Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 273, 1 August 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

“It has not been loog that Hawaii waeinn position wbereahecouldsuc* cesstully hurl back th« dicUtion and demands of the Spreckels firm and family;but things havechanged even in Hawaii. Tbe l7th of iast January marks the fall of tbe Hawaiiao Bastile, and the people who pay Ihe Uxes will hereafter run the government.” • The above undiluted rot appeared in the Advertiser of tbe 27th of July and ehowe tbat the editor of tbat paper is rapidly sinking into a sUU of incurable imbecility. ln ihe futore he aays the Uxpayers

■ will run thi« country, bul Mr. •precke!s must not do so any aoore. » Ai Mr. Spreckels p«ys one fourlh ’ of a!l th« taxe« of the country it i« unjust of Mr. Johnstone U» w«nt to depr:ve him of a vo:ce in the run1 ning of the governmenl. The Cbineee who pay another fonrth of all the taxes are probably the gentlomen f»r wht>ra Mr. Johnstone now heeomea a ehampion and desires t > run the g»vernment. So far. we hav* never been aware that any- ( bo«iy txcept taxpayers have heen running the atf«irs <*f the c->untry. | iu iact, we have a uretty cl»*ar idea thal no mau was ever all<>wed to vote excepl iie ha«i pi;d h;s tiX ’« or was duiy exempt ,wl»ich ;s an equivale<it. Xow, und»-r the prei sent regime, st ! <->ss very mueh as j if liie taxpavers have no v«>ice wii.iti ever, but ihal Messrs. D >ie, Smilt> and cumpanv run everything just j to suit their own sweel wili, 'ind i with«>ut the 9lightesl r-g<r l l- the j taxpavers, or t<» tiie pe«>i>le as n whole. Mr. Johnstone is lalking thr»iigii his bat, ai(hougb we s spp« se tiiat whal he is driving at is that in the fnture the classes des;re t»> ruie Hawau, and that the mas6e3 through disfrai>chi9ement will simply be eliminated in the ealeulations of our seif constiluted gov•rnmeut. If thatis ihe pr<>gramm«', the ct»mparison helween the fall of the Bastile and the I7th «>f Jannary in Hawaii is t<> say the lea8l rather lame. Because the fali ot th« B iBtile in France meant that from that day ruluig by the ciusses w.«s at an end, and it was the beginning of the grand pnneiple «>f one man, one vote. Timt principle is to-day rec<>gnized and f>llowed all over the civilized world and we are sure it is in vaio f.ir the Advertiser or the little crowd whom it pretends, >n spite of their protests. to repre»ent. to amend or destr<>y that principle. What is g hk! enough f<>r the United State of America is g »od enough f,»r Hawaii and by following th« priucipleof one manone vcte, those who pay taxea heeome the rulers of ihe country in the proper and Iegitimate w«y although uot in the Johnatonian mode.