Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 264, 24 August 1891 — Discontent. [ARTICLE]

Discontent.

L_ . Tbo announeemenl tfaat the J, Charl(>Ston' 7 is to \'isit Honolulu, en route to China to see if her preBence :s needēd here and to diseover the causes of discontent that amon# the natives, . farnishes a text for comment and elucidation.

The B\dUtin and Advertiser strenuously deny that any discontent exißts; but the Leo asserts that it has a lively existence, in every disthct, among the natives and work-ing-cla.sses, and recent action of the Queen and her cabinet have greatly aggravated the feeling. And what has caused this state of feeling ? We will 6ndeavour to pre■'§ent the eaee.

As the Lko remarked at the time, the new Queen's reign opened with afl'bright a promise of peaee and prospenty as ttte rain-bow that arched over the Palāee when the King'e body was ianded from the *'CharleBton;" bnt up to the present time, the only results are a series of administrative b!under6. Her cabinte having failed to meet publie favor t have assumed an insulting attitude toward the native people, and have handed both the and the government over again to th« clique of unscrupulous politicians, aspect. The primary cause of all present discontent existed before the Queen's aecession. The revoiution of 18ft7 and the political campaigns that followed had developed, but onlv in a one*sided manner,: the principles of DOpular government, 44 0f the people» for thie people, and by the people." The election of 18y0 brought two jK)litical. parties into the field with well pronounced issues, and at the polle. the people, in the exercise of one of their dearright, gave a majority of their votes tō the representatives ofthe u national n party. The chisffeatures of this platform were, lst. To put the reins ofgoverninent into the hands of men representative of the people, not of royal favorites* revolutionists or monono-

]ists; 2nd. To %mend the Gonstitution, •or to obtata a new. one, the constitution of 1887 bring objectionable fr'om its crudeness aml the method whieh ie wae obtained; and es- . peciaJly to elirainate the property qualification ofvoters whieh was avowediy created to deprive a majority oftbe native Hawaiians of their vote6; * . 3rd. To obtain ihe removai of a certain nnmber of officials m the governcxK?nt eervice. who had been plac(xl in uower as rewardß for revolutionary servicee t put whoee arrogance andf incompetence were an aggravation to the people; 4th. To recognize the righte of ths Hawaiian born to preferment in .thc Cfvil Bervice; sth. T<4 obtain the spēedy apportionmept of!fehe.publiclands ipto • hoiaesteads for bona-fi<je &ad stnail farmers.

Th'i o!d cabinet was ousted, hut the King instead of summoning a cabinet of naiional men, nccording to * constitutional precedents in other landa. effected a comproniise cabinet with a national member at its head'; but this man turned ,out to be. ah egregious failure, and allowing himself to be misled by a treacherous and rascally colleague, ! the cabinet soon appeared in hosj tile opposition to the natioilal party, :and as a v»'ēre universāl'ly condemned by the people. Up;on the King's dea.th and the Queen's | accessiōn. she appeared to accede to | the almoBt umversal wieh of the I riative Hawaiian and -of the nationj al party, and in a struggle with the j old cabinet suceeeded in dismissing them and sumn3oned ' as Premier, another Hawaiiaa whaiiad $ppeared at a later hour as a representative Hawaiian. The composition oi this new eabinet was a di«appōintment from tne start, but it was cheerfully aecepted by the people, who rejoiced in the belief that at laat the National Party would be respected and considered. But very soon the present Premier proved'himBelf to be no better than his predecessor. He had a false mascot in the shape bf a fossilized old Teuton, and now he is a eompleie ahd servile tool in the hands of the missionary sugar jdanters. Furthermore, he so far forget his own origin as to. brazenly ūtt6r his contemptfor the native Hawaiians or their rights or interests., . s 11. The first capital error of the Queen's reign was the retention of the Privy Coimcil of State, in whieh body they are many whose services arē valuelesB by absence. and others

Crown. . The Queen's second . cardinal mistake- was in the reappointment of the Board of Hea!th, whieh is not offiCered agreeably to the natives, who are very sensitive about their national malady, and resent. kneely the ruthless, oftentimes brutal and arbitrary manner in whieh some of the officials—the pets of the Board—on the other Islands. snatch away one of a family, as a leper susp£ct, wherein many errors were made and personal spites are exer«ised, and allowed to remain uncorrected.

Outside ol the discontent sowri by the open favoritism of the Queen for certain indiv]duals and her dislike for others of her native subjects, Her Majesty has gradually weaned herself awav from her people by ignoring their repeated requests and representation; by openlv snubbing them, after junketing on their poor and reduced pittance, and by announcing her preference for allianee with and beiiefin the white missi<Jnary pafty, who have ever been hostile and fatal to the true intereiits the na tive Hawaiian: Thepoor kanaka feelB hift i>o]iatiop keenly and Bavs, ame-e/. we haye -n'ow. «o /V>q/ Our Queen has deserted U8 and is now the Queen of the white mißBionaries and sugar aliis and we *are tbeir holoholona! But the natives njight still be loval if tbey could believe that ahe has merely been miaguided by. treacherous advisers 4 and that perhnps election would give her more intelligent and eapahle meh who will be more true.to Queeu peoj>ie and! country. .. ] To be continued.