The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-06-19
INDlFFER ENCE.

comings of humanity, in all ages,
the fault of indifference sticks out
in bold relief. Mems regardlessness
of reproof end warning has formed
the keynote of many despairing
cry from prophets and sages, moral
lists and reformers. With all the
boasted advancement of this age,
but little Improvement, if any, is to
be noted in the respect mentioned.
If men are more readily moved, it
is not because of their better dis
position than in ages past, but be-
cause the motive machinery of to-
day is more ample and powerful
sthan then. They are, however,
liable to be more easily operated
upon for the worse as well as for the
better. Just as, in the case of mo-
dern war, one power has an equal
chance with another, other things
being on par, to procure the i'm
proved appliances of death and de-
struction, so that neither is at an
advantage over the other. Like
wise, modern moral enginery is cap
able of being degraded to evil pur-
poses as we'll as employed for good
ones. 1t remains, therefore, that
with all our emil ghtenmcnt and faci-
lities for the betterment of the race,
human nature being unchanged,
the reformer, in any department
where his services are needed
society, politics or philanthropy
has task as difficult as any of his
predecessors. And, probably, the
most formidable work devolving up
on all reformers combined is that of
overcoming the Indifference of
humanity to human welfare.
A contemporary deprecates the
absolute inattention paid to sug-
gestion it made while ago, of
having female patients in the luna
tic asylum attended by persons of
their own sex instead of by men as
is the case. 1t says: 'There are
female organizations in Honolulu for
a great variety of objects, but when
it comes down to the practical work
of humanity we don't find many Of
them to the fore. Why not take
our charitable institutions into the
scope of local female philanthropy.
There is wide field for usefulness
open. Let charitable Christian wo-
men step into it and see that our
public institutions are properly man
aged, at least so far as female in
mates are concerned" This lecture
to the ladies of this community may
be well-meaning enough, but yet a
three-fold charge may lie against it.,
as it stands, of being curt, unmanly
and unjust. 1t is curt in it's sharp
and abrupt manner of implying wo-
mems responsibility in the matter in
question. From the standpoint Of
the men of the community, it is un-
manly to invoke the agency of the
weaker sex for the removal of an
abuse toward women maintained in
public institution entirely under
the direction of men. Unjust it un-
doubtedly is to insinuate that all the
female organizations in existence
here are practically worthless fol
any appreciable good they are doing
humanity. The Christian ladies OF
this Kingdom have, for their efforts
in various directions of moral and
social reform, been lampooned by
writer's in portion of the Honolulu,
and of the San Francisco press. In
that social question that more close
ly affects the welfare of their sex
than any other--that of strong drink
their efforts have been treated
with virtual contempt by the lords
of creation. While the women, for