The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-14

for any such course except by re-
sorting TO the eXcrescences of Afri-
can slavery in the United States.
BY thus excluding the Chinese vote
we certainly substantially disregard
that fundamental principle "no tax
ton without represcntatlon" and
yet Mr.. Hartwell sustains our con-
stituton on that point or if he does
not everyone else does. 1t would |
have been nothing short Of insanity
to have given the vote of the Chi
nesc. The fact is the most sacred |
precedents of free institutions have
many recognized exceptions, which
have been the outgrowth of new
conditions and eXigencies as the
Sabbath was made for man and not |
man for the Sabbath, so men were |
not made for the institutions, but |
the institutions for men and nothing
| is more interesting than to see how
past generations have from time to
time moulded and modified these
institutions and traditions without
destroying the genius of them. Pre-
cedence may be dangerous as well
as safe things especially as they
give men 1 am making no per-
sonal allusion) opportunity by
playing on popular reverence for
these precedents to apply them for
their own ends where they are only
mischievous and self destructive.
The docrine that the law should
treat all alike honestly invoked by
Mr.. Hartwell, is likely it seems to
me to be misapplied unless we con-
slider how and when that doctrine
had been successfully applied here
tofore. Equal rights can only exist
IN homogeneous communities whose
rank and file are sufficiently adj
vanced not only to appreciate but to
preserve those rights. In fact the
history of free States has thus far
been history of failures has it not!
They have attempted to absorb more
ignorance than they could stand.
They have been murdered by foes
within not foes without. To at
tempt to give equal rights to those
not prepared for them is of no
earthly use. They'll simply swamp
you and themselves too. Every
} community affecting free institutions
; which incorporates into the body
polite degraded population, has
had to put barriers not only between
that degraded population and the
free institutions but between them
) and the men upon whom it must rely
to preserve those institutions. Put
} 5000 coolies who have been used to
5 living on 4 few cents dav in the
same town with two or three thou
sand whites-many with families
whose civilization requires from 50
to So a day to support them, then
: give to the coolie all the industry
f foreign and natural ability as q
trader and artizan that our pro Chi
l nese friend in his eulogies of the
e Chinese says he has and which we
| don't deny, and what will be the
result?
: Why 90 and see how water seeks
e its level and find your answer.
f, 1t does not need another China
t man from Asia to do the business.
y Those now at the Islands can elm
e mate the white wage earners as q
e class and reduce them to q disinti-
h grated following Of other forces, il
S only you give them time and the
t whites take enough of the laughing
+ gas of equal rights to distract them
p into inaction.
: Mr.. Hartwell in his letter says
n that it would be futile to seek relief
a against Chinese cheap labor for you
t would still have to compete witt
e Portuguese, Native and japanese
II cheap labor. The Latin races have
d for centuries lived alongside Of
: other white races and freely miXeC
e with them, and history certainly
II does not indicate any material diff
If ference between the two in civiliza
IS ton, scale of wages, manner of liv
% ing, or views on questions like this
y Certainly the Portuguese, Nativ
IS and White artizans seem to be stand
3, ing shoulder to shoulder at the Isl
1t ands on this and other questions ant
~ with little or no mutual jealousy
5, and they undoubtedly know eacl
5. other best. They probably kno,
5 enough to fear other classes of thei
Z. own race more than each other. A
y far as the japanese are concerned
al believe that while their case will
10 never be parallel with the Chimes
N question, it may be one of its ow
he before long unless it is attended t
by the "wise and thoughtful men
le Mr.. Hartwell invokes to preven
is anti-Chinese Legislation and who wi
III doubtless wake in time to announc
re sententiously that the japanese kno
Ig is tied as tight as the Chinese on
ID and that it is the part of wisdom t
t, let it alone. However 1t behoove
in the whites to strike out for the shor
4, even if they do not reach it.
at Wishing the BULLETIN Hspp
Or New Year Git is New Years day,
is and with the utmost respect for MI
- uortD,nII ran1oin Yours frDlU