Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 138, 26 February 1891 — Page 4
| This text was transcribed by: | Paka Westin |
| This work is dedicated to: | Awaiaulu |
The Ministry Resigned.
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We are pleased to state this morning that the Ministry resigned yesterday afternoon, due it is said to a decision supporting the position which her Majesty y claims as her right. The new cabinet is composed of H.A. Widemann, Premier and Finance Minister; S.Parker, Foreign Affairs; Chas. N. Spencer, Minister of Interior; W. A. Whiting, Attorney General.
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A CAUTION.
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The Advertiser of yesterday morning indulges in a revolutionary editorial which bear the earmarks of some of the men of 1887. We warn these men that it will be unsafe for them to stir up any agitation that will lead to revolution, for they will not so easily escape the penalty of treason and revolution as they did in 1887. Any attempt on their pat to again disturb the peace will undoubtedly lead to foreign intervention and in such a event the LEO, as the voice of the native Hawaiian people, will ask the powers to bring these agitators to summary justice and allow them to exercise their surplus energies with pick-axes upon the public roads. No uproar that these men might create would a gain have the leadership or the following that they had in 1887. The misgovernment and treachery which followed that event taught a lesson, which would bring all the courage, the arms and the men to the side of the Queen and her people. However it is a misfortune that a leading a journal like the Advertiser should, at this junction, put forth such a vicious article in which are covert threats of revolution. It can only aggravate the situation and make the native Hawaiian and their foreign supporters more firm in their loyalty to the Queen, and more determined to support her and her just rights. We firmly believe that history, precedent and policy justify her position, and we cannot too severely condemn the unprecedented and disloyal action of the cabinet and e say "confusion to them."
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QUOUSQUE TANDEM.
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It was announced, on Monday morning, that Her Majesty had sent officially her Aide-de-Camps to the Ministers, to obtain from them a definite answer, by yea or no, to the request made by her, over a week ago, to hand in their resignation. Up to the time of writing these lines, it is reported that the Ministers have not yet deigned give any answer, but that they intend not to resign. Be it as it ay, it is quite certain that no Sovereign in history has ever been so utterly ignored and contemptuously belittled by ministers of state, as Queen Liliuokalani has been during the last days; therefore, it is still in order to review the of the ministry and of their defenders, and specially that of their resent ally, the ex-Minister of Interior of the detested Reform cabinet. It is well known that L.A. Thurston, the apostle of the revolutionists of "87." and the apologist of their bastard constitution, had endeavored.--in a lengthy opinion well worthy of a quibbling lawyer,--to denounce all royal prerogatives and all universal precedent with the petted object of upholding, a precedent for himself the would-be tyranny and unprecedented assumptions of the four unanointed little kings, who have been permitted to grasp power under his little daisy constitution. For every one of Mr. Thurston’s historical citations, a hundred more cold be quoted, more “apropos” to our case, in which the dignities and prerogatives of the Ruler were maintained, and in some instances with summary and disastrous results to the mulish obstructors. But the LEO not having space to enter into citations, we would recommend to L.A. Thurston and his friends, whether in the cabinet or out of it, to organize class in constitutional history, so as to learn something positive of the dignities, prerogatives and duties of the different Powers of State, an dto ascertain that history does not confirm his tyrannical whims and ambitious wishes.
However, the situation in Hawaii, through the incredible egotism of a few unpopular men, is growing every day more full of perils, for which the cabinet is solely responsible. They full knew from the start, that their duty to the new Queen, to the country and to their own honor, was to have resigned office as soon as the heard of the King’s death; and in fact, their conviction was so clear at that time, that they did tender a half-hearted resignation; but the Queen, unfortunately acting on the advice of the Chancellor of the Kingdom not to accept their resignation at that special time, told them to continue in office till after the King’s funeral. Then acknowledging that courtesy of the Queen as a sign of weakness, and emboldened by revolutionary incitations from some of the rebels of “87,” they now repudiate their first movement, and stubbornly clutch on to the power which they have missed. More proud of the illegal sport of this factious minority than anxious to preserve for themselves an unsullied record, they now determine to make law out of their caprice and to try to stretch the Constitution to mean what it never did and never was intended to mean, and on that assumption, they boldly ignore the glaring fact that they do not possess the Queen’s confidence, nor indeed the confidence of the majority of their representatives, and thus light-heartedly create a deplorable blockae in the Government. In fact, it is safe to say that at present there is no government and that there will be none until this question is settled.
