The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-07-29

Excuse these salty tears, brlncy .
as the sad and silent sea. Pardon
a pale, pcusivc cast that may appear
to hover about this days STAR.
We sympathizers with a hurt heart
please permit your household gods
to Join in genuine grief and swell
the chorus Of a wall, deep as a well
aud broad as the ocean. II is be-
cause the Tissy says of the First
Company Of Sharpshooters, y. G.
II, Capt John Kidwell, that if
called into active service, they will
spend a good portion Of their time
in learning how to handle them
selves"
And this is because the Sharp
shooters do not care to drill like
common soldiers. 1t would not be
out of the way, perhaps, to argue
this question with the Kidwell
cohort. But to intimate that they
do not know how to handle them
selves" at any military function is
the acme of acrimonious criticism.
We frowning mountains and smil-
ing plains, the Sharpshooters do
not know how to "handle them
Selves The editor of the '7isey
has not heard Captain Kidwell
on this head. And who could
be a more capable judge than Capt.
Kidwell? Oh, but is too, too, alto
gether too, too tough that ii should
be written Of the sole and only
heroes Of Manoa and Moiliili-ac-
cording to Kidwell-that they do
uot knows how to handle them
selves" Men who endured the
hardships ofcamping eleven days in
Central Union Church cannot fairly
be accused OF not knowing how to
handle themselves. "
Seriously now, or really, an or
ganization of the personality Of the
Sharpshooters cannot be subjected
TO the military discipline endorsed
and practiced by uniformed men.
They enlisted with the distinct un-
Outstanding that they were to
neither drill nor do guard duty,
and it should not come to pass that
faith is broken with them.
1t is not for the Sharpshooters to
study infantry tactics. They have
done and can do good enough ser
vice without that. And their
captain says this drilling business
is all nonsense anyhow. What
he says goes" We write thus
boldly about him because he stop
ped his paper" some time ago and
of course will not see the article.
THE STAR can suggest TO the
Sharpshooters a pursuit or pastimt
that will facilitate their operations
as a company. This is course il
Cushings manual. Jeferson's man
ual, Roberts Rules of Order, or the
Hawaiian Senate Rules. The pro-
cedure at times in their meetings
one will be held tonight-would
drive VIM. c. Wilder or Cecil
Brown to the mountains. The
presiding officer should not be al
lowed to do six-hfths of the talking
without leaving the chair. There
can be no intelligent, or rather eff
fective consideration Of more thar
one main question at one
and the same time. In tn,
most liberal and enlightened
deliberative bodies member:
are allowed not more than five ar.
guments to enc motion. And the
motion to adjourn is rarely per
mitted to be debated by more thar
one holder of the floor at time.
rHE STAR will concede that as {
deliberative body the Sharpshooter.
are by no means perfect, but wher
it comes to handling themselves
they are not in the disability clas
by any manner Of means. And i
is mean and low down and spitefu
to intimate that they are. We d.
here and now charge specifically
with or without bayonet, that thu
'TIsey editorial was inspired b,
some lover Of pretty clothes ant
brass buttons-some chap WHIT
studies bungalow tactics and could
hit a will pig in thirteen shots
with the pig tied to a peg zoe
va DIS away.