The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-06
A POTPOURRI OF POLITICS
AND PUNGENCY.
Deceiving the Natives Development
Notes.-The Road Board-Rain-
fall Statistics The
Carrier Dove

and immature oceans spread across the
streets, the heart of the patriotic Hiloite
will swell with pride, and he will rejoice
in having his home in this dew-klssed
metropolis Little does the Honolulu
lite realize the peculiar pleasure Of a
stay among US. How refreshing the
air aud our emb wering shades "for
talking age and whispering lovers
made" But there are hllcyon days t.
him w3o, after wearying Of the jarring
and interminable scenes Of business
life, flies to us to forget for a while his
worries and troubles.
And now gentle reader, we invoke
thy tender compassion for a while, our
tempers are not easily rufied, we can
even endure a pun diluted below the
consistency of water but there are
limits beyond which, commend US
sooner to Jobs blessings and friends.
A gloom has settled over the place and
well it might, when
"Thcrc was a biped from New York,
That was silly 90 think r. could talk;
Non annexation would baWh
With the greatest of gall,
This ridiculous nulc-brained gawk'
Thus the Cause of annexation has
gone to the wall this catastrophe has
been brought about through the efforts
and cloquence Of a something named
Carter This poorlittle thingthought it
would take up the gauntlet for the poor
Hawaiian, whom the hated missionary is
driving to the wall with his cruel offer
.of a dollar a day for a days lab r. and
50 the Chinese Joss house was chosen,
fit emblem Of a worthy cause, in which
Ito hold the meeting Of the Hui Aloha
Alma Whether the Chinese dragon
god looked with compIaCency on this
invasion Of his realm, or whether he
Immediately resigned in disgust and vol
.unteered his services as missionary for
the next trip of the Morning Star, terms
cash in United States gold coin, your
Chronicler is not prepared to say, fur
ther than the meeting was called to
order and the usual prayer offered by
that great apostle of fair elections Mr.
E. KekOa, whom an unfeeling Judge
had convicted and sentenced to loss Of
civil rights, This victim of circum-
stances after stating the object Of meet
ing to be the reading Of letters received
from Hon Nawahi and Henry West
called upon the Hon Col ] T. Baker
to take the chair which this bold war
rior did subsequently introducing the
whatis-it of the day, called Carter.
And so in due course of time the $50
or SO Hawaiians assembled, fired with
the ardor of patriotism, pricked up their
ears in endevorring to make out the
meaning of an unintelligble jargon in
Hawaiian by this poor little thing who
knocked around and stumbled in a
ludiCious manner over 4 language il
did not understand
With the perspiration standing in
beads upon its forehead it then launch
ed forth in a violent invective against
the government. With ba'eful glance
and whitening scorn it hurled shot after
shot upon the hated missionaries anC
the wicked commissioners and, finally
wound up in a peroration Of burning
eloquence but vapid sense.
This poor little addlepate whose
appearance might be vastly Improved
by the removal of few hairs AROUND
its chin, and a clean white collar arounC
its throat really thinks it made sens
BILE speech and it leaves in few day
for trip through Hamakua.
Unfortunately the poison spread by
lot of renegades is working among al
element that can Ill afford to lose. the
means of subsistence, especially is thi:
the case among number of policeman
and SO the guilotine has been quite busI
here lately and a number of heads have
Irolled in the basket. Their places
have been filled from among the Purtu
Iguese who, we are pleased to say, are
firm anneXationists to a man; in fac
have ever been with the law abiding
and reform element in past crises anC
though late in receiving it, should lonj
since have been given recogniti n,
| Almost the entire contingent of Ha
waiians holding public office on thi
Island is composed of royalsts of tn
most offensive type who secretly an,
Iopenly grasp every opportunity tina
presents itself to cast discredlt upon
and embarrass the government. lmag
inc a United States government offiCia
presiding over a meeting of anarchist
deysing ways, and means to subver
the government to their own ideal:
and the parallel is perfect.
Politics, however, do not appear t
enter very deeply into the calculation
of the pioneers and settlers who hay
lately taken up land through the cour
try, notably on the Volcano road. A
to lots along the latter all the frontag
has now been taken up to the ~
mile, The far reaching economic r.
, suits by opening up this land to Sc
: Element can be seen by glance at II
rent roll which now amounts to ov
: $I,Ioo per annum. OF course tn
: will not come in until the end of Il
e third year, bat in the meantime e
= tensiye improvements are being mac
. on the land, foremost among the
T. being the operations conducted by Il
Kona Coffee & Commercial Co.,
t which McMason, late Of Colorado,