Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 3, 14 January 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

The Lottery bill passed its third reading yesterday and will probably become law to-day or tomorrow. It is understood that the Cabinet will advise Her Majesty to veto the bill, but as the Advertiser and the Reform Party quite recently have delivered so many lectures to the Queen admonishing Her never to use the veto power or oppose the will of the majority of the representatives of the people, it is to be expected that Her Majesty will now refuse to follow the advice of Her Cabinet and incur the wrath of the Advertiser, and that she consequently will sign the bill and let it become law. The Cabinet is standing in a very peculiar position to-day. To say that the Ministers have not been defeated on their declared ministerial policy is simply bosh. If any ministry in any constitutional monarchy for one minute retained their seats after a so glaring defeat as that of yesterday they would simply be booted out of office and they would fully deserve it. We understand though that the Hawaiian Cabinet has no inclination to follow the constitutional precedent of other countries; and although we have always been ready and willing to support the present Ministry, we must say that such interpretation of constitutional principles and the establishing of such precedents here. we must decidedly oppose; and we shall consider the Legislature justified in expressing a want of confidence in a Cabinet who it seems hold office not for the purpose of serving their country in a constitutional manner, but for the purpose of serving their own interests and those of their friends. It seems now that the Ministers consider it a religious duty to stick to their offices. It seems to have become part of their creed—a Central Union doctrine in fact that they must hang on to the ministerial portfolios and take care of the saintly flock. We fear though that however praiseworthy such a stand may be from a churchly it won’t hold water from a politicaI point of view. We admire Noble Peterson for the moraI courage shown by him in facing the music of the Reform gang and voting as he had pledged himself to do. The merit of the measure has not been argued upon by Mr. Peterson—in fact we do not believe that he is in favor personally of the measure, but a large majority of his constituents declared themselves in favor of the bill and Mr. Peterson considered it his duty to follow the wishes of the men who sent him to the Legislature to carry out their will and not to exploit his own ideas. If we had a few more men like the little Noble in the House the work of the Legislature would run smoothly and the Government and country at large be greatly benefited. Noble Berger has during the season shown himself as a model party politician, and has met with the unanimous approvaI of his constituents. He was opposed to the principle embodied in the Lottery bill and unable to vote in favor of the measure, but knowing the sentiments of his constituents he refused to oppose the measure and stayed away—thereby acting as a Representative of the people should do. The Noble will always have a walk-over in Honolulu whenever he may present himself as a candidate for a seat in House. Noble Young was shocked, beeause a “white” man could favor such a measure! Who is it, that is always drawing the color-line in the

j Hoa«e ? Who i* it, th»t is &lways ' talking aboat whit« men and kanakaa ? Who i? it, that in his «aperciliou« oonceited wav always eondewendingly drawg odiou« eom-parig->ns between w* foreigners and yoa nativea —Soble \oang. By what right dxs that gentleman <{>eak aboat whiie men? Doee he know what white roen { are? Hare any whit<* men oatside a few plantation coolies ever given | him any right to epeak for them or repre?ent tbem? 1“ it not a fact th»t he would if poe«ible digcharga j white man frotn bi« busine«» ; tnd run it- with Uhinamen or Japanege? ]g it not a fact tha while Soble eter?or. was elected in hū pUee of residence and b‘is i.esa tbat the ‘*white” men refu«ed to elect Mr. Young in hi» — and th «t he w»g ob!iged t-> «neak uj» to »<Hue # p< ekel l> rough to obtain a seat. Give us a rest on the while man racket, Nuble \oungl Yoa are a m ghty poor represenI tative of them! It was anderstood that Noble C >rnwell would have favore<l the bill as a party raeagure although , j»ersonally uppo«ed to it but weighty and to bis |X)litical friends satisfictory reasjns made him change his tactics, and he was absent whea the final vote was taken. Unusualiay heavy pressure was , brought to bear on him, to induce him to make & change of front, but he is so well known a? a staunch I>arty politician that no sinister raotives or blame will be luid , at his door on aeeounl his of action yesterday, While a certain nntive Representative spoke against the Lottery Bill yesterday. there was an audible snigger among the audience. The natives were vastly amused to hear such sentiments from a wellknown patronizer ofthe fascinating game of Chefa. Yes every reported partner in one of the banks. — Another native Representative who voted withboth hand3 against the hill appe ired at the olfice of one of our loeal merchants the other day and enquired if he could not obtain five tickets (on the Q. T.) in the Louiaiana Lottery for i the next drawing. He lelt very > dusappointed, heeauee the gentlei man he applied to wasn’t in it. We wonder if the legally edacated , edit<»r ol the “ l’. C. Advertiser ” . really meane what ho says this morning, when he asserts that the Lottery Bill may be unconstitutional, because the constitution gives the Legislature power only to make wholeeome laws. If such should be thc case we could virtually do without the Leg'slature, Queen, or Cabinet, , because the Reform Party could o;isily have any measure to whieh it was opoosed declared unwholesome and unconstitutional by our Reform 8upreme Court. If the “Advortiser” wishes to bring about disturbance, revolution, and a new o*>nstitution. itis on the right road , to it now. lf the principle indicated by it? eiiib>rial this morning , should be carried through and the a{>peleale Court made the Supreme {>ower of the land we c.«n assure the philoeophieal etlitor of the Morning Screech that it would , just take 24 bours to get every man, woman. and child ready U> unite in sitting severely on the principle. the Court, and the *‘Advertiser.” Noble Thurston tried to make a howl out of a subpoena whieh he claimed had becn sent to Represent«tive Kapahu to get him out of the House and whieh was a ( fraud. After the vote on the bill * was taken and Kapahu had voted ' in favor oi thebill, Mr. ThursUm «isbed that tbe euhpoena had be genuine, and Mr. Kapahu remained 1 out of the House. Even smart ' L>utchman occasiooally makes a : slfp—and get it in the neek. : We hardly believed that even in Mr. Tburston‘s fertile brtin I so prepo8terous aa idea eouid j havt heen origiuated as his propo- j sition lhat Her Maje»ty the Queen . should proceed to Washington ind r there do ihe lobbying act among i tbe congressmen (tough and otherM wu»e) who have the honor of renre-

