Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 206, 2 June 1891 — Correspondence. [ARTICLE]

Correspondence.

-\Vp are not in any iseuse :V)rthe Htateinents or views of i'Orrespon«lenlp.

OUK SHEKīFFS.

In any civilized country when a SherifF is to be selected eve^- for a ,to piek a man of even temper, one that is eool courageous, and posseses good judgment; one that will vindicate the law without personal feeling or prejudjce; one that has not a blind side that unprincipled men, tools, and things, ean take advantage of one that is not tvrannical by nature. Where the People have a say in affairs of this kind, a man of this stamp would be selected. The office of Sheriff of Hawaii ranks next in importance to that of Marshal of the Kingdom. We are aware that one of the rules | of thedefunctreform administration j in filling a vacant oiliee, was to put! in some one that never would loose an epportunity to administer to i Mr, Kanaka and his haole friends a kiek, and the present incumbent of this office, like Pharoh and his task-masters, demands the tael"of bricks every time, though he knows they have not the straw his fathers found tliem with, neither have they a wilderness to flee to. They did not treat themselves or their own friend tf right, īn making a SherifF of this indhSduaL Eaeh district on Hawaii has to accept a Sheriff of this man's choosing. We will mention sowie of the rec nnmendations and qualifications that no doubt secured him the ofiice' and has th us far enable<? him to retain it. First and hitherto foremost, he is of missionary stock, he ean get off as mueh grace at table, drink as mueh whisky and swear as hard as anv man that ever attempted to combine these rare accompliements together, he has a smattering of law at least enough of it to evade it when it is to his advantage todo so, He was a loud politician for the reform partv; such men ean alawys whine out the word reform in the most sanctimoneous manner; his son is a good shot and was in the belfrey of the Kawaiahao Church at the tiine of the Wilcox rack.ei, - no doitbt his Kanaka bit th*i dust, one of the oeople amongst whom he has heen brought wp from ile is an ill-favored, Aannel - mouthed specimen of a defunct sugnr planter, with an ill-iust-try-us nauie. It is Bheriffs of tlus stamp that fill our jails with some of tho best natives in the country for trifling ofr.:ncvs, while the Asiaticsand other fon igners, break the laws of the land with impunity daily and are i»everj brought to justice. Had this individual been removed whui thorc was a change of LdminiBtration, he wou]d now be, what he ougl»t to have been, a thing of thc p{ts(, as

fac as tbe present. public weal is concerned; but to be tolerated and backed by the present Cabmet, is an idea so intolerable tō those who may have an idea of the,fitness of things, that perhaps the public may j stand it a little longer if they ean. HAWAiii ;