The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-08-20
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TALK.

Posr NroRrEms AGAIN.

POST NIoRrEMS AGAIN.
REvEEEp EDITOR: Il regret that your c~ontenpor-
aries and lawyer Dole should be so down on you
on account of my talk. They are indignant that
l should c~onjure up a post mortem but where
is their indignation for a post norton in fact, in
broad daylight. when the house of a man is in
vaded, and y dead body, the late partner of his
bosom is cut up and part of her remains carried
away, to be the subject of experiment. and con-
lecture? To imagine the details of such proceed
ings is attributed TO the taste Of a vulture. But
what Is the taste of the one who does such
things? Who and what is he? Is not q selfish,
remorseless man, who starts an uncalled foi
prosecution to get a man out Of his way. and
when his cruel pursuit kills the wife, raises a
suspicion of poison by ordering the nlutilation
of the poor dead body; is not he the vulture in
character and in deed? And as for lawyer Dole's
indiGuation-Well. he has been a candidate for
one thing or another for several years past, and
usually at the tell end Of q canvass. Now he
is getting ready to try again for q billet, and tries
to play of this card of indignation, but in the
| wrong place. This is the man that advocated the
Passion Play and would r~esurrecth his Savior upon
theatric boards. Let him simmer down.
WELCOME HoME To THE KING.
l dropped in Mt Uncle Jimmy's, near Punch
Bowl, and found a meeting on. hand. Smith,
Pete, Handsome Joe, Kanaka Kimo and the King
Street man were all there. I whispered to King
Street: What's up?"
why, Smith, Pete and Uncle Jimmy you
know, watching how things have gone abroad,
and the way the King is coming out, are on the
loyalty rampage, and want to get up a boom.
Their dodge now is, to bag the King on arrival
smother him with toadying attentions, and sur
felt him Will complimentary feeds and so lay
pipes for any possible ministerial change
why" said l, this very crowd, on this
very day, 18th August, one year ago, took part
in q meeting to snub and corner the King, and
Smith advocated, at one time, the glory of being
united with forty millions of people,, aud was
red hot for annexation"
THAT don't matter, - says King Street, cir
cumstances, YOU know, alter cases. Smith wants
the position of "A plenipup abroad, and wants to
ride on an elephant at the Court of Bangkok, and
so is red hot for a loyal reception"
well, L said, If that's the game, let's you
and l chip in on the Committee of Reception, for
instance"
"No use, - says King Street, The whole
things cut aud dried. Smith and Pete made up
the Committees over their hash at Harris and
this meeting is packed. You and l have
got to be outsiders, as we are not, like them, in
with the Bank ring of LOpe Him In d Co"
I asked Kimo, our Hawaiian friend, what he
thought of all this. He licked out his tongue,
dropped the end towards the point of his chin
made a grimace, and said, "aole waiwai q"
meaning that there was no stock in the thing for
him.
About this time Chairman Smith read off the
Committees from n paper he took ont of his
pocket. and adjourned the meeting.