The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-05-02

his delinquency or tine thief to come
INIT bis deprodatious with the highest
skill and facility such 90 man would be-
hooted off tine streets or sent 90 400
asylum for the insane.
And yet oh principle, applying the
ultima ratio. there is uo difference be-
tween these propositions and the dele
borato proposal To legalizo q vice that
propIgatos every form of Niclousness
and crime. and iu itself has demoraliz-
cd whole populations and even nations.
THE law which suppresses exhibitions
and conduct that openly anroht the
public are not directed against pari-
cular vices and are not regulations, eN-
cept as they compel decency and good
order boz general sense. But "a law
which prescribcs areas where debauch-
cry or crime can ne INDUCED and i'm
complete examinations substituted for
stern inhibition, is al once "a solecism
and parody
Remedies of course are iu order But
what are they? Not the remedy of
the drunkard who quiets his nerves
TO produce appetite and capacity for
more drink. Moral issues, especially
as they affect society, are difficult Of
solution. a combination however, of
principle and policy enforced by train
ing. i'm modern times is most enectual
There was never a period when more
perfect command of the body and the
mind was eXacted in the circles that
represent the capital, the business, and
therefore. the successes and the fail
ures Of life. a sensualist or "a volup-
tJuy. more emphatically a beast i'm the
form of man or woman, cannot win the
prizes that i'm these days Of intense
activity. glitter on every side. And for
the satisfaction of the deeper thirst for
development that intellectual and
spiritual aspirations create, the lower
passions, the brutal propensites, have
to be subdued, not merely by the pres
sur. q organization but by Individual
training und progress. II may well be
that, iu the effort to wiring out of hui
mJnity the last yestige of bigotry and
Intolerance, morality itself has been
too often ignored or discarded, and that
education should represent the condi-
lions to which all tolerable creeds and
beliefs uccede. 1t is certain that the
sauctity of the home becomes more and
more important as the human race ad-
vances on its exalted mission. 1t is
equally sure that ignorance, idleness
and The multiplication of temptations,
are prolific causes of debasement and
that knowledge, suitably and definitely
conveyed, is a power that reaches both
se,Gshness and idealism. In these di-
rections, the energies of the family, of
the controlling social circles, of the
schools and of government, can be sys-
tematically and prohtably exerted.
Least of all are the Hawaiian islands
the place where moral standards can
be safely lowered. Here the sanity
missionaries. with their families and
their assistants, planted the New Eng
and type Of Christian and American
civilization. Here, for eighty-hVe
years, they and their descendants have
stood, un'te1 and firm in the midst
of sensualily. Rave turned an entire
race nominally and to a great degree
really, from the vicious practices that
come from blood, from climate, and
from isolation. have moulded institu-
tons after the fashion of constitutional
freedom. have PRODUCED a society that
has held itself aloof from cOntamina-
ton, and have indicated noble ideals
not only by rrecept but by example. 1t
is not here, perhaps above all Other
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