The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-18

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encourage the Extravaganza of the habit
ually thriftLess, but To afford by accretiou a
wider influence and more enlarged Op-
pOrtunities 10 the prudent, who truly
appreciate its value and power. Nor can /
accept your similc in respect 20 the more
appropriate uses of the bouutieS of nature
III articles OF food. Whilst no doubt a
modicum is required To sustain the muscle
of that stupidity, which should be obedient
TO the call OF wealthy enterprise vet the
higher and more Influential use Of food de-
Ncacies Is In the form of banquets 10 those
who are overlooking with their own bounty
ana bile, In order TO enlarge credit by os-
tentation, and TO win the plethora OF purses
by the waste of our tables. Sir, the proper
use of food Is TO compliment the stated; and
the only legitimate object of a loan would
be 10 increase the opportunities of those
who prove their appreciation of money by
their acquisitions. The poor may lend 10
the poor; but the rich never lend 10 the
poor.
Friend Bullion, pay every Difference
to your experience, your successful achieve
ment and your influential position, and |
appreciate your views in respect TO the pro-
per application of means 10 an end. But
your reference TO the muscle of Stupidity
and its appropriate employment, leads me
to mention q few particulars of my oOserya-
ton, which may have some bearing npon
the question of a loan. In the course of my
rounds | looked in at the Dispensary ON
Maunakea-street during office hours. |
found the doctor on duty, in his shirt
sleeves, the perspiration streaming dow his
cheeks, and he was surrounded in u narrow
crib, about ten by eight, 10y a crowd of anN-
ious, diseased and malOiOrOus people. Here
was the bone and sinew of the country run
to waste aud decay over two hundred sick
men anu women came forward to be treated
in a day-the doctor was doing his level
best; but the most he could do was a
" lick and a promise - ana to meet the need,
l understood he could not get any help be-
cause there was no fund for such an object,
and L thought that TO accomplish the proper
treatment of such 4 crowd OF sick people
who came forward every day to be healed,
created a sufficient occasion for the en-
ployment of public means to meet a great
pubic evil.n
MI Don, / do not agree with YOU" safd
old Bullion, with a rise in his tone. zone
hospital for the general sick has been pro-
vided and two others for insane and lepers,
have been established; and if those needing
such institutions won't go to them, let
them stay at home and rot in their diseases.
You talk of the crowds docking to the dis
pensary ut is the rush OF chiidren for a new
excitement. | have no patience with new
men, who are continually disturbing the
regular order of things. We have just now
al editor and a doctor who make things
uneasy by impressing common people with
the idea that they have been neglected"
"W ell, friend Bullion, | must say that
looking at the numbers of sick folks in the
country, one gets an Impression that there
has been neglect of some kinda neglect of
intelligence, prudence, and means, without
saying anything about Christianity, to look
after the im~provident, stupid muscle of the
land"
HAnd would you nave me taxed, Mr..
Don, to provide for careless natives, who
will not care for themselves? What reason
or law requires me to be a foster parent to
anybody 2"
There is certainly no law of this land,
Mr.. Bullion, that requires you to be your
brothers keeper, whether his skin be light
or dark. But, in this connection, here are
some thoughts that occuL&p me. You have
insured many lives for I'VE, ten, or many
more thousands of dollars. You have, /
presume, insured the life of some friend, or
man of energy, in whose enterprise you
nave taken some risk. You have insured
the worth of his existence for your own adj
vantage, or that of his family. And think
you not that the State, aad you as an in
huential member of the State, should risk
an expenditure of two or three dollars per
head on the poor and common people, in
order to ensure by all available human
means the preservation of lives to the I'D
vantage of the State 2"
"That's all very fine, Mr.. Don. But
what you, and your editorial patron are
driving at, is evidently more taxation. And
l now pay as much in the shape of taxes as
L desire to do-and decidedly object to pay
ing any more"
8CeftainIy, Mr.. Bullion, 1 agree with
you; nobody wants to pay any taxes if
they can help it. But Il while ago, you
said, the chief value of the bOunties of
nature was not so much to feed the hungry
as to provide ~banquets for ostentation in
order to strengthen or promote the con-
SideratiOn or credit of men of wealth. Now,
might not some of your surplus, or say the
cost of an occasional 10OO-dOl ar banquet, be
employed to provide for the sanitary care OF
the stupid native muscle of the country, in
order to carry out your and your friends
enterprises-such as railroads., wells, and
other undertakings and is not this matter
all the more deserving Of consideration on
the part of those, the foundations of whose
fortunes are based on u native alliance ?O
"Well, Mr.. Don, we will hand over the
natives to the doctors and perhaps the
more empirical they are, the better. But
when you refer to railroads and other works
of internal improvement you touch OF
reasonable ground, where it may be proper
to consider the question of a moderate
domestic lOan.'
"Just so, friend Bullion, the country
needs railroads more than ii does people.
We must be keeping step, in this Archipel-
ago, with the march of progress. Let US
have railroads, even If every cross tie repre-
sents q human life, sacrificed for the want
of the means devoted to the road. 4 grant of
public money is appropriate here and the
higher the subsidy, the more commendable
in the minds of the responsible men of the
country-especially when they can have IA
hand in the enterprise"
ayes, Mr.. Don a Government subsidy
that covers near about the cost of construc-
ton means healthy Enterprise in which
any man of means may take Il risk. 1t is
proper that such "a subsidy should be pro-
vided for by bonds, or a domestic loan for
thus the responsible man of means, who
takes a part in the enterprise, can loan the
money to the Government to pay the sub
sidy, and then receive it back as the sub
sidized party
"That is L should say, friend Bullion, a
perfectly harmonious financial operatiOn,-
and all that can be desired is a wider eX-
tension and more liberal patronage Of the
enterprise"
Eyes, Mr.. Don, we must girdle Hawaii
with a railroad-and this noble undertake
ing will require a liberal subsidy. / should
be willing to support, as | have stated, Il
domestic loan for, say three or four millions,
for such an enterprise but no ten millions,
Mr.. Don, for hospitals and loans to beggars /;
and then with our domestic loan rightly
placed, in which I will take Il part, we will
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