Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-09
A PARABLE ON
wilson AND HIS
Mexican POLICY

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: The Mexican Mining Journal num-
bers several readers in Honolulu and
one OF them draws attention 10 the
following rather bitter satire on the
Wilson administration so iar as it
concerns Mexican affairs:
i. TOM AND JERRY.
Once upon a time. long time ago,
about the time the Peerless Leader
blew up and just after a sovereign
and neutral nation almost nominated
president en- the platform, since be-
HCme obsolete and moth Iaaten, of
You gotta quit kickin' my dawg
aroun'," there lived in the ancient
city of Bulconibus two very wise men,
Tom and Jerry. Tom was a profess
sor in the schools and had much wis
dom. Jerry had been a renowned
colonel of militia, for patriotic anG
other purposes, stationed at an in
land city while his country was wag
ing war in a distant land. Having
suffered the perils and privations of
his profession at the inland city while
the bloody strife was being waged
over seas his terrible experiences
showed him the horrors of war and he
has been lecturing on peace ever.
since. Both Tom and Jerry were the
wisest of men in the age in which
they lived and they became rulers of
the city and lived In the Town Hall.
Many interesting and Instructive
legends have come down TO US through
the ages from the remote times in
which the two wise men lived which
illustrate the simplicity OF their
minds. their profundity of wisdom,
and the alacrity with which they
sprang to the aid of their neighbors,
even when their aid was not request
ed nor expected.
Among the many tales which are
told by the old people of the great
wisdom OF Tom and Jerry is that of
the boy and the apple tree and how
the two wise men, Tom and Jerry,
eliminated the boy from the apple
tree.
The Boy and the Apple Tree.
One day, the story runs, Wine the
two wise men, Tom and Jerry, were
rushing the grape juice can back Of
the Town Hall in which they lived
and were concocting brilliant strokes
of diplomacy with which to startle
and please the neighbors, they OBJ
served a husky looking urchin in the
Reighbor's apple tree. Had not Tom
and Jerry been gifted with the great
wisdom which made them the wonder
and delight of their neighbors they
probably would not have horned in at
this particular time and place, seeing
that the apple tree belonged to the
urchin. : But being wise men, as We !.
have seen. they lamped the urchin
with the bilious slant OF superiority
snd decided to make him hard to,
catch. So they called their FAITHFUL
serf. Ole. and cofnmissioned him as
their personal representative to rush
over In the Town Hall bus and tell
the kid to fade away or they, Tom
and Jerry, would come over and pi his
crust. or words to that general effect
handed out in the diplomatic speech
of those ancient times.
Ole steamed off In the bus.
Also he Immediately returned
"Well, Ole" says the wise men,
\ QlQ you denver the ultlmaIum! 4
"Ay did," answered Ole.
did he beat it?"
"Ay tank not"
did you scare him much?"
'.Ay tank not mooch," says Ole.
He tai me ay skal go to hal"
Jerry" says Tom, I'VE have won a
notable victory. The statesmanshipl
we have displayed in eliminating the
kid from the apple tree viii go thun-
dering down the corridors of Main
street and all the people will know
that 1t was us who done it. While he !
hasn't really gone, not so you would
notice it. we will now consider that he
got scared and beat it."
Some eliminating to that" says
Jerry.
"Snma class IN nc {" saws Tom