Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 3, 4 January 1894 — THE UTEST BAIT. [ARTICLE]

THE UTEST BAIT.

Bnt the Hawaiians Don‘t Bite. \ In an editorial in last night’s Star the to-be council!or Mr. H . G. Smith for a change appears as a lover of the Hawaiians and he expresses the willingness of the revolutionists togrant a £ranchise on similar eonditions ns it was nnder the constitutioo of 1887. He even desires to treat the Hawaiians, who have enjoyed ScIf-goverument for half a eentury, as the English Government treated the nncivilized Maoris l and give them a special ministor. How verv kind; how very eon- ; siderate! how very iaagnanimous ; indeed’ But wheu we look a little closer at the propositim ;of Mr. W. G. Srnith, we j find that there is a big | nigger in the fence, becanse he : arranges t!»e government so wisely i that the “lower honse” whieh i would,-so to say, be given to the Hawaiiaus wonld have nothing to say in the administration of the country. The ‘‘npper house” to whieh Mr. W. G. Smith hopes to belong would be in oftice for Iife, and the present Advisory Council plus Mr. Smith, and some members from the country districts j woukl constifcute our Senate I whieh of conrse would have the 1 i power to defeat, and wonld do . i so, every ineasure adopted by the representatives of the people. | Fancy a Senate in whieh men ; like Waterhoose and Emmeluih : : would have seats for life. Men j | 'who have oftered themselves as j candidates for Legislative honors, j and received reapectively 300 and 33 votes. Forsooth tho propositiou of Mr. Smith is in accord ruther with his inclinations to be a dictator tban with the first ■ principles of popular governraent. ; The Japanese qnestion this , legislative huminary overlooks ' altogether, aud it woukl be interesting to leani how ho woukl get ‘ over the demand for a franchise_ whieh the Japanese Governmeut has mnde, and whieh the Japancse citizens here will help themselves to if it is not granted. Perbaps the future Conncillor wonkl then appeal for help to hia friend? President Cleveland and expect Minister Willia to land j troops to protect the Executive, j the ”upper” and tbe “lower” j honse. In the meanlime there are no Hawaiiaus who ean be canght by sucb promises or prospects as held out in the Star. The oft-repoated eipressions both in the “Advertiser” and in the “Star have too well proved the true feelings of the alieus who ; eall themselves Hawaiians when ' it snits tbem and elaim to be American when there is any 1 1 thing to gain by that, in regard 1 to the civil rights of the natives. ' They cannot be foo!ed now or st any other time on Mr. Smith’s | franchise hook or with his soft- i soap bait. I