The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-01-24

the country, and not To any imported
nonsense from over two oceans.
insincerity, political skepticism, a
lack of earnestness-all are bred by
the present state of things. There
are large number of children of for
eigners now growing up on these Isl
ands with precious little respect for
tile form or the material Of the gov
eminent If II different government
would build up different souls in their
bodies, nObler, higher type of hum
anity, why should there not be diff
ferent form? If by union with
government which is continually be-
ing remOdeled to correspond with the
high ideals of the noblest portion of
the human race--remodeled too TO cor
respond with the principles taught by
the gospel, the ideas of the inhabit-
ants of these Islands shall be made
broader, their manhood stronger,
their capacities greater, why should
il not take place in the name of the
good of humanity? What an edu-
Gator and awakener n Presidential
campaign in the midst of us would
be How much better than the whin-
ing complaints coming up from our
own out districts to headquarters
about road supervisors and school
superintendent, for the people of all
those districts To feel that it was their
own fault if they did not have the
best of either that they could get.
Not till the legislation of the King
dom affects the pockets OF our leading
men do we hope for much energetic
or well sustained action. And not
till there be few more earnest men
who are determined to live here and
build upa Christian, civilized oommu-
nifty, rather than make money and
then HE away to more cOngenial
chimes.
Poverty tends to barbarism in ma
ton unless there is Il great deal of vir-
tue to offset it, We need more human
material on these islands to master
nature; to furnish muscle to cause
the soil TO produce what somebody
somewhere wants and will pay for; to
make roads which will make people
from somewhere to take kindly to the
place. Annexation to the United
States might bring more of better
stock than even japanese here. We
have little faith or respect for the
theory Of bringing other islanders
here.
What is wanted is some idea under
lying the body polite upon which we
can build up Il sound and hopeful
COMMUNICATING to look for
ward to. 1t is an insult to the
Hawaiian race to say-~wait till
they are dead and out of the
way. We want them to have
a hand in and n share in any
progress or improvement. Perhaps
they don't want it; well, the boy
doesn't want to get up early in the
morning, but it may be better for him
for all that
We have endeavored in all these
articles not to support any one course
or side in the question, but to stimu-
late and guide thought on the subject.
If the reasoning and language are
somewhat crude, it is simply because
the political thoughts of all of us on
these islands are so, and it is natural
that they should be. If one of our
weekly papers is visionary, the other
is certainly wiShy-washy. One prin-
ciple is certainly allowed-all free dis
cussion which has in view the good of
the community rather than self ag-
grandisement is safe, and rather to be
encouraged than frowned upon. We
are determined to put ourselves and
this nation in sympathy with and in
unison with the leaders of humanity.
We see those leaders in the United
States, and wherever else they are
found they are in sympathy with that
free nation, and we wish to be so too.