Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-01-10

five lose the treaty we shall be an
other Demerara There will be planta-
tons for sale rs cheap as houses in Vir.
ginia City The double and triple cf
/ fccts OF a score OF Hawaiian localities
will be As silent as tho stamps above
the played out Comstoek And il the
Spanish and Cuban treaties pass and
ours remain we shall he almost as badly
on some folks say.
There is no use "preiudging in al
vance" In the FIRST place it does no
good. and IN the second place ii is
dangerous And so We think that
only people who have nothing better
to do can afford to speculate On PRINT
upon our treaty chances But even II
the worst comes to the worst we ought
not to despair The men who never
say die are the men who win. The
soldiers who never know when they are
whipped are the soldiers who never
taste defeat The communities which
pull together are the ones that succeed.
We know what you are going to say,
Money is tight" "Thc credit system
has made the community extravagant
"'fhe cake is eaten and there is none
| to divide" We know that collection
cannot be made that failure to meet
Obligations in a single instance is hurt.
ing score of people in no way con.
nccted with the first And you justly
think that condition of affairs in which
the innocent suffer for the guilty is
"hard lines"
"Hard lines !" Yes, very hard lines
in many instances. We know men
who writhc under the burning sense oi
failure that might have been success il
other men had been as honest as they
We know men who have pcrilled for
tune by a closer following of public
spirit than prudence counsclled and
whose self sacrifice has gained then
the hatred of public plunderers and the
idle pity of men who ought to upholc
the right But what of that Out o
all this "welter of uncertainties ma,
come the greatest of national blessing
--frug1lity, honesty, public spirit,
} Failures in business are not alway
unmlxed evils. They teach busines
f prudence they inculcate busines
sense; they preach eloquently tn
saving grace of living within ones in
come. National humiliations are no
always unmixed evils. If the voters o
this kingdom read to some purpos,
the spectacle of Hawaiian government
to-day the next legislature will be
reform Legislature by majoritics tina
must mean something better than pie
crust promises and glittering generali
ties. Failures in a national staple ar,
not always unmixed evils. If we learr
the necessity Of adding to our indus
tries noao it will be better than to lear
it score of years later.
"But what has posterity done 20
us ?" "What we want is results NOW.
81 have toiled and worried and run il
debt and wUked out of i! to make
plantation pay and the fall in suga
ruins me. BY the time have Learned
the lesson of adding TO our industries
} am ready to die That is the selisl
r ofit, and even the unselhsh want to b,
. able to leave something better than ey
, pectations to their children. When
man says that he has tried sugar ant
has found it wanting and asks one 70
guarantee that the new project vii
not fail, one cannot help admitting
that he has used knock.down argu
, ment.
. The only way to meet such knock
, down arguments is to get up again ant
5 laugh at your antagonist. "Come u
smiling and retort. "Be not wear
, in we'll doing!"
We are small community yet
most Heterogeneous one. We hav
as many races as there are months j
the year, as many creeds as days in tn
. week. Some of us are aborigina
some to the manner born, some mer
adventures. Yet-un-homogeneou
;, > though we be, by birth, by education
by instinct almost-we have none tn
less common interest in good govern
ment and in national prosperity.
otA
How can we best make that commo
interest factor in Hawaiian progress
BY pulling together. But how p;
y Mrs. Hampson says show, how
First, by living within our income
Second, by paying our debts so soon {
9 may be. Third, by helping one anoth'