The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-21
the PEOPLE ARE THINKING.

This Is the NTH Gay since tne pro-
rogation of our biennial Legislature.
Four clear days have passed and
gone-days of peace and quietness.
Everybody seemed pleased to see
the end of the long parliament"
The members themselves were appa-
rently glad to be released from
attendance at Aliiolani Hale, and
the general public were glad to get
a glimpse of their receding backs,
inwardly praying that they might
never see the faces of many of them
again. Rather hard on the members,
and very ungrateful of the public.
After the self-denying services of
those gentlemen for so many
months, to be dismissed from the
capital without some demonstration
of regret at their departure, was
hard, very hard. The only expla-
nation that can be offered on behalf
of the intelligent public is found in
the old adage, " familiarity breeds
contempt" Familiarity with the
doings of the representatives OF the
people in the House, through the
public press, produced unbounded
contempt for the majority of them,
among the intelligent of the people.
Well, they have gone, and the
capital is left in peace. Everybody
is, or should be, thankful that for
the next eighteen months the coun-
try will probably be free from any
additional legislative monstrosity.
So far, so good. But the past can
not be blotted out, nor easily for
gotten. A large amount of thinking
has been done during the past four
days, and the current of thought
has apparently run pretty much in
the same channel. People who have
large interests in the country, who
have made its commerce and its
agriculture, whose capital has
developed, and is developing, its re-
sources, and who contribute the
principal part Of the expenses of its
government, are thinking that they
have very weak voice in the legis-
lation and government which affect
themselves. They have seen laws
enacted and approved which are
detrimental to their interests and
ruinous to the country. They have
also seen beneficial measures, which
could not fail to promote the general
good, rejected and cast aside.
These things have occurred very
recently, and are fresh in peoples
memory. They form distinguish,
ing feature of the school boy policy
of the so-called National Party
People are. thinking about them
and they are beginning to thinl
that it is about time the government
which they support gave them
little more consideration. In fact
that they have rights which ar
ignored, and they had better insis
upon those rights being duly res
pected.
This appears to have been th'
general line of thought among think
ing people, during the past fot
days. And, strange to say, SOM
gentlemen whose habit of though
has usually been very quiet and al
to themselves, are getting into tn
way of thinking aloud. The reaso
of this may be found in the fac
that. their thoughts are growing
larger and more energetic tina
Il, usual, and to prevent a bursting o
the boiler they must be let loose
Another peculiar feature of thi
new era of thought is, that som
gentlemen who formerly thought j
favor of the other side, have com
menced thinking strongly and I'm
ambiguously in the opposite direc
ton. One person said few day
ago, have consistently stood b,
the ruling faction of the past four o
five years, and have always spokel
i'm its defence when opportunit,
occurred. have not been blind Il
all it's defects, but believed it woul'
come out right in the end. Blu
things have become SO muddled ant
mixed, and the tendency is SO con
spicuously towards the ruin of tn
country, that i can stand it M