The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-02
Answer TO Dioeenes.

An NYMoUs Cur: | don't know who
you are. You may be so Insignificant
and mean, or SO nigh aud mighty that
you are ashamed to sign your own com
positions. Any way, you conceal your
self and make your attacks from an am
bush. You lack the courage TO show
your face in public. You are neither
frank nor honest. Now, who are you 10
talk about bravery, and facing gunpow.
der and the like? Let me tell you
something: take it home and dises: it
in your secret lair. K. w. Wilcox is
gentleman. His behavior under all and
the most trying circumstances shows his
superior breeding. When lie rebuked
the loud-mouthed, vulgar missionary
hoOdlums, even Diogenes could see that
he was Of superior order. 1t was
stronger and more striking contrast
when he stood before the ignorant, vi
cious and vindictive missionary Judges,
who tried all they knew OF craft and cum
ming TO kill him because he was d brave
man and patriot. Missionaries,
save-dealers and rufiians have cried for
his blood. Because God made him a
b tier man, sycophans and toadyists,like
Yourself, Diogenes, are still splitting out
their venom at him from their holes,
where they squat on their little pile OF
stolen goods. To show courage and hon
or excites the bitterest luminosity of such
reptilia.
Wilcox was educated at his country s
expense. When he returned he found
| his country camping place for an army
| OF slaves. The insidious missionary"
who had crawled cringing and praying
! into the country had grown fat and inso-
lent. The people had become poor and
dispirited. The tyrant's heel was plant
| ed in the face of his native land. Thisis
the way it looked to him. 1t makes no
difference whether he was right or
wrong: he thought he was right. His
aim and mission became to free his
country; to give the people liberty and
| enlightenment. Till he came no man
dared to raise his voice; there was nc
one 10 strike blow. He dared. With
| a handful OF unarmed followers, bows
like himself, he went out to fight against
| overwhelming odds. He was overcome
| by numbers and the aid of o. S. forces
He was captured, imprisoned, insulted
badgered, threatened, promised, but ht
bore everything with calmness and dig
nifty. He has smelled powder and hearC
bullets, and felt the moose round hi:
neck, yet he is ready to risk all again il
there is no other way of emancipation
Wilcox is man Oh superior intellect
ual attainments. He spent seven years
in study in one of the best institutions
of Europe. Before he started he ha(
finished the course that more than SUI
fees for missionary sons. He knew a
much as the best of your class, Dioge
nes, and went a seven years Journey be
yOnd that into the fields of learning
Who, OF your kind, Diogenes, can wOrI
ont problems by the infintesimal calcu
lus? With surveyors transit and
lead pencil Wilcox can calculate tn
time of the next lunar eclipse more &C
curately than you can figure up the com
pound interest on your plumber, out a
usury. Then again, Wilcox is not onl
cultured beyond the comprehension o
beach-combers, but he has sound com
mon sense. He struck the blow tina
dethroned the mighty, victorious Re
form. He has created and organized
the Liberal party, which compels slave
owners and boodlers and all other baC
elements to unite to oppose it. A maj
who can do these things is not withou
executive ability. 1t appears, and thu
majority of the people grant, that Will
cox is man Of courage, honor, patriot
; ism, culture and ability. Now, Diogenes
who are you, that you should give thi
mean advice? Who are you to call you
neighbor a fool? Who are you to advis
the leader OF great party to 60 to work
Why, in the name of high heaven
should he do mental services for such a
you? Is it meet that a man with
brain ana soul should black the shoe
= of bloated dealer in soap and candles
Is it law OF nature or God that a MA
must be clerk to a money-changer
When the Government offices are full c
sucking nephews and cousins, boodler
and bulls, thieves and hypOcrites, can
j not one be turned out to make room 70
an honest man who deserves well of hi
country. At present Wilcox asks 70
nothing he cannot take. The peOpl
will make place for him.
D. L. HUNTsMAN.
s. notice fiat and sodden littl
lie in your "open letter" about Wilcox
9 fondness for appearing in print. Neithe
t Wilcox nor myself are counting notoriet
now. In fact, am of a retiring dispc
: sition, but absolutely have to come on
occasionally and kick some snarling, un
owned and unfathered pup.
d. L. II