Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 157, 7 July 1894 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

I Ewtoe HoLonn. The constitutional convention has completed its labors. With 1 ' a simplicity and innoeenee worthy | jof infants, its members have, | placed tnemselves in an absurd j position. I make this statement ' upon the authonty of the daily Ip g. Advertiser. The convention and the p.g. Advertiaer, aforesaid, : with a most ingenious display of ; reason have admitted tbat tbe i suggestion aud advice received ! 1 from the Shutzen Clnb, amlotber i ! sources were very valuable, but ; that all such advice was given too j I late. Tho resolutions of the Sbutzen Clnb were received be- ■ fore the third reading of the draft {of the new constitntion. This, | accordiug to the convention and pg. Advertiser was too late. lf tbis outside advice was good. If the adoption of such snggestions would have tended to improve the constitution, why were they not considered, even if it did : reqnire a few days longer? The; | convention are not limited by ■ i time. The members of the Schutzen : ; Clnb, however, they ma}' prented 1 to take this reception of their resolutions, ean scarcely have | failed to observe that the eon- ! i vention were simply disinclined 1 ;to heed liberal suggestions from an\‘ quarter. Tbis new constitntion whieh i the superior intelligence of suoh stutesmen as Mr. Mendonca, D. B. Smith, J. M. Vivas, Albert Kuuuiakea and Fernaudez has j ! produced, and whieh the cuckoos. !of tbe American League and Schutzen CIub have prononnced '■ perfect, is an instrnment tbat in the dark ages, migbt possibly, have passed as a progressive doc-! umeni. Should the constitution be submitted to an unprejudiced ; stranger from America or a Con-l j tinental Country, for au opinion, | jhe would very likely suggest ( that the constitution had been framed by persons who ala Rip i Van Winkle, after having slept three or four centuries. have just awakened, not realizing the length of their sleep nor the cbange iu their surroundings. It was »sserted that tue main cause | ;of the revolution of January 17,' 1893, was the attempt of Queen Liliuokalaui to promulgate a new constitution. Tbis, of course. in the light of recent ' events, we know to be false. It has been discovered since January 17, 1893, tbat the avarice of that coterile or clique, who wouhl now assume despotic pow-; ers, for gold, was the real cause of the revolntion. Now. for the sake of illustration,if the Queen’s ! attempt to promulgate a constitution, whieh conld not bave besn more tyrannical than the constitutiou whieh the present government is ende«voring to force down the throats of the people, occasioned a revolution, wbat will be the false of this o!igarcbal docnment? By virtue of the same logic its end sboold be synominoas. This new eonstitation is indeed a most extraordinary docament. There is no endeavor to reconcile the discontented. On tfce eontrary they see jed detennined to widen tbe enp of enmity. Under this new constitntion tbe spirit of discontent will be so preat that the people of iheee ialands will be split into two factions more averse to one another than if they were two bossile nations. Zebo.