The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-11-21
THE NEWCOMER"

One OF the coIloquialisms that
has accompanied the administra-
ton OF public affairs by the present
regime, Is the so-called family
compact" as applied to the mis-
sionary" element of the country,
which is credited by unlucky and
disgruntled applicants with keep
ing all the public offices within its
grasp and control. When the use
of this expression family COM
pact" is accompanied by sly hints
and suggestive remarks concerning
it's connection with the nilsson
ary," the newcomer Is naturally
inclined to believe that he has
struck the wrong place to obtain
recognition of whatever push. tact
and principle he may possess; but
when ne discovers the fact, that by
meeting his bills promptly and
maintaining a fairly conservative
standard in his political views, he
too is liable to be classed as
missionary" and a member of the
compact" common sense comes to
his rescue and he ceases to berate
his ancestors for failing to have
become agents of the American
Board or some other similar organ
ization.
1t is true that many of the
public offices in this country
are held by representatives of the
conservative, or, as some like to call
it, the missionary" element. Those
who were born here, whose children
were born here, those who have
long lived here, those who know of
no other home but that to be found
here, have a great stake in good |
government and are naturally in
favor of keeping in office those with |
whom they are we'll acquainted. 1t |
is so everywhere, excepting in the |
great western States of America, /
where the people are all new corners
and old residents are unknown.
1t is also perfectly natural that
new men, active, intelligent and
ambitious, should for a time look
with some disfavor on the CON
servative element which exists here
and accuse it OF too much family
feeling" But, on further consider
alton, the new corners realize that
if they held all the higher offices
they would not feel pleasantly in
clined toward a later installment
OF new corners who insisted on a
new deal. We believe that less
jealousy OF new corners exists here
than in most countries. We boldly
assert that in no country do the !
men in high office hold their posi-
tions with less desire for personal
glory than here. Ii today, the Off !
ces were put in a hat and drawn
out by lot and apportioned among /
some OF the new corners and others !
who claim to be deserving of place :
there would be more dissatisfaction
than exists at present. The outs" =
must always largely outnumber
the ''ins" and grnwl accordingly.
1t doesn't take the new conner long
to find this out if he will. and hav-
ing sized up the lay of the land he 9
settles down quietly to prove his {
worth without troubling his head i
with the petty fault-fnding of !
chronic malcontents. h
That the present Government is 2
free from criticism cannot be said. ;
The millennium has not yet dawned a
On this or any other country. The 3
members OF a dominant class are L
always inclined to get between each
others legs and not look out for
he rivers which are beyond. Crisis
md political changes and revolu- a
ions are never foreseen by a COM
nunity. A great nation of intelli- u
,ent Americans did not believe for Z
moment, in 1860, that an awful
var was before it. So it enlisted