The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-04-11

speculator to- make money. III they
caught man buying goods merely
to sell them a few hours later at a
higher price, he was deemed eligible
to ornament the village stocks as a
rascal He would not venture to
plead the doctrine of modern com
merce that it is socially benefcent,
il not pious duty, to buysin the
cheapest market and sell in the
dearest. If he did they would prob.
ably burn him alive.
This social order, relics Of which
may still be found in all directions,
did not collapse because il was nm
just or absurd. 1t was burst by the
growth OF the social organism. Its
administration was too personal and
meddlesome to deal with anything
more complex than a group Of in
dustrial communes. Industrial re.
lations with other count ries were be-
yond its comprehension. Even its
grasp Of fintcr.parochial morality was
none of the surest, but OF interna.
tional morality it had no notion. a
Frenchman or Scctchman was
natural enemy; a Muscovte was a
fore gn devil; the relationship Of
negro to the human race was more
distant than that of the gorilla is
now admitted to be.
The discovery of the New World
began that economic revolution
which changed every English manu-.
featuring town into mere booth of
the worlds fair, aud altered the i'm.
mediate objects and views Of pro-
ducers. II was then that English
adventures took to- the sea and, be-
ing in a frame of mind peculiarly
favorable to commercial success, laid
the foundations of empire aud com
mercial supremacy from which they
have never been entirely dislodged.
The early naval rovers were largely
OF the Crusoe type, unatfectcdly
pious with strong convictions and
force Of character. and, not unlike
some of their modern descendants in
Hawaii, regarded piracy and whole.
sale despoiling of the aboriginal
Phili-tiues. as a brave aud patriot ic
pursuit. The slave trade then was
a perfectly honest branch Of com.
mcrce, adventurous enough to be
consistent with the honor of a gen
tleman, aud lucrative enough to
make il we'll worth the risk. They
stole the cargo OF foreign ship, or
made a heavy profit on batch of
slaves and thanked Providence wit
the same sort Of heavy JUNCTION that
a modern +. q. does. The owners
of accumulated wealth fastened to
ycn'u - their capital with these men.
From Queen Elizabeth down, th.
grandces and people took shares in
( the voyages OF these advent urers,
and the corner stones " the indus
! trial greatness and the tlibiistcring
: shame Of the eighteenth and nine.
teenth centuries was laid. and upon
7 those foundations modern capt. alism
arose by success in enterprises for
which men are now, by civilized
a,ions, hung or shot ~ human
vermin.
. We need not go back centuries tu
see the unscrupulous business al
reninr"r combine the appearance of
pious recti,udc with INSCRIPTIONS
aud revolving villainy. The average
successful manufacturer is ambitious
to be known as merchant prince,
, and society e-tccms him a man OF
high personal honor, while his large
i charities and gifts mark him out a.
, pillar Of society whose piety il
most exemplary. he may he, never
thelcss, grinding his wealth out OF
{ the labor Of women and children
with whom a wage workers he has
no more sens. OF social solidarity
than Drake had with th. Spauiards
or negroes. kUMU 40.