Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 208, 4 June 1891 — THE BUSH-WILCOX CROWD. [ARTICLE]

THE BUSH-WILCOX CROWD.

The "P. C. Advertiser" of last Mondav morning repeated the well worn falsbood, that forms one article in- that journars stock-in-trade, to the efiect that there would be no disturbance unless the BushWilcox faction started it, thereby implying that we are a constant menaee to the peaee of the country. Every one who takes tlie pains to read what we write and isnot blind and deaf by prejudice must admit that we have always upheld law and order. We try to arouse the natives frorn their chronic lethargy about public affairs, eo that they may not be robbed in the night, or enslaved by the insidious and scarce noticed curtailment of individual liberty. We advise them to arto themselves that they may not go iike lambs to the slaughter, that they may not be wholly at the mercy of foreign conspirators. This we do and ean do legitimately and rightly. It is better to bear the ills we have than to precipitate a confiict whose end we eannot foresee, But that the natives should organize and prepare themselves so that they will alwj»ys be a factor that mvst be considered in their own country is a duty tbey owe to themselves and God. We are daily defining our position and principles, and we have certain reason to know that they are approved of by the people of the country.

We have gradually been foreed to re«ogni7.e the fact, as the Pooe of Rome has, that a republican form of g«vernment is best for the intellectual, spiritual and material prosDerity of a nation. While all the world has moved we do not want to see our people holding aloft the hollow shatns and dragging solid shackels of a monarchy.

We have not maae up our mind yet whether it is better to havearepublican form of government witn an expensive and more or less ornamental figure-head, as England has or a government of, by and for thē people without ai:y shams whatsoever. We have not decided yet, but we soon ehall. We are mpre!y waiting to see how Liliuokalani governs the c®untry this suoimer. Whatever is done ean be done lawfullv and penceably. The first step is the education of the people in wnieh work are daily engaged, When a people have reached a practically unaniu»ous conclusion as to a pahlie question. the rest comes very easy indeed as we may leam from Brazil.