The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-13
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

The Servians have, on the "Ho-S
made a worse record than the Turks
Travellers observe that the population
I'm the buffer States-the places where
so many appeals to the Christian
world" originates more dangerous
TO the peace than are the Moslems
across the line. Vienna stands, as in
the old days. as the outpost Of civiliza-
tIon in Eastern Europe; beyond that
one comes upon the alien breeds with
out the law" One begins to find them
in Hungary; they take on an especially
forbidding character in Servia, Mon
tenegro. Roumania, Bosnia and Bull
garia. East Of them are the Moham-
Inedan hOrdes. further away the Tartars
and so on through dangerous popula-
fions until Japan is reached, in the
farther Orient. where the sun is begin
ming to rise for Asia.
It would probably have been better
for all concerned il the Congress of
Berlin. instead OF erecting Independent
cies on Turkeys lost ground, had put
the region under the control OF Russia
with the provision that it remain I'M
fortified Not that Russia is a civilized
or humane State but that she is a mill |
tary power which. as a rule, keeps or
der within her boundaries. And order
Is something that the buffer States can
not maintain for themselves-they are |
disturbers OF their own peace and that
of foreign powers-and they never will
maintain it. with their racial character
istics standing as they do, while the
right OF self-government remains to
them.
More crimes have been committed in
the name OF self-goVernment than the
historian can easily count. Liberal
ideas have run crazy in that direction.
1t is conceded that if a man wants to
manage a store. q bank, a shop, a mill,
a factory OF anything else he must be
fitted for it by something besides birth.
He has no natural QUALIFICATION to en-
ter skilled private employments as a
master of the craft. but the political
sentimentalists declare that he has
natural and inalienable right and COM
petence to manage commemorative, the
most complicated Of all endeavors. The
rule of the majority is a crude and
vicious misinterpretation Of the true
spirit of democracy which, assuming y
that State is created to secure the n
greatest good to the greatest number. fl
demands the rule of the qualified G
majority. Where there is no qualified y
majority. the true functions of govern n
ment can only be performed by the 81
strong hand, responsible only to itself.
: The United States is coming to it. In Ia
the South the rule OF the qualified r,
majority is being established with the Al
judicial appreciation of the Federal q,
Supreme Court In the Philippines and n,
Porto Rico the nation takes no chances. n
Only in one place was a mistake made.
put this. in course OF time. may be recti-
led. AS the United States wrestles with
the problem OF safety from voting :,
ignorance and vice, it's common sense
VIII change the suffrage conditions
which were framed at the start for An
sio-Saxons and affiliated white races
lIone and from the enjoyment OF which
indians and negroes were excluded. 1t
will insist that laws shall proceed from y,
not from mere numbers; ar
hat men shall govern by virtue OF fit tn
less. not because OF a superior show of
lands; and that the strength of admin ~
stration shall be drawn, not from the ac
mob but from the educated citizenship. ed