The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-09-14
LETTER FROM Mr.. KINNEY.


EDITOR BULLETIN: An article in
last nights BULLETIN signed 'Pau,"
an article in the =. G.. A. by rice
planter signed a. B. and secret
efforts OF different kinds to crush
The present movement to secure q
Chinese constitutional amendment
all indicate the drift of the tide.
We fail TO see what hostility to the
planter there is in the proposition to
restrict future Chinese importations
to plantation labor and to prevent
any mere Chinese going into town
occupations.
To he sure there arc risks to the
planter and all Of Chinese retaliation
IN making the move, but no greater
than the risks recently incurred by
others in behalf of the country at
large.
The truth is the proposition we
make, so far from being demagoguic
or one sided, is 4 cold-blooded com
promise between the extreme views
of some sugar men who are carried
away with the idea that sugar is not
only the backbone but all the other
bones big and little OF the country,
and those on the other hand who
feeling mad and Disguised would go
to the opposite extreme whenever
the planters interests are concerned.
The poor fool who wrote the arti-
Gle signed "Pau" has yet to make
the acquaintance of n demagogue
and when that individual does APP
pear on the scenes with the pathway
paved for him by such abuse as the
writer Of that article has INDUCED
in, it will be with no such compro-
mise measures as we urge, but with
vocabulary of vltuperation and of
hot appeal to prejudice against the
planter and every interest of the
| planter born of precisely the same
malice and dema9oguic spirit which
actuated Mr.. "Pau" in characterize
ing men like Robert Lishman, John
Emmeluth, John Phillips and others
as "sandotters" and "non-pro-
ducers."
The insistence of even the Adver-
tiser to treat the present agitation
as Il movement against the planting
interests, actuated by personal hos
tiIity to them and not as simple
act of self-defense by men who are
being decimated and jammed to the
wall, is Just the thing which is fast
driving the whole movement off of
its original basis of compromise and
return to unity, into an irreconcilable
conflict at the polls.
One is astoushed at the utter
blindness and disregard of human
nature and human passions, which
lead many to believe that if we sup
press any agitation and do nothing,
an appeal on the eve of the election
for unity is going to keep this town,
and afterwards the Legislature to-
gether. Such a position justifes
the adage that "whom the gods plan
to destroy they first make mad" l
think with Mr.. Oleson that even a
concession on the Chinese question
may be insufficient to unite us, but
if that will not nothing will.
There is little hope, however, of
q reasonable settlement even at the
eleventh hour, and the pressure of
elections upon us, where one faction
will not support the movement be-
cause il is private scheme to GUST
the Ministry, an opposing faction
because it is scheme to save them I;
and where the planter following in
sist on considering the whole move
ment rs n personal assault on their
interests, while the other side con-
slider il compromise with the plant
er where no compromise is right or
safe, and where such an ass as
Pau" crowns the confusion and
adds fuel to the flame with dema-
goguic abuse from the planter 6
side of men who, sore, disappointed,
and anxious for the future, are only
too apt to light upon such talk as 8
justification for excessive measures
at the polls.
This confession of menace L
any compromise movement is moi
made shame-facedly, for the trutl
should help not hurt just cause
and every man in the movement CAL
we'll afford TO follow it single-hand
ed, if need be, to the close and tt
put himself Of record.
The fair and prompt presentation
of decided uon-pelsonal issue lik'
the Chinese question TO the people
will do more than all else TO CLARITY
the political atmosphere and TO pre-
vent the dangerous agitation of 8
campaign of the purely persona
and recriminatory nature that is nov
ahead of us. W. A. KINNEY.