The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-23
EDITORIAL ARTICLES.
The PEOPLE ARE THINKING.

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. I 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 it's commerce and it's
agriculture, whose capital has
developed, and is developing, it's re-
sources, and who contribute the
principal part of the expenses of it's
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 think
that it is about time the government
which they support gave them a
little more consideration. In fact,
that they have rights which are
ignored, and they had better insist
upon those rights being duly res
pected.
This appears to have been the
general line of thought among think
ing people, during the past four
days. And, strange to say, some
gentlemen whose habit of thought
has usually been very quiet and all
to themselves, are, getting into the
way of thinking aloud. The reason
of this may be found in the fact
that their thoughts are growing
larger and more energetic than
usual, and to prevent a bursting OF
the boiler they must be let loose
Another peculiar feature of this
new era of thought is, that some
gentlemen who formerly thought il
favor of the other side, have com
menced thinking strongly and un
ambiguously in the opposite direc
ton. One person said a few day.
ago, g. have consistently stood by
the ruling faction of the past four o.
five years, and have always Spoken
in its defence when opportunit,
occurred. l have not been blind t,
all its defects, but believed it would
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 l can stand it NJ
longer" Others of the same elias
are thinking and talking in the sam
way. OF course, 1t is quite natura
for persons pecuniarily intereste'
in a continuance of the past, ant
not oyerburdened with conscience o
principle, TO say that all such think
ing and talking is wild, impulsiye
unreasonable, and unwarranted b
facts. But is it wild? Is it III
..oooo,oblnp No NOT the fact