Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 131, 17 Pepeluali 1891 — The Injustice in the Constitution [ARTICLE]

The Injustice in the Constitution

We have endeavored in all our efforts to sshow to the that our new Constitution was an t>u'trage upon the rights of the nativ«s, and was constructed,_with tlie view to*rob and take away all the power from tne Hawaiian people, and through the iniluenee of wealtfi to bycott the vote of the working das3es. The division-of thc Ivegisla ture to-uay is a fair sample of the "Working of the Consutution. 0f twenty Nobles there are only four Hawaiians, the reusaining twenty-four being haoles, -and thev are the body to approve or disapprove anv nomination for s"ccessor to the Throne of Hawaii, whieh the »Sovereign may nominate. This shows the sense of justice and Christiamty, whieh rrompted the leaders of the revolution of 1887. Under a thin excuse the Government was overtured for no other purpose than to rob the King and Hawaiian people of their rights whieh they enjoyeJ as a free people. Now, a successor is soon tr» be nominated, and that person is to be approved, or not, by such men, as Nobles, Von Tempskj', Walbridge, Marsden, Anderson, and others of the same iik, some of them a few years b«fore they eame into this country wer« broken-down miners and ploughmen <fcc,and men who were elected as Nobles through the exclusion of the native by a high property qualification, for voting for them, and under the patronage aad infiuence of wealthy miāsionary sugar planters. • The outrage and the barefacedness of the intention of the parties to th« moveHient, whieh brought about a new Constitution, is so obviouß, that the more honorable minded of the leadihg element that took v jpart in it, arē heartily ashamed of the share they had in the raatter, and of the injustice whieh has becn done to the rightful people ofthe country.