The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-11-27
REFORM NOT CROEKiNG.

preston to say that the duty lying
nearest to every man who is con
scious of existing public wrongs, is
to set to work to put them right.
One effective worker in the direction |
of reform and Improvement is OF !
positive value to a community, while |
the bowling demagogue who has an
endless list of grievances at his |
tongues end is only negative in |
value. The one finds out what is to |
be done. throws off his coat and |
goes to work: the other is more |
than satisfied to lie down alongside |
of the very work that he denounces
everybody but himself for not doing.
1t is to the workers, not to the COM
planners and croakers, that we owe
all of the good that is in the world.
If it were any proof Of superior in
telligence to be able to disclaim
against this, that and the other evil,
there would be more evidences of
knowledge going to waste than there
are of the same article being utilized.
Whenever any enterprise is to be
pushed forward, the person most
likely to 90 at it hammer and
tongs" is the man appointed by its
promoters, while the services of the
brilliant talker who determined to
wake up next morning and find him
self famous, are appreciated by
beingleft unclaimed and unrewarded.
We hear vast deal from day to
day about political and social
abuses, and the more we hear on
these matters, the more evident
does it become that there is. to use
the highland shepherd phrase,
much cry and little WOOL The
fact is that the worst abuses COM
because those who have the pres
criptions at their own disposal, in
stead of utilizing the same, eXpend
their energies in nervous apprchen-
sion of the possible consequences of
their taking the first step. That
conflict of races is impending in
this Kingdom is but too visible to
require any faculty of prescience to
assert. Between the Caucasian, or
white man, on the one hand, and
the Monaghan on the other, there
can, as the tastes and dispositions
of the respective races lead them,
be no amalg amation, and no COM
munity of interest. Every white
man sees and feels that his race in
this Kingdom is to do or die, and
unless somebody executes some
miraculous feat of reform, his race
must soon become extinct. But out
of every hundred of the white
population who groan over their
prospective calamities, it is probably
safe to say, on very charitable es-
innate, that twenty-five ever put
themselves to either expense or in
convenience to avert the impending
ruin at which they profess to be so
seriously alarmed. If the white
man is so earnestly DESTROYS of hold
ing his ground as every one pro.
fesaCs 10 be, there is nothing that
can he more conducive to self-pre,
servation than for everyone to per,
form the full measure of his duty
in his own sphere. The action i'm
mediately required is on the line O
the sentiment that the race expects
every man to do his duty" AnC
whoever fails to do so should b'
summarly ostracised. So mucl
for the question of races. Anothel
great public interest confronting thu
people of the Kingdom and abou
which there is an interminabl'
quantity of croaking, but no action
is constitutional reform. This vii
be effected when wordy denuncia
tions of existing defects give place
to united, determined action in thu