Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-12
What We Have Gained.

iue OF the causes WHICH We are
al justified the revolution Of
.,-r ear was the alleged extra
yag ne OF the mouarchial gov
eminent which threatened the
country with disaster and the
4af5ou with ruin. We cannot
aft ri were the words heard
nv and late in the Legislative
Hall In 1892. The committee
of ways aud means cut
and filed wherever t b e Y
coult and the pite u 5
voice If the member from Koloa
and Lihue appealed daily to the
patriotism Of the assembly call
ing upon the members to retrench.
retrench and retrench. Finally
the Appropriation bill was put in
Sd pc and passed. The Reform
party quashed their teeth and
the Advertiser wept ink over the
proposed outrageous expenditures
and the wise owls shook their
heads and prophesied speedy
RUIN of al. A revolution they
claim became necessary and like
the conspTators in Madam Ang-
OF 5 Daughter they got together
and like brave men, as they are.
concluded to take the matter
and their lives in their hand-and
hire Stevens to do their dirty
work. The bargain was closed
TIE ripe pear Of Hawaii and
a silver teapot were sufficient to
lead the broken down old man
into the dangerous path. He dis
cgraced him self his government
bis nation and his flag, and if it
had been possible would have
disgraced his co-conspirators,
but he did the job and Hawaii
was governed by the men who
had howled themselves hoarse a
few months previously to obtain
retrenehmsnt-anl power. Now
Hawaii was blessed, now ruin was
avoided, now happiness reigned
supreme, and everything shone
in roseate hue and the goose
hung higo. The storekeepers
displayed their prettiest goods
now, there would be sale for
them The bar-keepers tapped
their best liquor-now, it would
be wanted The lawyers smiled
and raised their fees-no. of
course, there would be no law
suits in the golden era but at least
they smiled. In fact everybody
was pleased except that insign-
iicant minority composed of
kanakaS and low" whites The
opium-ring was crushed and
gambling was a myth of the past.
Sach was the programme on the
18th, 10Th and Goth of January
1898. Then a change took place.
All the lofty principles, all the
sublime patriotism, all the un
selfish heroism disappeared. like
green peas before an Hawaiian
army, and greed. selfishness and
boodleism lifted their ugly heads
followed by quarrels. dissatis-
faction, mutual distrust and
hatred The taxpayers stood
quietly by, looking at the circus.
Occasionally he threw wishful
glance at the treasury where his
money and those of his fellow
men were. and where the fight
ragged mostly bitterly between
the Office seekers He saw the
port.y form of 2. C, Jones wrestle
with the problems of finance
and disappear. He saw the pom
pous figure of I. c. Porter max
ing financial sommersauIts and
then take to obseurity. He
finally saw the sweet .complacent,
smile Of Mr.. S. NJ. Damon re
fected in the door of the vault
and saw t grow less and less
sweet while the struggling hair
that ornament the Uranium of
the great 6uaneier stood up and
seems to cry forth retrench. retire
nch We doomed. And then the gov
eminent sat themselves down. /
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