Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 326, 18 November 1891 — What Shall it Be? [ARTICLE]

What Shall it Be?

Xever forgei, the inaii who does jqv,. vote is even more dangerous -than the man wbo does, little or nothing will be done for him; he v ' wait, but the voter mu«t .1 >ked out for, lest he do harm. Th( social or poiitical ovAvnz>t to be fearod in an upriging or r'?vv»l ution." ,; The extraonlinarv conditions of H:? w;vii nnd iwy waßt of knowledge (!-f. viu ni, forbid any dietum as to re thi v ]ine ehould be drawn f .Mi voter and non-voter. No- * i ;in the world" I thiuk, isthere laek of homogenity. The dis-<-iples of Confucius and Buddha i 'ioal] or outnumbev the disciples . i ('hnei; they are a peeuliai- peo- : \Ae. f.fusing as a <#ass to becomo oncwitti you. What will you do abt>ut it ? From a, money standj '))• ; yo« would fiood the country willi them for the sake of eheap labor; from a moial standpoint vou keep them out. Financial ruin without more Asiatics; moral ruin with ihem, — if I understand it; rightly. God help vou in it all.: ■ for it will tax vour pockets yo«r f£l&ciples to do the nght thiug." — Oeneml S. C. Armstrong f Jubisee addrcss at ihinahou C!ollcqe, There is a fiignificant unaniaaity in the setitiments of t.hc leading thinkers and writers whoaie allied to the so-called Keform ?arty, and the repeatedly uttered opinionH of tbose who voicft the Bentiment.s of the so-called Nalional Party. The imtn¥sl inference is thāt t whei i tliis question of <XK)lie immjgration is received firom an intenigent. t»atriotic and christian 3tandpoiut, i*f*gardless of clique or partv iatcrthcre ean be but ono reiiection. while eheap eoolie labor inay be deemed necessary t»> our sugar plant|Qg interests, it U a ou» menaee to the generai peaee urid prosperity of this kiugdorr). It a manly «nd a serious prayor of (reneral Araistroiig's that .-*• God help yo« in it alL'' WiU the *&ifish ''popkei" or tbehone.=>t"prtnti»ple" pi«iw- The purse proud :jtovmer aars pocket, the patriotie iiaiuioil' eays piineiple. Tho voters <»f tbe eountry ha\e its fato in their Uaads. Bhall we have but two classes, arifitocratic sugar barons and eoolie uampn: or sball we have a christiaii populaiiou havinsc Hbertj aad ftetermty and prospering. under a varietv of industrial and agricultural enterpriges interdependent upon eaeh otber. If the former, vote tb? reforiu tickel and vote it straight, and let thie p*x*~ dise be perdition; if Uie latt«r vote for the men and t!ie pri£*ciples that tb« Naiienal Party will put befbre ywi, of whieh the Bosb-Wilcox fae tion are tha leftding expouents.