Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 179, 24 April 1891 — WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT.

To clearl J understand the position of the present Ministry before the Natiohal Party,—whom the ]ast elections showed to be - the majority of the Nationit will suffice to review what the Governm»)nt have really done, since the down-fall of the Reform - Cabim>t, in the way of recognizing the popular party and deferring to its wisi © ; either in the political lin« of cur comprehensive platform, or in the general conducting of the administration. or in the purifying of the "perBonel" of the Hatwaiian Ciyii Service. lt is a notorious fact that the insolent Brown-Cumming Cabinet purposely and most gtubbdrnly ignored the lvational Party, to whom they falsely declared allegiance on the day of tjieir installation in office; but,—up to the present time,—the new Cabinet have hardly done any better, and moreover they have to āssume the Djoral inheritance of their preāeceßßors' mistakes. The policy of the Partv'e Platform has not been followed at all, and the wishes, nay the orders, of the Legislature itself have been disobeyed, and Brown was reported to have proudly stated, after the prorogation of the House, that he did not care a . . contniental about the Legisiature, or its wishes and intentions. The varioue improvements, mea6ures and pub!ic works, for whieh money had been specially appropriated, have not been carried out according to the spirit of the Legislature, but through caprice, partialitv or favoritism.

Iu the Civil service, no purifying sifting has been accoinplished; on the contrary, all the obnoxious and unfit servants eondemned by the Naiional Party, are still triumphantiy in office, 'whilst.— -■with the exception of two 6econdary ones, the Port-S»rveyor and tlie Jailer, [t« whieh nominees in good standing with our Party were selected only by pure aeeidēnt]. and with the e*ception of a few, very few, minor ones, —no appointments have yet been made, gatisfactory to the National Party, the personal applications and recommendations of the individual members elect having been disdainfully overlooked, unless when coming fr»m such members as have proven themselves traitors to the Party.

When the present Cabinet took office, they most distinctly g;ive the puhlie to underetand that they intended to lean on the National Party, to abide by their platfornj

and to give satisf»ctiun to tlu»ir just demands aud vrisbes; but ihe only showing mado up to the present iime are innumerable promiseB, toned down with the excuse that the G®vernraent had to be very cautious and avoid hastiness, Caution and dilatoriness have thus been used to such an extend that not one single mea9ure has yet been taken, giving real and uniYersal satisfaction to the People, whilst many not on!y failed to.be' popular, but hayc> even proven to be absolutc blunders.

The first one, —properly nbtioed in the Leo—was the re-apj>oint ment, and not, as was expected and desired. the reorganisation of the Privy Council, in whieh the Cabinet lost a splendid occasion of Bhowing their sincerity and well-n3eaiiing; and the result of re-ap|»otntinK men absolutely u»fit for the office, as many of the old Privy Councillors were, has already been iuade apparent under the shape of certain extraordinary appropriations of puhlie funds, whieh the Li:o intends to properly veritilate at eome 1, future date, 6howing that the individual members of the .Privy Council cventually be made to pav personally for what they had no authority to order out of the People's Treasury.

The second blunder was the partial~very partial—reorganisation of the Board of flealth, from whieh has resulted the obstinate refusal of the present Board to consGnt tu eertain measures, whieh all the native population have set their hearts upon, and among others, the re-instatement of Dr. Lutz. In that board as it now stands, the only two good men, J; Ena and His Ex. S. Parker, find themselves in a mi»ority; the president has been weighed and found wanting, whilst the u coming man" (!) her Majesty's petted bad boy, the great and infallible J. 0. Carter, is banded, together with his aeeompliee Waterhouse, as subserving the good of the natives to some mysteri©us personal ends, whieh the Leo wili bring to light in the near future.

In the foreigrī office, it has been a blunder to a foreigner, and an ex-official of the U. S. Consular Corps at that.—however good, efEcient and honest he may personallv be, —to the raost important and confidential situation under the nkinister, whilst so inany young Hawaiian subjects could have been found to fill the piaee; and another and still worse blunder was not to defer to the wishes of the commercial commuDity, irrespective of party. for the removal ofour unsatisfactorv eon-

sular official in S. Francisco, the brother of the tārifF man of the United Statcs, who haa, brought ruin on ©ur principal industry.

The Finance department eontains several Bureaus in whieh the public are highly intereßted and whieh have not been attended to as yet, Buch as tbe Po3t OfVice, the CuBtom House, the *Port Coliectors, " the Tax Assessors and their Boards of Appeals; al! of whieh we shall review. togethor with the other def»artments,

Tliat the Lupetītion has been l»an<lled verv <lelicately w;th a pitchi'or<l. for fear uf tlw foreign iriemr>er* oī the r»ourd of Health wonWl he \vith L«timania, a vinilent diseaBe from wlmh the Honorable Meinber from Hilo treated bv I)r. ll:tchcock.