The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-28


nowadays that ! feel it's up to me, not
to knock those who are always knock
ing the knocker, but to say something
in appreciation of the legitimate
knocker. the knOcker who knocks for
goodness sake and who knocks what
the decent knocker!
When a man is caught red-handed
and with the goods on him shall we
knock or boost? Knock, of course,
Shall we meet in mutual admiration
when our moral socks need changing
or our spiritual pockets are full of
stolen goods? Or shall we knock each
other until we awake and realize our
unrighteousness?
With your permission, I will take for
my text that little suggestion of the
Good Book which says: knock and
it shall be opened unto You"
Let us knock for admission to the
bigger, broader, better world of living
and as we knock there shall fall from
the inward swinging door the accumu-
lated cobwebs of indecision, slothful-
ness fearfulness to DO right, tolerance
of evil for lack of energy to stir up
good impulses, and all other sins of
omission.
AS we knock at the portal of the
grander realm of real living we shall
see the dark things of evil which have
been lurking about the door to frighte=
us away, stink crouching and afraid to
be lost in unutterabe darkness.
| respect the man who knocks what
is not good and although / may not at
the time feel too friendly toward him
who tells me my faults, in course Of
time I shall come to feel grateful to
him for tearing the bandages from my
eyes.
Some folks say this is a knockers
town. | don't know about that, but
do know there are some good knockers
here. There are always good knockers
everywhere
When a faulty dam threatens a city
with destruction, do not pat the bad
actors on the back but knock, brothers
k ock
If our beautiful town has unlovely
places, horrid holes, get in and knock
When public servants would keep
secret the business of the people, let
there be one grand chorus of knocking
and perhaps we may open the way to
some due appreciation of the dignity
of the public.
If wharf is rotten, knock! If graft
exists, knock tiff a baseball game is
on the glimmer, knock hard! If we're
not getting our moneys worth, we will
knock
Knock brother, knock!
Knock with care!
Better be a knocker
Than Teddy Bear
For Teddy Bears have no individual !
itq-a child can handle them
To knock. or not to knock?
That is the question
Whether 'twere better to endure
The gutteral gibes of goo-goo gutter
snines
Who tremble lest they should let
slip.
A word that might imperiI some
snide job !
Or be a guttersnipe ones self
TO quat and smoker all the whole
day long.
Supremacy happy in the coward com
fort
OF never playing critic.
Whether 'twere better far to be a
man.
Declaring unafraid gainst bitter
wrong
Or play the simpering slave
Who dare not call his feeble soul his
own?
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l am glad to see that my friend the |
Bystander is back Not that he has
not been doing pretty well by mail,
cable and grapevine, but of course per-
sonal inspection is always better, and
there are local matters into which he |
should at once inquire
Abe LOuisson is in town, and talking
coffee just as enthusiastically as ever.
Louisson has never wavered and he |
never will. in his devotion to the in
dustry that made Olaa bloom and then |
droop and gave Hilo a boom followed |
by a disagreeable slump. He will |
talk coffee morning, noon and night
with an enthusiasm surely worthy of !
success. When the Congressional !
visitors were here Louisson was placed |
on the Hilo speakers list, and he gave |
coffee talk as full of ginger as !
Fourth Of July grafton. The picture |
he drew of the Americanization posi- |
bic with small coffee farms in Hawaii |
was a glowing one. / believe it was
all true and if the tariff Louisson pre-
diets ever comes, the dream will be |
realized and I.OUiSSOn will | sunnOsp |