Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 266, 26 August 1891 — ON DIT. [ARTICLE]

ON DIT.

That tbe broom. whieh wae handled with a grand flourii5h, at the ineeplion oi her Majes:ty'9 reipn, hae £rownold and t}ireadbare, anvl is beginnmg lo leave signs c»i £lth aad corrupUvin hehiiul, that shows a "ganffrenous" worre Ihan ever wan known to \ ex i'si befo "e in the a<lmi n i1r Uion <>l thin | eountiV. i That. thtve are r»o lossth?.r» fo"arte<°n lot--terie.s or-Cv ha.nk? no-.v ronductetl hy Oluneee aml uiider.:thc 1 eovcr 3ii(l .01 whose J".si;ation au:oJig- iho-peoplo f?houM be to 1- tl;;«n t<» en.eoura$w vice. Oh, | filtj)y i-.iw». vhou >:eerae«t to iind devoJ ; <) >h; ii".».* yrnong rhe higheat in | the land. That tho on!y per«on \vho seemed to be at lekui e to iniile and dotT ihe ohapeau to the Queen a« sheswept bv. iri tbē ehariot; was the Pofit' Masfer General; and ;hat this reeogJiition a? TeiresVmv.: t/> \ter Ma\e«ty as an oasis to a tliir-'ty traveler in tlie desert, there cannot ehe least āoubt. lt waē Yetree\ving to to "heho\c, itotu another\ corner,the bmirk, whu h wan an ovation \ in itsel/'. That the hyphen-ated little Yankee profeesor was importetI into the countr\' ■ and Cabinet,' that lie might extract the fangs of the poiiticaI opp<i>6ition. That he has not.yet found the Opp£sition in a sufficient stateof eoma to allew him j to adjust Iiis forceps. That he mav as I >velldieeard the contractae£twnll require a bigger and a stroDger "Yank," than our hyphen-ated friend, to carry off our , political inciaore. .. That the overgrown and overied boy 4 who wears.the title and draws the saiary oi Minister of Foreign Aftair=, indulged in some volubIe proianitvof late when interviewed 011 matters political by a iellow countryman. Tbat the proianity was inepire<i by his rea<lir.g of Ka Leo, . and was levelled against our suppoeed contnbutors, That we and our cqntributors were sufficiently worldly not to be frightened by profahity, when couched ■ in his alleged bad £nglish. ? That the, Minister niifst not exeite<)ur deriston. or \ve raay revive a phase of tl\e past , and refer to him as the Fat Boy of the Foreii?n 0ffiee. • . That a Hawaiian. this time, eaped a ; Celestial of sliekels to permit him to go on his way rejoicing: that no soorer was Mr. /ohn unloading the hooale when curly Boby put in a elaim as ' agent for a fn-m of j>earl monop61iete, who suspecte<l trom the odor alx)utthe poodle . that it was beohe le mer, on whieh the k firm had placed an embargo. That the ' f reeult wa8 anuther 3,000 shekels. The eugar barone are not the ones. that *■ āre benefitted by John. after all. I ■ ■ — L That eomebody is Laving a monoi»oly of thehellish bnsine?P of epium, pakapio and ehe ia; tbat the bnsines8 is uhder a trnst, which u;kes in Hawaiian ladies ; aniong the Tr.- Hawaiian ; people are on!v now le. ri.nvu; rhat it K wise and quite thepro}vr as a miesion.\ry to have pleni v of money in oniei to lx k resiuvtal herivaud in the world to come,.and tl;at the Ma?!erS r;ily miti- . take for wliieh the world rei;itM.ni to .wcept f him \vas his poverty. So 'he New England l>ible peddlars h;ive always kept t heir weather eve peeleii aiul k$?pt the Ha« i wa«ian disoip!e in dsrkness as re<rarded i the one errer whieh thoy felt tlie Ixml » had made uinil the pupil was pn>perly i peeleil; now tlie disciple hae di«ae\>veml . his error aud isi trying to imitate t teaeher in M>ine of his peeuliar wavs to i beeom« rt table—thus the master ha* t to toleraie a httl« 1ilthy worR among e whom they have labore<l so assiduously ; to elevate ami to ?tart in life as they t did by o*iiers. The pupil - lias g<>t started and there is no knowine r how well iie may do uader the spirit oi i toleranee allowevi hitti, The race w iil be ? permitt<\L tor a while to be rcitous but never anythmg that refletts ou tbe sauctiiy of hiv teaclier ior that is—hi«ki '