The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-12-21
WANTED, A POLICY.

EDITOR BULLETIN In teNerlSn
article in the Advertiser Of Satur-
day last, chiefly on the need of earn
est and united effort, lest the pub
he will ''snow under" the National
Reform Party, the writer, in the
usual orthodox style, divides the
public in their political paths, into
Two classes, the wicked and the just.
70 use his own words: There are
but two main issues presented to the
country; the maintenance Of real
constitutional government or to re-
turn to the rotten days of old. 2"
There is no purgatory for the weak
in the reform faith. Even the evo-
lutionist who hopes to see the reform
faith revised and placed on more
enduring basis: who declines to
swear by human liabilities as seen
in the session just past, and hest
tates to pledge-his answering allie
glance, by faith, in the future OF
proved fallibility, has to take his
place on the left of the reform Judge
with the goats, and bel branded
as without principle or patriot
ISM" But what are the principles
To which our allegiance is demand
ed? The only reply which the writer
youchsafes is, clearly. that neither
he nor his principals have any pro-
gram of policy, and that his motto
should be, "men, not measures.
Now, sir, this is toe much for hu-
man gullibility. BY faith, the theo-
Logan can move mountains of doubt;
hut his brother statesman cannot,
and it will be we'll when the religi-
Gus pcnmen who seem to take turns
at the poltico-reform wheel can
realisc, on changing front to poll
tics, that, as science, politics be-
long to the domain Of reason. The
statesman is expected to realise not
only that there is an ever-revolving
current of events, each as varying
as the pictures of kaleidoscope, con-
corning the national welfare, but
that the public under "real consti-
tutional government expect, at
such periods rs the present, that
the statesman will take the public
into his confidence. If it has not
heen the custom here to do so, in
the words Of late number of the
Advertiser, it is about time that it
became the custom.
The writer is frantic in his efforts
10 scare his stragglcrs into line.
This is all very well as the yell of a
whipper-in to his party, but the gen
eral public, who pay for their poll
tics being decently managed, expect
something more than demand upou
their faith in the manner proposed
by the Advertiser. We are not all
making politics Il trade, and VIC
would have those who do SO, to re-
eognse the fact now and then.
But the Advertiser, recognizing
the fact that the ministry have nc
presentable outline of policy tc
bring before the people, have out
lined plan by which the Cabinet
can be furnished with bran new
set Of ideas which they can spread
out into policy, and can hold OF
10 until some of the conservative
elements" say the Chamber of Com,
merce, shakes its castellated fist al
them, and tells the plant and of
constructed Cabinet that such ideas
were not theirs in the first place, unC
just TO hand them over like Dor
rowed book.
Yes, we are to have an election
within an election--possibly some
new development in machine poll
tics--and, as it is to be by tn,
''sobcr conservative elements of tn,
country" we don't expect the riff,
raft to put their spoke into thai
select wheel. No one under Tn,
rank of manager OF head luna SHOULD
he eligible to sit in that parliamen
Of the conservatives. And this il
proposed ander the head OF Reform
Where are the people to come in, il
this little job of the "sober and con