Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 351, 23 December 1891 — Election of Officers. [ARTICLE]
Election of Officers.
. ...ving :n our laet issue fairly stated und work upon whieh we base or» >olief in the justfbe of the pnneiple, that the governed should hav.e the right to elect those who shall govern them, and upon that prineiple disposed of the manner of electing the heads of the drv department, without extra \pense to the puhlie purse, or djfficulty in the fbrm of electum, we now branch off to the Ministry, ec)uallv as impoi'taut, as representi i>g the executive ■ and adt»inistrativo division of the machinery thaf eo'iipose our government. Leaving a<?ide all reference to the*' Sovereign, who is also Chief of the Exe cutive, we will devote oar space to the elucidation of our vitws with regard to the best forni of applving thepopular will in the selection of the administration and executive officers of the governmeni, without trenching. upon the rights of the whlle carrying out the peo--ple's rights.
The Afinif?trv 13 the responsible yepresentative of the Bovereign, and is thas recognized by law and usage in monarchical governments, such great Britain, and is supposed t > ī, r. ) here. By this arranKem£nt the direet n of the sov» (•rei.gii 33 placed upon theif advisand they are m turn responsible to the people. Thus in every turn we referenee to inregani f>the source of power and the right u. officials, we find the fundament- ; = principle to be, that just powers aanate on!y from the people t *'ihd r officials, from monarch to ean* lo:ieer kre, simply the representati ve of that power. This authority then, ha\nng in the evolution of ti:ne been subverted to otherhands, through the perversion of man's legitimate nature to that of selfish nnimal instinct ? in ages past, should be restored again to its legitimate
iource, as fast realize them and apprecxjte their value/ We ean understand the reaBons why judges and ministers, and other officials shouM feel opposed to anv return to first principles, when it so mueh in their fa-vor to remain masters of the people instead of Bervants, some for life, jmd others for an indefinite period through the whims or fancies of an individual, who in the order of human nature, ia easih r won over to the o >rrupt Bide of life through vanitv, pride. and all the th at revolted against order in heaven
aml <Hsorder and heli ,on ēarth. To restore order and legitimate i authority is our aim. To do this :we m:iv be excused fram ir per- | si?teney in urging upon the people ftiid po':nt»iLjg to them, the aecessity ;■ ofinaking the efīort ānd of urging the restoration of that authority f hat 4v rhere l»irthright, an advocaey in whieh we are supported by rea«on, bv nature, and aV>ove all bv Crea|ive Authoritv. \Fhe light, whieh is inborn in*niaii, has never been toially obliterated, by the darkndss of heathenism and the consequent degradatSbn ot-the bu man family, but the Godlike spark has onlv smouldered' and has remained burning here and there in
i the world in all agcs. andhasgrowfi brighter in the last nineteen een'wuries. since firsfrfi received a ~reburnishing in this sphere, by the greatest of all teachers, eitber temporal or spirltual, tlie Prinee of Peaoe. Christianity bas beea the baTrier to the total extinction of the light and knowledge, that withr out whieh we would"descend to utter darkness and to chaos, and to the level of brutes. But thanks be to God, that in His Infinite Merey, for the welfiare of hife creatupfes, whieh at first he created after his own likeness and in his owh image, i lie has nlaced within our reach a never failing source of kndwledge | and wisdotti, that will teach us all jwe need to of what is right | and what is wrong, and how to ap- | ply u for our temporal wants, and, | — may I urge it — our spiritual or j higher wantfS. ■
Weknow, there are will adyance in opp6sition, to the pnneiple we advocate, whieh they admit as being nerfectly correct, as a rea§on making use of this svstemi, that it. is inexpedient and unsafe, because the people are not prepared to receive so great a boon, so great a privilege. We know that this dernier ressort is the unfajling argument of those who have nothing better to advance again v st reason. , Too mueh light, thev will say, will blind the people, and will bring about a disastrous rej,gtion and an cpportunity fi[>r interested motms to creep in unawares and destrov very|object be attained. It is selfishness and interested motives that prompts such cowardly advice and unworthy arguments The light neyer hurts any one, any more than knowledge, but it is the unwise use of either rhat injures, and its pervision that leads to destruction, and no man ean receive light and knowledge that will injure his well being» It is the preaching of partial truths, that creates partial knowledge, andpartial kno\vledge begets fools, hypocrites and cowards. The more unbending we are in our demeanor towards anvthing the.t is w«>ng the quicker we wi\l arrive at perfeetion, and the sooner will others imitiate ourexamples. Then as teachers. temtjjtral or Epiritual, together, --'and we are not debarred from being either or both, for as we te;.ch the pne we are also teaching the other, let us frora the pulpit as theologian. the stump as politicians teach Ibimutable truths and odvocate first principles.
Reverting back to the immi<liatr subject at issuc, the legitimaov and praticabilitv of electing thc Ministry, we elaim that ae puhlie ser« vants, re»Fef?entina: tho_*?over*Mgn. they too* ahould l>e elected. and we recomniend tliat the elcction of
| t.he miaistry. as in the case of the i judges<, should be cho?en from j ameng the majority of the elective [inembers of the Legislature, who • rnav be iti th<? ascendant -at the time | among the people, through the no- i j minatiofi of one of ihe numbers by ; the sovereign, thu? as in the case' | of the Sliperior Judges, saving ex- j i pense and fulfilih»g the pnuciples j I of selection of puhlie servants by j j the will of their £riasters, thePeopk, \ taking as a in the selection and the manner of nominalion from the dominaajfc party of the Peoole as represented in the Legislature, the system that is vogue in the British monarchy. More ano&.