The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-12-30


stragers into ones confidence, and en-
deaoring to Undue tiose strangers with
iDjrious impressiors-too prevalent in
thiscommunity?
lie Hawaiian army consists of one
compny Of infantry Is this the first
timethat we have heard the sneering re-
mark Our rulers are too wise and pru-
dent 70 cucumber the finances of the
countr, or to tax the people for useless
militar. display, or TO withdraw able
bodied men from the active industry Of
the couhry, and hence this witty" sneer.
We maxwell pray God that the United
States ms soon return to the same happy
conditional $4,000 men flor this would
be the SAM proportion), or even less, may
be sufficie1 for all their ordinary military
service. Q the other hand, it has been
deemed Necessary to keep this small body
of men, wp, being accustomed to the
handling of arms, and acting together,
and likewis being employed in keeping
those armslin order, and in mounting
guard, are n essary TO support the civil
authority, a1 to keep those who are dis
posed to bddisorderly under proper re-
straint whteupon others find cheap
exercise for their wit, cheap means of
exhibiting tisir ignorance and folly, in
sneering rssrence to the sum which it
takes to hep SO few men under arms.
The fable { King Log and King Stork is
forcibly braght to mind by these people.
Nor is tbs writer the only one who
shows the greatness of his philanthropic
heart andLhe magnifcence of his political
and social'iews, by speaking sneeringly of
the color { the native race,-speaking Of
them as "iingy subjects" He belongs to
the class Who, in their hearts. stIll believe
that the :olored races shave no rights
that the white man is bound to respect"
He may ak loudly at present. in view Of
the empowering force Of majoriues led
on and persuaded by nobler men. about
the rights of the colored man in the
Southen States, but we would stake
large sun that he still fingers in the rear,
about tie rights of the colored races, in
the free States. If of middle age, he has
belongedto that class who bowed in rev.
erence before the stakeholder; and if
young. he would have done so, if an over
poweringsentiment in his community
backed b, the fact that the STAKEHOLDER
was in open rebellion-had net made it
or unsafe.
Again Have we not been too much in
the habit of opening our doors to such
waits on lies waves, and giving them the
to find their stomachs as
tonished With our cookery" and of giving
our houseleepers the trouble of overcom-
ing the difficulties under which they suf-
fer " in giving dinner parties at which these
people are the guests Such letters ought
to have the effect to cause our people to
limit their Inequalities, which are, neces-
;arily, in this country, very free and open
10 those who, by letters of introduction
from responsible parties, are entitled to
them. Such letters should be from those
who are both able and willing to return
The civilities accorded to their friends, and
who. by those letters, implicitly guarantee
that your efforts to entertain their friends
shall not result in pain or regret to your
selves, or those that again receive them,
IN the strength of your own introduction.
Such letters do infinite damage, in way
not often thought of. Whilst the anony-
nous writer is chinking his FIVE, ten, or
twenty dollars. in his pocket, and hugging
himself over his good fortune in "real;z-
ng" on his " literary" talents-likening
himself to Dickens, or some, or all, other
writers-or ch1ckling over
yratifed malice, those who are the subjects
Of the lanpoon are casting about among
he dozen passengers" who have come or
gone Of late, and specializing upon who
wrote the ill-natured squib-now fixing
he suspicion Of it on one, and now on an
1ther-and thus, those perfectly innocent
all under the suspicion of being the ill
and ungrateful people who re-
turn evil for good-men and women alike
being included in these not ill-founded
that the innocent pay vi
,arious punishment for the guilty, and an
uncomfortable suspicion is aroused. These
'emarks are equally applicable to that
node of getting living, or of adding to
mes emoluments, which consists in writ
ng similar communications by our own
to foreign journals.
ALTHOUGH it may be true that there is
'ut one step from the sublime TO the ridic-
ilous, we fancy it can be asserted with