Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-07
WHAT IS THERE IN IT FOR HAWAII

What does it profit if YOU get the other fel
lows goat and score nothing for the common
good of the community?
We are prompted to this remark by pub
lisled statement from the United States District
Attorney regarding those trying to get his
goat" and by the wars and rumors Of war that
have been and are and may be in prospect, by
any incident indeed which may have given
cause for the remark.
What is there to factionaIism? What is the
reward of clawing at one another's threats, Of
charges and counter-charges, of pickering, of
pettifogging? +
Where does the community or the individual
gain? What can be the personal satisfaction
except for small men? .%
Everyone loves fighter. But not the fight
er Of windmills, with an ammunition wagon
filled with stinkpots
Everyone admires the man and the men who
go out among their fellows spreading the con
sal uplift and sound development Of the town
in which they live
Everyone believes it to. be a splendid duty
worthy of the best to be found in any man OF
body Of men, to grapple with the problems OF
public affairs and, having grappled, to keenly
contest with others in the enthusiasm, the un
selfishness, the sincerity, the intelligence with
which they apply themselves to the solution
All the while maintaining a demeanor of com
mon decency.
Everyone recognizes that this is so.
Then why countenance or why be party to
n purely animal, wolverine expedition for s'some
body's goat?
Hawaii has too many vital, pressing, and Sc
rious problems before it to allow the waste Of
any mans time in exhaustive and useless war
The gauntlet thrown before every man in this
Territory today is represented in the problem o.
how to make both ends meet, how to become
adapted to changing conditions with the leas
injury to the commonwealth.
That's the Issue today for every public sery
ant in the Territory 1t is the issue before ever!
citizen. +. III j
lis there any good reason why the citizen o.
the officialshould waste his energy in an inter
necine strife wi1en-the common enemy of oul
general prosperity is in evidence on every hand
OF all men who might forget their response
bilities, the followers and believers in the par
ticular principles exemplified by President vii
son should be the last. ..E. III
They should do their utmost by precept ant
example to bring into,a united working organi
zation every force that will foster and energiz
a progressive prosperity here in Hawaii. This
is plain duty.
True leaders, under conditions that confron
the people of Hawaii today, call for and exercise
their own efforts to secure friendship, coopera
tipn, sense of personal responsibility, to thu
end that spirit of cordial goodwill shall per
wade the hgher-ups and the rank and file.
We do not believe We have made an unusua
or purely theoretical presentation of what is ex
pected.
IT, then, We are all agreed, why not go aheat
and act?
Why not devote time and attention to more
important things than the silly and utterly fool
ish paStime of character assassination in thu
hope of paving few old scores?
If President Wilson and his administration
is to think we'll Of Hawaii, why not put behinC
every move purpose t" make Hawaii deserving
of being we'll thought of?
Mauis experiment on the bond issue fol
County purposes will be a splendid test Of the
& VII to which hp 1unrpciatp their