The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-02-25

where it was uttered had the privilege
of using it on his neighbors for one
half an hour after supper every even
ing. 1t was taught in the public
schools. Now, asked the member:
Am l excluded? Am I respectable?
Any man who dares to speak in dero-
gatory terms OF witness Of a great
historical event, word that rallied the
frightened soldiers. CHEERS.
At this point the President called
TO order He said: There is no oc-
casion for any hard feeling. Sensi-
tive gentlemen have gone off half
cooked, instead of coming here, with
continental and picturesque cooked
hats. All men We're respectable who
descended from those who had a fin
ger in the revolutionary pudding.
Thousands of men, in the past, have
found the pole of human Liberty
thickly creased by the enemies Of
freedom and when they climbed it, with
devotion and self sacrifice, have slip
ped to the bottom, and fractured sub
stantial parts of their own bodies. To
a lover of freedom the sight of pa
triot slipping down the creased pole
is not ludicrous. 1t is inspiring"
(Hear).
"Only those are crowned and Sainted,
Who with grief have been acquainted, y
Grief could come as well through a
heavy thud at the base of a Liberty
pole, as it could come through can
non ball.
Il will now" said the President,
ask you all TO join in singing verse
from hymn written in commemora-
ton of the revoluionists, in 1850, by
a Green Mountain band:
Our fathers being weary,
Laid down on Bunker Hill,
And though full many morning,
Yet they are sleeping still.
In dreams 1 see them rise
Each with solemn musket
A-marching TO the skies" Hear
hear).
The member from Waimanalo, said
he could not become patriotic unless
he had revolutionary dates before him
If he knew the date of a great event
| L. i
tapped the cider barrel of his patriot.
ism. Was the Revolutionary wal
fought before or after the time Of
Moses Besides, he was getting
hungry. We're the members to have
simply Valley Forge lunch on worm!
beans, and coffee made out of pine
chips, or were they to have a blessed
luau?
The member from Waialae said tina
it was not day for the commemora
ton of dates but of principles. VIVA
descendant of revolutions, whereve
they occurred, wanted a chronological
feast? He would therefore offer a re
solution:
Whereas, The spirit of patriotism
imperatively demands that we SHOULD
do today that which our ancestor
would have done, if they had beer
allowed the choice, under like circum
stances, therefore Je it
Resolved; That we attend the stump
tuous luau, and that, during its con
sumption, each member eat in silence
and devoutly try to realize the hunge
of those who were Providentially al
lowed to starve in the interests O
human liberty" Adopted.
The assembly moved to the feastinj
tables. A toast was drank in cocoa
nut water ito the memory of all tru
and tried revolutionists in the caus
of human progress, and to the univer
sal brotherhood of man."
The President arose after the luau
and said: Il have been requested b,
the women members of the Club t
designate three members of the Clut
who will initiate for one year, omit
ting Sundays and holidays, the vir
tues and character of Washington, i
this community. They are to serv
as examples to the young people, an,
are to wear cooked hats. CHATS right
l notice an extraordinary expressio,
of solemnity on the faces of our NAL
members. There is no occasion for il
The pratice of virtue is easy. 1t i
! only the first step that COSTS"
The proposition was damper TIL
Club instantly adjourned.