Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-04
CONCERNING THE SITUATION.

bad blood ia beginning to come to tho sur
face not only hna the small fry become con-
tnmnatcd the village "huRlcs, the country
town "rout- horns" the unmpcta " Of the
ono horse cities which ckc out feeble exist
cncc hy c,hoing the sentiments OF tie legiu-
mate press. but now tho Now York Sun aud
Trmh have joined the quiro of the hroHic'a,
aud together thcac jouinns arc hymuug tho
macrcrc in pathetic trio over the nlaira of
this devoted Kingdom The Chronicle Ia tho
Sun Of the Pacific the SIM is the CbroHici, Of
under whose white wing 1t masks ita cunning.
The ring is elowly increasing like ring
worm. II spreads from hour to hour.
Hawaiian slavery, which mndc iis first np-
pcurnnco in the Ghronicie Office, has become a
hyc-word with the press 1t ia already talked
of aud written about IN Australia Rumors
of II find thor way into Great Britain, aud
there tho tongues Of Babel will all wsg aud
anyone who is familiar with the phenomenal
torrurcs To which poor little hnrml,sS para
graph il subjected when it is sent spinning
over the Continent from France 10 Italy, aud
to Germany and Portugal and elsewhere, will
ut once realize the contoriions it must assume
in the several languages of these happy lands
If the Chronicle began it's ahusc Of Hawaii
in fun, na most Of its readers were disposed Ia
believe ut the time, II is continuing IL in real
earnest. Hawaii should have struck death
h ow at the root OF this evil at the hour of it's
| advent. Not only is tho time which has been
suffered to pass in silence lost time, but the
evil has been gaining ground; wha, might
have been checked in the beginning with COM
pnralive ease, ii will now require great, a
speedy and continued ciior. to coumieract
An ounce of preventive is worth pound OF
cure we may ns we'll throw our ounce o
| preventive to the dogs for the case is past the
reach Of it. All the cure there is in us will
! lie necessary TO aid us to escape n calamity
the premonitions of which are spreading like
an epidemic.
The Chronicles art is evidenced in the ar
raugement of this campaign. AT first a few
sensational shells were thrown into the camp
only to excite the interest of those likely to b,
concerned in the results il felt from the be.
I ginning the contempt for this Kingdom, as
! Kingdom, which it now openly expresses; i
has utterly ignored every statement which han
been made in our defence-but then, until las
week, no joint effort to redeem our reputation
had been made on the part Of the Hawaians
On the contrary the planters aud those who's,
! interests are At stake have held their peace
smiling or frowning, according to their mood
| while the smoke thickened and the noise o
! battle rolled on and on and re. enforcement
sprang from quarters where the cause of al
this tumult must be utterly misunderstood
What farce it is; a great nation looking dowi
with pity or with horror upon little natior
quietly contenung itself with its sugar boil
ing and calmly waiting for the row to blow
over
1t is not enough that the local sky is clear
a sparkling river; the unhappy citizens OF tn
United States are thinking all this time how
dreadful our condition is; they are ieariul!.
praying that we may be turned from the erro
of our ways; that our hearts may be soitened
and that the bleeding bondsman may be sc
free that the shadow OF Sodoin and Gomor
rah, may pass from us, and leave us, thoug
unhappily--ns they think, 1.-The littlest King
dom in the face of the waters, at least on
that having been turned adrift as it were,
still Kingdom, which being of n necessit
one OF the natural divisions Of the globe
though ntini,esnal, is no longer to be ulter
diepssed.