Ka Nupepa Kuokoa, Volume VII, Number 24, 13 June 1868 — English Column. Subsidy, Reciprecity, and Annexation. [ARTICLE]

English Column.

Subsidy, Reciprecity, and Annexation.

.\finisters havc worl<cd '.iili /,'?;»! (•> >*cure thc pawagc o( r:« *';H«tdv. NVc wjsh lli«l u*c could he« !, \c V,M the u»eans uscd werc fair ami h'!v rahīc; ihat wc hnd nnt hcard that the Ait"Tn< y (ienemi'? factotum h«d bcco proi; d thc pcsitiuu cf CirciM Jodgeof Maui; tbt* s;utJ f.;ctotum had not u»ed ihe pro{io>:'.!on to inlWnee one of tbe Hon. Kopp «Mitatives froin Maui; th«tan Hunomt V Cir(it!cnicn frorn Kauai, who had worked ag i ir.>t thf subsidy for aonie len daya, had jio; <-ud<j»*iily changtd his taclics, the cause 'pn«<) lur tlj«» ch.inge oflws"e being that ii )d Im'ii nominate<i for an office oo tbat t< but that the con(irntatiou depended •jj' t> ius vote for or agninst subsidy. > >v:h ji course, pursued to aecure tbe pasiof a very doubtful measure, must brand v,)f> Min.sterj3 w»th d*grnce in ehe eyes of e ti«en. nnd eaniiol but weaken th« < rt 'ia o} tiieG«veriuneiit atbonieand abroad. li*d tb*' Mini.*try \vorked wi*h the corn» li.» :ty in order to weun; the passage ol the lii< i t rocity Treaty in VVnsr»ington, weshould 1) iv >-rt'n, cre tiiia. a new life infused in *v» ry de|mrtment of tr.ide ntid industry, inof wlueh evory e»tprpri«e languiahes, ijn ! t nerui want <»f confidence prevuils.

II kJ Mi» Mnjf«!<ty , B Ministera viewed the I / » fi:s of fhe Tre.ity t<» Hawniiun», from a .vt uid-poiiit, they would not have iri'(l th<» I/ickavcamii as a nienns by whieh II i!.ituage, if not desiroy, ail hopea of the | „f the Treaty by the United States Sv(i it". h h;»s b»Tn remnrked thnt His Mnjesty's .»hiw't havo Ktultified themselves, and toji"t!.»?r with their Minister to \Vashtngton, li>tvhuMune the laughing stock of the SeH.id ihe Kecjprocity Treaty passcd, the ii)ii-.-pi'hdL'nce ol' the Hawaiiau Kingdom wi.uhl certainly be guaranteed for ten years; n.s it is, wi<hnut a Trcaty, wlu» ean s.»y when the prr>wing wants of the North-west coast will lt'iid iho ventursi)iue inh»bitants of its iiml territories to initiate a Policy, the r»M)lt of whieh will be the absorbtion of this j:n.up. Alreudy we hcnr thnt it is proposed to imi. o a fuud in C.ilifomiu and Orcgon, wlueh i.s lo l»e usfd for ihe purchase of lands in (hcse islunds ; thut the sum of 8115,000 has alr<\idy b«en guarantecd. Is this not omiinu»»# lt is diflicult to prophecy thechanges and revolutions whieh the Pneilie Rail Koad will bring about; but of one thing we may rrst its influence will surely be felt liere, and wise statesinen will cawfully trin» the sails, and handlc the helm of state, that the ahip mny ride easily, and bc ennbled to (nke advant»goof Ihe favoring gales; while a contrary policy will bringtheShip ofState to grief. • We ft>el a wa«t of confidence in the Mit»ījiiry; their post acts, nnil present policy, stiow ihat they are inoapnble of .rnanaging ihe hehn. Wouhl it not be wisefor tho Representativis of the people, in Legislature assembled, fo lake lime by the forelock, and, by a vote of want of eoul'ulenee, givc His Mnjesty and the friends of Hawaii on» more enanee for pr«»tooging the independence of the Hawaiian lsluods ?