Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-04

The great government we loved has too often
been made use of for private and selfish pur-
poses, and these who used it had forgotten the
people.
Vision Of Our Life as Whole IS youchssfed Is
q At last vision has been vouchsafe1 fus of
cur life as whole We see the bad with the
good, the debased and decadent with the sound
and vital. With this vision we approach new
affairs Our duty is to cleanse to reconsider, to
restore to correct the evil without impairing the
good, to purify and humanize every process of
our common life without weakening or senti-
mentalizing it. There has been something crude
and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to sue
coed and be great Our thought has been Let
every man look out for himself, let every genera.
ton look out for ITSELF while We reared giant
machinery which made it impossible that any
but these who stood at the levers OF control
should have a chance to look out for themselves.
We had not forgotten our morals We reIpem-
bcred well enough that We had set up policy
which was meant to serve the humblest as we'll
as the most powerful, with an eye single to the
standards of Justice and fair play, and remenl-
bered it with pride. But we were very Needless
and in hurry to be great
We have come now to the sober second
thought. The scales of heedlessness have fallen
from our eyes. We have made up our minds to
square every process of our national life again
with the standards we so proudly set up at the
beginning and have always carried at our hearts
Our work is work OF restoration.
Chief Items or Program That Need Alteration
We have itelnized with some degree of partic.
ularfty the things that ought to be altered and
here are some of the chief items: A tariff which
cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce
of the world, violates the just principles Of taxa
tion, and makes the government a facile instru-
ntnt in the hands Of private interests; a bank
ink and currency system based upon the neces
sitFeof the government to sell its bonds fifty
years ago and perfectly adapted to concentrate
ing cash and restricting credits; an industrial
system which, take it on all it's Sides financial
as well as administrative, holds capital il lead
ing strings restricts the liberties and limits the
of labor, and exploits without re
Dewing or conserving the natural resources of
the4country; body of agricultural activities
never yet given the efficiency of great business
undertakings or served as it should be through
the instrumentality of science taken directly to
the farm or afforded the facilities Of credit best
suited to its practical needs;f watercourses I'M
developed, waste places unreclaimed, forests I'M.
tended, fast disappearing without plan or pros
peet of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at ey.
cry mine We have studied as perhaps no other
nation has the most effective means of produc.1
tieD, but we have not studied cost or economy
as We should either as organizers of industry, as
statesmen, or as individuals.
.Thc Firm Basis of Government Is Justice Not PITY
Nor have We studied and perfected the means
by which government may be put at the service
of humanity, in Safeguarding the health OF the
nation, the health of its men and its women and
its children as well as their rights in the strug
gle for existence This is no sentimental duty.
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