Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 88, 16 ʻApelila 1894 Edition 02 — What’s Up. [ARTICLE]

What’s Up.

Tho Advertiser' 8 change of fronl in regarcl to tho Constitutional Convoution has fairlv paralyzed the commanitv. Theoliieial organ now proposes thal the Advisoiy Council should not eit in the convention but that all meiubers should be elocted bv n popular vote and together with the;ministry frame a constitution under whieh Hawaii might get a stable popular aml satisfactory government. We need not eall onr readers attontion to tbo fact thnt this po!icy ns now outlined by the Advertiser has been advocated iu the columns of the Holomi'a, since the first dav on whieh a constitutioual couvention was meutioned. We have stited aud we repeat that this countiy ean get along very uicelv in tho futureas it has iu the past, if a goverumeut on truly populai priuciples is established. We have promised lo use all tho inAuenee whieh we are aware that our pa|>!?r possess to briug the people of Hawaii into a harmo nious flock tbat will solemnIv swear to support the Provision.il goverument 1’xtil a popu!arly elected convention has decideil what form of government the groat majority of voters desire to live under. Provided a!ways that tbo Provisionsl government and its supporters solemnly agroo to abide by auy decision of the majority aud |>eacefully will adopt whatever form of governmont is forraed by such a couveution. 13ut the puzzling point is. what made tbo desert its former policy and suddenly appoar through its political trapdoor like a dcns ex maehina worfcing for civil rights and liberal ideas ? Is it simply a clap-trap to 1 show to tbe U niled States that American principles mle and are fosterod here. ! Or is it that eom-1 ing events cast their shadows? Or is it that tbe ''Tiser’’ at last is tired of playing second fiddle and ; wauts to intimidate Mr. Dole and the other Kindergarten states- 1 men? It cannot be presumed tbat the Adirrti8er editor suddenly woke up to tho fact that an illoberal, unpopular andcontemptible proposition like the one made by the p. g* for a convention would cast nnmentionable 1 discredit on all connected witb j the late annexation scheme and i 1 cover our alleged American resi-11 dents with cdium, ridicule and eoniempi. Whaiever the motives 1 of our moraing contemporary may \

be we beartily «gree witb the pneeipie set fortb, but we again repeat wbat we Lave said :n a fonner issue, “postpone tbe eonvettion for two montbs ’’ If the ideas of tbo Advtrti«er or of the pcwerful political orgauization of the Ameriean League are to be recognized tbe time to alter present conditions is too sbort and • tbe government will find —if it really bas the future welfare of Hawaii at heart— tbat a more tborongb discussion and a faller excbange of ideas will further the prosperity of tbis country and tbe contentment its people vastly j better tban tbe railroading of a constitation tbroogb a body of nen representative, unpopalu* - i missionary planters and tbeir tools. It is yet time to make baste slowlv. 9