Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume XI, Number 47, 5 July 1890 — VIEWE OF ASMODEUS SUCH. [ARTICLE]

VIEWE OF ASMODEUS SUCH.

Do not mistrnderstand me—althoueh I care nothing for the pr«ise or censure of any li\mg beiū2—do not mieiake nie for a critio who criticises everytbing iii order tō b« soinetimes right. I am never wrong when I con<3escend to eomniil my views to print. Thosē f>.cquainted with mf aneienl iimne will at oneo rccognize my —mei'it and abiiity as a critic, and will aeknowledge that I have controlletl men thrbngh their raling pasaiona for many centuriea, while I have satirizeil them most severely with the leaded lash of lrutb. I trace my ancestry to the original Asmodeiis who quarreliad with the "powers that be" over a question of"fact. My anceators have kept thia dispute alive through many generations and have invariaUy iu B isted that the truth must be told even though the back of the individual belaid bare and the public hide be excoriated to make its application efifective. I am Asmodeus, the Last; and as eoon as I eliall haye succeeded in untangling the aoeial and political condition of Hawaii T sha.ll .immediateīy eall the inilleiiium aud reigu personaDy over_ the hetter and regenerated world, as I am at preneut force.l to to sway my pen over the baser and unregenerated porliou confined to"this unique Kiugdom.

No furtber preface. is needed. That lam thoroughlv disgusted with the" average editorial and: eomninnicated eriticism of tlie HouolUlu press will bQ made ier©after evident, as it is by the present acknowledgement. How sane men, aiui eveu women for that inatter, eun write su<si ingenuous rubbish as appeurs iu otir so-ealled newsp»persiB something that will never be found ,out, if left to those who*īvrite jt. I mal:o no eieeption «ud therefore cheerfuliy a<Bert t ':at the F.i.r.nt is just hs deep iu the iaud as its r )iitemporariep, the Hulkiin aud Adi,'<-rli.itr, are ''oep in the mii-e,. But of all theorutite I have tivei' seen I ean siucerely commend the editoriala of the Advertiser and the communic«tions of tlie wretched

1 t Sissy ScisBor.T 1 ' and the egotistical "A Pawn," printed in the Elkle. Oii tljp other liand vapidity js tlie Isading trait of the Bulletin's editorials and, as it oever snys nnj«uiug to the poiut ut th'j right time, it fairly equnls tlie stupidity of the Advc.rUstr, that ah*ays savs too mueli at the wrong time. As tō other newspapers published here, snc!i as the Friend aud Bush's, paper, pouf, they are unworthy of notice.

I am ext'reinely glad to see tliat my good ,and hard-working disciple, W. R. Gastle, hss laiely iuiproyed ui>on my methocls. Not satiufied with his great legal* skiil, long siuce attairied, in lassoeing stray I see he hag oonceiyed the idea of haviag tUe legalize apnie sections af the dark craft, whieh all my ancestors in vain have tried to have engr Jted upon the laws of Christian civilization. I feel tkere is now speedy hope af accomp!ishmg the lo»ig delayed work q/ my heart, bīrc« I .. 1 re 5 ceivwg the aid aad aupport of the Ch. stian church in Hawaii. If I eau now succeed iu strangliug that youug reformer, E. C. Macfarlaue, who is trying to defeat Brother Castle in carryiug out tliegood work, I am conMent I shall soon l>e able to banisli from the Hawaiian statutes what remaias of justice and lionesty. As soon ās that niomenl arrives I shall be ready to spread the mats for a uniyersallove fēast, to whieh. every member of the Eeform party, with a liog{. gf Qther foreign prtriots, shal| sit

I was verj- sorry to see in the Elele last -week an editorial aguinst the Waterhonse family. I am quite willing to admit it was tie trntli4 but it Was ill-timed and caleulated to do hann. Had the editor of the £lelb beōti older man lie Fould huve been it>ort pircnuippect, \'ou ean nevep Uiake mueh headway by attackiug a rich publio anemy openly eveu thongh you.be right. Allnre uuoh m«ju ns Mr. \Vaterhouse to their ruiti. You should have nrged ljim fprward in the good \vork and \vrung u pramise from him to repest his stateiiicnt in every available paper in the United States. This course would huve tickled the old gentleman so greatly tlmt he would h»ve allowed hie e*nthusia'sm to more speedily and more completely rnin his ewu repuktion. it. is you huve made a solid the Watoihouse fnu»iiy by tlie truth instead of letting your fri«»ud aua my diseiple, John Thomas, tell it in his ovm way. Asmookcs the Last.