The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-11-26


tant cline, the wandering Arab I
Joined the regiment Of a literary
chief, and was so highly commended /
for his initial deeds of valor, that he
had hopes of filing up the residue
of his days in the service. But
mundane expectations were doomed
to fade, and the Son Of Ishmael was
at last rcpulsed and banished from
the halls of intelligence, his plunder-
ing propensitics having given offence
TO the wise men of cities. The
sedate editor and his respectable
readers could not long tolerate the
narrow-minded bigotry which adj
mittcd the blackncss of pot and
objected to call saucepan
bootjack. History may repeat itself.
| see. though, can't have all my
own way. You possess considerable
spring in the elbow, and have hit
back some hard blows. Thunder
away; can stand it. My hide is
tough, and head thick. To convert
the heathen from the error of their
ways will take time, patience, and
much preaching. My mission at the
outset will have to struggle against
big odds; for it is unlikely that the
unsophistcated notions of the tent
will consort with the polished ideas
of the mansion. or that q wild Arab
of the desert, who has fellow
feeling for everything connected with
impudencc and plumber, should be
of the same mind rs a fashionable
sugar-bag aristocracy. But then
| Antishamus looks more to the future
than the present for the triumph Of
his ideas, and confidently expects
that when the people have cleared
their understandings of dust and
cobwebs and outgrown their narrow
political prejudices, they will be
constrained to admit the wisdom of
Arabian philosophy.
Our great misfortune in political
aspect is that we have too many
small factions and snug little family
arrangements, either of which con-
siders itself entitled to the monopoly
of government, and neither of which
has any clear understanding of what
government on broad basis OF
"the greatest good to the greatest
number" means. They talk slibly
of good government" and pull
faces as long as hag-poles as they
utter with peculiar emphasis, " bad
government" But | can never gel
from them clear idea of what they
mean or definite explanation o1
what they want. Really, it is hare
to avoid the belief that many O
those who talk loudest and fierces
are more concerned about the mer
to rule than the measures to adopt
Moreover, these various little coterie
seem to have become the Hawaiian
nation, and speak of themselves a
the people," to the exclusion o
the aboriginal sons of the soil.
With this disjointed, inharmo
nious condition of the body polite
everybody having an axe to grind
and each elbowing to get first at tn
stone and do most grinding Will
there-a judicious selection of til
best men is highly improbable, an,
the establishment of stable, efficient
uncorrupt government utterly i'm
possible. The effect is, that whe
the popular pot begins to boil on tn
political fire, the scum of sharper
and tuft-huntcrs which rises to tn
surface, instead of being scatterc
in the gutter, is cast into the Min
istry. All that is wholesome an
profitable sinks out of sight; tn
people get the froth and rubbish
and then complain that the flavor
superlatively nasty.
, To come to the point, i would as
any disinterested and unbiased pei
son, if our method of pitch-forllin
Smith, Brown, Jones, and Robinso
: into office, regardless of education
, experience, character, or brains, an
-. l>,1oa.