Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-08
Another Tinker. :

vibrate under their Wild and
astounding ideas. The latest
specialist in constitution manu-
featuring is Mr James " Girain
late Of San Diego He IS out in
the Adrertissr this morning and
tells Us ali abont 1t. He overlooks
4 few points, bat nevertheless his
writing furnishes a good example
Of what We can expect from the
gentlemen who at some date are
supposed 70 g,ther together aud
paraiyze the world with their
wisdom. Mr.. Girvin makes a
slight error though when ne
opens his article by saying.
"A convention to frame con
stitutiJn having been called. aud
The call having been responded
b bv the people by their electing
i .lrgates, to whom they have
leputed the power to frame IA
convention
The People hasn't done any
thing of the kind AMI Mr. Girwin
Is perfectly aware OF it. An
election WAS undo ubtedlv held at
which Ill Cover nment officials II
lumber of Illiterate Portuguese
md a few men whose interests
re merged in the p, g. went to
the polls. But Mr.. Giryin will
certainly not call such motley
crowd the people However the
point in Mr.. GIrvin's letter that
We especially desire to call
,ttention to is the franchise clause
which Mr. Grvin suggests
that liberal franchise suould
De granted. l. beraI indeed 1t
would be because it incldd IS
everybody who can reid and
write Hawaiian or any E lrope EN-
langu ,ge--except Asiatics--im
N lterlaI of the length or their
residence here. We shall not
lwell on Mr.. Girvln's error in
,upposing for Il minute that such
clause could be tolerated, be
canse we have frequently pointed
Dat that the Japtnese govern
nent will insist in, or if neces-
nv enforce its demands for
equal rights for its citizsns in
Hawaii. Mr.. G rvin also needs
to be remembered of the Chinese
Protective Union the object of
which powerful organization is
b Insist in the same privilsg IS
as granted to any other class of
leople--and who can resist when
the Chinese insist! If Mr. Grvin
g in should occupy his spare
lours with framing constitutions
We should propos4 t. him to give
is some Suggestions how to make
a constitution under which no
alien, bat only naturalized citi-
zens can vote and then figure on
the eventual result of such a
| provision and the kickers there
would be. As Mr.. Girvln prot
poses the franchise clause all the
Portuguese would virtually be
| lisfranchised and then indee,l
the p. 6. would have a picnic.
Between the Portuguese, the
Chinese. the japanese, the secre-
leagues. the foreign powers. the
sore-heads. the radicals. the
conservatives. the planters, the
boodlers and the other mis-
Sionaries; the correctness Is east
" seen of Mr. Giryiu's final
statement that the convent Oh
will not have a picnic, a state
'Oent that be Immediately spnils
, by dding that the contention Is
composed of men who can be
trustvi to do justice to the work.
Verify we are inclined to believe
that between the efforts OF Messrs.
Dole and Company aud Giryin
and the other profession ais
the old order of things will be
restored and hailed with a sigh
of relief by the very political in
fants who tore the Hawaiian
government toy to pieces to see
what was inside. and now whine