The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-23

man. Were their descendants any
better than the descendants OF a man
who calmly coolly, amidst storm Of
bullets, keeping an unwavering trust
in God, skinned pig in the holy
cause of Liberty? He would allow his
tongue TO cleave-
The member from Makapuu Gnter-
rupting) said he had something to
say His ancestor had driven a mule
team of an ammunition wagon, at the
battle of Monmouth, and had distinct
ly heard that celebrated oath which
General Washington uttered, when the
revolutionary troops broke and ran.
(Cheers). His ancestor had often
spoken of the way the nigh mule low
cred his ears in sadness to a half
mast, when the General forgot him.
self At present, by the statutes of
New Jersey, this oath had been legal
lied, and every inhabitant living
within a range of ten miles of the spot
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 | excluded? Am | respectable?
Any man who dares to speak in dero
gatory terms of a witness of great
historical event, word that rallied the
frightened soldiers. s.''-(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 were respectable who
descended from those who had 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 a 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"
Grief could come as well through a
pole, as it could come through a can
| non ball.
81 will now,' said the President,
| 'ask you all to join in singing a verse
from a hymn written in commemora-
ton of the revolutionists, in 1850 by
a Green Mountain band:
| ''Our fathers being weary,
Laid down on Bunker Hill,
And though full many a morning,
Yet they are sleeping still.
In dreams | see them rise
| Each with a 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,
| it at once suggested the event. 1t
tapped the cider barrel of his patriot
ism. Was the Revolutionary war
fought before or after the time of
Moses ?-Besides, he was getting
hungry. Were the members to have
simply Valley Forge lunch on wormy
beans, and coffee made out of pine
chips, or were they to have a blessed
luau?
The member from Waialae said that
it was not a day for the commemora-
ton of dates but of principles. What
descendant of revolutions, wherever
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 ancestors
would have done, if they had been
allowed the choice, under like circum-
Stances therefore ne it
Resolved; That we attend the sump-
tuous luau, and that, during it's con-
sumption, each member eat in silence
and devoutly try to realize the hunger
of those who were Providentially al
lowed to starve in the interests OF
human liberty" Adopted
The assembly moved to the feasting
tables. A toast was drank in cocoa
nut water 'to the memory of all true
and tried revolutionists in the cause
Of human progress, and to the univer
sal brotherhood of man."
, The President arose after the luau
and said: 'I have been requested By
the women members of the Club tt
, designate three members of the Club
who will initiate for one year, omit
ting Sundays and holidays, the vir
tues and character Of Washington, il
this community. They are to serve
as examples to the young people, an(
are to wear cooked hats. Chats right.
, I notice an extraordinary expression
of solemnity on the faces of our male
members. There is no occasion for it
The pratice of virtue is easy. 1t il
only the first step that costs"
The proposition was damper. Tn
, Club instantly adjourned.