The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-14
LETTER FROM Mr.. W. A. KINNEY.

Vic NOulIt NC aluuSeu, IL IL was
not cause for alarm, at the over
weening confidence shown by the
anti-missionary party, or opposition
in its power to carry the elections.
To judge from the newspaper cor
respondence of the doughty anti
missionary warriors in the BULLETIN,
they have long since ceased to con-
slider such tritles as carrying the
elections, and have already address
ed themselves to the absorbing task
of guarding the spoils of war, evil
dencing in their articles quite as
much fear that too many may flock
to their standards, as too few. Per-
haps after all, the division of spoils
is the most perplexing, if not most
important point in an election, un-
less indeed, the miracle of the five
loaves and two fishes can be made
to materialize again. l hope, how
ever, this confidence of success is
we'll founded, but where it comes
from l do not know, considering
that 34 out of 4S members of the
Legislature are elected by the coun-
try districts, where the influences
are entirely different from the city,
and out of the ii members elected
in the city some are absolutely y con-
trolled by native CONSTITUENCIES. The
Chinese will certainly be in the field
next election, and if our Queen
street friends insist on sustaining
the Legislature in the position it has
taken on the Chinese question, will
result in an unconscious partnership
of all the virtues and the vices, so
to speak, that would seem well nigh
irresistible.
Certainly the opposition does not
occupy such a commanding position
that it can afford to ALLEVIATE any
votes, be they from saints or
sinners, rich or poor, whites or ma
tives. 1t can seek all these votes
and still see to it that the men il
puts up for the Legislature are men
of its own individual choice whose
own interests are menaced by the
Chinese and are anti-missionary, il
that is what is wanted. They will dc
the missionaries no harm. There
are two of the Ministers, certainly
-Thurston and Ashford-who arr
friendly to the essential cause of th'
opposition, and whose friendship
will be very useful, for one has of
fetal control over the election boards
and its entire machinery, and th,
other command of the police powe
of the Kingdom-two all-powerfu
agents in securing free and un
trameled vote from every laborer il
the Kingdom-the sheet anchor o
the coming election. 1t may be th,
part of wisdom to keep slappins
these men in the face, knowing tina
Notwithstanding all abuse they cal
be relied upon to pick election Of
ticers who are entirely free from un
due plantation influence, but it i
hard TO see it all the same.
Mr. Hartwell may not agree will
many of the views thus far express
ed in this letter, but there is prob
ably more hope of it, than that w
could ever agree ON the Chimes
question. l have read his lette
over with great care and Will
thanking him for his kindly compli
ments cannot see but that we hay
misunderstood each other complete
ly. He says, "Man is not require
by the necessities of life to regar
his fellow man as one savage re
CARDS another, to be made way wit
if he interferes with ones comfort
Ga position no one has disputed
and elsewhere in his letter Nh
Hartwell seems to indicate that tn
presence of the Chinese simply II
suits in an interference with lone
comfort" Now, if all that Nj
Hartwell has said in his letter, an
if his views on the Chinese questio
are based ON the assumption tht
the Chinese will only interfere wit
ones comfort, then person ca
well understand why he is oppose
to the legislation in question, and
in fact that's all we need fear frol
the Chinese, then it seems to me I'll
Chinese question is at an end ono
and for all. But suppose instead
being a case of interference wit
''one's comfort" it is a case of il