Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 154, 20 March 1891 — The Native Sons. [ARTICLE]

The Native Sons.

Some dav or other the Hawaiian t4 Native Sons" association may possibly r«alizethat ther® is something hivnaorous and grotesqu« about its exist«nce. Mr. Kaulia is reported in the Bulletin of the 18th inßt. to have u refered to the atfcacks of Ka Leo on the character of the so- < iety." This is rather va*ue, but the' speaker proceeds to give a reaeon far the faith that is in everv mother's "Son" by queting the '•motto" of the society as, uemb®dying the principles of tidelity to the crown, love of t"ne laod, and the independence of the cou*try," and FO-f»rth, all of whieh patriotic virtues are of course peculiar and exclusivc to the dozen who form the membership of the "Sops." . We are glad to know the motto is not " Free High Scream," as we were afraid and ®ver indulgence in the article aight cause some of them t* die young before thev conld appreciate the humor of their publie marching and their elevated nollon of the Cummin roast pig ; to sav nothing ©f the u epergnes and vases" that took the eake and "toppcd the refiections." We are told "so far as the society r s mmnbers were concerned the event was eonducted on iempemnee principles,"— what do th«se ad»iissior s amou rit to ? l>oes it n«t mean that the 4, Sons" had no more to do with deriHg the liquor than they had with the rest of the outfit including the epcrgnes ?

We don't like to see people make fools of themselves, and we wish ptand and cultivat« gelf-respect, whieh is not done by toadying to a man of.wea!th eimply because he provides a free dance room and a free feed of an elaborate style for onee, with "epergnes and vases" thrown in. If the chronicle of the native "Sons" has nothingmore in harmony with the social and inwante aad aspirations of his race to orint than a description of "roa?t pig" and l4 epergnes, : ' we beg him to drop making an ass of liimself as a Native. Hawaii has need of of the best attributes of her song, but not to chronic!e slobber aiid guzzle.

Tfae man who atterapted to get up a French Native Sons association in Paris—thus admitting that they were living in sufferance on a foreiga land—or a ieague ©f British natives in England wohM have to escape in disguise in order to get away from public ridicule; but the Hawaiian soiemnly gath«rs himself together day after day to eelebrate the astonishing fact that he was born i» his own country, and it does not occur to him that evcrybodv els«-, is born in hia own eountrv likewise, eo that the fact over whieh he whoops is more eommon ttian giand a great dcal Burpri«iagihan damp water. The ( 'Nativ« in fact raises a nu>numcnt to make known the t'iunding circumstance that'he is himsi v lf. instead of being some ōtiier foliew.

If the "X;itivc S11" ha«l born at the North Poio, or if ho

vvas a French:n:tn cf German parents who eame frotn Xew (luinoa and had first seen the light in Spain, there miprht be something sufficiently sururising about it to be worth screaming over, but the man wh© organizes himself simply because hfi wae born of his own parents aml in the countrv that he belongs to, is exciting himBelf in a war that is quite unnecessarv.