The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-17

The following careful review OF
the letters of T. III. Davies, which
have been collected and published
in the form of a pamphlet, was pre-
pared especially for the ADvER- J
TIsER:
The literature appearing in these
letters, will hereafter constitute the
Daviesian period of Hawaiian itera-
ture. It's immediate object is to hurl
the locomotive styled "P. g." off the
track of events, and replace it with a
somewhat battered and effete engine
STYLED 'sMonarchy," which was sud-
denly side switched derailed, and
thrown into the public bitches, ON
January 18th, 1898. Many of the pas
sengers, who then occupied the royal
coaches, inspired by Mr.. Davies burn
ing words, still refuse to abandon the
wrecked train, and now call to the
world for some kindly wrecking outfit
which will gather up the twisted
scraps of iron, torn boiler plates,
crushed wheels, and exploded smoke
H.
put the result upon the track over
which it so often pulled its loads of
heather commuters.
In revolutionary times, there is al
| WAYS q class of persons, eccentric by
nature, who insist on being in the
minority under all circumstances, and
appropriately fulfil their vague mis-
| sion in this world by persistently and
religiously getting between everbody's
| 1,A CT
| due, it is believed, largely to heredi-
| tary influences, the causes of which
| are not we'll understood. An Irish
| man of this class, who was always
| behind time gave as the reason: that
he twas born sixty days too late"
To this class, which French writer
calls 'simpossibles," Mr. Davies be-
longs by heredity and education. Cap
tain Vancouver was informed by
| marine that a native was secretly
tying his malo around one of the ships
heavy anchors, with the guilty intent
of stealing it. "Don't stop him." said
the Captain, siIf he can carry that
off, he's entitled to it," If the politi-
cal eccentrics here can, with the con-
scientious industry of Captain Van
couver's savage, tie their literary
malos around The heavy weight of the
| Provisional Government and carry
| Dack the ''SlOlSu
| welcome to it.
We are reminded of these political
eccentrics, by the recent publication
in Boston, of the letters of rOyalist
in 1776, addressed to General Wash
ington, during the revolution, in
which he is told that his "Conduct is
impious, contrary to the law of God
and man, subversive of the rights of
the CROWN" and that his associates
,kaH 10 olo ~
men in the community" This was
the Daviesian period of American
literature. Every advance in human
thought or condition, has been attend
ed with an outburst of Daviesianism.
1t is as certain to appear as grass hop
pers or potato bugs.
The tendency of some to retrograde
into an attitude of faith in, and strife
for, the impossible, is often due, 1t is
said by the followers of Darwin, to the
surreptitious or accidental change of
babes, in the cradle. If it is the fact
that Mr.. Davies, when an infant, was
exchanged for another babe, on some
picnic excursion, how is it possible to
infer from this, that he would at
later period of life, insist on an eX-
change of the Provisional Govern
ment for royalty? The argument is
plausible, but not sound.
with MI. DAVIES arguments anu
propositions we will not quarrel. For
the purpose of this review, we shall
assume that they are correct and can
not be gainsayed. If the restoration
J is now impossible, because the people
of the United States, who have be-
Titled themselves in Mr.. Davies eyes,
refuse to do it, there still remains an
other and final appeal in this awful
emergency, and that is, to Mr.. Davies
himself. 1t is the appeal of the wrong
ed and oppressed in all ages to some
great heart to lead them against ty-
ranny, whether it be of monarchy or of
/ usurper. 1t is the clarion appeal to
arms.
Mr.. Davies is convinced that the
monarchy should be restored, or the
''stolen Kingdom" restored. We ask
him now to have the Courage of his
r convictions.n Brave men, with con-
victions like those which fill Mr.. Da-
vies' soul, enforce them, struggle for
them, die for them, and out of the
earthly and violent dissolution Of the
body, freely offered on the altar OF
conviction, the purified soul ascends
to its celestial abode. The pathway