Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-24
THINGS WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Those "Portugese slaves" having emerged
from the gloomy imagination of the San Fran.
cisco Chronicle into the sunlight of actual ex-
istencc, have taken upon themselves the colo.
nzation Of the plateau at the base of Punch
bowl. 1t seems rather hard that any por
ton of Honolulu should SO unresistingly be
given over TO congregation of "helots."
Nothing so crushes the Opposition press "
as the unanswerable logic of silence. That is
why the powerfully unwritten arguments of the
official organ admit of such feeble reply. In
deed, its mastery reticence is equaled only by
the nervous vigor of the English in which it
neglects to refute its critics. Taken altogether,
the individuality which distinguishes the Adoey-
fiSer from bump on log is striking.
Some of the Mormon elders have been
"doing" Mexico. Among other places they
vinted Gu.,ymas. In that city they found the
| once wealthy and popular Sam Brannan. They
|
with neither friends nor following Brannan's
success in despoiling the saints of Utah was a
prophetic forerunner of our gentle Walters
exploits in similar line, at Lanai. Poetic
justice may be more fully satisfied when the
parallel between Brannan and Gibson is com
plete.
In the glucose hereafter, when Gibson,
Preston, Bush and Company have sufficiently
Impoverished the country by mis-appropriation
Of public funds, and have successfully repelled
American friendship by neglect of every sani.
tary precaution, there may even then remain a
meagre handful Of patriots privileged 10 exist
in the land once commercially and agricul.
turally theirs. II this be not too presumptuous
dream, there can be little doubt of what will
then be the pToudest boast of that scattered
band. Whatever else Of pride its members
may cherish, their cheeks will flush longest
and their voices ring loudest as they declare
"There was no relative Of mine in the Gibson
ministry.
One Of the editors of the Press has received
a pathetic letter from young man in San
Francisco who is tired of poverty and sighs
after the opportunities of wealth. He is will
ing to give up the privilege of starving in San
Francisco and bestow his talents here for the
Kingdoms good. He is willing to do any.
thing respectable, from experimenting plan.
tation to occupying bureau in his Majes,y's
| service. He draws the line at the premier
ship, unfortunately, so there is little hope that
the Minister Of Affairs Foreign to the King.
dom's good will be able to persuade him to
accept that arduous and patriotic post. The
chief credentials which this modest young San
franciscan sends are specimens Of his skill at
versihcation. For the literary benefit Of His
Majesty, who is credited with desire to per
suade himself that he can write verse, we ap.
pend the following fearful uavesty:
Broke. broke, broke,
In the City of Gold by the sea:
And would that my purse might settle
The bills that are hurled at me.
Oh well for the millionaire proud,
As he rides In his equipage gay.
| Oh well for the mllionair.'s boy.
As he sails in his yacht the bay.
The old. old world goes round,
As Il 40 long has and ye, will;
| But oh fos the touch u the vanished coin
| And the elink q the gold that Is sill
Broke. broke. bsots.
| Ia the City u Gold BY the SEA;
Blu, the tender grace of day free from deb,
Win never come back to
There are few nice. clean, well-behavcd
people in this community who, though ranging
in yeaD from ,wenly.eight to eighty. have mol
so far sulun their childhood as to have out.
grown taste for playing with edged tools and
fire. Most Of these persons are sufficiently
familiar with Hawaiian history, with current
affairs and With the eighth commandment, 10
know ,ha, never before has there been 80 in.
defensible an Hawaiian ministry. ye, more
than one II them Is not ashamed TO counlenance
the incompetence Of Gibson. to uphold tho
mis- administration Of Bush, and TO palliale lhs
inertia cf Preston and kapena. In thus char
aetesizing the conduct ot the ministers men.
,.oned-in which conduct the nice. clean. we'll
behaved citizens Of which VIC write see nothing
zmiss--we have been careful To use three d
the mildest words Ia the vocabulary u censuIc.
Some day these nice. clean, well-bchavcd
patriots viil hnd themselves summed Of thcis
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