The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-02-19
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1881.

HAVING so often and so strongly express
ed our views on the question of obtaining
coolies from the East Indies and the East
ern Archipelago, we are glad to find that
men so practically interested in the subject
as are the planters of North Kohala coincide
with us as heartily as their recent Memorial
to the Minister Of the Interior shows that
they do. We think with them "that the
introduction Of those people would be
productive of great and permanent benefit
to the community and the course of argu-
ment we lave adopted when urging on the
Government a renewed endeavor to obtain
Indian coolies, has been almost wholly based
on the evidence we have adduced from
time to time that such permanent benefit
would result from this class of immigration.
Our North Kohala Memorialists take the
matter up from their own point of view n
if what we now hear as to the Willingness
of Chinese coolies to engage with foreign
planters on terms far more reasonable
thar any that have been current for some
time past, be true they may be disposed to
modify their views if these are only based
on the [" inadequate supply" (of labor "at
very high rates." What is wanted is that
both the employers of coolie labor and the
Government of the country should be con-
WINGED that East Indian and Malaysian
coolies are more desirable than Chinese
laborers, quite irrespective of any prevail
ing rate of wages that these races are
desirable, and that the other is not.
The Endymion of Disraeli Beaconsfeld. is the
remarkable book OF a wonderful man. 1t would
not, perhaps, interest an ordinary novel reader.
1t requires some study, and some knowledge of
English politics for the past half century to be
read pleasurably. But for auch students, what q
treat. How the grave public man, who has had
a hand in haute p~Ohtique, must delight in these
quasi "reminiscences of u master mind. And there
are fine touches for the cultivated, refined femi-
nine mind whether they mingle with the brilli-
ant coterie in Zenobia, the 4" Queen of FASH
ions, political drawing-room, or in the quiet
retirement of Hurstley.
And then this master talks knowingly and
approximately of the wants. wishes and needs Of
the people. Beaconsfeld the conservative leader
is the a~ntipodes Of a popular demagogue ; and
yet he reveals a remarkable sympathy with the
aspirations of the masses. 1t is cOnsoling to read
a book 81 fluent, easy and epIgrammatic in
style SO much at home in the nOblest society of
the noblest capital of the world SO full of in
s%tructive political revealments and study so
Astounding in fine and delicate passages and with
so many admirable portraitures of many of the
most marked characters in the worlds stage past
and present and to know all to be the work of
a busy and still potential septuagenarian states
man.
But the immortal spirit of Disraeli. is younger
in Endymion than 1t is in Coningsby. Who. that
will compare the stiff sententiousness of his early
productions, to the ease and sprigh illness of his
latter writing. will not feel that n genius has
become disencumbered of immature and heavy
mannerisms. and now talks and sings with the
elan and ease of a youthful immortality.
EndymiOn has held our attention close-to
every chapter, every paragraph, every line-we
could not skip Il word. There is not a dull page
in it, to our taste. And the man who writes
such "A book, is the instructor and leader OF an
Empire.