The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-09-15


corner of Fort and King the other
evening, [ heard a man speaking
on what | thought at first was a
religious subject, but the fact of
his showing no outward respect,
not even uncovering his head when
praying, or mentioning names
held holy, showed me 1 was mis-
taken. The pith of his harangue
Tor as much of it as l could dnder-
stand without an interpreter) was
a real estate investment he had
made in a place called Heaven.
His companion got his eye on me
and being afraid he might induce
me to invest in some Golden Stair
Rapid Transit stock, l left.
I am almost certain the latter
fellow intended locating his line so
that the jumping off place would
be in the centre of the other fell
lows boom town. commenced
thinking and finally came to the
conclusion that a little mild asser-
ton and a good supply of gall is
all that is necessary to get quite a
following in any speculation even
in the lottery project which a cou-
pie of our townsmen want a charter
for. The money value of their
sympathy with the distress of the
community does not appear in the
Golden Era or any of the commu-
nications | have read on the sub
ject. At the present time one of
them lays pipes political and
otherwise) with keen eye to the
main chance in futurity. The
other is no rainbow chaser, he is a
shadow catcher with the same
solid end in view.
The doctor l am informed is at
the present time feeling the poll
teal pulse, so that he may be able
to determine his margin of profit
on the sale of this charter to the
Louisiana Co. or any other gang Of
a class, who will try to make sim.
pie people believe they can get
rich by getting up in the night
and robbing themselves. If the
Louisiana Co. are backing this
(which l doubt), l know some.
thing of them, [ know them to be
a good solid old rebel ring com.
posed of representatives of the
lost cause and lost tribes who lost
position and money by the collapse
of the Confederacy, and who hav-
ing been robbed as they claimed
made up their minds to get even
by robbing in return.
One of your correspondents, Mr.
Peck, thinks the climate should be
very hot for the members of the
lottery company. 1 hardly agree
with him, for the agricultural as
semblies, or alliances, as they are
commonly called, have made the
climate of Louisiana so cold fol
the lottery people that Mr.. Conrad
the president of that institution, i:
now selling stock in the Gulf Ice
Company at the same old price o.
a FOOLS dollar per share.
Mr.. Ralph Turner thinks there
will be great good to the country
if this bill passes. l beg to differ
from him, and if the people are
foolish enough to desire lottery
why, let the Government run i
and have the gain as well as the
blame.
And since it has been the custom
to appoint man trained to the
use of weapons as commissioner
let the mover of the present meas
ure be appointed, for he is skilled
in the use of a weapon which was
very effective among the Philis
tines. And now in conclusion, le
me state that nations unlike in
dividuals) have no hereafter
whatever evil they do, they viii
surely suffer for it in this world
and as sure as history is not lie
just so sure as you charter a lotter,