Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume XII, Number 1, 16 August 1890 — HOTCH POTCH. [ARTICLE]

HOTCH POTCH.

"Thmgs will 1 ast iny iime,'' was the favorite motto of Louis XY, o£ Pranf»o. a moniircli who lived just b9foro tlie ilelu'/o, ajad died wit!i a prophetie iustinct tliat an era of sciitteration and eternal smash was at hand. He was a pious man in liis way as piety went in an age when God thou-iit twice b-fore He damned a person of qua!ity, and lie was a kind-hēarted sovereiga who could forgive an eneray or boil a frien£ wit]i equa! facility, and he wasgenerons till wine and -wmeu left liiiu without a cent and he suftered from attacks of bi!iousness wliieli lie took to be repentance 'and he misteok his stomach-ache for his soul, and his sorrow waxed so exceeding great fox thē suffeiingo of his unhappy subjects that he hanged a few of them to put them out of their niisery. • UaL hi guueral he let tiiing.> slide, in the hope that the old institutious would' last his time; and his hope* | provecf to be well founded and his son who was a slow, feeble, thiek headed saint with a tremendous appetite was blowu up ih his stead i when the great upheaval eaaie and ideiice did n£ seem any longer to have any special regard for persons of q;iality. His famous motto and a dilapidated harem were the only assets that the crownsd fataliat left behind liim; e latter was buried somewhere aud lias l6ng since "beea forgotteii, buitiie formersti!l sanires, ai)d is doing gooil serviee zo fhis day. The one aim anel purpose of some of our rnles and stat3sman has been tQ patch up the decayed, moth-eaten £ramework of society sufficiently to liiake it iast their time, and when the props became so throughly decayēd as to indicate inseeurity to the framework, it was expected that they would have «ufficient warning so as to be able to stand from undex wliile the bottering structure eame down in a heap.

Tlie tenacious efforts of tbe late ministry or rather the "majority" of it, to prop np tlie eabinet structure were simplv lieroie; but tlie amouM |ol ' • dry rot'' wkieli they tliemselves i had daubed on to that peiee of state i fnrnifcure had done its wort too well. }The "Mob" never knows it&elf, aa sueh, untilit is so designated; and woe be to the hired mau, \vhetlier he i3e a King or a would be King h\ the gnise of a mediocre polynesian Lawyer 3 who vents his pnnv venom on the Mob. The MO-B, always strikes haek-when it ean. And thus it eomee to pass, tlaat things do not alwavs last as long &s we mtend they sho'uld. Tlie partv »yho insisted so ktudiy oa tlie faet *-iattheirprosperity Uauheeu ' 'greai'' <ud not last long eus>ugli to ! \p\edge the conutrys oredit" for a cable. Tha eorruption of the tax appeal scandal didnot help to prop up the tottering jJiiiee secure enovvgh to atand the weight of ;iJiy moie snc\t '' appeals/' in our tiine. The presc;.t Jmy law is another 110 uiado to last "our time. " Xt has eouie dow n

ito «s unclmngevl in twenty ye>ira I wliieh gives it a stAn3mg t an I antique instit«tion aud a stu«\v Wb lau J tiiat tke Judge and another offieial prepares tlio la&t of Jur\)rs wlueh l>y exouses, ov hoiiu mtensU«l r f>therwise, wav he reaweeit to h paiiel of sixteen or less. What a lawe? Wliat a traveatie oa trial by Jurv aa kaowu ou a»v) oU»er eouutrj . Wo r<wl s;u of Uie iujustiee to t ie theniSelves. W Iwink kept a >nohth m>in thoir bnshwss; cftiavmg tUeir unfortuuate heatls addkxl iuto iaghtinare t>y legal argumeut iu au ,UiUv>-splieiv ot IH uil thro«gh t!ie whoie ealaiuler; \\heu 110 eartluY eaus€> existe iu a !arge eommewlal r >* v lik« U«s f fv>r « Jurvmau to sit ou uiow th*u two trials in a teriu ; or for au o&eial to l>e ehAsiug arouiul tite eourtvai\l after talesiuen, We ao eoustitutioually forbid elass legislatu>iv; but is it »ot plaiu ihal no working nmn whe *orks for a da>s k seeu ou oui J urv paiWĪ • WalK' sava tiiefaskil ;it will last m\ t*«ne aiuī I <!<> hate SuvU the tune of the |xiixh \1 uoh»iity who *un\nuuUHl h\ u \A t aud 110 \\as Hstv>uifslivHl wheu ihe wMi the emek iu i Ii he eoukl hav« j>erehe4 UoK\spierve ou the top of the lwiler i>y a }vr»uanenoe iu oHiee iiekei, s;ui uuv>\ku iu the of eheif~ <>.*iuiu-Ihhtei to the \i aUuk» ano l"aksr ef the »niraele-jnen iiU* MNU</#<.•>•, jUlvi ?*eeaixnl to his (eiion-iwolni ionists jv sUit<\i saUiy. laHUS ha>e suri\»U3ikUnl htn\sel( witli a ef tUo wouUĪhaw nuiae U*v vxh\ au i uiji w ith the $iW:tes asul oC Lu ioiin. auvj l.e nnght *'.U t!nvnsh tv jsv<t<tisA s> a ivval l*neV. st\le tv 4 lv }Uv\>Ui tr.e * \phwor» lt> hi> vWe:ul.H\K ,ti ,1 h t ihou taKe their atno the nnns A.