Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 104, 9 January 1891 — Telephonic News. [ARTICLE]

Telephonic News.

We hear that Hie Ex./the Minister of Forign Affairs heads iho ]ist of nameB to the rolPof the Native Sons of Hawaii. We eongrnt ulate thc NativeB of " llawaii ,: thus capped, because his Excelien- ('▼ is a valuable crystaline to be at tat;hed to any association, and if they are as fittingly coated, booted and spurred as a bo*y. as they are capped, they will unquestionablv l)e an ornanient to any oountrv aj* an ass©ciation or club. The only defect wer~fmd with the club is its initial start, in ealieo pn New Year's eve, when they should fiave *anade a more natural appearance. To be sure, we have heard of asses asseniblin'g, in li«ns covering, Vut ncver in crinoline or ealieo; but perhaps the age of asinine attractione has given plaee to enlieo intluence. ■ . A sound and just opposition to a! t?overnment ~is a help to it, and i «iiou)d becourted with»ut any fear; i ■jfood statesmanship and free journalism should encourage it. In this rcspfct we regret to s«e some of our loading journala take up a spirit of c«nsure and condemnation, becanse an indi\ T idual dares to cri-1 t : cise th« action of the administra-1 tion in what \8 plainly an injusticej to more than one coßipetitor to a ! pieee of publie propertv. \\ r « j think with the corr«spondent allu- J <led to, iai hie gtatement about the j granting of a lease to H©n. W. H. CornweU, that the Commissioners ot-Crown Lands, in just : eto their pretensions to honesty and as a! <luty to their trust, ahoulei put up | all public lands to puhlie competition, more especially when there are inore than one competitor. The action of administrator« tt public lands and other trusts, contravene? the spirit of our b©asted rebel eon-1 stitution, where an article in it it? j placed there to debar favoriteism I and collusior, But the applidation | oi' the law will probably ahvays be ! used to dis<'riminate agninst Hawa-1 iian legislators, and English journa-1 lisn\support large bonuses and ex- J clusiveprivileges to foreign corporations composed of most of the foreiga membcrs of the Legislature. It is the old story of the farmer's l»ulla, it all depends, on the color of ihe two whieh is right and whieh is wrong.