Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 423, 1 April 1892 — THE NEW FLAG AFLOAT. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW FLAG AFLOAT.

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jw i! «■*> '* staid and |mre !ife hi tb« n . .pf supefBtitHHi and all th* | ieoee cbaracWi«tic* of the Coort of | the King uf O/ihu, and of hia peo« | pl<\ wai a canBtant r**buK«, an4 !pv« !.' mlly coBt him his life and I that of his son. who was heir ' thc !»: sthood aceording to the A •V.* tvp<». whieh Btill &xisted at ih*> lime with many of the forme of wnrship eet forth in Leviticop« The Btory related was aa followBi KMopulupulu, lived about three hundred and fifty years a mnn, who muet be bib!ically term< ed. an Igrae!ite indeect He started in to correct the errorB of the day« mueh as Ka Lao is doing at the present time wiUi tbe iminUii* ties of monarchiee in geoeral an4 cf Hawaii in particular, fipom eov«t ereign to peasant ThiB in due course of Ume a Urge num* ber of leading peqple to see the dangers of immorality and ita ef* fects ib underniming the vitalitf and durabi!ity of the people ae a nati«>n. The teaohing of the pnn phet eventua!l/ lead the peopie under his inspiring and enlemn admomtionB to take up the eauae oi' gcod government and to prevenft the further degradation of tbe race. Tho upriBing, however, waa unsuccesBful, though it had the de--sired effect of bringing about a chht.ge later on. In the meantime, the prophet wai sought for by the BuceesFful opponente of revolt, and the old man found at Ewa, where hTs life wae BacrificeJ, a martyr in the eauae of right and juBtice. Ae the old prophet was ezpiring. he turned to his eon, and eaid: u Flee thou for the Bea, and let the» waters Umoh thy body belore ihe? kill thee. Tbe land ehall then be poooocoed by people who wll Bpring up frbm the direotion of the eea." ThiB explanation tbe Hawaiiana to be the moet sati££ictory andto their childlike and tmpreBBible rainds, the flag wa& looked upon onljr 88 another of the many omene and sigae of the final fulfiilment of the prapkeey of the eld eeer of Oahu, —to the Btranger ehall the land belong. -