The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-27
THE RIGHT or WAY.
How an Ingllshnian VIII Kick and Growl
TIL 10 Gains Lis Point.

How an I,nglishnian VIII Kick and Growl
TIL 10 Gains Lis Point.
This il a true story, AID ore that is in
tended II illustrate II oh ract -riGtiC of the
English people. It shows, think, to
what lengths an Enrli5hman will go to
gain bis rights when an American would
say, "Oh, what is the usey" or, "Never
mind" hut he will learn in time that
the reason the Englishman has better
roads and better streets and better pro
lection for his life and property is because
he "makes Il kick about it, and protests
snd growls and is generally disagrceable
until he gets what he wants. Equally
strong with his desire to have his rights is
the Euglishman's Difference for the rights
of Others. lie shows his Difference by re
spectiIg the English law, which makes
those rights good. There was a young
woman in England who told me that she
and seven or eight other young people had
tramped in single file through gentle
mans dining room one evening, while he
and his guests were ut dinner, in order to
establish Il right of way. The English
man had built his house on meadow di-
rectly across a pathway that had been used
for centuries, and once year the young
people Of the neighboring estates marched
across his lawn and up his stairs and
through his house i'll order that he should
remember that the right of way still ex-
isted She was an exceedingly shy and
well bred young person and of family
quite rs old as the right of way, but it APP
I parently did not strike her that she was
rude in tramping through strangers
I house, or indeed that she was doing any
thing but public duty. And the inter
esting point Of her story to me was that
the English householder, instead of get
ting Il winchester and driving the young
tresspasscrs OF Of his lawn, should have
had so fun an appreciation of their right
! to question his right that he simply bit
his lips and went to law about it.
There was an lrishman in the same
/ county who lived in a small cottage on an
| estate and who was in the habit Of cross
( ing from it to another through the gate
way Of very distinguished and noble
/ gentleman. lie had done this for 20
/ years, and when the noble gentleman
! came into sCme more money and hung
/ two fine iron gates between the posts the
/ Irish laborer took crowbar and broke
/ the hinges on which they hung and
| tramped over them on his way. He was
i put in jail for this for month, at the end
/ Of which time he went after his crowbar
and tore the gates down again. When he
/ had been in jul five times in six months,
the people round about took up his case
and the right Of way was declared just
one, and the gates came down forever
/ The Engiishman viii go further than this
! he will not only fight for his rights, but
( he will fight for some other mans rights.
/ He will 20 out of his road to tramp
/ through q gentleman's property simply
because the people in the neighborhood
are disputiHg for right Of way with him.
/ heard of three young barristers when |
1 was in London who went on walking
| tour, and who laid out their route entire
| ly with the purpose in view of taking in
! all the disputed rights of way in the coun-
4 ties through which they passed. and who
/ cheerfully sacrificed themselves for the
| good Of others by forcing their way into
houses and across private grounds and by
tearing down hedges.-Harper' Weekly.