The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-09

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.1.r. is a motto. .... difference u.-
1.u.u the mere politician and Che tue
WORKER for the advancement of the
community in which Doc has been
brought up and desires to push along
both commercially. financially and poo
iuig1lIy The politician can see nothing
but 4 constantly recurring period of exc
element during which Doc can shout
howl and occasionally shuttle this ON
that disreputabIe candidate boz. The
true worker for his county municipal
ity Territory or state views the periods
uf unrest as unfortunate. but knows
that as matters are now organized such
periods are inevitable, but meanwhile
ne desires that as much thought should
DE given To- material advancement as
possible. In this view of the case the
true citizen is right. and the mere poll
tician is entirely wrong
Unfortunately for the Home Rule
party with few exceptions, it is made
up oi the class of would be professional
politicians. Many men of the party
have been bitten with the rabies. Poll
tics TO them seems to be chance for an
easy living, and at times an opportunity
for pulling off a very brilliant coup, a
few hundred and mayhap a few thou
SAM dollars merely by the turn of a
hand or the giving of a vote. There
are, it is true, members of the Home
Rule party who have recognized that
their business should DE their main OBJ
ject in life, and have learned that the
life of politics is by no means a safe or
sound one, as far as monetary consi-
Iteration and safety of future is con-
cerned.
The average professional politician is
not an Independent man. He must be
at the beck and call of another man
who is stronger in politics than he is 1t
may be said that few men are indie
pendent in the sense of doing exactly
as thew please Kings and Presidents
are not, for they deuend upon popular
favor, and it is a good thing for them
that they do. There were once a series
of men in the first and second century
of the Christian era, who thought they
were Independent of everybody but
thev found themselves the practical
slaves Of their own guards and para
sites, and one and all persisted by either
murder or suicide.
To return to the modern professional
politician, if any one is not independent,
he certainly is most dependent and it is
sad thing TO see the youth of a COM
paratively Uniformed country carried
inf
after few moments of celebrating
bobbine in sunny stream, to whir
away the useless body to hopeless dis
aster and utter oblivion.
One would think that the examples
we have out here, of discarded politi-
clans, who having served their time in
their respective states and territories,
have been sent out to the new territory
TO earn small salary, very much on
the principle that the priests of the
Temple We're given a piece of bread"
to serve therein, because they were of
the tribe Of Levi, would have had some
Kind of an influence, but evidently the
iesson is not taken to heart by the
members of the Home Rule party. To
them politics looks as if IT were an
cas- method of acquiring an easy and
luxurious living without any work. It
is not measures good or bad, that such
a set Of men care about. it Is their own
ease and cOntentment. This may look
like harsh way of putting it, but it is
the absolute truth.
The professional politician is the
curse Of any community which he comes
into. The professional politician did to
some extent exist here before annexa-
tiOn, but he has budded forth since then
and has even blossomed into magnifi-
cent eftiorescence. Unfortunately for the
Hawaiian he has imbued or inoculat-
ed the latter with his particular views.
and the result is the continuous meet
ings of the Home Rulers, evening after
evening, called together with an idea
that all the gas and wind let off will
have some wonderful effect in the flu
ture.
1t is necessary for the proper carrying
on of free body polite, that there
should be the utmost vigilance on the
part of the free citizens, but there is a
great deal of difference between the
vigilance Of free citizens and the ma
chinations of professional politicians
who are purely seeking for place and
emolument, and who expect to get that
out Of the free citizens if they can hood
wink them enough.
There are, one may imagine from
once knowledge of the world. few or no
ideal countries, but any country that is
cursed with the professional politician
is exceptionally unhappy AS a NUM-
cipality New York had this curse, and
has now broken its chains. President
Roosevelt has no use for professional
politicians. We might just as well
make up our minds that we do not need
any professional politicians as a perma-
nence amongst us. We have them but
they can be eliminated and the budding
ones can be weaned from the error of
other ways.