Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 261, 18 August 1891 — ON DIT. [ARTICLE]

ON DIT.

That the Queen's Premier, has lately tnouthing a little epeeeh» written for him for use during Her Mājesty's tour, by some fawyer «r literary preacher, whieh proves pooelasively the position of the government. It has a kind of Sunday School tone witlv touching alluBions to "pEeperty:" r We intend to quote and comment, in both laoguages, hereafter. so that his eountryraeln ean take in his full bearing towards them. That it is not at ali surprisiug that the nyyal equipage ,overfwhfen we an ex-Mm-ister was with the Queen at the tin»e; especially as the dropplng of the ex-Jlinister's hanging portrait nearlv preyed him io death. So mueh superstition together was suf* ficient tō overturu any vehicle. That tbe present Premier is a failure, coutrary to onr hopes when he took oflßce. We thoughthe was | the stay of young Hawaii, but his record prove,« that he does npt care for the welfere of hia countrymen, but like hie predecessor piays second fiddle to a cunning coterie of white politicians. Hedoes not yet know the difference betwee<i Hoomaemae and Lahui, but will leam a lesson some day not far henee. That Mr. Thurston has gone to the Coast, where we hope»]he will imbibe some notions of liberty and honor during his sojourn in the home of freedom. That the Heir Apparent, Kaiulani, b!ess her, is to be congratulated, espeoially during the absence of the Fathflor Apparent, to Uie Throne >v that carriag* accid®ftt did not end disastrousky. That the liullelm takes„ ctf«.lit to for having growJed at one platfor.tn -brought beft>re the oics* Vnton. but it cannot oh\irā to have had any part or 1 ♦ in shaping the piatforni trhicu it exiiresses its apprv»val ou lt ever thus with \he tor it nevcrdid have cour«ge or freedom cnough to originate anyihing. if it «vcr had the abilitv.