Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 164, 3 April 1891 — APRIL FOOL'S DAY. [ARTICLE]

APRIL FOOL'S DAY.

"Wednesdfty April lst„ whs ail fool's day, a clay ueually celebrated by the mischievous minded by ]iractical jokes upou their unsuspecting friendF, but beretofore ithas nōt been considered bec©min£ in dignified officers of state to befool a wholē people upon tbis d«;y. But has this been done by the Queen's Cabinet.

The mor.ning and evening papers bf Wednesday were eagerlyscanned by the publ ie to see the notices of of!icial changes whieh hae been promised to along suffering eommunity, but not an intitftation appeared. The ministers had hoaxed Ihe puhlie and the air was full of mutterings of discontenti and resentment; the cabinets-April fool joke was not appreciated. The Queen's new ministers have now hetd the reigns of power over one fuli caiendar inonih, but have not yet accornplished what was expected of them. Do they really intend io ignore the honest desiand of the Nati«nal Reform Party, and defiantly retain in office the rogues. Bcoundrels and incompetents as did the last cabinet. We beg to remind the minister, that the Nation:al Reform Party is still a power that cannot be insulted or ignored judiciously, artd that the Leo has a voice that js heard thr©ughout the length and breath of the Kingdom with a rapidly increasing circulation, atid that voice will breath dulcet strains of support to the administrati(>n if# they atteinpt to set themselveB up as an oligarchy that will rule m defiance of the will of the people, of justie* and of htt»Ogt administration. Consider-

] ing ihe character of ohe of the Qiembers of the cabinet, we will charitably presume that they have been crankey influences at' work whieh have prevented the Premier and hiß other colleagUes from tbeir duty, and therefore we will patiently wait till the firgt of May, to see if the cabinet cannot arrive at their sense and do whai they know only to well is expected of them. The • people are getting tired of the hold thjeir weapons mountebanks, cranksV and low j comedy actors that have been i masquerading as crown ministerß*| for so inany years past. We want I \ men. for ministers, and S hoped that at last the nation was ' to be governed with a national i policy and a representative admi- j nistratioo; but a doubt has now | entered our mind. In order to 1 win and retain the confidenceof the j people, the cabinet must not eon-! stitute theinselves an independent ] party but must govern according to the expressed wishes ®f tlie ple; and those wishes were plamh' expresscd m a platform, at ihe ballot box and in the last year. To ignore them ean onl v result in disater to the eahinet. wlio now have an imperative duty before them. So it to be or not to fee, that is the question.