1 sentinz the d;fferent states in the , Union. The object wa« to obtain a treatv for the immediate benefit i ofthe Ionz-suff*TŪng planters. Mr. Tharston’« under«Unding of the dignitv of a ra»»narch snd a coantry rou«t be very defective. bat we «;ip{»-e a« long as they gain tbeir end« the means ased are of I no con«equence to ihe Planter’s Labor A««^ciation. If the comml«sion is to go to Washmgton on iu> ‘*gossiping” exr>edition it wouhl prob%b!y give raore Iu«tre and importance to it if «rtne rneml>er of the royal family went a« the nominal head and we do not «ee why Prince David Ka- i wananakoa «hould not be very suitablef>r the purp>se. If this voung gent!eman was sent as am- 1 b;:.«-id r extraordinaire together with three or four members of the Legi«lature we have no d >ubt that somcthing of benefit to the j ooantrv may be obtained —a great deal more th;vn by shipping such an ob«curity as Tnurstou to the lobbies in the Capitol. { — Evervbodv knows the American's • • inclinrtion to snobberv and to- * # I aderv and any kind of royalty wi 11 go a Iong way with them. To shake hands with a prince and appear with him at the Opera even if his name is not to be found in the Gotha Calendar will be a matter of blis« to raany an Araeriean stat,esman, although he publicly will spout and shout ab.mt equality (horrid!) and the people (l>eastly!) and every Amer;can, Sir! is a savereign himself, Sir! ! (rot! Sir!) A resolution of want of confidence in the Cabiaet was introdaced this afternoo i by Representative J. Kapaha. The resolution was framed in the same laeonie manner as the one introduced by Nohle Thurston agaiast the CornwellCabinet. As we go to press the oullook is that the resolution has heen adopted by 25 v.)tes, and that the Cabinet will bo obliged to resign. The roport that the Cabinet intended not to present the Lottery Bill for Her Majesty’s signature or would refuse to coantersign the hill, if s;gned, was the immediate cause of theresolution. The unwiliingness of the C.ibinet to resign. although defeated on their policy, decided the opposition taking the decifeive step. Mai poina i ka hoolako i na ilioi mau kiai hale, ke nui mai nei ka aihue, a he uuku wale no ka heluna o na makai. Ua lohe ia mai, o Hope Ilamuku Merthen aku ana ka luuapaahao o Kawa, a na Harry Von Hollehoopiha kona makalua. Ile 62 Pake i ae e hooko i ke kanawai hou e papa ana i ka hoopae limahana. a raa ia ano, ua loaa ia lakou ka lanakila e noho ma Hawaii nei. i Ua hookohuia ma ka la 9 iho nei, o Kapena A. N. Tripp. i Lnnakiai no ke .Ua a me ka apanaOhi Auhau o Honolulu, raa kahi o C. L. Crabbe i waiho mai. Ua make ma Waimea. Kauai, raa ka Poalima, Dec 6, ka wahine a Mr. Revi Kauai, ma kona wahi noho. He fiva kona ma’i a hiki i ka make aaa, a ua nui kona miaamina ia. Nui ka mahalooka Peresidena i ko ke Alii ka Moiwahiue hookohu ana ia Frank S. Pralt, [Palaika] ua ike koke mai la ka Peresij dena iaia roe ke kaulua ole, ma ke ano oia ko kakou Kanikela Ha waii j rra na mokuaina o Kaleponi, Xevad;«, Oregona a me W»sinetona. 1 keia Poaono la 14 e malamaia ka ahaaina kulaia no na waha olelo o ka Lahui, malalo o ka noho Ilamuku aiakai ana a ko makou makamaka, J.»hn Sam Kekukahiko. O kela haole no.ia ka inoa o | Joseph B. Cook, i hopuia’i ianei me ka manaoia ua apuka i na dala o ka Aha QoomaIu o Kaleponi, i kona laweia ana aku nei a hiki iiaila. aohe i hopa ia. Owai us poe makemake e loaa r.a Buke Mooleio a i ole o na Kii aani paha?