Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 168, 9 April 1891 — Page 4

Lying Historians.

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   There probably is not a spot on earth that suffers so much from the pen of the lying parapatetic globe-trotter a Hawaii.  Every ignoramus who spends an hour in Honolulu and suffers from the incurable disease of wanting to see himself in print, must draw a soul harrowing view of our condition which generally excites our own laughter and disgust, a un-exaggerated if not totally false picture.  Nor can we be content with charging foreign visitors only with being our traducers.  Recent correspondence published in the San Francisco papers; notably the Examiner and the Chronicle are probably the work of local residents, and are dastardly and contemptable efforts, aimed in a spirit of malignity to wound and injure at least one high in the community whose exalted position renders personal defense impossible.

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   The probability is, that if the contemptible coward and his confreres who penned the Examiner article stood revealed before the public, we should see a group the center figure of which, is not remarkable for the virtues of chastity or commercial morality, and the most probable impulse of th honest foreigner in this community would be to decorate him with a coal of tar and feathers in recognition of his merit as a writer of local history.

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   The latest uncomplimentary picture of ourselves 'as others see us' is printed in the P.C. Advertiser of Tuesday last, and is stated to have appeared in "The Hurst Johnian" a small religious monthly published at Hurstpeirpoint, Eng.

 

   As we--in our English travels--never came across, or heard of this village, we suppose it to be some obscure spot on the coast known for a few months in the year as a "watering place," an for the balance of the year chiefly occupied by the local curate and his wife and ten daughters, who between them print the "Johnian" to help out the family "Johnycake."

   We consider the fact of this burlesque appearing in the obscure "Hurst Johnian" proof of the fact that it could not find its way into any well-read or readable magazine.

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   But, says the Advertiser "it is credited to high authority."   Ah, there's the rub.  The chance of charging Bishop Willis with having inspired the absurdities with which the "Johnian" article abounds, was too good to be lost.  The "Johnian" scribe was evidently a "cad" of the tory type who was a unfamiliar with good manners as he was of good composition.  He called on Bishop Willis and was in such a hurry that he could only catch our King's name as "Catchmahoo."  But this is the sort of stuff that must be tacked on to a worthy self-denying minister of the gospel, whose life on these islands has been a "living epistle" known and read of all men; consecrated to the single purpose of doing good to all--but especially to the Hawaiian, to whom his mission is especially directed and for whose welfare has best efforts and private purse are ever open.

   "Oh the rarity of Christian charity under the Sun.

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What is Wealth?

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   In a long article on "Wealth," the London Daily News impresses upon its readers as a desirable  thing that all should redouble their efforts towards amassing riches  "as the purchasing power of money is daily lessening, and those rentiers who fancy they are set up for life now will find themselves badly left at the expiring of the present century."  True, O sage, and yet the rentier may be even worse off than  you have foreshadowed; in fact he may have ceased to cumber the earth; but regarded from another standoint the moralit of your logic is as doubtful as your economics are vague, the accumulation of riches does not constitute, the ace of utility, reason or happiness.  The men who are wanting in what the world terms "common sense."--that wretched mediocrity of human capacity which wrongly imagines the satisfaction of individual monetary cravings, regardless of the feelings or interests of others, as essential to their own welfare and happiness; are the men whom posterity will enshrine with honor, while the lives of teh money-grubbers will descend into perdition.

   In the latter days of the miser's life his past misdirected energies come sadly home to him.  Un honored and unsung he is consigned to oblivion.  Happiness without sympathy is purely chimerical.

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The Late John F. Swift.

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   One of the men of whom California has reason to be proud is John F. Swift, the late U.S. Minister to Japan.  Having been attracted to California in the days of  the Argonauts, and like hundreds of others disappointed in gold-hunting, he worked as a tinsmidth and sold vegetables in the market and fond time to study law.

   He won distinction at the bar and drifting into politics became known as one of the most scholarly men in public life.

   Mr. Swift was not cut out for a permanent success as a politician.  He had independence, and when he saw a principle he made straight for it.  His honesty of purpose and unflinching adherence to what was true and of benefit to the masses brought him the powerful enmity of the monopolist class, who devoted considerable pains and money making trouble for him at critical moments.  As a diplomat Mr. Swift achieved a creditable record and in the treat restricting Chinese immigration he, as one of the three commissioners, was doubtless the true representative of California's demands.

   Long will his memory be cherished by the workingmen of the United States.

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Who is Holy?

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   "He was not a holy man, I have heard it murmured.  How man of the professing Christian of America are noted for their purity and truth?  What proportion of the foreign Christian population of Hawaii are free from lust, rapacity and fraud?"

