The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-05
RESISTANCE AT EVERY STEP.

The true and only method Of pre-
serving any balance Of power under
orr government is 70 preserve an eI-
act balance. and to this end encroach-
ment must be resisted at every step.
Even II no harm or inconvenience re
suit from pansgressing the boundary.
the intrusion is not TO be passed I'M
noticed We are not to wait until
great public miscb'efs come. OF un
til our liberties are subverted. Every
encroachment, great or small. is i'm
portant enough to awaken the atten-
ton OF those who come fresh from the
people as their representatives. and
who are entrusted with the power of
preserving our freedom and enacting
our laws We should not be worthy
sons Of our fathers we're we to disre-
gard issues so vital to our liberties
as those thrust upon the people of this
Territory by the high-handed. arbi-
trary. domineering and dictatorial
Governor Of this Territory We may
do here what our forefathers did in
the days long gone Those fathers
accomplished a revolution on a strict
question Of principle The Parliament
OF Great Britain asserted a right to
tax the Colonies in all cases whatso-
ever. and il was precisely on this
question that they made the revolution
turn The amount of taxation was
trifing. but the claim itself was in
consistent with liberty. and that was,
in their eyes. enough. II was against
the recital OF an Act Of Parliament
rather than against any suffering un.
der its enactment that they took up
arms They went to war against q
preamble. They fought seven years
against a declaration. They poured
out their treasures and their blood
like water in a contest against an as
sertion which those less sagacious
and not so well schooled in the prin-
ciples Of civil liberty would have re-
garded as barren phraseology, or a
mere parade of words. They saw in
the claim of the British Parliament
a seminal principle of mischief-the
germ Of unjust power, theI detected
il. dragged il forth from underneath
its plausible DISCUSSES. struck at II;
nor did il elude their steady eve or
their well directed blow till they had
eNtlrpated and destroyed it to the
smallest fibre. On this question of
principle. while actual suffering was
yet afar of. they raised their flag
against a power to which. for pur-
poses Of conquest and subjugation.
Rome in the height of her glory. is
not TO be compared: a power which
has dotted over the surface of the
whole globe with her possessions and
military posts. whose morning drum
beat. following the sun and keeping
company with the hours. circles the
earth with one continuous and IN
broken strain OF the martial airs OF
England.
The necessity OF holding strictly to
the principle upon which free gov,
ernments are constructed and to those
precise lines which fix the partitions
of power between different branches
is as plain. II not as cogent. as that
Of resisting. as our forefathers did. the
strides OF the parent country against
the rights OF the Colonies; because
whether the power which exceeds its
Just limits be foreign or domestic
whether il be the encroeehment OF al
branches on the rights OF the people
or that Of one branch on the rights o
othen. in either case the balances
and Wen adjusted machinery OF fire.
government is disturbed. and IL tbs
arrangement 20 on. the people aloH'
must suffer. Il therefore oehoove
the members OF the Isegisiatgre-it I
their plain. sworn. solemn. sacre'
duty 70 maintain their rights agains
the unlawful encroachment of tn
Governor Of this Territory in his III
concealed desire and intent to central
ize ali power. as under bis infamou
Republic. in the hands and contrc
81 the Executive He assumes tn
sole right to eonstrue the Organic Ae
Of this Territory as TO the duration 9
legislative sessions. as TO the power 9
the Legislature to inspect public o
fetal documents and records: he "
toes a bill providing for local sci
government. and. upon the strengt