Nuhou, Volume I, Number 9, 30 December 1873 — Happy New Year! [ARTICLE]

Happy New Year!

Wo-say Huppy New Year vcry etupl)atically oiv; the ocoasion of this new year iipon wliieli we are! a"bont to cnter, because we think of the one that t i ls about c!osed, as a mieemhle old year. Mind,' we epeak now as publicists, and in rcfercnce to' the publie eoridition of this Kingdom, aiid not as! members of gocietj 3 professors of religion, or in any rclation of tliat kind, We have had health I and increase and many Ijlessings as individ.uals; | but the politieal record of the p'aet year is bad, it i Ī8 without honoi' or interest; and theyear of giacej 1873, ean only recall diegruee in Hawaiian anuale. But we would rather be hopcful of thc future than growling over the past. Ilawaii is not dead yct, and there is still a ehanee for lier, So long ae there is a healthy rēninant, l\owever emall,. the nation ma.y live, True statesn#h doirt need great multitudes in order to aeliicve large results —-and to savc this race, and pcrpetuate Hawaiian nationality would be a great work of statebiiu\nship. But the hope of improvcment must be h\ somc new and more patriotic order of things. How ean you hope for impvovement lrom uven who flourish on your decay ? Money lenders only flouris!i whilst a eountry is poor, indebted and decaying ; therefore a iuoney lender should never rule, Thc wiseBt anel gi<?itest of rulers havo gonerally been money spenders, that is, thev have spcnt their own increasc whilst looking sharp after the naiion'e incrcase, Thc most iiluetrious men;of America, gavc the best of their tiine and tlieir substancc to their couhtry*s serviee« A public man with an open purse is usually brave, whilst one that is an usurious lender with a eloee purse is a coward in public afilurs, We want now open-handed puhlie uien, wholly ceupied with the iuteicbt ot thc ptiblie, with good mcasuies, and who luive the courage to stand by their mcasures, If we had some such liberal and feaile!>* men, devoted to Hawaii, then we might hope fli [ a Happy New Year in 1874. •

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