Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 148, 26 June 1894 — Sanguine. [ARTICLE]

Sanguine.

When the c>nstitution of 1887 w\»s prououlg>»ted it was expected ; that it would give unbounded s«tisfuctiou to everybody. It 1 was a cornpar.itively liber d instrument. and althongh, it was frarned for the special benelit of ’ the foreigners and the capitalists, it did not meet mneh oppōsition among the working classes. I In a few years, though, the mosses 1 bogan to chafe under the provisions of the “missiouarv” | constitution, and in 1893 the I feeling against it cnlminated, and there was a nearly unanimous I deraand for a radicai change. If the men who framed that consti tutiou saw that it only toot a few years to tear asunder their dimsy fabric, what most be their ideas Iof the future prospects of I the iustrument now proposed as the fundamental law of this conntry? The constitution of 1887 w s a hundred times more !ibeml aad more deim cratic than is Ihe constitntiou of 1894. The ’87 constitntion was to a certain extent supported by a maj- ; ority <‘f the {>eople, and the oppo- i sition to it was neither organ zed nor formidable in any sense of the word. The '94 constitution is framed by auiusignidcant minority placed in power by traitoroas and nndeihanded tricks, and it has against it a powerful. we'l- * organizd and well-led opposition compi>sed of the overwhelming raajority of the people. Huw. nnder such circumstaoces. ean those who fatb> r tbe infaraous in strument believe in its Iongivitv or hope tbat it will be tolerated as the fuudamenta! law of tbe conntry? The brief authority whieh has been vested iu tbese meu has tnrned their heads and dnlled theirsenses. Like the Hoose of B <urbou, they «il! not learu from bistory until bistory teacbes t them in «n unmistakable man-1 oer.