The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-02-14

money, are being driven from their
homes. The Council also alleges
that not one property in fifty would
bring in cash one-half the price de-
manded last year.
No wonder that President Dole is
overwhelmed with the offers of vete-
rams for the =. q. army. There
would be no difficulty, at the pre-
sent time, in raising an army in the
United States, among those clamor-
ing for work or bread numerous
enough to face the forces of .any of |
the great powers of Europe. or
course the hungry may comfort |
themselves with the assurance that
they are inhabitants of the greatest
republic on earth. Also, the econo-
mists will write essays to prove that
strikes and the discomfort of the
laborers is at the root of the trouble,
and they will equally ignore the
cause Of the discomfort; Tor your
economist is ever ready with
theory which is invariably dishonest
to the laborer.
Irish landlordsm had for centu-
ries enabled host of usurers to
iatteu at the expense OF starving
peasantry. The economists, in and
| out of the British legislature, de-
plored the fact that agrarian out
RACES could not be suppressed by
the army of 10000 troops with which
Ireland was always garrisoned. But
what could be done, said they, that
has not alrs ady been tried. Some
body said let the government be
empowered to- interpose, by creating
boards of arbitration which will fix
a fair rent and valuation on the
land. and il was done, and although
| the measure cannot be regarded as
a final solution Of the burning,ques-
tion, it has brought relief to Ireland,
and serves to point to the only goal
at which the earth-hunger Of
humanity can DE satisfied
naturalization.
II is intensely absurd to read Of a
League of professed Americans
who are now recognized as part OF
the law-framing power Of the Z. q.
-cuusrnting to the impor, ,ation Of
more Chinese coolies while so many
thousands Of their own flesh and
blood are crying for bread at our
very doors.
In nv last letter mention was
made OF the blunder, that in the
worlds earlier ages the dispropor.
ton between rich aud poor was even
greater than now. This is trumped
up fraud. No medieval fortunes
we're fit TO be named beside the Am.
"rican aud European boards OF to.
lay. Even in old Rome, when a
consul returned with the plunder OF
a province, he usually lost both il
: and his life together. Very little ol
il came to his offspring, except
when they were extremely alert, and
in more senses than one were in at
o the fathers death. But at present
= there are scattered not alone mil
, iionaircs by the thousand, but hun
1 dreds Of thousands Of people with
princely fortunes aud incomes whc
lavish money on pet poodles Will,
Q the children of the poor go hungry
! and sums are given for old china
that would feed many families fol
, life. Ii Is in the face of facts lik,
these that never before in the
worlds history were there so many
| enormously rich people, and never
I before such multitude OF abjectl,
poor-that political economists oI
dainty modern type have the assur
: ancc To proclaim the glad tiding'
Of the gradually narrowing dispro
!, portion between rich aud poor
Anyone who examines the case cal
give To this a Hat contradiction.
In the meantime Authority, as tn,
: friend Of Monopoly, is shining up H.
4 battlc.axe, and ia American citie'
Il the military are supplanting tn,
, police in dealing with the clamorou'
y crowds who are in search Of food
h Desperation will beget lawlessncs.
i which If not properly needed vii
:. lead to national disintegration, al,
prominent defect OF republican
, government is inability To check th'
u internal forces which undermine
Y social order.
o There is no sophism which OK
4 perieuce has more nakedly exposed
than the contention that a republi
: can form Of government is the bes
~ adapted to promote the welfare o
Il national life. True republicanisn
II means ''self.government,' aud is onl
!, possible by "a people who are homes
y enough not to permit dishonesty il
y matters OF government, and VIII
is could not be charged with sue
r apathy to public affairs as woul'
# permit open official profligacy an'
= corruption. Such state OF societ
" existed in an eminent degree in tn
/ American colonies, both before AM
:? after their independence. The Amer
d ican nation was then largely homo
geneous people, fired with the ardo
If great sentiment. To-day ever
u candid student Of affairs must admi
4 that true republican government i
n successful in Switzerland only. On
of the first acts OF the Brazilian re-
public was TO pass an ordinance L
= encourage the immigration Of 1000
II Chinese, a striking proof that tn
II change from monarchy WAS not
=, popular but an oligarchic movement
" The trouble with the machiner
u Of government is that it is subjec
n TO accidents and unseen and flu,
'. tuating influences, which the ignoI
% ant who got in the way are general