Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 378, 28 January 1892 — Political Echoes. [ARTICLE]

Political Echoes.

Th» u ßefnrui P*rtT 4 *.aM' mtfking' a gTMj| oI«U«r again«l Aib&rd, ac-

cusiog him of killing tbe Tr«ttjr tbat they tay would Kave given ot 2 cents a pound bounty on our i su£i:; and cjntequently Ashford i« the ciiuse of our pretent unfortu* nate depression. Thit tbey know to l>e a f«lse presentnitnt of lht • fait. The N. V. Tribune, the or- : gan of the Republican adminiatration at SVasbington. haa distinctiy intimated that the Hawaiian st«gar planter could not expect a bounty froiti the United Btatet unl»tt the islandt were annexed. . Any one familiar with the cqrrent of poliiieal thought *in tbe United Btatet mutt k«*ow that BUine couid never have !nduoed Congreta to grant a sugar bounty >to a foreign country. Such a |>roposition would be almott toAcMmi to wreck the adminittration. And if perchance it had tuooeeded, lU continuance for t»any ynart wotlld have been a uiatter of grave uncertainty. īf Mr. Athford is credited wltb tbe defeiit of the treaty that oontained a * troop cUuse" cetsion of Pesrl H«rbor. UnitAd Btatet tup «*rvision of our Foreign Ofiioe and uncertain prnmise of a bounty, be then detervet tbe tbankt of the nation. For he taved uo from unnecettary humiliationt. and prevented an actual harter of our independence for an uneertain and uni>erpetual tugar bounty. The Thurston adminUtratioo wotild sold ns out eheao. but Aah* ford reserved the fcicriftce, tnd orfterved to ut the power to make « compaot on more hon«rable attd equitable ttrmt. Athfordt opponents know too well thst an American bountry upon Hawaiita tugar it an impoeeibtlity without annexati(Ni. It it therefore unftir to taddle upmi Athford the evilt whieh the Kinley Bill hat brought ut. but Athford't friendt will credit him with the ditoernnient that tet atide a Treaty whieh would never have been juBt or popnlar. The Liberal Party hopet for a new treatv with the United Btates thst wi!l promote our oommem and ttill leave us independent and respected. It is amuting eon%e4v to read j the phaiaiaieal wailtng in tbe Ad- | vertiter and Bulletin beeaote tbe \geod men whom they tupport for I eleetion to the LegUiatore iire li- ; ab!e to be beat by thē bad men of I tbe Liberal Party. "I am better I tban thmi" tay tbe bypoeritieal | teribet of the two papert in d*£eoM ; of this favoritet tnd abute of ih# 1 othert. It li a trite My(ng tbat • comparitont are odkma." We will th*refore charitabiy nfriiti from drawlng oomparitont bētween. tay the noble o(I1m fp* poting partiet, bui we will onhlnahingly attert tbat tbe Liberalt tiaod i on an equal plane aiorally āod in- [ telleetually witb tbeir opp(mntt ! and art better fitted for impariial i legUiatnra. Tba barefaeed dkboo« ] esty a;id ma]igiuuit prejtidioe whleh the Advertiter and Bulletin ditin tbeir oomiamnaUnn of tbt geotlemen wha bead tbe Liberal ' tieket> it onwortby of a poliHeal !party. or of retpe@4ablt joorntit, | one of whieh pretetids rbe »nd fear net H and tb* oUmt ed to neitber wct nor party, M bot ttiU ventiog the tpleen oTt faction. We «re continuully aaked

'we have oot att<ek«d tbe' preaent cabioet. We anawer that we oonttder tbem to hoptlettly weak. »«• oompetent and tilly that the* vir« dict of theirdownfal ii already pm-' nounced. and we will allow tliem to approach lbeir d<N»m in |*eace. We anticipate that ihere will be one vote in the LegiaUture in whieh Reformen, NaUonal Reformera. lndepeodent 0 and Liberalt will join tbe vote of want ot confidenee. Frkk Lancc.