Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 149, 27 June 1894 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

________ | [We Jo not hold onrselre3 respoasible for the opinions or the ntterances o( our correspomlents.] Epitor Holompa: Are you not aware that there exists in this town a newspaper called the Star, iu the columns < f whieh one Artbur Johnstone, at one time a pet of Gibson and later on o( theNatioual Refonu Party.is indu1ging in the most violent abuses of the loyal citizens of : Hawaii? I ask youthis qaestion I becanse I never see you take any notice of the Star ramblings. SCB3cRlBER. [We are aware that a paper called the St<tr exists, and we are ( aware of the political and jonrn- j alistic career of its allegededitor; but we must ask to be excnsed • fr*>m noticing tbe incoherent editorials in Messrs Atherton, | P. C. Jones aud company’s organ. We wonld rather undertake to invent a perpetunm mohile than to understand or notice the eon- ; tertts of the Stars single editoriul eolumu. Ed.] Epitor Holomua. This is a very cnrious world. composed of strange people. This. perhaps, is veiy necessarv to give spice to life. and break I the monotony of what would otherwise be a rather slow existeuee. The many j>ecnliar ehar- | acters we meet, affect ns in diverse ways. Some tickle ns into langhter. Sorae eompell onr admiration. Sorae draw our corapassion. Othors incite our conterapt. With this !attor dlass. usuallv dnbbed lickspittles, we ali, nn- j fortunately. have eome in contact. We eau hardly conceive of what , excuse natnre eau have for their oreation. Honoluln has notbeen s'ighted as regards lickspittles. Sbe has more than her frtirshare. Whatever or whoever be the powers that rnle there is alw«ys , found a nuraerous class of hang-ers-on. Of lnte Honolnlu’s pro rata of this peculiar species of hnman | nuture have been augment . d by fresh »rrivals from the States. ; The Provisional Governmeut now holding the reins of power, tbey, nrtturally, toady and scrape to them. Theso euekooa are ready and willing to sacrifice trutb, booor and manhood to obtain some saiall notice from tbe mighty dignitaries of the p. g. They mav daily be seen button holing p. g otficia!s, hangiag on to tbe coat laila, as it were, of the delegatea io the convention, aud all the whiie protesting thelr great love for Dole, Smith A Co. j They tumble head over beels in their amiety to obey the rod of tbe temponrily mighty. That these cuckoos will gubmit to any ind>gnity to bo':d or obtain a govemmeot billet is evideoced by the.r reception o( the new cuD3titotion—to be, and their

assent to the omlae and naeleinocn»tic autbority whieh the Ccn-, stitutionaI Conveution have as snrned. They might, at the least, ; bave demanded as raen that their wishes be consalted by the p. g.. i{ mereiv as a matter of form. The p. g., with an assnrance wortby of the C/-ir of Eussia s Government, cooly proceed to ‘ form an oligarchy, safely estim- i atiug the e dibre of most of their registered supporters And yet theso same lictspittles stvle themselves Americ«ns. If these be trne and represent.itive Americaus, then the Ameriean nutioo are a r.tce of byp('critical cravens. We will mercifullv presume that these are renegades,, and that truo Americans will . blnsh with sh.imeshould the mistake be made of assnming that these renegades are imbued with American princip!es.

It is only a sbort while back that the Star, backed up bv the American League, was crving ' “close corporation“faraily ; compact,” etc. What hasbecomo I of all their blnster.' Why so sudden a back dowu? The p. g.. and the p. g press assert bv their respective actions and tone that the “farai!y compact ' are in aud are going to retnain in. The American League assumes 5mmense conspicuousness by its 1 tnvsterinus silence. As providence, no donbt, had | some object iu producingcucknos | or lickspittles, we shall uot critii cizo her wt>rk f'irthor than to say I tbat we cousider it a d bad ! iob. i Zeko. i