The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-02
What Shall the Harvest Be ?

the popular Moody and Sankey Hymns. These
hymns are sensational, emotional and popular.
The title Of the one we are now thinking of is
suggestive to Hawaii nci at the present ~juncture.
We are planting in every direction. New agri-
cultural and industrial enterprises are springing
up in all parts Of the country. We are decidedly
p~lauting,-and What shall the harvest be"
Sugar, of course, but what else? AS we have in
previous issues for a year past, we still continue,
in the discharge Of our bounden duty, to warn
the people of these Islands against the further
admission here Of Chinese-or any ~other-males
Without sComen. IF we continue recklessly to
add to our heather male population, what shall
the harvest be? Look to it in time
FTHE situation in Europe is again critical, and
causes grave apprehension in the minds of the
leading statesmen of that Continent, and the
Cabinets represented at the Congress of Berlin.
1t is clear that Russia is inclined not to be bound
by the conclusions arrived at and embodied in
the Treaty to which she then and there consented,
but, awaiting a favorable opportunity, may cast
it aside and fall back upon the terms of her own
agreement with Turkey, known as the San
Steiano Treaty. This intention is evidenced by
her retention Of 4 fortress near Constantinople
as we learn by telegraphic news received per
Zealandia. The conclusion to be arrived at by
us, at this long distance from the seat of events,
VIII fortunately have no effect upon the result
but yet We are privileged to express 1t, to Wit:
the Treaty of Berlin, on account of which Dis
raeli and England got so much newspaper credit.
will, at the end of six months, be ga thing of
shreds and tatters,' not worth the paper upon
which 1t was inscribed and so formally signatured
by Bismarck, Gortschakoff, Beaconsfeld, &c.
They all knew 1t was not permanent; but the
thought with each was-let us stop the row at
present between our neighbOrs, in order to have
time for our own domestic concerns-which in
some cases are getting entangled. Thrones are
threatened in Europe. The German Chancellor
recently gave the world to understand that
socialism was the only serious element of discord,
but it is not very long since his policy was just
as clearly antagonistic to ultraInontanisn It
seems probable, also, that the prompt repudia-
ton by the social democrats of the scheme of
; reform by assassination" and the increased
strength of the national liberals and progressists
in the next Reichstag will perpetuate and even
strengthen socialism in Germany. Communism
exhausted itself in France but when the Geneva
Convention met in 1877 it was announced that
the international had become a European organ
ization of even greater strength and with more
clearly defined purposes. Recently, however, a
writer in the Nineteenth Century, of acknowl-
edged authority, brushes the international aside
and declares that, individually, it is not a factor
of Importance in the secret society problem.
Russia strives to crush out Nihilism, but raises
a spectre far more intangible.
1t is interesting at this date to recall the fact
which may soon-as the world ~moves-become a
matter of history, that over two years ago, in a
speech delivered at Aylesbury, the British
Premier made used of the following words:
81 assure you gentlemen, that in the attempt
to conduct the government of this world there
are new elements which our predecessors had not
to deal with. We have not TO deal only with
emperors and princes or ministers. There are
the secret societies, an element which you must
take into consideration, which at the last mo
ment may battle all your arrangements, which
have agents everywhere, which have reckless
agents, who cOuntenance assassination, and
who, if necessary, could produce q massacre. -
At the time these words were spoken they at
tracted no especial attention. The opposition at
Orce covered the reference with ridicule, and as
serted that the conservative leader referred to
Russia secret agents, striving to divine a policy
that was unknown to anybody. The margin of
sympathy, under that Interpretation, was clearly
with the puzzled detectives. But now it seems
evident that Lord Beaconsfeld's meaning was
different from that ascribed to him. Were these
only empty words, did he exaggerate the danger,
or had he grave facts to support his statement?
Cardinal Manning refers to the new antago-
nism to existing European statecraft, after the
manner of Hugo, as the Revolt His, in our
our opinion, is the true idea. Names go for
very little. What menaces the stability of every
form of government, monarchical or democratic,
is the consolidation for a common purpose of all
the opposing elements-political, agrarian and
social. This Is Germany's-Europe's danger.
Communism is r~epulsiVe to the upper classes;
socialism, per sc, attracts only the visionary and
theoretical. therefore the more practical men of
this order call themselves social democrats I; ultra
mOntanism appeals equally in vain to the free
thinkers and to the Protestants; nternationalism
attracts only the proletariat. Union cannot be
secured under the banner of any one of these or
carnations. Danger to the German Empire can
come only when a common cause shall induce the
sacrifice of personal sentiment and cement into
brotherhood what is now discord. The cry of
81 Vire Ia Commune ~ was tried in France and
failed. May it not be possible that in Germany
the necessary inspiration viii be found in that
wondrous word, so full of charm and promise,
the word " democracy. ~"