The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-10-15

STREET TALK.
BY Don.
Political

before, has had u big grind, and IS spread
ing himself on his pile. He sports an extra
heavy gold chain, and now thinks it
shabby TO sit down to Inner without a
bottle of champagne alongside his plate.
No doubt he is anxious to wash out the
memory of his late plate of hash at a cheap
Johns feed crib in Nuuanu. And he talks
of a toner abroad.
/ met him the other day coming out of
the Bank, drawing his hand out of a breast
pocket, and then giving a reassuring tap or
two outside his coat, where the swag lay he
had just deposited inside.
"Hello, Dom" said Smith patronizingly.
What's on hand now old fellow ?r
"Well,n | said, ave are getting through
with ~condoling, and beginning to fix up
for the King and when that's over Wen
be ready to start the machine"
"NOw Don, Pm on that. / want the
right men at our next national powwow.
Pve got a stake in these diggings and Pm
not going to put my money into the public
bag, to be s~quandered by a lot of blather-
sixties"
He borrowed his capital you must know
and got credit for his plant and pays taxes
on a fraction of an estate.
1IlttS So L SdIu1 1Ou men, IlaI
nave got the stakes, must down with the
dums and get your men in"
"And Wen do it, Don, We've got a
good lay on sugar, and we've put away a
little 'oil' for the machine, when the boys
are around. We want things quieted down.
We don't want any ideas on plantations.
Stupid muscle and muscle and stupidity,
is what we want. What use have you in a
cane-row, for n beggar hat talks of rights &?
And these legislator fellows, that are ever
on some high horse of humanity, / nave no
use for them. This country was made for
sugar and not for taro and poi has got to
go under-dO you understand ?-the old
man of the ADVERTISER to the contrary,
Notwithstanding. Now, between you and
me-. Don, and I don't care how you may
take it, / consider that man q visionary
and a mischief maker and what the old
Napoleon called: a hideOus log, and a
doctor in the air."
can ideologue and a dOctrinaire, you
mean"
"well, that's about the same, Don but,
anything, anyway, to beat Gibson"
And Smith frowned savagely and then
he left me, to cross the street and go into
the Union to smile.
After this / dropped in to see old Uncle
Jim. I found him on his ~verandah, seated
in an arm chair. His White hair lay lank
on his temples, his head was dropped pen
sively, his tremulous hands rested on the
arms of his chair and he wheezed and
coughed a little as / approached.
"Well, Uncle Jim,"f exclaimed, "Any-
thing the matter? You seem a little
down."
"No, Don," said the old man looking up,
and easing the bind of his pants from off
his knees, as he lifted one leg over the
other, II was thinking a little of old
times, and what changes have come, dur
ing the many years / have been here and
how the new replaces the old-as it should
but it ought TO be for the better and not
for the worse; as is the case now"
What's going wrong, Uncle Jim ?"
well you see, Don, the country began.
/ mean when foreigners took hold to
govern in righteousness and regard for
mems souls, more HI for the soil n its
products and now the dirt and hat you
get out of it is everything n men are
only dirt that pan out so much per cent"
EBut we keep up our churches and
schools. What are you growing about !"
eyes, Don, preaching and schooling
enough, the Lord knows. But a nee
bright and promising little nation IS vast
ing away with disease, notwithstanding all
our big export and philanthropy"
"WeIl, Uncle Jim, that can't be helped
"All that can be said, Don, is, that it
isn't helped. Are you going to save Kama
kas from extinction, by a little pious
palaver in meeting, and giving a few dol
lars for q church ? The islands are full of
empty churches. We need some real
charity some Pauline charity among our
men that have purse and power"
What do you mean by Pauline charity,
Uncle Jim -
"Well, I mean Paul's view of Christian
charity. Paul said, a man might speak
with the tongue of an angel, and bestow
all his goods to feed the poor all his
goods, mind you, and not a small per-
centage and yet might be no more than a
thinking cymbal,' without any true spirit
of charity in him. Charity seeketh not
its own Pau said. 1t seeks the welfare
of another even if he does cross your path
and tread on your toes. And what is the
charity of a man, who maysgive away one,
two, or three per cent. OF his shreWd
acquisitions made out of a country, to the
premium on the insurance of a good public
opinon; and is in fact, but another stroke OF
business"
Hold on, Uncle Jim You are some
thing of a Fourierite, and it seems to me,
you are down on any acquisition of pro-
"Not so, Don,'i said the old man with
earnest expression, and closing his eyes,
whilst he waved the uplifted fingers of his
right hand, to and fro before them: Let
beautiful hOmesteads, and an abundance of
the good things of this life reward the
dilligent but when a rich man undertakes
professediy to do good to a poor people, as
an expression of his Christian charity,
don't let him try to do SO with only piOus
talk, and a few of his dollars in a contribu-
ton boX.n
UEWeI, Uncle Jim, the priests and the
preachers are attending to all that"
"That may be. But of what use, their
work, in their pulpits, lecture rooms or
vestries, when you nave in some places,
ten men to one woman; when the gin
bottle circuIates more freely than ever
Bible or tract did; when there are no homes,
no family ties or family tree, but only
rations and quarters and a little nation of
promising souls converted into a lot of