Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-09-01
ANNIN ALTON.
(By Anne NJ. Prescott.)
(No. 2.)

You tell me there are great
many men here in the Islands out
of work. 1t is my belief that you
enjoy saying those worn. out
words: "Great many men out of
work." How many? There is a
class of men that is always out of
work in every country. They are
men, as q rule, who never learned
q trade but who in the course of
years have tinkered at several,
likely; they have followed the
sea" when they were quite young
perhaps and left it to marry and
work on farm for time; from
that to blacksmithing a little, to
take up house painting, to cook in
restaurant, to be porter in a
store, possibly to drive a wagon;
and from that to something else.
In fact they never learned any
one thing in earnest, never
graduated from anywhere, have
never learned to accomplish -
makers of their own misery.
|"Unstable as water thou shalt not
excel" As men of that class grow
older the openings for them be-
come fewer; they are failures aud
a man Of business detects it at
once in five minutes observation.
While they are young they get on
after a fashion because there is
always the hope that they will
settle down to one thing or another
and be content. That class is here.
What will the government do with
itp I really don't know. If there
was a lot of timber in the land,
cords and cords of wood, it might
call for men to saw and split at 80
much per diem and get some of
them busy. As it is the most
charitable country in the world
likely some a way will be devised
that those men stranded here
shall not suffer. They are good
men-but shiftless.
Again: There are a great many
white men who are not at all
adapted to plantation work under
even the best conditions; and there
are Cinnamon who are not equal
to it. After annexation there will
be other industries and many even
in Makapala, and men will be
able to find that il they cannot do
one thing another door is open to
them where at least a small in
come is sure. There will be fac
tories of one kind and another;
and it is as plain fact as that
there is land and water, and sun
shine in abundance, here. The
time is coming soon, when there
will be an earnest call for me-
chanics and for laborers, more, by
thousands, than the census now
shows. There are many to put
lions in the way, today; but those
lions will be hypnotized or chloro-
formed.
Lastly: 1t is our sincere belief
that when Hawaii is under the
United States authority the ma
tives will not be slighted nor
passed by, but on the contrary
every advantage and consideration
will be extended to them, and
there will be no Office nor position
to which they may not aspire and
claim it, if proving themselves
competent. What has monarchy
ever done for them SO much that
they desire it to continue forever I?
Many of them were as servants
attendants" on royalty and at its
beck and nod, poor and unin-
formed. There was the court and
the intrigues and corruptions of a
court; but what good did it really
do the native populace ? To be
sure there was a certain kind of
lavishness often, and snowy pa
lgeants, on a miniature scale, to
delight the eye for an hour. But
the natives are now being enlight.
ened SO far as good schools can
help them and they are ready to
apply themselves. The fault will
be theirs if they "do not rise on
stepping stones of their dead
selves to higher things" We have
faith in the natives will-power.
To be part of the United States
means growth and all that that
word imnlies Did Won ayar