The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-04-16

- DO not believe MS vows, flr they are broken,
Not Of the eye which their investments show
Bur mere implorRtors OF unhoy suits, Us. t.
Breathing like sanctihed and pious bawds,
The better to beguie."
Mr. EDITOR: Do you ever waste your time
over those compound essences of added vanity
which the editor of the Nutou, with such Infinite
assurance, exhaes semi-weekly upon nauseated
but long-suffering public2 Probably not, for
your time must be too valuable to be spent in
such demOralizing pastimes.
1t is generally believed that his aim, his aspira-
ton, and his hope is TO get seat in His Majes-
tvs Cabinet. By an arrogant affectation of
virtue, by fulsome aattery of the King, and by
violent and sanderous attacks upon the Minister
of Foreign Afairs-whose portfolio he evidently
covets, and for which, he modestly insinuates
that he himself is the only person fitted in the
Kingdom-he thinks to get his foot into the
Government, where he will have an opportunity
to repeat on larger scale the history OF the
Lanai endorsement.
The egotistic Shepherd should not forget,
when he speaks of those who have become
mOnarchsts for money" that the people of Hon
olulu, aye, and of Salt Lake City, too, can recall
instances where men have become worse than
monarohsts for money. Let him beware how
he usnrps the power of Aladdin, for there are
other rings which may be rubbed besides the
ring of :" All Saints" Are there not scores of
poor natives scattered throughout the land,
whilom Mormons, who can tell with Indignation
Of Latter-day Saints ring, whose genius, by the
PRONUNCIATION of frghtful prophecies of fire and
food, of awful pesteuce, and islands submerged,
induced them to flock by hundreds to his do
main? Can they not tell of human beings har
messed like cattle TO he plol0? Can they not tell
of a life of hardship and toll of a meager diet,
of contributions levied for church purposes and
devoted to personal aggrandIzement? Can they
not tell of Sleeps ears mutilated by
Ways that are dark
And tricks that arc vain ~
And yet our Shepherd can blandly say +" it
has not at least come Our turn to make anything
ont Of this small but interesting people" What
he has already made out of them doubtless np-
pears in his vision as nothing, compared with
what he intends to make.
lnerG leTe AutIG Oll HIT VI lulo OIOdu
earth, men and women who can tell of an Immigra-
ton Ring, whose champion told soft tales of land
flowing with milk and honey Of a mid-oceau Para
disc where competency and wealth were to be
easily acquired Aud they tell, too Of heartless
neglect, OF promises broken, OF c0ntemptuous apa-
thy of hardships endured and of semi starvation.
1t was certainly mysterious dispensation of that
Providence of which the "Shepherd" speaks SO
sneeringly, when his boat foundered in the Lanai
channel that he should have been provided with so
thrifty head of hair. But he who was born to be
well let Us say, transferred to Heaven aliye-can
not be drowned.
OH rash shepherd, - the "sacred soil Of Lanai"
where thou art appreciated, signs for ihee where
thine innocent sheep, who know nothing of the
past and care not for the future, will object not TO
being ieeced by thee Return to the lovely mountain
valley Of Paawa and to those frail ones who
sometimes lose their hats in their frantic at
tempts to give thee proofs Of their affection OH
listen to those pathetic appeals, and seek the poor
land that loves you.n Return and inhict upon this
community more of your cowuish jokes, or
those execrabie puns, but leave to the schoolboys
the task Of perpetuatiug grammatical atrocities:
there is hope Of improvement for them, but none
for you. Flee from derisive public who read thy
bufoonereS only TO laugh at them, and We will try
to forgive and forget you. NUKAHIKo.