The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-10-17
The Gathering Of the Colonies.

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Russianward by first public mobil-
ization and review of its army.
The building up of great Ha-
waiian army will of course be a
prime factor in obtaining the recog-
milton and hoped-for boon of becom-
ing Russian colony, and although
the entire roll-up-after week of
canvassing and official notifying
could not scare up more than 300,
yet we could furnish the Gar with
enough captains and colonies of the
clerk and soft goods variety, to Off
Ger all Siberia.
The present standing army is not
likely to overawe anybody who does
not want to feel that way, and if the
"powers that be-" feel inclined to act
in defiance of public opinion on the
supposition that they have a mill
tary force under their political
thumb, they will no doubt want to
feel tempted to act accordingly.
The strings that are being pulled
by select few who claim that-as
Americans-they have the right to
think and act for the whole COM
munity, are carefully watched. The
people will sniff suspiciously at
every move.
The heads of the P. G.. army
bave been always uncomfortable
over some impending danger which
never existed, and the P. g. press is
forever hourishing the cheap anna
teur soft goods sword in the face of
the people, and trailing the army
coat in the dirt, and daring the
"royalist" to tread on the tail of it.
The people have placed their case
in the hands of an arbitrator, and
are anxious to keep the peace, pend
ing the decision. "Thrice armed is
he who hath his quarrel just"
The people are strong in their
sense of right and in the conscious
ness of their superior physical and
numerical strength, no less than in
that invincible spirit which impels
a man to fight for his house and the
land of his fathers, and self-govern-
ment.
On the other side would be body
of men, nine-tenths of whom are
strangers, and every one of whom
would feel very much interested in
enquiring who would pay for the
possible wooden leg which might be
his adornment for the rest of his
life, also who would provide the
wherewithal to bury the sauer-
kraut and cornmeal and Goldfish for
Fritz and Antoine or Jose's small
wife and large family, when the
fathers we're gone.
The invitations to get up to pa
rade or drill are all right to secure
a government job, but the induce
ments to come and get mangled and
butchered, where there would be NO
playing at soldiers, is horse of ano-
Their color. Not for a moment do
question the pluck of the men
Many of them are old soldiers and
would face an enemy invading their
own country, and fight for their
native hills; but what would be the
principle involved here? Simply to
fasten missionary oligarchy, who
have done their best to starve these
same men out of the country. TIC
keep fat Joe Marsden-the amateur
killer of peoples trees-in fat sal.
airy and position, so that he could
go in search of more Is cent day
laborers for w. o. Smith and his
friends of the Planters Labor Co.
Oh, yes, count on the Portuguese to
fight for Joe's friends.
What about the Germans? Is it
not fact that they have been-a
lot of them-put on the roads and
treated like murderers at one time
by the men now at the head Of the
P. G.? Do they value fighting fol
its own sake so highly, as to come
and get shattered and manned and
killed for the benefit of the mem
bers of the planters league, not one
of whom will expose his own skin
And now they have to buy their owr
shoes! Think of it! Not even te
have the dying consolation of turn
ing up their toes in good P. e. shoe
leather! Also to have "blacklegs'
at $50 month, enlisting enough
they can be had-to replace the $4l
month men now in the service
with the prospect also of a cut il
the quality of the "hash." Surely
, all this prospect of "retrenchment'
which has been decided on by tn,
Military Committee will induce the
paid army to face death-by old age
Armies sometimes have an ode
way of giving their masters to un
derstand that they may turn agains
them. Take the case of Chill. 1
had respectable standing army
and after the war with Peru, il
which this force covered itself will
gore and glory, it began to put OF
style. 1t was a splendid force il
its way and Observation-Disclosures
meant that it would obey any orde
given by any brutal mailman VIII
$ was in legitimate authority over it
and it was full OF martial ardor-
which also meant that it woul'
brain its own father when ordere
to do so, without the slightest CON
junction. Also it was courageou
and in every way reliable. Whe
, President Balmaceda went off hi
J elevated chump and broke the cor
stitution all to shivers and turn
ed this splendid military machin
against the Legislature and the II;
ton, it was a woeful surprise t