The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-11-17

his kite, naturally. We end something new.
in the line Of ahsarii,y. each time we read.
OR. to keep the simile Of the kite. each
tine the string lesgtAens. Good manners.
as We have before indicated, is the strong
est point Of our friend; next to that, his
accuracy Of statements aud. last, his mod
es,y-his entire absence Of anything like
preten,ionsness, Don't say that this is a
= lie because. if you do. you will confirm
the statement tia, your god manners is
your strongest point; aud il that be your
strongest, VIA, win become Of the sahse-
Qaently-men:ionei virtues,
Wen. to return to our perussl Of back
numbers, and more especially TO their
reports, We find that ours are much
more fan than theirs. and Tor illustration
may venture to quote from iheirissue Of the
sSd, the following. as their Full report of
Mr., ]. o, CSrter's remarks:
-. q. Carter addressed the meeting In an
EIooUSNT strain. in which he reviewed the
Arguments brought forward BY the advocates
Of the Coolie ContrSc; system. His remArks
were listened TO with attention, and fre-
9rently aPalauded.s
And from that Of Oct 10th:
"Nr J. O. Carter wished il to be under
stood that what he had 10 say at the meeting,
was not 10 be understood as the views OF q
newspaper with which he was connected"
Now. in view Of the fact that the paper
alluded to by Mr.. Carter is the one in
which the above suoeinet. graphic, and
= ungSrblei" report Of his speech Is given,
1t viii be seen that the attribute Of exceed
ing mOies,y is quite as well sustained as
that Of good mAnners-fOr they not only
style themselves, on all proper and inn
proper occasions. the Heading Journal
ISIS but when they make few remarks
IN public. modeSily that is the word
q umblyH attribute TO themselves the gift
Of eiOquenoe And. indeed, fred by the
success Of his Junior, the Senior-the
Proprietor in. next time. TO make
his bad for fame, and opened up his plan
for peOpling the Islands. by bringing
South Sea Islanders, and giving them the
canoes. appAratns, fishing grOunds.-land
ponds. for anght We know -ofOur fisher
men. and sending the fishermen TO work
on the plantations. Truly, he did not
mention how many there are engaged in
fishing, or why or how their property is to
be taken away from them, or whether they
wished TO be set st work on the planta-
tons; and if they do. Why they had not
previously offered themselves. But, then,
you see, genius does not descend to par
tiealars. but only sketches out magnificent
things for lesser mortals TO admire and
carry out,-in Ike manner as genius
sketches out the vague idea of wha; Mr..
Carriers speech was, by the single wori
= eloquent il their report, without fur
nishing people with the sentences which
fell from that inspired source, and which
ought to go resOunding-
~nrOuEh the corridors If time
We have TO confess 10 it, that We did
not report Mr.. Carter's remarks in exactly
that way, and rather think that people got
about As good an idea of what he may
have said. as though we had
Turning from the report of Mr.. Carriers
remarks to those of Mr.. Lyons-in their
issue Of Oct 30th-and remembering that
Mr.. Lyons services are sometimes en-
were won't to be employed-by
the same paper. and that he is regarded
by the other two, three, or four. who.
jointly with him. constitute their Party. as
a great and shining hight, it is well to
quote their ungarbled7 report of his
remarks st the meeting of the 18th Of
October:
&C. J. Lyons Illustrated how the contract
system resulted in bringing down wages.
Ridiculei the dreadful picture of our future
a. drawn BY some Of the speakers. What
We ask for Is free competition Shall work
iDsmen be asked 10 sanction cOercive"
laws The cases Of sailors and guanO dig
gers are different A great principle is in
volved here-free manhood and remuneratiye
wages"
Now, here is fullneSs for you. Here is
Photographic reporting could
90 no further. Everyone must see at
once the power and strength of reasoning
with which Mr.. Lyons proposes to impel
the world o. Any one Of Mr.. LyOus's
numerous lady admirers aud friends who
we're not at the meeting. must see at
glance all the ELEGANCE Of his dietion, and
the young speaker at PanahOu. who ad-
dressed him and others, on the 10th Of
June, 1853, must be prepared to exhort him
again: In behalf Of the Alumni Of this
institution. OF which you are the GLORIOUS
bid you take courage,
and not to despair and. again. to ex-
claim = Gentlemen, / but re-echo the true
sentiments Of the Alumni. when say you
hare rendered yourselves HLUsTEIoUs-"
Surely, the young orator would, 90 the
faith of the ungarbled report. be willing
to continue in the strain with which he
vas then inspired: = We are proud of