The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-04-30
PAUSE sIRel

To bite your nose on 20 spite your
face has never been considered either
good form or good policy, but that feat
OF disfguring caiisthenics appears to
be- next number on the program in
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hippo
drome. and. strangely enough. the
journalistic ringmaster. the Exeeu-
tive strong man. and the legislative
clan. are yieing with each other in
the performance OF the nose biting
act. Il may be admitted tat the ex-
istence OF the present Territorial
Legislature is most Irritating to His
Excellency the Governor, and that he
has abundant cause to regret that
Congress did not perpetuate the poll
teal conditions that prevailed in the
Republic and make him Captain,
crew and midshipmite" of the Terri
tOriai craft
How much nicer il would have been
for the Governor II the legislative So
Ions at Washington had arranged TO
have the Constitution come limping
along a year or two behind the flag
instead of following its folds into lis
paradise OF the Pacific. 1t might have
been done, and the Republicans in
Congress have been induced to repu-
diate their doctrine OF manhood suf-
frage. and ignore the fifteenth amend
ment. had it not been for Pitchfork
Tillman, who said to New England,
You forced negro suffrage down our
throats. now we will cram Kanaka
suffrage down yours"
Well. the milk was spilled in No
yember last and ii is useless TO howl
about ii. The Home Rule party,
organized OF Wilcox, by Wilcox, for
Wilcox. did everlastingly wipe the
earth with the rest OF us-Democrats
and Republicans both. The Humpty-
Dumptys who live in, and around. and
upon the Executive office. had a tum-
BILE, and all the kings horses and all
the kings men cannot set Humpty up
again. A majority of the legislators
are obstinately unappreeiative of Ex-
ecutive suggestions and insolently
deaf to Executive monitions and what
in the name of all the gods is our
Caesar going TO do about il? He has
no Pretorian guards with which to
clear the forum, and no baseball ex-
pert TO throw bomb around the cor
ner into the legislative chamber. His
iniudicious advisers free their minds
by denouncing the Home Rulers as a
poi-eating mob of rural taro planters.
and blackguard newspaper editor,
who has been a persistent tax-eater
for quarter of century. goes so far
as 70 suggest that they are lady
dogs" If not the immediate descend
ants OF lady dogs. But even If the
lineage were as noble-or as base
as their critics, they are harnessed
TO the legislative sled. and they are
the only animals that can pull it out
of the mire. Win il not be better
then for the Executive and his circum-
iaeent statesmen TO acQuiesce in the
inevitable and adapt their course TO
IL. rather than spatter their aqueous
brains against the stone wall Of ka-
naka recalcitranee without detriment
to the stone wall. but 10 the great dis
advantage OF the brains. The legis-
lators row ask for opportunity to en-
act necessary legislation; they prom
Use to be good boys II afforded
chance. and. since HIS Exeeilency has
no pick Of legislative grisf now. why
not accept their protestations and
give them chaneeg We need 4 mu.
nicipal government law. we need a
revision OF the statutes. we need one
or two other laws. and We must have
appropriations to carry on the Gov
eminent The boys have said ali their
speeches snd pounded up all the
desks, and used up all the stationery,
and reduced the Territorial funds to
forty-fve cents, and like Mulligan's
parrot had hell Of tine generally
Maybe. IL their legislative life were
extended thirty days they would huc-
kle down to business. and convince
US that good could come out OF Naza,
reth.
And what is the alternativss A
special session. But who is to guar
antee that the Legislators woald at
special session limit their legislation
to the passage OF appropriation bills
Or that they would not resent an Ex-