The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-10-07
CONFIDENCE DEALERS.

selves taken III ana done for, as
the saying goes. One of the queer
things about human nature is that
people are often found liberal with
their confidence where it is most
liable to be abused, while reserving
their trust when it is sought by per-
sons the least in Il position. even if
they had the will, to betray friend
or helper. The Honolulu public
occasionally gets a severe lesson of
caution in this matter. but as only
the few victims are exercised there
by, the many who hear of their
suffering only pause to plume them
selves upon being wiser than the
common run of people. But, as
lightning is said never to strike
twice in the same place, so each
successive case of n successful con-
fidence game has generally fresh
subjects. SO, therefore. if record
were kept, it would probably be
found that the list of victims of mis-
placed confidence formed strik-
ingly, if not startlingly large pro-
portion of the average community.
Reference is not made herein to the
proverbially liberal spirits that form
an element of blessing to every
community that is not utterly given
over to selfshness. Such persons
are often ''out and injured" as
consequence of their benevolent
actions and public-spirited practice
of lending helping hand wherever
Il brother man or fellow citizen
stands in need of assistance in the
struggle of life. Such ones have
their reward in a universal esteem
for them which they would rather
have with ultimate poverty rs the
result, than the general eXecration
that irrcvocably fastens itself upon
the sordid, pcnurious, grovelling
character. Those men are, as a
rule, however, seldom reduced by
their benelicent characteristics to
serious want, when their liberality is
Joined with that business sagacity
and accurate perception of human
nature, which have in all probability
been the qualities that assisted their
industry in procuring them COM
petence. They stand as social
Observation-Disclosures of the wise
mans description, ''There is that
scattereth and yet increaseth;" )" of
the - liberal hand - that /" shall be
satisfied"
No. 1t is not those who assist
honest worth, with wise discrimi-
nation as to priority of claim upon
their aids, who need warning in
connection with this subject. There
are two classes, broadly speaking,
the first of which needs bit of
friendly advice, while the second
scarcely deserves it. First, there are
persons who cannot descry deserv-
ing objects of support when these
cross their path, but who are ire
sistibly drawn by the meretricious
glitter of outward appearances, put
ON to deceive, to help every dashine
adventurer that comes their way in
his conquest of the confidence and
coin of the community. When the
motive of this class is--as it undoubt,
edly often happens to be--the
honors accruing to the fastening OF
new ornaments upon society, the
weakness is to be pitied while it is
being condemned. Secondly, We
have class of people who boastedly
designate themselves "men of the
world" These have, by means
that in many cases may have been
legitimate, obtained large measure
of popular regard as men of in
tegrity and square dealing This
possession may be enjoyed with
harmlessness and even advantage to