   We quote the above remarks of Mr. Reed of Trinity Church, S.F., with reference to the late King's character for holiness, and th comparison made with those who profess Christianity, and the peculiar and fitting attributes applied dto them interrogatively by the author of the article.  Th application could no have been more truthful, in the statement, t han if the author had been a resident among us.  Whatever may be said of people onn other places, none excel Hawaii for lust, rapacity and fraud.  The poverty of the Hawaiians in lands especially, is due to some of the most outrageous and tricky transactions, that can be exercised between individuals.  A strong evidence in favor of the rector's opinion of or foreign Christian population, is the fact that our most worthy Christian friends have absorbed thhrough lust, rapacity and fraud, nearly eaverything there is in the country, and they are now seeking to obtain the power to enslave the people.

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ON DIT.

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   That a large exit of our towns people took place yesterday, for foreign climes. 

   That a prominent official left for a visit East, by permission, who it is said will be officially guillotined during his absence.

   That another official took French leave of absence, due, says a contemporary to domesitc infelicity and the influence of arbitrar petticoat government.

   That many of the boys aboard the steamer wept when they heard the trumpet tones of Berger's Band, as the vessel drew awa from the wharf, plaing the "girl I left behind me."

   That John Thomas has taken his smmer tour abroad, looking hale and frosty an brimful of the sparkling elixir of life.

   That Charley B. has gone abroad to buy an island, with th view of running a government of his own.

   That the decapitation of a man during his absence, lacks principle and courage on the art of the executioners.

   That Marques' Civil Service Bill would p event a slaughter of th einnocents, if it had been ae law.

   That the supposed author of the Chronicle letters, left by the  Australia for San Francisco, and tha his absence will no be missed except as a party leader paha.

   That Samuel is a grass widower and is inconsolable.

   That Carter will resign if Lutz is reinstated.

   That the Queen feels the burdens and cares of state, and realizes that all that glitters is not gold.

   That the medical examination of policemen, under the new Police regulations, has been modified.

   That purchasers are after Mokuumeume, or Ford's Island, in Pearl Harbor, and that a well known broker and laud grabber has alaready loaned three thousand dollars to the young heir of the property, who is in the United States.

   That the Cosmopolitan Shooting Association embraces a large sprinkling of MOngols and Hawaiians.

   That  Judge Dole's opinion on the validity of transfers of contract is the major view of the people.

 

KUAI HOOPAU NUI.

 

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Mai keia manawa aku a hiki i ko Makou hoonee ana aku iloko o ko makou

 

HALEKUAI HOU

 

Ma ke Alanui Papu,--(NA HALE BURUA.

 

E hoolilo aku ana Makou i ko Makou waiwai a pau o na ano Lole:

 

   NA LOLE NANI,

 

                      NA LOLE I HUMUIA,

 

                                              KAPU A ME PAPALE

                                                         

                                                           PAHU LOLE, a pela aku

 

No na Uku Hooemi Loa Nae.

 

Egan & Gunn.

 

ALANUI MOI kokoke i ke ALANUI PAPU.                                                                tf-d.

 

Hoolaha Hou!

 

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B.F. EHLERS & CO.,---Painapa

 

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Ua loaa mai nei ia makou he mau waiwai hou loa, oia hoi

 

      KAKIMA,

 

                KINAMU,

 

                    KEOKEO HALU'A

 

                                    CHALLI.

 

                                               VIKOLIA KEOKEO.

 

---A ME NA---

 

Mikilima o na ano a pau, a me na paku puka aniani  kela a me keia ano, no na kumukuai haahaa loa.

                                                                                                           B.F. EHLERS & CO.

   Alanui Papu, Honolulu,--25--d3m.

 

Ka Buke Akeakamai.

 

......A O......

 

 

KE KI GULA

 

NO KEKAHI MAU MEA HUN O HAKUII I HULIIA E KA NOE AU O KE KANAKA.

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KAKAU mua ia e ka Mea Hanohano

      DAVID KALAKAUA a me kekahi ipoe e ae he nui, a i Hooulaia, Hooponoponoia, a         

      Hoomahaaha hou ia e Levi-i-Levi ole ia ka Akeakamai Hawaii o ke keneturia 19.

 

Mahele o ka Buke.

MAHELE I.

ZODIALOGIA--Hoike Ouli  ma na kalana Mahina.

MAHELE II.

NAEVIALOGIA--Hoike Ouli ni ka Ila o ke kanaka.

MAHELE  III.

METRAGARATIMA--Ka hoike Ouli ma ka Hoonohonoho Huahelu ma ka Helu Kabala.

MAHELE IV.

ONEIROLOGI.

MAHELE V.

Ka Papa Konana Hoailona Pomaikai.

MAHELE VI

Ke Arimatika Kamahao.

J.M. POEPOE.