The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-02-28

barred from q voice in legislation
and be compelled to keep silence
when public affairs are being dis
cussed.
This is common talk in some
quarters, and it is foolish, short
sighted talk. The Custom House |
statistics show how absurd and nom
sensical it is. More than seven
eighths of the value of our exports
are credited to sugar, and yet the
planter is of no Importance to the
country We respectfully invite
the attention of these short-sighted
takers to a page of history, relating
to far off country.
About fifty years ago ship sailed
from the shores of old England, with
several hundred passengers, bent
upon bettering their condition in life
or losing their life in the attempt.
After nearly six months sailing they
dropped anchor in Spencer's Gulf,
| on the southwestern coast of the
continent of Australia. There they
landed and seven miles from the
seaside, in the centre of magniii-
cent plane, pitched their tents,
where now stands the city of Ade-
laide.
Other shiploads came and joined
the first, and British Grown colony
was established under the government
of a British Governor.
Here was q magnificent pastoral
country extending many hundreds
of miles north and east, with the one
drawback of liability to long seasons
of drought. Population, capital,
and sheep flowed in from England.
Immense tracts of land, the pro-
perty of the Crown, were taken up
on long leases at nominal rentals,
and stocked with sheep. Unaided
by Government or the public, de-
pending only on enterprise and
capital imported by themselves,
these squatters took possession of
trackless and ternantless deserts
which none but themselves cared to
occupy.
They were confronted by a sue
cession of dry seasons from the out
set. Hardy and self-reliant, they
were undaunted by these. They
toiled and hoped year after year,
without return for their outlay or
their labor. Their capital steadily
disappeared, and the close of each
season found them as unprovided as
the last. Tea and damper were
their only 'luxuries, and blue serge
shirt and hat made from the leaves
of tree the extent of their display
They were not the men to murmel
at the visitation of Providence, OF
quail before the effect of disastrous
, circumstances.
At length u turn came in the tide
OF their affairs. Drought was fol
lowed by sufficient rains, and reali
zation of hope long deferred hove il
sight. A few years of favorable
seasons, backing the previous labo
and expenditure, converted thos
J great wildernesses into the sheet
anchor of the colony's welfare, ant
the only material guarantee of it
solvency and of foreign confidence
AS money now flowed into tn
Golfers of the squatter, it wa
dumped into the various channels c
:, trade and industry, and went rir
. pling on its mission to make bushes
Y, people, mechanics, and laborer
prosperous and comfortable. Th
y carriage of the lordly squatter role
. in thunder through the streets {
Adelaide, and passers-by uncovere
to the golden calf, happy to get
$. sunstroke if they could only hes
him sneeze. His wool-bales stoppe
the traffic, long lines of dray
marked the road to his ranch, wit
- empty brandy bottles, broken orn'
y ments, and smashed pianofort'
strewing the way, and his fifty poun
checks were lying about in evel
hut more plentiful that potato pee
= ings.
In the shops all was hustle al
business; the counters were strew
: with articles of luxury, hardly e,
Il pensive enough for hundred fast
dious purchasers, the streets we
TX blocked with carriages, the sid
sa walks with heavy sWells. and ii