The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-08-15

of procuring, the people are wrouged
as certainly if not as criminally as if
their money was stolen instead of
being wasted Honesty aud economy
are necessary to the third standard
mentioned, that the public policy
and practice should be progressive.
II affairs be not conducted for "the /
greatest good of the greatest num-
ber," and conducted in an economl- !
cal and competent way, little pro- /
gress will be made in providing the /
country with those public improve
ments that must be constantly making
in order to keep up with other civil
lied nations. Although the admins
tration should not be extravaganza, it
ought to be liberal in the highest de-
gree. "Let well enough alone"
should not be the motto governing
the question of public improvements.
What was good enough for past gen.
erations should not be regarded as
good enough for the present one
Doubtless our foretathers got along
fairly well with such conditions of
life as existed in their time. But
that they wee contented with things
as they found them is dlsproved by the
fact that they left things better for
their posterity. No generation in
what we call modern times has toler-
ated stagnatlon in either business or
social life. Change has been the
rule, the aim always to make the
change for the better. To be pro-
pressive government must practise
economy wisely rather than too well.
1t is not always economy to get the
cheapest that is going in either
human skill or the material with
which that skill is to operate. Ex-
cessive conservatism IN public i'm
provements may prove very wasteful'
There should be decision to deter
mine what is possible to accomplish
at once, then promptness in having
the given work accomplished. 1t
would not be hard to point out, in
Hawaiian archives, cases where the
unnecessary preliminaries of neces-
sary public Improvements have eaten
up means that would have gone far
toward completing the works.
Right-thinking people will hardly
dispute the soundness of the forego-
ing exposition of what is deemed the
correct politics for Hawai-. 1t is too
bad that different sort of politics is
, being forced on public attention.
, Politics backed by no broader motive
: than the emoluments and perqustes
of power--politics with no better
stock in trade than pickering, sland-
ering, disappearing, and handy
+ ing of personalities against people
/, whose positions must prevent chem
from defending themselyes--such is
, the politics inflicted on long-sutfer-
, community. A fragrant instance,
, though far from being solitary or the
worst, in this campaign of a hetero'
= geneous faction of soreheads, is an
unseemly reference to the Queen and
@ her reception in the out districts.
= An incident is related for the pnr.
pose of showing that native Hawaii
;, ans are disaffected toward the Soy
-, ereign. 1t is that a native made 8
speech at Heeia, boldly accusing the
Queen of disregard for native rights
% This is harped upon to show that al
: was not happy in the receptions
. accorded Her Majesty on her recent
state tour. Notwithstanding all the
!, published facts that proved the toul
;, to have been series of ovation
:, such as no Sovereign had ever receiv
. ed before. An ounce of fact viii
= overcome ton of this sort OF detrac
ton, and this is The ounce. A ma
tive kahuna asked, in the course of {
i harangue, if the Queen was the pro
i. tector Of her people why she did no
:, grant them their "rights." The parti
:, cular right he had besought the Queer
. to grant was that of practising thu
=. pernicious arts of a kahuna In an,
4 case, Her Majesty does not hold thu
). power of licensing medical practition
q ers, but it should be set dowr
. to her great credit that she CAV,
;, no encouragement to the petition
. of one of these characters. This
;. incident is only Of piece witt
n the settled policy of the coterl'
g in question, which is to repre-
:, sent that there is wide and decI
dissatisfaction with the whole orde
. OF things in general and The alminis
tration in particular Honest anC