Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 116, 9 December 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We wisb to know if the reverend and honorable ujcmber from Uana is to deliver the Christmas Sermon at Makaweli, Kauai, care of Hon. H. P. Ba!dwin, or if his admiring eonBtituents in Hana still have a show at him. Rep. Kauhi obiecte<l the other day to have a cemetery among the Clerks of the Interior department. We fullv agree with him, but if ihe House had followed the recommendation of thc mean waya committee. the starvation ratea allowed ihe Clerks woald soon have made the ceraetery their only refuge. In that bill ol' Horner’s relating to government oflicers’ workiug houre nothing is said 5n regard to to echool-teachers. We would lik» to know if the honorable Noble alao proposes to keep the school raa’ams and raasters busy from eight to half past four. If he doe» we plty the kide, because we ehould consider it justifiable in the teachers to spend tbe extra houre in »trengthening their muscles by thrashing the comiug generation. especially where some of the nuraerouB Horncr olive branches are to be found. The “Bulletin” is ehuek full of Kauaiana, that the writingreminds us forcibly of thc former Waihee aua by the slobbering insanely affected style whieh must be given vent to 5n print. We only notice that thc writer has ilropped politics in liis remarks, probably as k result of the peremptory order issucd frora the autocratic Kimo, that nob<xly in thc service of his board must ever write politics any more, except they write it in the proper vein and to suit the f»elings of that remarkably con»tructed Board. What i? the matter with Popcorn and Mongoose Joe ? Ha» the uatural jealousy between the two developed into open «nmity ? They seem to be on the war-path and are shakiug their food eontainers at eaeh other in true Falstaffian way. Jones, like a man, advooating eommon sense aud Joe ineaneee nnd »tinginess. The answer of Mr. Jonee la»t Wednesday to thc self oonstitutcd ehainnan of tho parsimony eommittcc was very mueh to the point. The Minister said that when Joe inrestigated the Interior departraent. he gave nobody there a ehanee to speak or explain, he doing all the spouting hiraself. and consequent!y the rccommendatiocs of thc coramittee are not b.ised uo iuformation gained from the departmcnt. but upon the vivid imagination of the coolie-advoeat ing ignoramus from the Mongoose district t>n Hawaii And now <‘omes this overgrown hag of coucelt and states that the only vote he ever regrets having CMt in the Houee was when he voteil against the Macfarlane Cabinet. Joe is not the only one of the Reform crowd who expreeees th« sentiment. You had a good thing, gentlemen, and you broke il to pieces to see what was inside, and uow you have found out, and you cry, heeauae you don’t hke your Brown Popeom, and because you eaunol get rid of it.

The Advertiser ;s whining because Nohle Cornwell advocated tn appropriate the few hundre<J dollars whieh 5s due tn the MeNeal safe Company for interest ou the amoum whieh the novernmeut owes thal Company. The appropriation for the amoum was proposed by the Cabinet and should of course be paid. If it is not, it simply means that the company has to go to the exjJēnse of suing the government. and then recover its money. The opposition to the item eame naturally from Mr. W. O. 8mitb. This gentleman has noi the good form to mako himaelf les» numerous on the safe question, iu whieh he is as close!y interested, on aeeoum of the disappointment of his brother-in-law to ohUin the contract for the safe, as was Mr. Ashford m the postal savings bank appropriatiou, in regard to whieh Mr. Smith’s organ the Advertiser blamed the Representative for the 3rd ward for making him«elf so numerous. It is cbaracteristic that Mr. Smith is always advocating lawsuits. We suppose that he thinks that if a large number of suits are started, h* may succeed in getting a clieut. We believe not. His ability as a lawyer is so well recognized, tbat even his intiraaoy with the farailv compact is uot sufficient •ncouragement for anybody to leave their affairs in his velvet g!oved hands. It has long enough been objectionable for the country to keep such an cstablishment and snch ineumbents as the Hawaiian Governmeut has tolerated in the past in tbe consuiar ofiice iu San Fraucisoo and no time shou!d be lost in turning a new leaf and have a decent national representation in thc port with whieh we do th« most important part of our busines». We hope that the Cabinet will eee that the new Consul General in San Francisco appoints some young Hawaiian to be his clerk. There is an appropriation for $2500 a year for office expenses, and that sum is cortainly sufficient to pay, say $1200, to some Hawaiiau to do the office work. The Boston crew got ashore again yesterday and had a drili. This is the first time einee the Examiner’s Hawaii ieane that Captain Gingo bas dared to let his men appear. It doe» us proud to say that they were not eaten up but returued »afely to lheir ship and th« Captain‘s whiskers were actually curling with pleasure. The gallant warrior is very •carce at the club lately. He says he doesn’t like to go there any more because all hia ‘Trieuds” eome up to him and shake hands, and ask him with their sweetest smile, if he has seen the “Examiner,” without asking him “see” his Exam5ner epithet. Ofcourseheh .sandhe doesn*t like it worth a d . Confound that Williams I The Supreme Court has given its opinion in regard to the Queeu’s siguature to constitutional amendments. We fail to see the poesibl« motive* whieh could make the learned Judges decide so decidedly contrarv to good law and eommon ■ense as in tbi» inelanee. It must be preaumed that the Court knows what a constitution in a monarchial country ifl, and how

