Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 18, 22 January 1894 — Registration. [ARTICLE]

Registration.

* Anion" some of tbo “restrictious” proposed by » loeal paper aguinst Chinese if niore of them sbould be imported hero is the registration of thern. That is another blutf. A most excellent act relating to registratiou of all persons residing in the couutiy was introduced last Session, and \vas apparentlv eudorsed by the paper aiul the planters. Wo say apparently heeauae \vo are very mueh inclined to bo!ieve that there was no siucerity in the staud taken by the reform party. While the leaders of the plauters purty pretended to favor the Act, iu some mysterious mauner tho Hawaiian mombers were intiuence<l against the measure and the reform party took certainly no paius to explain the value of the proposed bi!l or to disabuse the prejadices of their Hawaiian colleagues. The Act. was finally passed aud has there after never bean heard of. It was signed by the Queeu aud should have gone iuto force. but through the t»geney of aome miniele doctor it was. transformed iuto thin air. Of course such trausformations especially when the reform party is in i>ower are as frequeut, as we all know, as were Uio miracles of old. But what seoras to substantiate our assertion that the reform party really is opposed to tbe rogistration mcasure is tliat uot a wonl has been said about that act duriug the yoar that tbe P. G. have mauaged atfairs. If it was such a uecessary and good measure as we were told why Laeen t the “aimighty” councils broagbt iu a bill aad passed it? l'he great Legislators who quarrt*l among tbemseives even Tbursday aftcruoon have never lUiuie themselves esj>ecittlly noted | by any di»play of roodesty ; they havo in fact tumbled the statutes of the coantr/ aboat in tho moet aucoucerued mauucr,

an»l repe*»l«d, araended, «nd passed, by the scores. Now the Adverii*rr in its auxiety to 1 tlood the conutry with Chinese and at the same time not step on the toes of Mr. Emmeloth and Mr. Maiiigan secret league.advo- , cate registration. bat, ouly of |Chmese, not, as provi«leii in the | old act, of everybody. M hat has ! haj>pened to change the roinds of the reform party in i - egard to the merits of the mnch-praised measire? Conld we possibIy indoce I tlie Adrcrii*tT to t»-ll the eouima I nītv :.bout it? Becau.-e we are I loath to believe th it the reas<m is tHtwiliiugaaBS to rsk th«t ‘ some bnsybo»lv might go to work ’ and c-oup<re the ii.nuber of | ofiiciallv reeistered cdizens with • o I the figures fumished bv the I Aunex «tion club and by the truthful stutisticians who w.eut | Washlu|gton ail-i told »11 ahoūl 1 : the 20,()00 whife rneu in Huwaii ' with a big raujoxity of patriotic, I although expatriated Americaus. We say we are loath to believe that such may be the reasou why ! we hear no moie about iegistra- J i tion. but we are really nnable to ■ I iinagiue any other cause for the change whieh has eome over the dreanis of the “virtuous” refonu purty. J