The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-22

matte success, and solid domestic adj
vancement. But such a position was
not gained by squabbling upon Senate
and House rules, nor was it gained by
sneers and slurs upon the opposition.
Neither did the opposition expect to or
try to make anything by factious and
absurd measures, though they used
every parliamentary or legislative
effort to overcome the forces against
them.
Outside the Legislature however, out
side Senate and House. a different set
of ethics is in vogue. What can not
be done or insinuated in Congress is
used outside. But Legislative bodies
are free from the tactics of free lances
of a certain class of the politicians.
We should not have their methods in
our Legislature, and yet they crop up.
There is nothing more important in
Legislative work than that which is
done by committees. But committee
work is not pleasant to a large num-
Der of our Legislators. 1t gives no OPP
portunity for personal showing. The
earnest and able section of men, who
were pointed out in an article in The
Star yesterday are all good committee
workers. To them the aim is not self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but they are willing
to make a point in advancing the bet
terment of their country no matter
what the strain may be on themselves,
or how few people know what they have
done.
The self seeking politician wants as
little committee work, as he can pos
sibly have. 1t is not that he SC afraid
of work, not that he does not work,
but to him every hour spent in commit
tee is thrown away. He wants to talk
to the gallery, and get all the personal
glory he can out of it. To work I'M
ostentatiously, to try and compass
some good for his fellow citizens, with
out having everyone know it, is simply
dead loss to him. The chance to de-
claim, to vituperate, to foam, to vilify
and then in a blaze of oratorical
fire works to say, And now Mr.. Presi-
dent or now Mr.. Speaker, 1 move the
passage of the bill creating Molokini
and Lehua as municipalities" is glory
enough and ambition is satisfied. What
interest the Honorable Senator or
Honorable Representative will take in
his Island municipalities is very prob
lematical. He has gained his point.
Next time he will probably be moving
county for Lehua.
The froth of the Legislative body,
also alluded to yesterday, hates COM
mittees and committee work with a
solemn and holy hatred. 1t is always
late. 1t makes promises to come and
never appears. Some of it occasionally,
if it all happens to be on the same
committee gets some outsider to do all
the work and then calmly and gravely
reads the result to the Legislature. 1t
has been done before, and is certainly
being done now.
To return to the question. who is
going to advise the Legislature which
will not be advised?" The answer to
the looker-o on seems to be only the logic
of events Only the lesson which the
child learns when 1t puts It's hand upon
the black iron and finds that it is hot
and it burns. The child learns to dis
criminate and in course of time the Ha-
waiian Legislature will do the same.
1t will need to get its pretty hands
burned, need to learn that Legislative
time, which is paid for by the peoples
taxes, is not to be used up in NONSENSE
cal quibbling over the spelling of a
word, or the wrangling over rules, or
the exploiting of the whims of cranks,
but that it is to be used for the adj
vancement of the body polite. Legis-
lators may try to do good for party,
but their main object, and their only
reason for existence is that they do
good for ALL irrespective of party and
upon the broad platform of humanity.
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