The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-11-23

is the just commentator by
most intelligent and competent OBJ
server of the controlling influence of
this adjunct of the American Board
of Missions at Constantinople. In
spite of the bribery and threats of
Russia, and the domineering and |
brutal conduct of Gen. Kaulbars,
its Special Agent, the Bulgarians
have stood lin by their Constitu-
ton, even though it should involve
the invasion of their country by the
Russian Army. N. Y. Ill. Chr.
Wkly., Oct. %.
The theory of liberty is the same,
whether taught in Turkey or in
Hawaii. The result of the opera
tions of seat of learning ought to
be no more marked in the East than
in the West. The American doct-
rine that all men are born free and
equal" inculcated in every college
and at every point where an Ameri-
cans influence is felt, is subvervise
Of the barbarous ideas by which one
man is born to rule because his
father ruled and another is born to
serve for like reason. A liberal
education, on republican basis, is
incompatible with everything like
recognition of the vested rights
claimed by hereditary chiefs over
the persons and property of their
fellowmen.
The Hawaiian, although awaking
to the first light of liberty under the
tutorship of the now much abused
missionaries - of the American
Board, and although living under
an organized system of government
in which he is supposed to have a
voice, has yet much to learn before
he is fit to graduate free citizen of
free country. The temple Of
liberty is yet in an unfinished state
in these islands. The popular
voice, as evoked by the saturation
of the Bulgarian students with
American ideas of liberty, took
immediate effect in government
circles. A great deal of develop
ment is required in Hawaii before
the like result is produced here.
Bribery and threats in Bulgaria re-
coiled upon the party employing
them; but these and even worse
practices in our constituencies are
the means by watch the so. called
" National Party" in February
last, succeeded in inaugurating the
wild carnival of Legislative riot for
which the year 1886 will stand out
prominent in the history of the
Kingdom.
Let the Hawaiian be once fully
saturated with American ideas of
liberty and personal independence,
and the scenes which disgraced the
legislature # the present period
will pass into history, there to re-
main, never to be enacted over
again. Superstitions, however
venerable, crumble away when
brought in contact with increasing
knowledge, and while the Hawaiian
is welded by Ignorance to supersti-
tious ideas and practices, he can
never stand side by side, on the
same plane with Bulgarian or
American, as free citizen of free
country.
The Bulgarian students evidently
acquired, in their college course, a
consciousness of their individual
rights not inculcated in othe.: insti-
, tutions. They could not but have
: learned to respect themselves-the
: last thing that despotism permits its
, students to lealn-and thus secured
+ the confidence of their countrymen ;
hence the readiness with which they
made their influence felt. The
, average Hawaiian, though not in
q herently of degraded disposition,
+, is yet considerably below the sian.
dard to which he must attain before
he will abandon, from choice, many
of the ways peculiar to the ages OF
barbarism. He will,- at times, trans
gress known and recognized rules Of
propriety, when fmong his owr
people, that he scrupuloHsly avoids
when I" haoles" are present. The
0 inference is that if left to himseli
: the native would drift back to where
I the {" haole " found bin sixty years
ago. The advances made during
+ these brief years are probably un
e paralleled in the history OF mankind
e but the leaven of education has no
8 vet sufficiently diffused itself to in