Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 20, 1 February 1890 — THE DAY. [ARTICLE]

THE DAY.

It is as usual—as people exp6cted— the ministry have again broken down in their attack on the people'a caase through the Times and Advertiser. They have but repeated the old blumder. Like the unskilled journalists and political leaders they are> promises of a strong fight against the Na* tional Beform party have been made, only to be broken, as have been all : previous official and governmental promises. Three days before eleetion we stand before the world saddled with a self-disgraced ministry whose record is one of political .perfidy, per'sonal falsification and official bhiudei'ing—a ministrj r despised by the peo* ple and openly snubbed and ignored fcr good reasons by some of the representatives of friendlv powers, whose friendship honors us and whose enmity is not desired.

To sensible men the course pursued by tbe ministry during tbe last few weeks. is sufiicient to justify tbe people in demanding tbe expulsion of the minißtry and tbeir pa.rty. whieh

propose to retain them, witb perbaps one exception, in office. Tbe ministry have personally degraded their bigbest offices, in whieh they sit as trustees for tbe ēntire kingdom, mto partisan headquarters for political purppses. Nay , they have gone further—they have violated the law by descending to the politieal stump, from whieh demagogism bas been burled at tbe National Reform party. Nor is tbis all—they have even degraded both office and official personality by gratu* itously insulting friendly nations! They have purposely falsified international history to do this! But tbe end ortheir desperate course was not stayed after insulting friendly European powers. Even the American citisens residing here in 1839, and the American government of that time were openly vilified and misrepresented by the same perversion of his~ torical facts'

The eitizens of the republic whom the ministry are now trying to eoneiliate were spoken o£ as being favorable to the religious persecution attempted by the American Mission in 1839. The fact was suppressed that outside of f!ie American Mission all bona Jide | Americaiis were" - blficrl v opposed ! thereto. The fact was su|>pressed that on July 10, 1839 the American Consul issued a proclamation " to the citizens of the United States resident at the Sandwieh. Islaeds,' whieh virtually endorsed Captain Laplace's action and placed " all American citi* zens, excepting the protestant ciergy under 4 4 protection on board the Frigate " ! These facts were deliberately supprossed by tho mmi3torial stamp ora,tor for partisan effect—to slur the National Reform party s to pervert truth and to insult foreign nations. ]

It is little wonder that so bad a case breaks down, backed by as it is by boyish blunderers and an unscru« pnlous family compact with an unsavory and broken political reputation. What is that reputation ? A reputav tion of lies; a reputation of broken promises; a reputation of religious bigotry; a reputation of land grabbing

through an n&righteoiis mortgage sy&texn; a repatation oi revolutionary crime; a repatation for cont@mplated and proposed politioal mnrder; a reputation for arrant cowardice; a reputation for attempted political treason; a reputation for everything • low and mean and despicable with a constant und historic laek of repatation for patriotism, justice. honor or love of truth for truth's sake ! Thus stands the case of the govern'< ment party three days before election, backed by a broken-down defense whieh was, unfortunately for tbem, placed in the hands of unskilled journalists and leaders at tfae last momeni^