Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 433, 15 April 1892 — THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE. [ARTICLE]

THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE.

It appear> more and more apparent that the Ha\va lN an as a Na tion will aoon bc;oiue eonppieuon? by his nonentity in the law and in the general affairg 01 his country, «nless he takes immed r ate stepe to savs himself from bcing shoved iiiM.l jostled abottt iu public and private life. The iast bit of farce in law practiced on the Hawai'an people should create a desirc in them to rise to n nian and make an effort to prevent any further enactment? being niadc to disfranchise and to prevent them from qbtainiug a proj>er under«tanaifip cf their right* and i>rivik<geF by Jnw aa a. voter. We cannot see ho;v a nr.tioii ean Bubmit muMi !om,'er to be made a (hi.i;!. in hi» own eountry, whon laws ar.; made and a ijudgeU. ni»-confcisteni v,it»i l;:e fhlī 'A 1 of juBtiec, that foreipn lanjru-nge-| ehould be tho rule in tho :iiust vi-! tal matter that conccrns their welfare. We are beginning to l>e!ieve what has often been told u>«, that law aiul ju?tice for thc Hawaiians 5s only a farce." The decieion of the Bupreme Court, presumabiy in accordance with the strict letter of the law, in the election case, may be all very. well, but we know l wherein tbe law has Wn made to ttretch outside of the strict letter of the aame, 1:1 aooie case», ar.d a 6pirittfal interpretation £ivcn t j 1U that the best Eng- j lish Bciiolars from whenee it couid'! !iave heen derived, all lx?cause| was inconvenient and inex[)e<]ier.t to be in stnct accord with the lettvr cf the law. The interpret:ition j of th;*. iaw in inritters of vital i: ī. -' portanco to the :f : ered togotln;r would make «juite a j conp!omorate of opinions. that i v.-ouldbe'wel? worth preserv:nir a« ' a ciiri'>.-:ty, a:id aa tbe« pii'i» *. and kileidoscop:c co!ori«g' matter that tho human miiul. i».! capable of prouuo'ng. wiien it lal>orinq nnder peculiar iniluencesj and circumBUDces. {

Und«r the circumgtancos it seeiiif» to us that the H»tvaiinns arc brouKht more and nore forciblv to th« «tudj oftie probicm, of whil ie the be«t remedy for them toover* eome thi* unequa! dietribu<i£n of law andjuitici}. Thc ehould be the, di*peueer of equal rights irrcspective of race, bnt alua the govemment ie only a puppet aud an imbecile as at present eonatituted aud conducted. A ohangc is required, and a chango munt lie had, otberwiM we ahall be driven to a atate of ohaoe, that we hipe ma f at least evolye a form of jfovertiment that will give iu trcjual right and justlce. We are mtUSed that a diffrrent oplakn «ovld not be uniycieljr ie th* eaae of a eoateat«d ittctiun t wlnm tba gfoii«fed of would be tbaT tbe Haw»flii fck>ne wss m* to txpMt Homiwi ot oaalA&oftAhowl ..'' ' v | ♦*- t •

woald tw ©*&tfee i(.sucb shou!d haw beeii tfee ea|Bt» ae a prelude to a very £roper 4i|cision in the ca«e. We reitei%te what we h&ve so ofteii |titted, tiat no one ea» contempUte the pre**nt treatmcnt of the masses of tho peoplo without des"*ing ftomething ljne ;v revolution for the better.