The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-11-27

against producers; and the remedy is
sought in various combinations-the
Farmers Alliance, the Federation of
Working Men and labor unions.
Some predict, as the ultimate out
come, the violent upheaval of the
whole social fabric, and new order
OF social life on new basis.
The present unrest looks to me
more like temporary mania arising
from the general and inordinate greed
of gain. The sober sense of the COM
munity has relegated to the lumber
room of old rubbish the talk, we ex-
pected in our schoolboy days to hear,
about being faithful in study and
work, and having for a reward "a
seat in congress or, perhaps, the presi-
Dental chair.n 1t is big bank ac-
count that is the prize that multi
tudes now are hoping to win. Every
man is expected to improve his con-
ditiOn, while few care to know how
to enjoy it as it is. The one endeavor
seems to be to get out of it, or to seem
to have got out of it. But there is
another side to this sudden acquisi-
ton of large fortunes. 1t is just as
easy to lose suddenly as to gain enor-
mously. Booms collapse, and the
ten figures of the bank account change
to ciphers with the scratch of a pen.
The lesson that men are slowly
learning is that the good of the COM
munity rather than individual
accumulation is the true goal of a
laudable ambition. How many men
of wealth in the United States have
achieved for themselves a world
wide, rather than national or local,
reputation, by the conservation of
their acquisitions to the permanent
advantage of the community. We
are thankful that here in Honolulu
one of our American cOuntrymen has
made the whole community not
merely the residuary legatees of his
estate, but his perpetual debtors for
the liberality and wisdom of his pro-
visions out of his ample means for
the education of the young, and for
such preparatory training as will give
these young people the advantage OF
a good start in the race of life.
(4. The attention given to popu-
lar education is a new element in the
administration of government. Were
one to judge solely from the history
of the past it would seem as though
some memorable law doomed every
government to final extinction. We
note the rise and fall of empires. Who
shall ensure any government, any
nation however seemingly prosperous
now, against defeat and dissolution?
instruction in cities is an important
part of preparation for the work of
life. More and more political cam
paigns are becoming campaigns of
education and enlightenment The diff
fusion of general intelligence is intro
ducing, however, new factor in the
solution of the problems of natural
history. We do not pin much faith
on the motto, "Bayonets that Think"
that would seem to be the German
ideal of perpetuating the national
corporate life. Ballots that think
would be a motto of wiser aim and
method for all who expect popular
government to be something more
enduring than those South American
Republics, "like Catharine-wheels,
always in revolution, SO long as the
powder lasts.u Constitutional govern
ment has not been long enough in
operation, nor under such wise direc-
ton, as to make the experience of its
benefits q sufficient reason to the
Hawaiian people for the abandon
ment of the old autOcratic chiefish
rule. They do not comprehend how
utterly inadequate it would be to the
control and adjustment of the COM
plicated interests of our modern social
life. The native orators, whose stock
in-trade seems to be childish vehe-
mence of frothy defamation about
Hawaiian independence ought to be
taught some of the fundamental
truths about the duties of citizenship.
Intelligent comprehension of a citi-
zen's duties-an Intelligent purpose
to choose the right and do the right,
will do more to promote and preserve
Hawaiian autonomy than any extern
sion of voting power, or any distribu-
ton of government offices.
Popular education must be Chris
tan education to be productive OF
permanent good. General intelli
gence is no more a panacea for all
social evils than universal suffrage
could be. Cali flesh is grass" cries
the prophet, "and all the glory OF
Word of the Lord endureth forever
That Word gives to the changing
phenomena of time the unity of cease
| The minds of men, to be what they
ought to be, must be brought into
harmony with the mind of God, the
| Supreme Intelligence, and the Eter'
| nal Order.
(5.) More and more is it coming to be
recognized that questions of politica
| economy and of governmental admin
istration are really questions of funda'
mental public morality. In the latter
day glory, as jeremiah looks forward
to it, he hears the voice of mank1nc
in grateful acclaim, declaring of Zion
the embodiment of a redeemed hu.
| mainly, 'sThe Lord bless thee, 0 habi
| tation of Justice and mountain of holi
ness" That is the ideal to which we
are tending with fastening and hope
| full steps. Not in numbers, not il
wealth, not in intelligence; not in en-
terprise are we to recognize the true
| glory of a nation, but in the use made
| of the nations resources for the ac
complishment of the highest ideal
possible to it.
| Here I am thankful to say that the
| United States has shown it's greatnes:
| in the greatness of that consideration
| for the rights and interests of others
which scorns to trample on interiors
or in any way to take advantage o.
their weakness. What if these Ha
waiian Islands furnish the only in
stance now known in history o
Christianity seeking out and caring
for decaying race, allying it's divine
strength to a moribund nationality
trust that, if it is the first, it viii
| NOT ha tho Ia eft instance of Such Chris