Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 113, 15 May 1894 — The Advertiser Tinker. [ARTICLE]

The Advertiser Tinker.

Tuf i-upii of K.tnt aml Hepe’ mIiu h ild« tlieeasy chair in tlie A■ *Hi*er s*uctum aml writes occas: )nallv one or two eolmnn» of stnfl whieh be calls e.iitori;»ls, ‘ has fiualiy m=t‘ie op his mind t<» fnme « con.stitatioD, an«l he ont lines tbe way “in whieh it is t<» be elone As a mitter of course he f.t\urs the general fraucbise for tl.e Hawaiiana as far as the “Iower' (sic) Hoose is eoneeme.l. He fnrtli*»nnore aI!ows all the illit*-r ;it»- P. rtugues>* who regist er»-.l at the late election to vote. He then gr «nts imhile <lirhi . the francbise to the «lapaneae. Poor fellow he couldii’t help himself —and ho finaliy Ieaves ont the 1 w.unen a!toget!ier. \\e bave hardlv Ihe space and decidedly not ll;e patience to take up Mr, Castle s pr j»o8itions in the manner th.it they deserve. His floppingoTer from ono day to the uther is so eml»arrassing to his t»olitic.»l oppouents that it is becoming i disagreeab!e task to show up the sublime idiocy and tbe supreme folly whieh now are j»aramount in the oiiieial organ. | At oue tin e tlie Hawaiians were to be disfrancbised, uccording to the Atlveiti*er. That period is “pau ' evtry Hawaiian who ean read aud v,rite hisown language i shonld ha.e ripbt to vote.” The “Asiatics” wero to be left in the cold as n matter of course. Now, tbe A‘liniiger g»ves them ei]iial rights aud allow thoin according to qaalifi:ntions to vote for the lower us well us for tbe upper House. Aa attempt is mude to save th n Portuguese vote for the lower Ho ise by allowiug everybody who registered at the late e!oction t<» vote iu the futnre. in fact the . 'h'erli«er tinker thinks that he h. s got everything down to a fiue poiut. The only problems wl.ioh are pr.zzliug the philosophic il brain of the editor is the qnestion of the alien vote and the qnestion of how t< > keep 1 the raajoiity wilh in hands of the iuisssonaiies and “a!wavs be ou top.“ The alien vote is easily ! dxed bv the goveruiuent organ. j Lt admits theoreticully that the alien vot< is an outrage, but it is admitted that tbrougb sentiiuental or practicnl reasons the de»i ned ha >les won't take an oath whieh will resalt iu their al enating themselves from their oiiginal citizeuship. However, siys the tnorning svK>nter, we e m t atV- al to loee the alien voter; 1e is th.* gre«t staud-by of the reform j arty, and wo most aeeommoil, te him even if we consequently liave to give the dapa- i ues«> a vote. At tho same tirae, ■ the “uj>j'tr Hoose” is to be the salvatiou of the tnissionaries. An evluc«tioual and a proj*orty qnal- ! ification will be placed on the voters ii. suoh a tuiuner that very few outside the familv eompaol will be able to vote. But i knowing the extrcme laek of educatio3a! qualifioations among the men who could vote for meuibere of tie “npper Hoose” the , wise j»ii .Iosoj>hōr prints the fol-{ lowing seutence that o«ght to be set iu goldeu lettere and certamlv preserved by tbe Hale Naua, or by the 1 istorical Societv: **An iute!ligence qualification ■ and a propertv qualification whieh practica ly works as an iutelligence qualificati n.” Ye goda , and littla fishes. does our esteem- ; e<l brot ier mean to sav tbat a man Lo!ding a proj»erty qualification, thereby pisses an “intelligence” (we snppose he means educaticual) quHli£cition? Let hhu look arouad among his intiuiat< friends, Lis family, his Ananeia. connectious. Ail of them uEdoubtedly hare propertv quati£cutions (or be woulu.n’t

kn< w therc) but whom of theiu wili be i cr,—d of baving int»-ili-gence or edacational qnalifications’ But we will draw a veil over tbe erratic ebballitions of onr morning contemporarv. V*e only a*k him to answer two qnaiifications, not touclied up»on in bis “framir.g of a new C)n>titution. 1. Waere are the Chineae eoming in' 2 W!.er<- are th<* women eoni;i.g in'