Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 257, 6 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Thk fol!owing apf>*arpd iu tbe Advertieer in the description of the 4th of July festivitiee at little Britain whieh it «tated took plaee “on the H7th anniver?ary of the independence of the United Statea of America, and ihe Jirst of the independence of līaienii." We have occaeionally express»ed our wonder and surprise at aome of the most remarkab!y myatenou9 sentence8 to whieh the Advertiser «o frequently treata us. but for undiluted iriple exlract of idiocy commend ue to the above dnvelling rot. We ean excuse a great deal in a man who has to sit d »wn after the 4th of July ia over and write a description of all the profes9ional patriotism and screaming 9pread-eagleiaoa in whieh it has heeome' a custom for otherwise sane and respectable meu to wallow, but we eaunol imagine what could make the editor of the Advertiser indulge in such supernatural patent absurdity as the above quoted. Does he mean that Hawaii heretofore has not been an independent sovereignty under ite own government and flag, but that this year our independence ia guaranteed? Then the annexation club should look at hia tongue and ieel bis pulee and try to diagnoae what ailmenl makea their hired 9cribbler go 9traight against their hopea and postulationa *ud tell us that there is no snnexation. Or does he mea.i that Hawaii lost its independence when Mr. J. L. Stevene boisted up the Amenean flag over his little band of filibuster* and made it float next to the Hawaiian, while at the same tim« ths Hawaiian nalion by that emhlem of freedom was trampled on and their rights temporarily crushed by agangof adventurous foreign«rs? If will Uke it all back and say that we fully l>elieve that this year will be the first anniversary of our indej»endence —iudepeudence from a tvranny t>f foreignere and a future independence from iu8ulting interference and abuse of ambitious r«presentatives of the United Sute*. But that day Hawaii will giv« a oelebration of her own and will invite the editor of the Advertiser to be preseut and fully wnle up the fe*tivities on the serond restoration day in Haweii. The Newark Time* seems appar«ntly to be as mueh of a curio«ity to the Star as that pap«r cerUinly was to tho«e inhabiUnts ot the £astern city who put it onder a fbundation ston« with mueh otiier usual rubbish for tho«« occasions. But all genuinely American joorn «Iism is a curiosity to th« SUr as it is eo absolutely oppoeiU to everything it practises or att«mpU to practise in «ither tbe line of n«wagiviug or oommenU W« advi«« th« 8tar fiend to put in a iittl« of his tioM studying np Amenean joornslt and jonrnaiisU, and tbeir plaee «nd imporUnce in the history and

moulding of puhlie opinion in th« SUtes, and if he wanU any other or more ‘*potent mou!der* of publie sentiment” cf the *ame kind. nt will engage to furni*h him enough to fill his long promised edition daily, to the exclusion of the whole of the lies and n i*?tatements and mi9quotations. whieh he now dilutes over the spare columns of six, and cerUinly to the everlastiug entertainment and benefit of the few peoyle who have now palienee enough to wade through his 9lobbering mountehankieh voite-faces of drivelling idiocy and iguoranee.