The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-12

10y this labor, IL would have been
surrounded from the start with such
checks and safeguards as would
have prevented the plight that one
class has got another into by having
things too much its own way. The
result simply illustrates the oft-rc--
peatcd truth, that society has thus
for been conserved by the contend
ing selfishnesses of men far more
than by their virtues or self-re-
straint. a patriotic legislature
chosen from one class, but which is
going to look out for everybody,
pretty generally ends, notwithstand-
ing intermittent spasms Of propriety,
by looking out for itself, as the Re-
form Legislature did this year. 1t
is not a case OF ill-will, or of inten-
ton to do harm TO others, but one
of pre-occupation in looking out for
number one.
Much of the Anti-missionary talk
has, undoubtedly, grown out of the
fact that many persons who were the
intelligent and deliberate promoters
of the policy complained Of, and
large recipients of it's profits, were
prominently Unidentified with the
churches but to organize an Anti
missionary party because of this,
seems to me rs unfair as it is un
sound, for by so doing they include
indiscrilDinately lin their attack, or
alternating influence of it, all the at
tendants of these churches, all liv-
ing missionaries and the descendants
of missionaries and their dead, and
whether they were concerned in
these matters complained of or not,
and furthermore fail to bring within
their structures II large body of men
representing landed interest who,
though not connected in any way
with missionaries or the churches
still were and are as active and de-
termined as any one in preserving
and continuing the one-sided policy
of the past, which is the tundamen,
tai ground OF complaint to-day.
Nor do ! believe in the wholesale
condemnation of the ministry thai
seems to prevail in the Ant-mis
sionary party, and for that matter
in Queen street circles rs we'll, anC
probably for the same reason that il
is the backer of neither. Indeed,
understand that several of oul
, Queen street brethren, not content
that the amendment was defeated
, called on the ministry or some of it,
members just before the close of til,
Session and wanted them to resign
to make way, l suppose, for some
, thing more tractahle.
The ministry stands justly con
demnGd, it seeEs TO NE, not he
cause amidst :" many contendin!
factions and divided interests il
COULD not please everybody; nor be
cause in lis desire to give stabilit,
to the civil service il allowed to re
main in Office number whom man,
thought should be displaced, nor TO
the other detail charges mad,
, against it and which are incident f
every administration, but becaus
: on Il vital principal of public policy
: 10 wit, tie Chinese question. it wa
ard is divided. The country has
I right to demand that the ministr
f should be unit one way or th
other on such question.
The fact is, many will probabl
= vote with the Anti-missionary party
not because of its Anti-missionar
r spirit not because the liquor inter
0 est will probably be with it not be
cause it does not seem to see an
e good in the reform government; bu
: in spite of these facts and man
: more if necessary and for the sol
: reason, that through that party the
V see the best chance to preserve an
l. broaden liberal institutions and thei
# their own civilization at the Islands
$ and are therefore willing to suspen
p all other political convictions how
ever vital to them, to save tha
: without which, such political convi'
n tions will have no field in which I
II work themselves out. 1t is a cas-
e where many who dread Chimes
: competition for themselves and the
If own race prefer to obtain respite b
:. following the crowd, however III
IS rully, rather than meet death, hoy
II ever respectfully, by following ii
# select few where one will find /;
n much seliishness as any where els
,e though of a more refined Al
If covert kind.
,- To be continued.
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