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

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/ Certainly no man with fewer Of the
essential qualities of leadership sat
there q
President Wilson is driyef rather
than a leader. He is more codcarned
with words than with facts.
I'm some respects Bryan is sIhore
CT leader: he, alas, leads only ssin
the sense that gander leads "a 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. sozintrieate and SO difficult
of solutionzthat none but genius of
the very first order can visualize
their intricagies all at once. Mans
! intellectual powers seem to have
grown to limit Governments keep
growing. All great governments COM
plain of want Of great leadership.
Mr.. Castle, by implication at least,
seem to have the same thought about
cur leaders in the United States.
Wit and Wisdom.
The fourth chapter contains both
wit and wisdom. The subject is
National Panaceas. and they are
according to cur author, as varied in
their essence, as identical in their
promised results, as are the various
rheumatism cbasers hawked about
the country fair" and people, if they
have tImet think about things at all.
are convinced shat something is
wrong and individuals or groups Of
individuals are real philanthronists
and well-wishers of their country, but
they have one thing in mind, as
cure-all A minimum wage law, ac-
cording to enc 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 palms, 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 all
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
weayes them together in no patch.
work, but into fundamental principles
at the bottom of the evils spoken of.
No people have higher ideaIisf1
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.
Mr.. Castle might have added anoth-
CT 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
manner which would have placed
tho matters so that the ordinary man
might see them. - =:
This little article is In no sense
review of the book. It tells of the
different subjects in way. and is so
condensed that it is review in it..
self; and attempting review would
have been a review of a review.
'- The small book must be read as
whole to be appreciated.
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