Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-06-16

From the same paper is taken this addi-
trature of self;
The prime ministers editor has apparently
been exercising his literary abilities Of late in
the production of some historical parallels
which will, no doubt, command attention
from statesmen and politicians. 1t is path
of study requiring dextcrity and delicacy OF
touch, and ii is hoped that future efforts will
be more successful than those hitherto brought
under the notice Of the public, in avoiding on
the one hand undue severity to the living and
on the other hand unmeriied reproaches to the
dead.
On the last anniversary of the kings birth
day, the Advertiser startled the premer's
friends and amused his opponents by ventur.
| ing to draw parallel between King Kaakaua
and the Emperor Nero. AT that time the king
had really done nothing to deserve such re-
buke from the man whose boast it was to have
consolidated patriotism and loyalty in the Ha-
waiian breasts. Ii may be claimed that as
Nero hddled while Rome was burning, so the
present occupant of the throne of the Kameha-
mehas maniests little care for the welfare Of
his kingdom, so long as il pays the fiddler who
leads his royal steps. But 1t i'll becomes the
man who, above all Others, is responsible for
the iollies which mark the decay Of the Ha-
waiian commonwealth, to hold up his royal
victim as parallel TO the monster whose name
he selected from the page Of history to couple
with that Of the Hawaiian sovereign.
The public, last week. was treated to paral-
lei No. ?, Beaconsfield and Gibson II ap-
pears that Lord Beaconsheld had to fight
against the scom, contempt and hatred OF a
large party in the English nation; that great
injustice was done him; but that finally his
courage and patriotism conquered, not his
friends, but the great aristocratical party who
made him their leader. Every one will frankly
and chcerully admit that up to n certain point
the parallel holds good that the scorn and
contempt are as sincere and thorough for the
Hawaiian pseudo statesman, as they can have
been for the great Englishman; hatred there
cannot be, for some things are too despicable
to hate
Here al present the parallel ends II must
have been with a sense of modification that
the premier penned or at leasi abpyoped, the
statement that the Hawaiian Beaconsfield has
been and is " alone in those vigorous protests
which he claims to have raised against every
scheme projected, and doctrine that has he.
traycd tendency to ciiace the traces Of
heathcnism and baIbafism from our midst, but
he can hardly endorse the attempt TO place in
parallel lines the cndeavor OF the English
statesman TO retain the traditions Of his coun-
lfy centuries oil civilization and the Hawaiian
slatcsnans effort 10 do the same for the tradi.
tions Of a nation which has but lately emerged
from the darkness Of heathenism
Why does he stand alone after all these
years Of protesif Il there no Lord Salisbury
to rebuke the dislrust Of the peoplep Is there
no great party Of either anstocrats OF demo.
erals to acknowledge the victory Of the Hawai-.
ian Beaconsheld OF must he 20 TO fame OF
iniamy as pelican Of the wilderness OF a
sparrow Of the houselop proclaiming TO deal
world the woes Of man who, in spite OF his
: patience, perseverance, and vigilance" could
not get tIustcd ?
The anecdoie of the late English statesman
seems peculiarly appropriate 10 the Hawaiian
. Benjamin. Altcr signal deiea, In one
oi his legislative efforts, his oouuiymcn are
said 70 have goac further hack in history cor q
parallel and 10 have exclaimed that benjamin /,
s.sss vas hve times grcaier than any u those
o. the rest.
But surely the mosi cruel satire IN this later
historical parallel ik the fact that whilst tho
tngliah statesman exioned the tribute 81
} admiration from his foes, the great little fla.
waiian has had tp look fos his tribute "a
approval, 10 those. and those only, Who wrote
and printed los the wage their own hero paid
them