Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 139, 27 February 1891 — Hic Jacet. [ARTICLE]

Hic Jacet.

The last eabinet of the late King lK.uutof ofiace and no one regrets it. They were unpopuiar from the start, they represented no party, or pnneiple, and though thēy pledged themseives to the platform of the National Keform Party, through wkom they acquired office. they soon showed" the clovm hoof and proved treacherous that party. The foreign interference that assisted at the formation of the cabinet, caused a wide-spread distrust of their policy. They were d»minated by one man, not the Premier, and ev«lved a policy ef st«pid inaetien, lapsing into a eomlition of polit-ical desuctude. Their onlv activitv was displayed when they wished to make a T)lnce for a friend, or exereise their spites against their victiuis. The politically imbeelle character of one; the cūnning, %piteful and treacherous tecnperauient of another; the self protecting aeumen of a third, arid the j)/omiscuous and unfulfi!led promises of thop other niade a sad < i ommentary upon the name, purpose and dignity■ of government. Their l»rief (onn is ende<l for laek <»f admirer.s or fricnds, and thus <*loses the carcer of a cabinet that wiil he neither distingui3hed «>r )'iiemorable.