects which can be amended a
necessity points out or future polio.
dictates, but taken as a whole, as i
now stands it fits to a nicely tn,
conditions surrounding the new
Republic, which demand stable a
we'll as liberal government. TIL
document is so evidently an i'm
provement on the past and open
such opportunities for the future
both to foreigners and natives tina
it will mark a new Commercial
and political era for Hawaii,
1t is not expected it will NEE
with the approval of the boodler
the radical Royalist or the rabiC
anti-American; but it will be ad
mitted that if it succeeds in sep
arating the interests of the native.
from the class of political ad
venturers, who have a minimum o
property interest in the country
a great impetus will be given the
nation, and especially the native
people to renewed progress. I'm
happily, retrogression was the ,ule
under the Monarchy.
The better class of native
Hawaiians are already gather,
ing the first fruits of the
great political change and
their men of ability and probity are
coming daily to the front, where