The Daily bulletin., 1889-12-10
B0SH.

EDITOR BULLETIN The sudden
and fervent aloha for the political
rights of the Hawaiian professed by
the organization styling itself the
Mechanics and Workingmen's Po-
litical Union, may serve to catch a
few votes from among our late COM
ers, but those of us who have been
here longer know that it is all bosh
and humbug.
L have been q close observer of
the situation for eight years, and
especially of the relations existing
between the natives and the haoles,
and have yet to meet the first Ha-
waiian who feels that he has been or
is beingAobbed of his inheritance,
or crushed under the iron heel of
missionary -ule or of family
compact. I except, of course, the
few whom we all know, whose ambi-
ton has led them to seek positions
of trust and responsibility in which
they have proven themselves wholly
unworthy and incompetent.
But to me the most significant fea-
ture in the case is the character of
the men who have become leaders
in this army of reformers and eman-
cipators, whose aim is to strike off
the shackles from the bleeding
hands and feet of the poor down
trodden native. A set of men who
in 1887, when the ship of state was
on the reef, and on the verge of be-
ing hopeless wreck, refused to
lend helping hand to save her, or
to give q word of cheer to those who
manned the lifeboat and did the
work, but have from that day to this
done nought but curse the ministry,
thus hindering the work of recon-
struction and reform, giving no Gre
dit for good accomplished, magnify
ing every misstep or partial failure
in the arduous and difficult work
undertaken. Men who on the 30th
of July last held q neutral position,
setting an example of patriotism
which had all followed it, our gov
ernment would have been total
wreck, with the fragments in the
hands of Wilcox, Boyd, Markham
and company, and the end have
been, God only knows what. These
are the leaders of the party who
have just discovered that they have
been raised up in the order of "di-
vine providence" to emancipate the
poor enslaved Hawaiians. And as
an earnest of their appreciation OF
the solemn and weighty mission en-
trusted to them they have chosen,
in their committee on nominations,
at least four professional bartenders
and gin-slingers-men, a part of
whose daily employment is to
compound cheap die stuffs in imita-
ton of whisky and gin, such as will
craze the brain of the poor native
and yet come within the reach OF
his meagre earnings. That such
men exist even in civilized commu-
mites we know, but how such men
can have the consummate cheek to
pose before community as reform
ers and philanthropists it is hard tc
explain, and that too in country
whose affairs have, for two and one
half years, been managed with de-
gree of success unparalleled in it:
history, where every respectable in
dustry has prospered, land where ever
the saloon, the most degraded Of al
human employments, has prospered
and its death-dealing and soul-dam
ming influences suffered to go on un
molested.
l am unwilling to believe that th'
more intelligent, sober, and law
abiding laboring men and mechanic
will be found, at the coming cleo
tions, casting their votes with sucl
men organized under whatever mann
they may be.
DAY LABoRER.