Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-01


Certainly no man with fewer of the
essential qualities of leadership sat
there" ~.
President Wilson is driver rather
than a leader He is more concerned
with words than with facts.
I'm some respects Bryan is more
of a leader he, alas, leads only in
the sense that a gander leads flock
of geese" ...... -.:
Lord Bryce observes, in one of his
calm and philosophical essays, that
modern governments have become too
large and complicated for the men
who: conduct their affairs. Questions
on internal and external affairs are
so many, so intricate and so difficult
Of solution that none but a genius of
the very first order can visualize
their intricacies all at once. Mans
I intellectual powers seem to have
grown to a limit Governments keep
q ewing. All great governments COM
plain of a want of great leadership.
Mr., Castle. by Implication at least,
seem to have the same thought about
cur leaders in the United States. i,
Wit and Wisdom. se4a y<ssf2. >$ssaseFsa4-
The fourth chapter contains both
wit and wisdom. The subject is
National Panaceas, and they are
according to our author, as varied in
their essence, as Identical in their
promised results, as are the various
rheumatism chasers hawked about
the country fair" and people, If they
have time to think about things at all.
are convinced that something is
wrong and individuals or groups OF
individuals are real philanthropists
and well-wislfers of their country, but
they have one thing in mind, as
cure-all A minimum wage law, &C.
cordfng to one group, will put an end
to all social questions. And another
group thinks that female suffrage will
cure all things In the states and cities.
Government ownership will put an
end to all our growing pains" says
third group. Communism shrieks
another fakir. Socialism will cure all
evils in our body polite and in the
social body, AYERS fourth class, etc
Mr.. Castle admits that there is an
element of truth and real reform In
these nostrums. The difficulty is
that each one of the individuals or
groups of individuals is blind to+alI
other truths, which exist, as the whole
fundamental system needs toning up;
the maladies spoken of are but the
symptoms of underlying and deeper
causes. Thus, Mr.. Castle goes
through his several headings and
weaEes them together in no patch.
work. but into fundamental principles
at the bottom of the evils spoken of.
No people have higher idealism
than the people of the United States.
The country was first settled. indie.
pendence was obtained and the Con-
stitution made by men of the highest
idealism. Yet. hewing down the for
ests, developing the resources of the
great country, rampant individualism
with, perhaps, no thought of wrong
doing have produced evils which we
are now combating. ~ 49, -.
Mr. Castle might have added anoth.
er and longer chapter to the little
treatise. setting forth the historical
causes of the small ailments in our
body polite and In our social body.
He evidently could have done this in
a manner which would have placed
the matters SO that the ordinary man
might see them. -,
This little article is in no sense a
review of the book. 1t tells of the
different subjects in a way, and is SO
condensed that 1t Is a review in it.
self: and sttempting a review would
have been a review of review.
The small book must be read as
whole to be appreciated.
II -.." NJ. NJ. SCOTT.