Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-02-27
SATURDAY FEB. Al, 1886

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SATURDAY.. FEB. 81, 1886.
WE are glad to see that the Bulletin
comes out in favor Of organic reform
in the Government 1t is what Hawaii
needs and what the taxpayers will have
before they stop. The bulletin will
prove strong ally to the peoples
cause. The fight must be commenced
now and be kept up until the end is
successfully reached. Delay will only
defeat the taxpayers cause again; and
those who we're so ready with cold
water previous to the last campaign
ought to learn something from the late
defeat of the Opposition party. There
is such thing as learning too much
by experience; and in the present in
stance, the peoples cause has not pro-
fitted by the blunders of those who have
assumed to dictate campaign policy
for it.
The trade resume Of California for
the year 1855 shows the following
general results Wheat product for
the year $4,000, 900 bushels; wheat and
-four exports, expressed in wheat, I5,-
537,rI6 centals; barley product I5,-
100000 bushels; sugar imports 1885,
o7I,l84 pounds; beet sugar product for
1885 2,I3A273 pounds; coffee inn
ports 22,3oI,o85 pounds; rice imports
43,i84,5oI pounds; tea imports $685.
784 pounds; gold and silver yield $76,-
900, coinage in the San Francisco
Mint $a3,5o8, 500; merchandise ex-
port values by sea $36,o75,I92; com
bined exports. Of merchandise and
treasure, exclusive of merchandise by
railroad, $56,2o8 Federal Revenue
for the port Of San Francisco, $8,IoI,-
500; lumber receipts at the port Of
San Francisco, 324744,6S4 feet; wool
clip 36,56I,S9o pounds; product of
wine, 100000 gallons; quicksilver
product 32,o7S TASKS; value of San
Francisco manufactures $oo,ooo,oo
sale of real estate in San Francisco
SIS, 3,25o,ooo; increase of immigration,
23,76I souls; banking capital OF the
state $55, 900, 900. The gold product
of the Pacific Coast since 84S amounts
TO $I,Sso, gao, los. The combined
gold and silver product of the Pacific
Slope since rS4S amounts to S., ,6o7,-
oo6,7S6
PARTY sel6shness is opposed to pa
triotism. Representative Government
naturally depends upon political parties,
and therefore sustains them. In all
Government dominated by the people
political parties are both necessary and
wholesome. Whenever the leaders of
a party, therefore, devote themselves to
the welfare of cliques and factions their
course is not one of devotion to the
country and ceases to be patriotic
Too often, alas does political history
point out instances where the welfare
of the country has been periled to pro-
mote the party interests, or rather the
interests Of the party leaders. 1t is
also fact that such party leaders gen
orally illustrate and emphasize their un-
patriotic selfshness by attempting to
exclude those men who, by their fdel-
ity to the country, stand in the way Of
these SO called "party interests 1t is
thus that when the people wish to or
ganize reform movement against
delegated power they generally have to
fight the first and hardest battle with
the men who champion the peoples
cause for the purpose OF reaching
selfish party ends, which are in fact
selfish individual ends paraded under
the cap of liberty. Such leaders gen
orally hold that disrespect to party is
highly unpatriotic. II can, however,
be shown logically that adherence tc
such political theories is treason to the
peoples cause, which is much worse
than treason to King would be. A
deep sense Of wrong oftentimes causes
the truest patriots in country to carry
reform measures 10 an extreme, ano
this is the common danger into which
the people fall when they attempt tc
redress wrongs received from the Gov
eminent. 1t is true, therefore, that al
reform movements should be FIRST ma
tured and then pushed patriotically and
nrmly, but justly, 10 the end, no matter