Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 198, 21 May 1891 — FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVE.

Our minister at Washington has resigned. There is also a consui to be appointed. at San Francisco. We consider it our duty to ad<lress a few remarks to our Minister of Foreign Affairs on the subject of these importaat appointmentß. No poBsible selection could haro been made more exasperating to our people and more detrimental to our interests than have been j those already made by the forēign oflice. The canvass of candidates and the fixmg up of these appoint:ment& to Washington and San .Francisco are being earried on in the usual secret manner. All sorts of influences are being brought to >ear and all BortBōf "pulle" are being worked. The underground wires are workiog at their full capacity and in the due course of things the nomineea of Spreckels & Ce. or a compromise between that firm and other planters will be bought forward to represent Hawaii abroad. Of all the namee that we ever heard mentioned not one is a Hawaiian, nor even an independent Iman, only clerks in banks or Bugar houseB have been propo«ed. We wish to eall Mr. Samnel Parier's attenUon to the fact thathe is a Hawaiian, —like any oth«r; *that the planter« did not pui kia dn his present position and lhat they are goiog to drop him at the •«arliest opp<Mrtunity, not later than "fche next seaūon of the next legiB- - No matter how pliant a tool he may bej nor what pmnieea they may make, they will if they get the power m their hands ag&iu, prefer a man of «lore intelligettoe and one of their m kind. I By making the appoiutfiaentai dictated by augar intere»lB he ia breaking into fragments the party that was Buceesßful in the laet «lection, and f©rever ruining the Bative hope of self-government. On the contrarv if Mr. Parker ehou!d have the courage to sent honest native abroad, or their friends of the natives, great good might be accomplished. and he would sesure the support of his own people, the only eupport he ean ever depend upon. An honest native minister at Waßhingtori would so rēpresent our civilization, intelJigence and peaeeable disposition to the American govermnent, that they would not again land troops to suppreBB a popular demand for a free and repre<entative government, as they have twice doae be£ore. That the United States haa ueeel Atfaerican Boldiers and bulleta ti> support in p#wer^i' y iiawdealing c6minereial eoneem is due aolely to misrepresentation by our miniBt«r abroa<i and tho intrigae« around the Anienean Con#ui h#re. The Aāienoan people are the last in the wor!d to «upport a tyranny, especiHlly ene' rtio by the

j ili-fanied sugar-ring. But we have ! been represented abroad aa a savage, dissipated people, i»diBposed to āustain an honest government, and the Hpeeiinena of the race pnt forward by the sugar magnates the haveconfirmed accusations. But these have been tools of their own. rather than repreßentativee ofthe best material of the Hawaiia» people. Let it be remembered lhat Kalakaua eame in protected by Ameriean bayonets, the protege of the sugar-octopus. Perhaps five years henee tlie ineompeienee of Mr. Parker and his cabinet will ba pointed to as an excuBe to deprive the native entirely of his right to vote. They will SAy if the native vote produces sueh effects as the Cummins and Parker cabinet let us have no more of them. And backed by Amenean rifles sent out by request of our Minister at Waehington. Tney will quitely make that !itchange in the constitution. It was the manifest intention of the framers of our present constitution to pratically disfranchise the natives, but like mariy other provisions of that document it did not quite fulfill the expectations of its •riginators. We would be happy to «ee Parker eome out like a man and a p*triot and declare that whatever ōtheri may do, he will be trne to honest government, freedom, equality and fraternity. It is a real opportunity, the like ©f whieh doeß noi eome to one man ia aailliona, to secure liberty and a aational existance fer hia people, and hhnself a fame and glory gteater than that of Kamehameha. Is it to be patriet #r traitor ? No ihtffling, no e?asions are longer poBBible, The pe©ple will know the truth and ftire their jndg»ment accordingly. The working men of the Kingdcm hold the ballot and the real power. They are partly native, partly foreigners, but they are of one mind. They may be frequently humbugged and often betrayed, but they will still vote to send to the legislature those wha will defend their interefttB agamst eonfederated capital. And if the eabmet sellt itself rompletely, impeaehmenl will be a more ap|?ropriate expression et the popular will tkan a vete of want of eonfldeace