How long is this loggerhead tension to last? An answer is premature, for the Queen appears determined to assert her inherent prerogative of appointing a Cabinet in whom she may have confidence and whose members she may be able to honor and respect; and seven-eighths of the people of Honolulu and of the Kingdom accord her that right. Therefore, in or loyalty to Her Majesty, we do earnestly hope that the Queen will not weaken down nor allow herself to be bull-dozed by threats, but willstanad dout for what really belongs to Her, and, by such firmness she will win the sympathy of all true Hawaiians and of the foreign powers.
In the meanwhile, the people are waiting, and the rioters of “87” are ready proclaiming that patience may cease to be a virtue; the LEO is a too hearty friend of pacific solution through compliance with the rights of nation, to endorse such extreme views, but we do say that if stubbornness is destined to prevail over right and natural prerogatives, if the advice of bad and designing counselors prevail over the common sense of the ministers, if the Queen’s dignity is to be trampled oh, and the country be inflicted with the continuance in office of four unappreciated men, then the Hawaiian people will have one solemn duty before them, in February 192, and that is to vindicate their Queen and to bring due retribution on mischief-makers, by closing the career of the tenebrous “Brown-Cummings” Cabinet, and sinking those self-esteemed ministers so low in the sea of local politics, that they never will be able to come to the surface again. Et Deus nos liberavit! Since the above was put in type the ministry has resigned.
Hoolaha Hookahekahe Wai.
HONOLULU H.I., AUG. 9, 1890
O ka oe a paua i loaa na pono hookahekahe Wai, a i ole, euku ana aha i ka Auhau Wai, ke hoike ia aku nei ma keia na hora no ka hookahekahe wai ana mai ka hora 6 a 8 a.m., a mai ka hora 4 a 6 p.m. CHAS. B. WILSON
Luna Wai Nui o Honolulu
Aponoia:
C.N. SPENCER.
Kuhina Kalaiaina. 92-dtf.
Hoolaha Hookapu.
ke papa loa ia aku nei na kanaka a pau o kela a ae keia ano, aole e hele wale e kiki i naano man a pau ma ua palena a pau o k aina o Hale @@@ me Kaluappuhi ma Kaneohe, Koopalakiko, Oahu, o ka mea a mau mea paha e kue ana i keia, e hopu ia no lakou a hoopii ia ma ke kanawai.
MRS. C.I. HIRAM.
Haimoeipo, Honolulu, Oct. 8, 1890.
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E na Luna Lawe Nupepa a pau
Ke poloai ia aku nei oukou a paua hokaa pono mai ma keia keena i ua dala o na Nupepa i na Poalima a me na Poakahi, i ka mea nona ka moa malao iho, aole hoi ia ha’i aku. E like me ka nele mai ia oukou, pela no e nele pu aku ai ka nupepa. Ua hana ia keia rula i mau ai ke ola o ka maka a me ka Wahaoelo hopo ole no ka oiaio a me ka pono o ka Lahui. J.E. BUSH.
Luna Hooponopono Nui.
PAPA KUHIKUHI
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KA HUI ALAHAOIA ME AINA O OAHU.
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E HOOMAKA ANA MA KA LA 25 O OKATOBA, 1890.
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MANAWA HOLO:
A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M.
Haalele ia Honolulu *6:15 8:45 1:45 4:30+
Hoea ma Hounouliuli *7:15 9:49 2:49 5:28+
Haalele ia “ *7:45 10:51 3:51 5:50+
Hoea i Honolulu *8:40 11:55 4:55 6:45+
* Lapule wale no.
+ Poaono wale no.
Oct. 21. 1890 tf-d.
A.J. SCHREIBER LA OLOHE.
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HANA WATI ME NA ME GULA.
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O k hana ho ana i na wati pakeke kau, hale, a me na mea dala o kela a me keia ano, he waipahe lo aka auhau, a pela no hoi me na mea i paa mua. O ka mea e holo ana ia kaua oia ka’u e hana ai.
ALANUI HOTELE Malalo o ka Alinetona Oct. 27, 1890. tf-d
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