Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1895-10-26
ON OF THE LATEST or MAN
O'RELL'S EFRUSIONs.
The witty Frenchman Tells of How
Brother Jonathan IL BuIIicd and
snubbcd by His servants.
(Cmriudrd)

press HIS NlS'al l.NlaCJ Nn aJ Jne
way h vas tre1tcd. He was in
tae hail. This is the worst man-
age n te ] h We cver been in,
he exclaimed to tie clerk. 'Wnere
IS t. ropriat +; | should Ike
TO see i'm. Z e proprietor was
in the all, til ro gIly enjoying
the scene. He was p1int'd out to
the 6 t 10y the clerk. The En-
glisnm n, exc ted and angry,
Went u to the propr etDr.
Is i yol VIII, are running this
hous 2 he sad.
'Wel,' sad III, proprietor,
with h gar in his mouth and
h,s haIds in lis pockets, L
though | wa--till you came
The EngIishman looked at him,
turned btci, paid his bill, and
depart a.
am bound to admit that the
incivility you meet with in many
hotels Offices, shops, etc, is only
apparent. They are busy, mad
busy, those clerks and shopmen,
and d. not see why they should
indulge IN the thousand Of petty
acts of courtesy tant customers
expect III Europe, whore, for eX
ample, shopkeepers have time t.
wit Iong notices to respectfully.
beg the public not to touch the
articles exposed for SAL In
Amerira, Hands off answers the
prrpos md the visitors do not
fee lnsulted.
But among the lower class ser
wants of tie pcb C. | am persuad-
ed that incivility is simply form
of misu dersto d democracy. Il
am a god as you," is then mot
to, and by being polite they would
fear to appear s. rvlle. They are
not as good as you, however, be-
cause You are polite to them, and
they are not polite to you, but
they do not see hat. 1t is not
equality, it is tyranny, the worst
Of tyranny, tyranny from below.
The patience Of the American
pubic is simply angel. cal, moth
ing short of that. / have seen
American audiences kept waiting
by theatrical companies more
than half an hour. Something
was wIoag behind the scenes.
They manifested no signs Of i'm
patience. When the curtain rose,
NOBODY came f.rA ard to apologize
to t en- for this obvious want Of
resrect. Once in a New Eng and
town, through a troin's beng
late, | arr we'd AT the opera house
three quarters Of an hour after the
time my lecture was advertised to
begin. Il suppose had better
apologize to the audience" l said
to the ma ager, and explain t.
them why am late" Just as
you please" he replied, "but |
would no.. | gaess they would
h " wa. d another half an hour
without showing any gn of i'm
patience. The Americ public
expe tho cour esy from the peo'
pie they pay, and they get none "
The people OF culture and re-
finement in Amer ca are paying
dearly for keeping aloof from
politics and refusing to have any
thing t. do W tn the government
OF their country. They are be-
ginning to realize that fact. in
every day life their apathy, theil
lack OF initiative alone can ex,
plain their endurance Of the petty
tyra II es / have only just inoi
c ted in these remarks.
If every offic al were educated
up t. he fact that h" is paid BY
the state, that is to say, by tAt
people, and that h s duty is tc
admin ster, to the best If his
abilities, to the W, fare of the
people; If every cond ctor o
every railway company W re mad
to understand Il at is frs III c
ton is to attend to the emf +
and wishes Of passeng ~; j
walters, " itressos, porterS, ser
wants I a sorts, were TO d thai I
polite pub! has n right to expec
from them pol tones, court sy
ird 2ood service, Ilfo IL Amer c