The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-01-18
LAW AND ORDER.

The Y. VI. &. y. of this city
through It's Temperance Commit
tee, are contemplating the organic
alton of a Law and Order League
While sympathizing with every
movement that has for Its aim and
object the extension OF righteous
ness, there l. an opportunity in Ho-
nOIulu for a work that need be mel
thcr exclusive and narrow nor par
tisan and self-seeking. We have no
municipal government, nor are we
likely soon to have any such form
of political organism, 80 long a the
men who now control the general
government are actuated by the
spirit that In the last few years has
given us we'll kept streets, well
lighted, too, and now plans for bet
ter water supply and much need
ed sewerage system. We can trust
to our Board Of Trade and the
branches that it may throw out
to look after the commercial and
industrial interests of the cOmmu-
nifty. We have our churches and
our charitable societies to look af-
ter our spiritual and social necessi-
ties.
We are not as a community Civ
en- up to the self-aggrandizement of
wealth, or the ruinous degradation
of various forms of social vices.
We give due credit TO our prosper
GUS citizens and to our legal repre-
sentatives in the general govern
ment for our educational institu-
tons, schools, Libraries, museum,
park, seaside and mountain drives.
No call upon this community for
the maintenance of law and order,
for help in sanitary reforms, has
ever failed to meet with a hearty,
ready and general response.
The massing of men together Ill
city life has its distinctive pleas
ures, temptations, pcrils and obi
cations. One great advantage Is
the facility for general and eff
fective cooperation. Bad men bind
themselves together TO make gain
of vice. and embolden themselves
in iniquity by numbers that defy
the desultory and isolated efforts of
the officers of justice. The solitary
example of one faithful, righteous
man does not avail for much.
When bad men combine, good men
should organize, and it is organized
righteousness that in church or
state Is victorious over its enemies,
whether in the hosts of Satan or
the hOrdes of misrule. Our chart
table societies are doing a good
work, but they would work more
effectively if united in one charity
organization. The various young
peoples societies of Christian En-
deavor are doing a good work, each
in It's own field; but they would
have passed away like the dew of
the morning but for the United
Society of Christian Endeavor, the
compact board of trustees, who oil
rect the onward movement of that
now multitudinous array.
Why not broaden out this plan
of a Law and Order League into
a Good Government Club. The To- |
cal organizations should be Il small !
one for each district. to keep in |
touch with the people, to know the
wants developed In each lOca1ty,
to make united effort to secure bet
ter sanitation, less grinding power
ty, more general kindliness, dimi-
mutton of temptation to social vice.
\ central committee composed Of
delegates from the Good Govern
ment Clubs of the different cleo
ion districts OF the city could have
is executive officers, 10 push on
ward TO actual realization such
OF reform and improve
nent as may be devised and APP
proved. We could then have. In
,lace of mayor and councilmen of