The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-14

being King sometimes, but good
deal of the time ] think I'd like it
better if | was plain David Kala-
kaua again, and the Queen was sim
ply Kapiolani. Now there's that
fellow Gibson, he posters the very
life out of me; thot it would he a
good thing for the country when |
put him in there, did honest injun,
and seeing how everybody keeps up
such an everlasting whoop about
cabinets changing so often, thot
I'd give him fair show; Pm just
waiting now to see what kind of a
report that Finance Committee will
bring in; if they show that the
money amt straight, I'll bounce
him instantly. He's gone back on
me every time. All he's done about
leprosy, is to establish a great big
nest of it right here in town, and
then there is this coinage fuss. l
supposed he had sense enough to
run the thing: but he's just made a
muddle of it. and so far as | can
see has put a couple Of hundred
thousand dollars in Spreckels'
pocket and taken out of the Govern
mcnt's; and now here's this Bank
Charter thing which him and
Spreckels hatched up between 'em.
They said it was Just like the Amer
lean national banks, and | didn't
suppose they'd lie about it, and now
it turns out that they were trying to
grab everything. The only thing
that surprises me is that they didn't
want the crown stored in the bank,
and ask me to come down and live
there, and have my meals sent over
from Notices.
How about this what John
Spreckels says about you having c.
S. branded on your back bone,
says |. With that Dave, he looks
kind of wild. and he hits the table
with his fist and he says, Mr..
John Spreckels will find out. and so
will his old daddy, that haze got q
back bone, and that it has cot c. S..
branded all the way up and down it,
and that it means that they Can't
| Stuff me with their California
Sharper style of business; the Con
temptible Schemers will find that
they can't Come Some of the games
over me that they think they can,
and that | Can't Stand any more
Confounded Sass from those Cor
poration Spreckels, and that theil
grab calculations will Come Short ii
they take me for a Constitutional
Simpleton.
"There's John ID. blowing al
over town that the Bank Charter is
going through, no matter who says
no, and that | will sign it, that I've
got to sign it. Con-Sarn John ID.
say |, he's got the cheek of hi!
father, without the brains to back it
He needs some Condition Spowders
to tone up his Constitution Surely
c. S. on my back bonel l CUES
there is the Condemned Scalawags'
"Mr. Kalakaua," says l, "it doe
me proud to hear you talk so. L
touches my very liver. If them.
your sentiments, there amt a MAJ
in this town outside of the Banl
grabbers and their dupes and tools
that won't stand by you and Sc,
you through, and there's my hanC
on it. +" With that, Dave he look
gratifed, and says he, 81 think yo,
are man of uncommon sense, Mr.
Jinks." Says L, "David, We
twins. and don't you let it slip you
memory" Then left, and Dav,
he had water in his eyes, and h,
watched me clear down to the gate
l s'pose it did his heart good to Sc,
a square friend after all the syco
plants he'd had around him. Well
let's get back to town, said Bumps
and jumping into an express the,
disappeared in the dust.
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