5t ever waa arr;mged f r, but if it does «o, we must say that we are at a p*rfect loss to explain the iogic of our esteea'.ed Bench. Before 1S4 S there were no eonstitutional monarchies outside Eugland. whieh country stands as an exception. having no writt«n constitution. When the wave of free thought and people’? right struck tho autocrats of the different countries in Europe. constitutional monarchiee were born. But what were the«e oonstitutions ? Can there bo any doubt or dispute about that they were nothing except a contract between the sovereign and the people, in whieh the former granted something to the latter. and the latter consented to admit something to the lbrraer. Mo»t of the cor.stitntions were obtained through the muiual eoueent of ruler and people, and «ueh constitutions wcre always termed a voluntarv crift from the 80v«reign to his people, and that is the way in whieh all political aeienee ao far has judged it. But it waa left for the Hawaiian Supreme Court to decide that a contract ean be amended ae loug as one of the contracting parties agrees without the aesent of the other. If that is to be the decisiou of the highest tribunal of the country in civil cases we should suggest that either some very radical reform ought to take plaee in that tribunal, or capital must get uo and dust. 11' the opinion given by the three legal lights holds good it virt»ally means that this Legialature ean araend every one of the 83 section? of the constitution, and have such amendments passed by the next Legislature. and thcn the country would be in pos8ession of a new eonstitution whieh, by the way, raay eonlain elauaea whieh would aholieh the raonarchy and make this country a Kepuhlie. The prerogatives of th« 80vereign have been shelved by the opinion of th« court, and we raust recommend the Cabin»t, if it is loyal, to ignore the opinion given. and request the siguature of Her Majesty, before they officially announee the passage of the amendment. We do not attempt for a momenl to insinuate that the Judges have had any iraproper object in view by their opinion, but we cannot believe that their intelligence and knowledge of polilieal eeienee is «ueh that they would stand or fa.ll by the opinion given by them. We have before 5n our paj>er called the attention to the often confirmed standpoir.t of the Court that an ex parte opinion is of no binding effect on them, uor on anybody else, and wa believe this 'to be one of the iustances where their Honors will in future refer to their said principie. Let all good littie politicians who eell their souls to the evil one take warning I Thurston was taken off suddenly yeflterday without even a ehanee to eonaull thegre&tcaucu8. Hebasdisappeared and tbe sesBion of 1892 will know him no more. He did not go away in a chariot of fire hke the Advertiser> patron Eliah, bnt he wenl loaded witb sulphur-leis and brimstone flowers, in broad day-Ught with Spreckel’s gilded collar around hia neek, while constitutional prineiplea and Reform poliliea are thrown to the winds. and Horner> banking bill will pa«s.

Xhe resurr.'ctcd “Kn Leo" t xik oocasion yesterduy a!orn'ng to attaok Major Nowlein heeauae he has tranBacted s»rae private businoss nnd it was immcdiately insi- : nuated that he did so because be was to 1« appointed Port Surveyor wheu the predioted tidal wav« { 8hould strike the Cusu'm House. The aiilleunium sheet wishes to see som« maritime gentleman appointed to be th« opium-catcher or passer as th« case may be. and that confirm« our former suspicions thai thehoofwhich ean be traced in that paper is not lhat of the reformed ambassador but shows the print of som« maritime gentleraan who hns attempted for -ouie years to becom« eonapieuoue as a 8tatesman while he really ouly lu« been noticed by his f*ilures. He is weary, oh, so wcary of \vaiting any longer for the promised offices. and he shows bis uglino-* ov«r it now. A failure always, he now talk« equality aud Iiberty in the saintly organ; h«. who wai noteti as a slavedriver, both when he did ihe soulh sea pifate on a schooner act, orthe eoolie whipping act on a plantation, he appears as the defendev of the rightB of the people on whieh he has trampled for i y«ars. Eveu as au office seeker ha» ho been an egrcgious failure aud when he now fills the always open pages of Holy Ned’s paper with hi« malicious venomoue vaporings developed ia ihe empty bone-bos whioh he calls bis brains, agaiust the (ahelennālO Great Mogul of the 8outh Sea, he is only gnawing iiis . m»uslaohc aud bureting his gall becau*e he could not get tho ehaueo of becoming the Great MogaI himself. I.et him apit and 1‘oam, the o!d aea aerpent, he is aud will be in the amials of this country on!y a myth and nothing except a mytb. (Foot Note) Our attention has been (“alled to the fact that onee

thc o!d blunder-bus5 a• .' i« . and thai vr n a«i the cork-po; tuaitre de Killel ct‘ the boat-h ; and direotor-in-v'hief of the Ma.e I cpowd, and vre h*!*ten to uekiedjfc the fuot.