The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-02
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guile you. with lies OF the danger of
increasing race hatred: they vii! an
peal tearfully TO your magnanimity be-
mind the victories of your men. hey
Wall shelter themselves for their very
misdeedS; they will take credit 10
themselves, urging that II they had not
done little evil greater harm Eould
nave beiallen the Colony. They will
coax, they viii threaten. they will
bride, and in the last resort they nav
turn Queens evidence. but when maj
time comes listen at least TO the case
Tor the prosecution: take the trouble
10 read through the ahiddvits. and see
that some OF those hoary heads come
TO the trial
Our own folly and wilful blindness
EJy5 already given W. enough 10 an
sW-g tJt We have cJndonad that IN.
which We are now paying with go,d
lives. but there Is no sane need NV
We should az the end endorse dirty lit
tie fe.onies. We owe this much ~,
10 ourselves. but 10 the Colony az pres
ent a section of the land. That Cane
Town / have talked about is ike a
woman who has just thrown her can
over the windmill. Excitement en-
ables her to brave many things. but
me reckoning from her family and her
little world is yet to be faced The
Colony's world is large and a grow
ing one; the circle of her acuuaintancsS
today runs from Edmonton 10 liver
cargill, from Perth 70 Halifax. What
the Colony thinks of them as they pour
north in the laboring trains. or. al
new to Adderley Street, buy the South
African News in mistake for the Cap,,
Times, is matter of no importance
What they think OF her matters a great
| deal, not today, but the day after to-
morrow. They are not by any means
the English of the island in their no
tons. The Colony cannot say thai
they are untroubled, or do not under-
stand her paculiarities, for they too
have known the life that Is lived out
between n horse and a veranda under
not blue skies; they too draw from the
townships lost in vast plains. They are
| accustomed To- manage their own az
fairs in their own way, as they are ac-
| customed TO accept responsibility, and
| wise in the management of men, there
Is no trick or turn of Cape politics
save one which they cannot duplicate
in the land of their birth. They have
hurried in from self-governing com
munities, whose men act and think
and write a little more freely than
you do at home, and they perceive that
from Cape Town to the border they
must consider themselves in an IN
friendly land. \ few OF them are now
nursing wounds. which they owe to
early and accurate information re-
ceived by the enemy from the reg
istered voters of the border districts
Others, and this is quite as important,
in their eyes, have lost meals and
drinks through the carelessness, shall
, we call it, of those whom they unrea-
sonably expected might be their
friends.
The Loss of Honor.
Now, men who are used to dust Ia
, their food do not care TO have Il
thrown in their eyes. Five, six. and
? seven thousand miles away anxious
young communities are waiting fr
word of their men. No detail of their
doings goes unrecorded by the big dal-
les whose wrappers you have never
opened, OF by the little cheap news
papers with the patent insides. Move
mixed colonial contingent fifty miles
here across country, and Winnipeg
, Quebec. Canterbury. Wellington 3ne
, Brisbane are also moved over; and
! above that, they will write 10 ,heir pa
pers. These mems letters will be read
, and re-read at crossroads stores, in
, railroad round-houses, in way-side dos
- sers' camps, at up-country race-meet-
3 ings. at little Masonic lodges along the
{ wharyes of big exporting houses, and
in the clubs OF all the white mans
world. Do you see. therefore. that the
long-enduring scorn. the terse, stick
- ing contempt, the happy epithet spaf
out in a dusty camp, to turn up double
loaded in a journal of 10000 circu a
b ton on the other side of the world
will not come from England? The Col
D Ony will be branded by her own breth-
? rem, by the open-air men who have
, voted regularly since their majority
and who own the houses they live in
h. She dare not say that they have beer
$ bought by the capitalists, influenced
y by the press. or prejudiced by their in.
n sular training. It is her own caste in
e Punahayet that will strip the Colony
+ of her caste. She will be left with heI
= climate and her geographical advant
l ages. but her place among our peoples
will over over to little Natal, while hei
. honor is trailed round the world az TN
heels of these returning horsemen
: This is unjust-bitterly and cruelty
> unjust.
: developed the forecast at soms
: length to a South-African. and there
!. are no words to paint his extreme OBJ
: lection to this medicine. He was Quitt
: unconsoled by the reminder that th'
Cretans have not yet recovered troyG
. the effect of a hasty hexameter OF old
DAYS. and that the Laodiceans have
passed into literature" IL struck hin
!, as a piece of hideous brutality for h'
loved his land with passion-you see
! she is his own land. in agony and great
torture. and IL cuts him to the soul thai
her name should he soiled. He say'
that she has more loyalists fighting ~
J. the ficlu 80. n Natal; that there are
thousands o.. men and women, theii
relatives fighting on the other side
: their hearts torn in three pieces, Wne
u still bide loyal. "Is il not he asks
"enough that when peace comes the ola
: lIovausts will be petted and raised 4
i honor without this last shame upoi