The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-05-13
SOUTH R0SA.

certain localities seem to be Speci-
ally productive of great ideas. 1t
would appear as if the district
named at the head of this writing is
destined to be such place. The
fancy legislative enactments de-
manded by South Kona ought to
ensure for its citizens Il prominence
in the Hawaiian Kingdom that no
- others can hope to obtain The
Solons, Justinians and Gladstones
of ancient and modern times are
surely destined to he eclipsed in
South Kona. The petitions from
that district to the present session
of the Legislative Assembly are, CD
that the Hawaiian language be made
the medium of official communities
tion; (2) that the Government bor-
row ten million dollars, that new
enterprises be started, by which the
revenues of the country would be
largely increased; (3) that opium
be licensed; (4) that no restriction
be placed upon the liquor traffic,
but that liquor licenses be issued to
retail lsHd jobbing dealers at 81, 800
and 81 900 respectively; and (5)
that all tailor shops he licensed.
Wy nf IA
could such comprehensive schemes
of legislation have originated 1t is
time that Athens, Rome and West
minister be scored off the record of
I fame, and that on all the space here
tofore assigned them, the name OF
South Kona be imprinted in big let
ters,-the very largest the 1dcer-
tiser office can furnish. The pro-
posal to make Hawaiian the official
language of the Kingdom is entirely
too brilliant an idea to have eman-
ated from any district on which the
sunbeams bathing the slopes Of
South Kona have not been reelected.
To make the language in which the
principal business of the country is
not transacted; the language that is
of no service to any person in the
wide world, outside of the Hawaiian
Islands and not used but by Il por-
ton of the population of the Islands
themselves; language that sells
none of the products Of the Islands
in foreign markets, and will buy
none of the supplies indispensable
to the people to be brought from
abroad; language which is not thu
language of literature, law, medicine
science or art-to make this the sOl
official language of the Kingdom
would be an effective turning of tn
shadow on the dial of Hawaiian
civilization fifty years backward
But, what of that? Has not Sout
Kona decided that it is the prope
thing to do? And whoever oppose
it will be butting his head agains
the future hub of the Polynesia
Empire. How official Hawaiian wi
adapt itself to commercial Englisl
is question no one born out {
South Kona will pretend to answer
OF course, any fool may battle II
combined wisdom of the Sout
Konaian political philosophers /
asking them impertinent question
about how they propose to run I'll
official machinery under Hawaiis
steam.
The political economists of Sou
Kona mean to provide, too, for tl
Carly extinction of the Hawaii'
race. When they succeed in XII
ing off the people with free opiu
and unlimited gin, it will be
melancholy satisfaction to have the
obituaries cast in official liawaii
by South Konaian poets. That .
restriction" be placed ON the liqu
traffic, but that ''licenses"
issued, will call for the services
not less than two Philadelpl
lawyers to draft bill in accordon
with the prayer of the petition, \
cording to the universally receiy
Interpretation of ''licenses," eve
license is restriction" and
issued as such. However, when
Government imports the Philad
pha lawyers referred to, and sen
them to rusticate for three weeks
South Kona, where they may p
perly whet their legal acumen
contact with the statesmen OF I