Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 340, 8 December 1891 — Losing Their Grip. [ARTICLE]

Losing Their Grip.

The Hons. Wilcox and Bush are not losing their grip, that we are aware of, but as the rock and shoals and rapid appear, it is necessary to be careful and not overdose the public mind with any one subject, more paticularly upon that which the dishonest are fond of distorting to suit election and personal motives. The education of a people to new ideas and new forms, in social as well as in governmental life <illegible> necessarily be gradual. The

<illegible> educated to that standard of appreciation of progress in order to prevent abuses from creeping in and in order that it should be fortified against demagoguism. No one, two or three men, can have the courage of simple conviction to sustain them in advocating new ideas and radical changes to a peoole just on the threshold of enlightenunmet and progress. The must have supporters. but the misfortune in this countfy is, that any honest effort in the advocacy of a principle, is often turned against the party or parties advocating it, by the very parties who are most anxious to secure the adoption of the idea or principle. The advocacv of radical ehanges in the form of a government is a matter of grave importance. It requires means and moral support, and there is no newspaper better equipped with either than our contemporary the P. O. Advertiser, who we hope will not weaken its advocacy of the subject which it refers to at the present time.

We are satisfied that its convictions of duty towards the general welfare are in favor of the stablishment of a more liberal and popular form of administration than that under which our affairs are now conducted. But there is a proper time for advancing these new ideas to the people, otherwise, <illegible> discretion may cause a current of prejudice to be fanned against it that will retard its progress. Bush and Wilcox have now the Reform <illegible> and the Nationl Boodlers that belong to no party, to contend with - they have an opponent and a nest of vipers to look after, both of whom are ready to use these gentlemen for nothing. and have them serve their interests and kick them over afterwards as their recompense, which has been done heretofore. There is nothing so like the future as the pasts so once said a great man.