The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-12-09
Town TALK
In No Nan About Town.

men by what they seem instead Of by
what they are, would have none OF
Honest "Bummel" Mueller, when they
could get the rascally son Of a clergy
man with distinguished name.
I could have told Senator McCandless,
if he did not know it already that his
protest to President Roosevelt against
Governor Carriers loan policy would
come straight back from Washington
to the governor, about as quickly as
the mails could carry it. 1t has long
been the same with all such complaints
or protests. If there is any reader of
these lines who has sent to Washington
any protest, complaint, criticism or
knock" of the local administration, l
beg to inform him. if he does not know
it already, that his protest, complaint,
criticism or knock is on file in Car
ter's office. 1t doubtless went to the
White House and possibly even reached
the President. Then it was sent back
to Carter, and that ended it.
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As a matter Of fact, even in the days
of the Dole administration, when the
White House and Iolani palace are
supposed to have been not quite so
much in harmony as they are now,
the kicks from Hawaii, then so nume-
rous that they threatened to call for
new cabinet officer to be known as the
Secretary of Hawaiian Affairs, found
their way back to the calm atmos-
phere of Dole's executive chamber.
Such letters to Washington are often
regarded as private by the writer's. Per-
haps it may be news to some of those
who wrote such correspondence that
His Excelency Sanford B. Dole read
it some weeks later.
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1t will seem like old times to see big
steamer loads of Portuguese families
arriving here. They may be expected
to be a good addition to the population
of the islands. This in a large mea-
sure will depend upon how well the
man who is sent after them does his
work. 1t is a big responsibility to as
sumo. How often have we all cried out
against those who went to Porto Rico
and gathered together a lot of Jail
birds, vagabonds and cutthroats and
sent them here?
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Incidentally, my Portuguese friends
who are already here in professional
and business life should be happy. Per-
haps if the movement keeps on Vivas
may some day run for Congress and
DR.. Alvarez come back and be president
of the Board of Health.
In a dream 1 had a picture of a
future legislative scene. The speaker
is another Knudsen, and he stands
hammer in hand calling for order,
while four or five members of the
House are demanding the floor, and
their tones sound loudly through tine
chamber:
Mr.. Speaker makai.'
q hava da foora Mr. Speak"
Honorable Mr.. Speaker, the Honor
able floor is mine now for the purpose
of politely delivering an honorable adj
dress"
"SPEAKER!"
And then l woke up.
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The discovery by Food Analyst Dun
can that many of the cough medicines
sold to the public contain morphine in
some form is not news to the dope
fiend. A druggist friend of mine said
his concern had customer for GER
tain cough preparation, who was a de-
light to the commercial instinct. H
ordered his favorite cough remedy by
the case. He seemed to have the
deepest seated and most stubborn cold
that ever afflicted man. Yet whenever
he came into the store to order his case
of medicine he never cOughed. Final
ly the discovery was made that he was
a dope fiend, and took the medicine
not for the cure there might be in il
but for the dope that was in it, The
amount he used must have been dis
astrous to his digestive apparatus. But
he took his opium in the shape OF
cough syrup.
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l was somewhat surprised to see II
the article criticizing DR.. Kincaid's
utterances, which was ascribed by the
morning paper 20 DR.. Serene Bishop, q
comparison drawn between the status
of the Hawaiians and of the New Zea'
landers as regards self-government
The intimation was that the New yea
landers of course the Maoris were
meant, have no share in the govern
ment of their country. I asked Harry
Armitage about the matter and he a