The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-03-24
WEDNESDAY, MARCH n, 1886
COMMUNICATIONS.

having gracefully "tumbled to the
racket" the vexed question of
steamship mail accommodation may
be considered settled for the present.
To all persons having occasion to
correspond with the cold world lying
scattered around this paradise of
the Pacific, it will be matter of
qualification that they can figure OH
the day and hour when they are to
hear from their correspondents and
vice versa. The felicity of existence
on these Islands will, from the 1st
of April next, be complete, that is
provided there is nothing more to be
desired. And whatever there is
wanted further, if attainable at all,
can be had as all public improve
ments and conveniences are, by agi-
tation and enterprising action. The |
climate of Hawaii is said to be
enervating, and calculated to pro-
duce listlessness, an opinion that is
probably not far from the truth.
But the climate is not so depressing
as to suppress the ever restless for
eign element, and prevent the volUn-
tary or involuntary eXiles of America
and Europe from striving after a
participation in the progressive en-
terprises of more advanced coun-
tries. And it is considerable
element of dissatisfaction to the
people referred to that their position
is one of isolation, position very
irksome to persons accustomed in
former years to the rush and roar
and whirl of life in communities
alive with railroads, telegraphs and
other anti-Sybaritic elements. And,
moreover, to read references to these
Islands in foreign papers, conveying
the idea that this little Kingdom is
far away region, dissociated from
the world, and rising in solitude
from the waves of the Pacific Ocean,
is damaging to that self-respect
which is an essential element of
good conduct. Reading of America,
Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia
knit together by electric currents,
and knowing that we are out in the
sun, suggests the plaintive refrain,
"Nobody coming to marry me, no
body coming to woo." Under these
circumstances, the news of negotia-
tions having been opened between
the Colonies and the continent of
America for lines of telegraph from
America to China and the Colonies,
touching at Honolulu, is one of the
most interesting items of intelligence
that our late foreign mails have con-
veyed to us. The development of
this scheme should be closely watched
and strenuously aided by the govern
ment, as we'll as by every business
and social interest in the Kingdom.
Telegraphic connection with the
world is what will bring these Ha-
waiian Islands into the rank and file
of nations, instead of their being,
as hitherto, sort of raw recruits of
the supernumerary corps. The tele-
graph will secure for Honolulu, to
the fullest degree what it is now but
partially, the position of one of the
great maritime centers of the world.
Honolulu and the Hawaiian Islands
will become as familiar to newspaper
readers as New York or Liverpool
The advantages of being known
abroad, though really of the least
value to ourselves, will be immensely
supplemented by the advantages
accruing to the industries and trade
of the port itself. To estimate the
cash value of these advantages is
not possible. The value of telegra
phic communication to cities ant
even country towns on each side Of
the Atlantic Ocean can never bt
known; but it is probably safe to say
that no money consideration coult
be offered to any of them that they
would accept as an equivalent for it
The telegraph has become an indis