The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-07
FRIDAY, AUG. Z, 1885.
THIS EVENINGS DoINcs.
LAND AND POLITICS.

gives cheering accounts of activity |
in the Interior Department. The
officials there, we are informed, are
really engaged in preliminary sur
veys, and in gathering information.
AS great bodies move with pro-
verbal deliberation, and with sure
certainty, the public will only have
to wait patiently and the results of
the officials exercises will appear
some day. Public lands available
for settlement arc TO be shaken up |
out of the dusty records Of the
Kingdom, notice is to be given of
their location and extent, fees arc to
be paid, applications received. and
some fine morning in the cycles of
the future, the beams of the orient
will fall upon thousands of happy
homes, where before the wild weeds
and grasses did service for the Ila-
waiian "forest primeval." The
picture will be enlarged and its
beauty intensified by the supple
mentary patriotism of private citi-
zens. Already, some private clti-
zens are III the field with generous
public spirited proposals for the
settlement of the country. When
the Government moves, when pri-
vate landowners move, when the
people move, and when all move
together to dot the valleys and the
mountain slopes with real homes, a
revolution, bloodless, thorough and
salutary will have been brought
about. The grandest ideal of q
great nation,-a nation consisting
of the homes and families of free
people,-will then have been real
lied. Viewing this ideal of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom, however, in the
light of present realities is too much
like contemplating the planets at
midday from the bottom of coal
mine. The stars of home and
liberty can only be gazed at through
misty intervals of space by thousands
of the people of this Kingdom.
Under the existing contract labor
laws, and landed monopolies, the
elevation of the great masses of the
nation to the conditions already des-
cribed is as well established within
the possibilities of existence as is the
certainty of the coal-mincr taking &
pleasant evening drive in Cynthia s
silver chariot. Contract labor laws
and free institutions are self-evident
antagonistic forces. General prosper
ity coupled with the possession of ;
fair share of the comforts of life by
the masses has proved, during al
experience of eight centuries, il
England, to be unattainable in con
junction with landlordism. The in
stitution of landlordism, which i
the burning question in British poll
tics at the present time, and wit
ever increasing complications i
coming face to face with the states
manship of that country, and Ia
proved in several instances to be
slumbering volcano under the yer
foundation of society, seems to hay
taken deep root in the islands c
Hawaii. Closely allied with il is tn
labor contract system, which is bl
the slavery of the Southern State
of America transplanted and reviv
fled in modified form. While me
labor under bonds, there is not niue
to inspire them to strive after thos
higher and nobler conceptions {
life that animate men when the
time, their minds and muscles NJ
their own. The ship of STATE
freighted with landlordism and III
labor contract system, is alread
beginning to strain very hard, an