The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-07-16
AWAITING ACTION.

FtNufuhaNe tNe''SNH
EDIroR BULLETIN. - AS you
claim to be Free Press L hope
you will allow me my turn now, to
say that if your correspondent, who
hides his impatience for action un-
der the above signature, is welcome
to take me for green hand, | have
evidently the right to Judge, from
his logic, that he is far from being
green. | am afraid he is too ripe,
in fact musty old fogy, who does
not like to see any one have any
opinion on anything outside of his
antiquated notions, and my reason
for this idea is that extraordinary
statement of his which still perplexes
me in his answer, viz. /: "the idea
that any election would influence
change is fallacy long ago eX-
ploded;'' and for fear of his not
being well understood, he repeats at
the end, 'if we wait for election to
do anything, it would only be an
other great mistake.
Well, then, dear sir, if waiting
for election or constitutional means
to work bad government into
good one, is only a ''fallacy' and
great mistake" pray, what are we
to do and how are we to act? Do
you mean to say that our only re-
source is shouldering rifle and
calling down here some French Com
munists or Irish Dynamitisers to
blow up Palace, Barracks and Gov
ernment House? If so, why don't
you speak out and especially why
hide behind a petty nom dc plume
your brilliant personality, around
which we would all flock, as around
the rising star, the wanted leader?
And then the chances are that you
would not have long to remain
Awaiting Action" Or else, do
you mean to say that anything but
servile resignation to the present
status is useless? In that case what
are you awaiting action for!
now wish further to dispose of
some minor points of the same cor
respondents letter.
1st, 1 might agree theoretically
with him that in country like this,
the Minister of Interior ought to be
the first of all, as it was formerly.
But as we must at present take
things as they are, and not as they
might or might not be, l placed in
my enumeration the Minister of
Foreign Affairs first, as it now
stands. And j then put Mr.. Mar
ques' name to it, because l consider,
on very good reasons, too long to
give here, that gentleman the best
qualified of all others in the country
for that peculiar department. But
Mr.. "Awaiting Action" must not
either make so little of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs, for that is the
one which specially deals with for
eign immigration, and let him not
forget that immigration is the only
way of saving this country.
2ndly, l am glad to see that
the man that L proposed as best fol
the Interior Department is so cor,
daily and enthusiastically endorsed
by your correspondent, but l can.
not accept the energetic Mr.. Godfrey
Brown to be replaced by Mr.. J. O.
| Carter.
3dly, AS for Mr.. Dole's name
L respect it, but for me, all honor
able lawyers names are equal, ant
Mr.. Hartwell, l think, has no blem
ish against his character, as some
kind of a sneer in that letter nigh
induce us to think.
4thly, Concerning the others
names suggested by my "ripe" ad
versary, who is perhaps newspape
man himself and feels sore at havin.
been left out of office, l should lik
to enquire how many are citizen
here, and consequently eligible?
And l now wait for "Awaitin!
Action" to come to ACTION.
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