Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 389, 15 February 1892 — The Transient Nature of the Hawaiian Monarchy. No. 1. [ARTICLE]

The Transient Nature of the Hawaiian Monarchy. No. 1.

Toe Bible tells ue tbat there isa iime and a season for all things under the »un. There is a time to be born, aml a timfe to die; a time to laugh and a time to moum. This is «poken eone rning the life of the individual man. but the samethiog is truo of nations and tril»e ofj men. Thcre is a time of darkness and ignorauce, when the eommon people know but little and need the strong hand of arbitrary j>ower to holil their unruly pas«ions in eheek, and guide their untrained energieg into safe and ehannels. Happy is the nation that finds at this stage of its development such ai> able and prudent autocrat as Kamehameha the great. who broaght the warring chiefs of this archipeiago un *er one eapahle head, estabiished peaee and order throughout the land, ar»d founded the Hawaiian monarchy on a solid basis. Later on, when the people beeame more inteliigeht. better educated v and famihar with the history and institutions of other eountrios, they demand and arebecome fitted to exercise a constantly increa»)ng share in the government. Here agaitv the Hawaiiaiie have eftp9oiaU.v io aaeh rulers as Kauikeaouli and his successor6t whō recbgnized the signs of the timetf, cheerfully adopted their policy to the changing conditions, called to their eouncils wise and patriotic inen from hoth their own race anil foroigners, by whose advice anvi the change from an arl>itrr.rv to a com»titutional government was made m a peaeeable ahd orderly wav, with due regard to tlie intere.<U and feelings of all claBse«, and without any disturbance of the puhiiepeaee. But the worlJ moves, and in our own day is moving faster than ever before. Knowledge is increasing among the eommon people. More libersl and advsnced views of the rights of the people, of the dntie9 of rulers and the trae fuoctions of govemment are coming to be generally aceeoted. The watohword ofthepresent time is >*gi«ts." £ver> mtioa aod peopl* in tbe caeleefdrifl«atioo aod Caui»tia. aiiy msl eit2ier fofonr«rdor ld!

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BtaodB here, wherd th« 80v0reigti in theory "c4n do no wrong." and ean not be held to any )egal mpoiwlbility whaiever for anythiDg he or she ma) do, heoome liahle to pvo* i greB§ and improvement t In its , present Btates, hae it not seroed I its purpoee, ootlived its 08efulneaa, I and heoome one of those fietiona whieh ought to he modi£ied. Agam the Hawaiian nalion otands at the oarting of the way. Let th« people cast &gide old ioherited prejpdices, Belfish personaV cooside«M tiōns, race antipathies and all thing calculated to blind their eyes and warp their judgment. Lst theni open their eyes and ears wide to what is going on in ihe world about them. Let them coniider only thi greatest go»xl ofthe greatost number, and having seen the path in whieh they ought to walk» let them pursue it with prudence ahd mo<laration, but with stead fastnese and courage. We shall have more to say on thif» subjecl hereafter.