The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-21
THAT BURNING SPEECH.

to aid in restoring the Monarchy, We
conclude that he had two objects in
view. The first and most important
was TO make it hot" for the Govern
ment on general principles. The sec
ond was to put himself on record as a
believer in the rule of the majority.
He is utterly insincere in this be-
lief, because this rule, if adopted,
would admit to the polls 10000 Asiatic
votes at least, the votes Of men who are
more thrifty, fully as intelligent, and
really much more so, than the natives.
They are residents and by the princi-
pies of democracy, which the Repre-
sentative proclaims, have the right to
say who shall rule them. In America
and here as we'll, we have abandoned
the principle that man, because he is
a man, may share in the Government
More than this, for nearly 80 years
the inhabitants of the States have re-
fused to permit the people in many OF
the large cities to govern themselves,
in local affairs, by the rule of the ma
jority, and have ruled them by alien
Commissions appointed by the Legis-
lature. Tammany, alike with Mr.. Loe-
bernstein denounced this method, as a
crushing out of the right of the major
itv TO rule. But the Americans adopt it
in order to defeat the rule of the ma
iority. The Democrats of the South,
men of the same party to which Mr.. L.
belongs, refuse to allow negro MAJOR
tiles to rule in the Southern States.
Even Mr., Lincoln, so freely quoted by
Mr.. L. said in 1861: eff 1 can preserve
the Union without destroying slavery,
1 will do so'' He refused the negro all
rights. The Americans in 1776 refused
to be governed by the majority OF the
British subjects of the British nation,
and though minority, rebelled and
got their independence.
Mr.. IL seems to view the situation as
the Queen does. He and she declare
that the natives "are goaded by their
wrongs and she as we'll as he feels
badly about it, But she says they won't
put up dollar in order to recover their
rights" and we presume, he will ac-
eept her statement. He knows and
we know, that while the racial habit
inclines the natives to some kind of
native rule, the underlying feeling is
that of suspicion and distrust of the
thrifty and prosperous haole. If pos
sessed of power, they would not have
any use for Mr.. L. in spite of his burn
ing sympathy.
But MIR. L. declares that the present
rule is that of "a general tyrrany, des-
potism and centralism of a hide-bound
centralizing and medioco executive, ar
rogatingrto itself both judicial and leg
islative functions, in defiance of the
Constitution.
Suppose President Dole addressed a
message to the Legislature as follows:
.'I am charged with treason by Rep
resentative Loebenstein. Who is he? He
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mutton suet. He is dirty tumble-bug
from nowhere. He is an idotic manikin
with arrested development. He finds
it painful to stand on two legs, and
when no one is looking on, gets down
on all tours and trots around like an
ape. He worships the Father of Lies
and always speaks of him as his noble
ancestor That is what he isl"
Now if President Dole said this in a
message, it would be called abuse by
Mr. Loebenstein, who has abused the
President by calling him a ''tyrant'
and traitor" and Mr.. L. would at once
do the ''Ki-yi' act and whine out that
he was himself unjustly attacked, and
denounced for standing up for the
rights of the people.
Would Mr.. LIS wild denunciation
and Mr.. Dole's expressive message, il
he sent one, help us to getting good
government? Would it not leave us
just where we started? Whatever the
defects, of the Government are, it is
not what Mr.. L. declares it to be.
Therefore. his language is only that
of an irreconcilable, ranting anarchist
the rawlings of a political dervish who
finally gets so wrought up with anger
and rage, that he tears off his clothes
and foan1s at the mouth. Mr.. LIS
speech is an admirable specimen OF
sand lot" oratory and he was very
properly. rebuked by Representative
Atkinson.
Representative Loebenstein has
thrown away a splendid opportunity
for doing political good. If he had
with clear common sense views, stated
the perplexing questions we have tc