Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-28

earnestly strive to reach a mutual I'M
Outstanding they can gain as much for
the Advancement of this Territory in
every walk of life as the arbitration
branch Of the Civic Federation promi-
ses to do for the laborer and the capt.
talist Of the Mainland.
This is a small community. Hawaii
is a small Territory. The people are in
such apparently close daily contact
that they ought to know each other as
few can in the average American city
or State
To one in a position to deal with and
hear the remarks passed by various
opponents Of clashing ideas, it is as
clear as day that the parties and the
factions which even this small town
contains are as far, farther indeed,
from understanding and appreciating
each others aims and motives as the
farmer of North Dakota is from being
able to divine what Mark Hanna is
driving at in advocating the enact
ment OF the ship subsidy bill. 1t
makes no particular difference for the
purposes now under discussion why
this is So It is the fact and II some
of the busy man. or the lazy men or
the average men of this town will take
day of to get near to the heart and
the opinions Of those with whom they
are not in daily business, social and
political association they will not be
L., Itg,aYaYgp., hn
There Is not man in this Territory,
be he American born. Hawaiian. Brit
ish, German, Irish Portuguese-Am-
erican or any other Of the many
hyphCnated Americans, who does not
earnestly and honestly hope and pray
and work, each along his individual
line for the advancement of the ISL
ands in their American career; ad-
'yancement that shall bring prosperity
to every home and as much content
ment in political life as human nature
allows.
The great trouble with Hawaii today
is that its people are working at cross
/ purposes. They do not understand
each other; they persist in misunder-
standing each other and no one has
yet arisen who will take unto himself
| the task of getting these various ele
ments together. Our chief business
interests are at fault and the working
| men are at fault. Our officials are not
faultless and political leaders are not
without some degree Of blame.
Our plantation men say for instance
| that they must have cheap labor or the
main industry will go to the wall, and
when this or any other scheme they
have in mind is taken up or discussed
| by the poor devil who has to earn the
bread for his family by the work of his
hands he is told that the affairs of the
plantations or the associated planta-
tions are none of his business.
The American laborer informs the
sugar magnate that the introduction
of cheap Asiatic labor means the ruin
of his home. degradation in fact. for
he must come to the level of the
Asiatic IL he wants to obtain an exist.
ence and this he cannot contemplate
without making strenuous struggle
against it. Yet American labor cannot
be obtained for the sugar fields.
officials inform duly elected repre-
sentatiyes of the people that they arr
corrupt lacking the essentials o
honest or wise citizenship and unde
serving Of political trust
The political leaders reply, You're
another" and they have just as good
reason to make the counter charge as
the officials have to register the orr,
ginal complaint.
Strange then as It may seem, plan.
tations and politics are the chief pow
ers of prosperity and contentment ant
at the same time the bane Of our exist
ence, all because leaders have thus fal
failed to reach any reasonable under
standing.