The Liberal, Volume I, Number 44, 11 February 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

HAWAII has had more than the monarchy to make her groan. We have had and yet have a powerful beaurocracy, the meanest political system ever invented. A closer of history shows that the fight-clinging, close-grinding greed, bitter and despotic beaurocracy has been the political disorder on account of which many kings have lost their thrones and heads, not to mention their reputations, and many peoples have shed their blood in despair. There is a kind of devil's Anarchy here that has kept the country and century behind the march of civilization. It is now to be wiped out very soon, or a little later. If the Provisional Government does not complete its work, it will be finished in short order when we are a part of the glorious Republic. Do not wish to make a great matter of the offices under the Provisional Government; but a great principle is involved - the principle

justice, of fidelity to party and friends. I believe, as a questions of theory or practice, that the spoils being to the victors. Without a timate expectation of reward will not devote their energies political work. It is necessary the welfare of the state that the talent be always active for progress and good government. It is desirable, as it is natural, that the people who are chosen, or the people who win should carry on the government and have the benefit success. It is desirable that every public servant should know that his tenure of office depends on the integrity of himself and his party and colleagues. If he becomes a corruptionist, or consorts with corruptionists or has received his office from them, he must expect to be removed with the evils with which he is identified. If political virtue is to have no reward and political wrong to have no punishment then there is an end to honest government. WHAT makes the Bulletin such a mug-wump? First, its party hate the Liberal League because they have wronged it. Secondly, they lust for office themselves most passionately. Third, they hope the Provisional Government will make itself unpopular by snubbing and ignoring its friends after the manner of 1887 and later times. To go into office by the aid of others and afterwards monopolized the benefits is simply selfish meanness and treachery, and no cant and no paltion will make it anything else. As such it will never prosper. Did the royalists prosper by their very latest or any of their acts of treachery? Judgment day comes sooner or later to all those who flourish a pace by unrighteousness. THERE is evidently a change in the feeling of the United States as to foreign policy. A few years ago there was a general sentiment that the country was large enough, and no more territory should be accepted under any circumstances. On the question of annexing Canada, first, they would not have it, then they might accept it if that country came in proper spirit asking for admission; but now we can read a scarce-disguised determination to take the rest of England's North American possessions from her at the earliest opportunity. The belief is inbred in every American that his country is the best, greatest and most powerful on the globe. The Americans are beginning to want to assert themselves. They have a lofty contempt for the monarchies of Europe. They feel the capacity for greater expansion and a higher destiny than any other people can

aspire to. Later, they will not be backward in acquiring territory to give scope to American genius and enterprise. THE feeling against the Provisional Government and annexation has rapidly subsided, even amongst foreigners, that is, non-Americans, who were very bitter at first. Everyone is now in favor of annexation. It is about as hard to find a royalist to-day as it was to find an annexationist a few months ago. The people who get their thinking ready-made for them are rapidly becoming fitted with a new set of ideas. The country districts are usually a year or two behind the Capital. Perhaps there will be isolated specimens of royalists in the back-woods for years to come. But the world moves. Hawaii's true born sons had better fall into line and try to keep up with the procession.