The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-07
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THE RIGHT OF WAY.
How an Englishman win Kick and orowJ
TIL He Gains His Point.

How an EnglishmAn win Kick and GrowI
TIL He Gains His Point.
This Ii a true story, and one that Is in
tended to illustrate a characteristic of the
English people. IL shows, / think, to
what lengths an Englishman will go to
Rnin his rights when an American wonld
say, "Oh, what IL the useS" or, "Never
mind" but he will learn In time that
the reason the Engiishman has better
roads and better streets and better pro
lection for his life and property is because
he "makes "A kick about it, and protests
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anu GROWS ana IL generally disagreeaDlc
| until he gets what he wants. Equally
strong with his desire to have his rights II
the Englishman's Difference for the rights
Of others. He shows his Difference by re
speeding the English law, which makes
those rights good. There was young
woman In England who told me that she
and seven or eight other young people had
tramped In single file through a gentle
mans dining room one evening, while he
and his guests were Mt dinner, in order to
establish a right Of way. The English
man had built his house on a meadow di-
rectly across u pathway that had been used
for centuries, and once a year the young
people Of the neighboring estates marched
across his lawn and up his stairs and
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through mis- house In order that he shouIu
remember that the right OF way still ex
listed. She was an exceedingly shy and
~ fam tlNf
quite as old IA the right Of way, but IL mp
parently did not strike her that she was
rude in tramping through n stranger
house, or indeed that she was doing any
thing but Il public duty. And the inter
esting point Of her story to me was that
the English householder, instead of get
ting a winchester and driving the younl;
tresspassers oil Of his lawn, should have
bad so full an appreciation of their right
TO question his right that he simply bit
his lips and went To law about II
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mere was an freshman in the sam,
county who lived In n small cottage on al
estate and who was In the habit OF cross
ing from it to another through the gate
| way VI very ulstinHulsntu ana nODlt
gentleman. He had done this for %
years, and when the noble gentleman
came into some more money and huns
two fine iron gates between the posts tn,
Irish laborer took a crowbar and brok,
the hinges on which they hung an,
tramped over them on his way. He wa
put in Jail for this for month, at the en-,
Of which time he went after his crowba
and tore the gates down again. When h
had been In Jail five times In six months
the people round about took up his case
and the right of way was declared iusi
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one, and the gates came down forever
, The Englishman will go further than thi
I he will not only fight for his rights, bu
he will fight for some other mans rights
He will go out Of his road TO tram
through a gentleman's property simply
because the people in the neighborhoo'
are disputing for right Of way with him
r heard Of three young barristers when
e was In London who went on walking
3 tour, and who laid out their route entire
$ ly with the purpose in view of taking Il
4 all the disputed rights Of way In the coun
b ties through which they passed, and VIII
J. lcheerfully sacrificed themselves for tn
n good Of others by forcing their way int
d houses and across private grounds and b
o tearing down hedges. IIarper's Weekly,