The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-02

one--it you'd not satisfy your wol6sh
wants: That Diogenes knows-and of
that, at least, he can gladly assure
the people of this kingdom whom you
have defrauded. Up to the last mo-
ment-to the very moment, when
finally in the royal presence you adj
vised against the signing of the
treaty, you would not declare your
self. Only at the final moment would
your voice be heard. The only in.
ference to be drawn from your ac-
tions was:
"Yes-of course we all know the
treaty is of first Importance to our
prosperity: but the King hates this
Cabinet, and unless we are unani-
nous he will not sign. have just
got back from Canada, you under
stand, and l met my old friend, Sir
John Macdonald, and Canada is just
north of the United States you know,
and has big railroadl"
You had hardly sold yourself TO
Canadian influences when you were
open to the next bid. Perfidy of the
character exhibited by you was novel
in these islands, and the prophecy is
ventured, that it will never be
equaled in the future. Well, you
have found it necessary to make ex.
plantations good deal since then,
haven't you' You have found it a
pretty hard task to make people be-
ieve that black is white, haven't
YOU? Yes, indeed. While honest
men 90 their ways and stand shoul-
der to shoulder in this the first dark
hour of this little kingdom, and
stand face to face with the ruin that
you have brought about; deserted
plantations, deserted homes, empty
calabashes, all in plain sight-yes-
while honest men stand thus, what
does the traitor Ashford?
You have given up making expla-
nations to honest men-you have
found that they don't believe you !;
and now you mislead the low and
ignorant-the malicious, the restless,
the foolish. Day by day your circle
of believers grows smaller, less in
teligent, and more vicious. One by
one they find you out. Yes--it only
needs enlightenment for even Bush
to find out what your pertidy means,
and then he will discover that be-
longing to higher level in the social
and moral plane than yourself you
and he won't mix any longer.
Even with the multitude of con-
temptble vices in Bush-he is better
able than you TO define the word
patriotism. This is his country.
And when these men who follow you
now realize how much, how often you
have misled ana deceived them, and
when they understand what an
enemy you have been to their coun,
try and it's industries, they will rend
you limb from limb.
Advice cannot be given you. The
day is past when advice would be OF
any use or consequence to you. You
are not worth one word of it. Sir
Walter Scott can tell your future
and so leave you with him:
"Breathes there The man, with soul SO
dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him
burned,
AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on foreign
strand,
If such there breathe, go, mark him
well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell
High though his titles, proud his
name,
Boundless his wealth AZ wish Cal
claim;
Despite those titles. power and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he
sprung
Unwept, unhonor'd and unsung"
DIoEENES