Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-01-19

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/ France had it, Camille Desmouins England
It's Ebcnezer Elliott, san Francisco its stephen
Maybel and Honolulu has its L. V. Squires.
Each Of these men has been in his day and
generation a tribune Of the people. Each has
spoken Justify FOR reform as he saw it, and each
has been. II not poet. at least fluent poet.
aster. Desmoulins beat his passionate wings
against the bars, signing and singing for uni.
yersal liberty Elliott flung in the faces Of the
English rich the bitter taunt tina, the corn laws
of the early years Of this century were bringing
the horrors Of famine into unnumbered Eng
fish homes; Maybell was the gallant lieutenant
Of Dennis Kearney in his noble battle for A
place in the hearts Of the San Francisco "Sand
Lot and Sack from the corruption fund
Of the Central Pacific Railway; Squres is the
foe Of the Hawaiian Shipping Act and the
apostle Of n crusade against the Chinese. But
il is not to discuss Mr.. Squires opinions that
this curt critique was written On the evening
Of the 3rd instant Mr.. Squircs delivered an
Honolulu This address has been published
in pamphlet form and from that pamphlet have
been taken the following mctrcal gems. Alter
abiding to the recent cases Of labor trouble on
Kauai, and characterizing the acts Of the
planters as extremely wrong, after mentioning
the combination between Mr.. Spreckels, the
planters and the Missionary party, Mr. squires
"drops into poetry a Ia Slas Wegg rs
follows
" Washington the Great could but arise
tie would this nation chastse.
lie would send here his statesmen II renown
And take away this Hawaiian crown.
II is to be hoped that the attorney general
will not focus his binocular upon the last line
OF this rhythmic but clearly REASONABLE quar-.
train. Because the fate Of Mr.. Daniel Lyons
is in the memories of the community. Mr.
Squires' indictment of The Chinese race is clear.
explicit and emphatic
The Chinese race is pressing on
In every land and every cline
In every nation and every place
You can find the Chinese race
But alas mankind could not but weep
10 view their ofsprings on the street,
Their fathers rowing from place to place,
ne Nile~t OF q nations
After describing in graphic prose the noisome
condition Of lower Nuuanu and Maunakca
streets, Mr.. Squires returns TO still more
graphic verse as follows:
But our own present ruler # he hut chose
Could pacify his people and those
Who by their influence and their fame
Would protect his kingdom and his name.
The gentlemen whose "famc and influence"
is thus pontcdly alluded to are the statesmen
who have made the Workingmen's Union wha,
it is. And Of these Mr.. Squires is clearly first.
hut the statesmen of the Workingmens Union
do not mean TO be driven from the country, as
is evidenced by the following defiant prophecy.
We will stay and they will GO
Or we will 90 and they will stay:
But think it will be the other way
And to make the ''way" clear as the sun at
MONDAY for the feet Of his disciples, Mr..
Squires concludes the metrical portion of his
essay as follows
Now to sc, these Chinese from here
Is not 10 easy as you may suppose,
For we have many towards here, and those
The very men who brought them here.
And il the great Kamehameha could but arise
This vile and heather race he would despise
lie would bring his war clubs into play
And send this race back home without delay.
Then he would clear Oahu and then Maui
Then he would go to Hawaii
From there he would 20 down to Kauai
And teach those German planters to lie.
Then he would return back into this town
And sweep 1t Of its vile renown,
Then he would turn this ruler and his race
And teach them to respect his ancient race.
After driving this Chinese race from here
The great kamehameha would disappear
Into that space from whence he came,
With a noble and immortal fame.
With the general tenor Of the remarkable
address this crtique (which deals with neither
Pure Reason" nor with Kant--a sncularly
good pun that, for phiosophc one) has
nothing TO do. But the appearance OF Mr..
Squires' rhymes calls for more than a passing
notice. 1t is not often that verse of like
quality appears anywhere. 1t differs as widely
from the ilippant pleasantly Of the Gazette's
parody ballads or the airy nonsense of the
Press drummer" as from the sentimental
semi seriousness of the Hawaiian Monthly's
lyric poets or the historical war horse har
monies of Minister-Rcsident Dagge,t. Mr.,
Squire's muse is certainly Of its own kind. He
has struck vein to which his title is unques-
toned and there seems to be no one now here
the Press having killed off Mr. Cactus
Mckrackan Of the Advertiser-who is at all
likely to meet Mr.. Sauires on his own ground.