The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-29
THE FAMILY COMPACT.

Every few days the people Of Homo
lulu are Informed BY the official press
that attempts to introduce here cor
rupt mainland methods will NOT pre-
vail We are told that the courts OF
the mainland are corrupt, that POLITICS
on the mainland are corrupt, that zen
on tie mainland are corrupt, and in
fact everything on the mainland is
corrupt The only purity under the
American flag is to be found in Ha-
wall. and that too within the circle Of
very small number here. Strange
that these purists Of Hawaii should
have wanted to be annexed to the
mainland Certainly they must have
known four years ago. and even eigh,
years ago. that mainland judges, main
land politics and the mainland press
were corrupt. Just as well as they
know It now. and yet they began q
movement for annexation eight years
ago that did not rest until annexation
was accomplished.
According to the members of the
family compact In Hawaii. theirs is,
and was, the best government On
earth-the only pure government on
earth, all others being corrupt and
venal. II is marvellous what a pure
and undefiled lot the members of the
family compact OF Hawaii are In
them rests all that is good and pure
in these islands. or that ever existed
In them or that ever can exist in than.
Like the mugwumps of 1854 they
are the only pure people. all others
being bad. and like the ancient kings
they can do no wrong. because wrong
lies not in them.
When the family compact controlled
the courts the judges were pure and
undehled The fact that a judge on
the Circuit bench. less than three
years ago. refused to permit the fling
OF a motion in a case because by so
doing he would give opportunity for
appeal to the Supreme Court. was not
wrong; ii was right and proper. be-
cause his refusal was directed against
men who were not within the holy cir
Gle OF purists. But when a member OF
the family compact was employed at
q fee OF $500 to come into the case
and he went 10 the house OF the Judge
in question and demanded that he.
as counsel. be permitted to appear
and file a motion and present argu-
ment on It the next day. and his de-
mand was complied with. that was
all right, because ii was all within
the family compact
Governor Dole can surround himself
with an Illegal Executive Council"
and this council can. and has. set
aside laws of the Territory. but that
is all right. because ii is done by the
members OF the family compact. The
family compact can do no wrong.
For n Circuit Judge now on the
bench TO sentence men TO jail for the
most hagrant case OF contempt OF
court ever seen in a civilized country
is infamous. The Judge is an unjust
judge. marplot a trouble breeder,
n protector OF the vicious and every.
thing that is bad. But in the days Of
the oligarchy of the family compact
the suspension of the civil law AMI
the substitution Of martial Law. with
its attendant evils. was all right.
There could be no wrong committed
by the members OF the family com.
pact. Men were arrested in those
days Of martial law on mere suspicion
and confined incommunicado for DAYS.
Others were sentenced TO long terms
In jail without s scintilla OF legal evi
dence. stu others were confined IN
jail for months merely because they
had been under suspicion and finally
turned out without ans trial or with
out any redress. there being nothing
whatever against them. only that they
had alspleased the family compact
But then there was nothing wrong in
that. there could be nothing wrong IN
that. Tor had not these men been pun.
ished for daring to think that the
Best Government on Earth was
not what il claimed to be.
Because one OF the best men tha,
ever tr6d these islands refused to sura
traitor 70 the sovereign he had sworn
to support. even after the brfbe Of
the Presidency had been temptingly
held out before him. he was set down
for ruin and every machinatson that
evil genius. that devillsh trlckevy. that
hellish hendishness could couture N