Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 117, 12 December 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

We complitnent tbe AttorneyOeneral for having so promntly accepted the suggestion made by the Holomua, relating to the appointmenl of di&triot magistrates bv introducing a bill amending the Judiciary Act in regard to this object. We hava already,in our columi.s, «howu the reasons why the change in the appoinling powers &hould be made. We eympathize with Kikila. He hae undertaken a contract whieh nobody will envy him. To be obliged to furnish brains, and political “savee” for the crowd among whieh fate and his ambition has pitched him is no sinecure. The vote last Friday postponing the consideration of the salary of the President of tbe Board of Health drove him to distract!on. It was * solid party vote, and it left the eupporters of the cabinet out of eight, and the cabinet perfectly paralyzed. If the Ministers only could nnderstand why that postponeraent was made they may feel a little more easy, but this groping in the dark makes thera feel cold and uncomforlable, and it makes Kikil» long for a trip to the other side of the Island to get his nerves straightened. The cabinet need have no fear. This was only the salnte whieh flignalises the opening of the pyrote•ehnie display whieh will conclude the polkieal show of this season, and make somebody go up in emoke—if it be the Cabinet or not, time only, not the Holomua ean tell. The slippery eel who represents Koloa, Kauai, is trying to wiggle away frora his statement he would rather see the poliee department crippled than see it receive the appropriation asked for. His denials are of no use, The fact remains that for onee his oily tongue slipped, and he spoke what he meant, instead of what would suit the party and it» objects. At the same timehe is very willing to subsidize a lot of scbools, aud spend money on institutions whieh have heen getting along very well without a snbsidy for years, so his cry of economy when the poliee appropriation is mentioned sounds rather as coming not fi-om his heart, but from his gall so mueh embittered by his more and more fading chances of becoming an Attorney-General. We do not for a moment wish to infer that we disapprove of any Bubsidy given for educational purpoees. but we think that in the yery precarious state of affairs of tbe finauces of the country the paying for abeolute necessities should have taken plaee before the spending of money for objects whieh could manage to get along a little longer on their own resources. Since the passage of the $12,000 item for shipping our trumpeters to Cbicago, ihe Houae hae no right to talkabout hard times or economy any longer. Even our eeteemed friend Noble Homer, was led *

away by the seducing music of the departed Thurston and aseisted in passing the outrageous scandaloos item. He probably thought though that the sum was to be paid in his banknotes and if that is the case we have no objection even if 112,000 are to be spent —thev don’t cost mueh. Stil' the T. O. J. opium is a mysterie. In spite of the brain combinatiou at work on it no propress has been made. Has it ever been suggested tothe unfathomable minds of the Deputy Collector and his detective that the makai gate of the O. S. S. Co’s wharf ia large enouph to admit of the passage of freight other than fruit ? This elue is furnished gratis, and we ask for no otflce as a recompensation for our clever idea. Since the investigation (sic!) started the puzzled deputy calls about eleven times daily at the information bureau on Merchant street, but although the manager looks awfully wise and makes his safety spin all over Chinatown the puzzle will never 'oe solved. 1850 was paid to get that opium away from the wharf. Now byold Harry iet us find out who paid the money and who got it! The Report of the Opium Committee has heen presented. We believe that Representative Ashford has arrived at a very sonnd and clever result and that the hill with some amendments ougbt to pass. : We cannot consider it wise to grant mcre than one lieenae for the whole country. Althongh there are lome points in f>ivor of the issuing of Iicenses for ieveral dia tricts, we thiuk that the work of sunervising and control!ing the system would be greatly facilitated for the poliee authorities by having only to deal with one licensee instead ofa dozen or so, and we do not believe that the revenue will be at all diminished. Our experience in the Awa licenses has been, that in the country districts, the eventual applicants nearly always compromise among themselves and buy only one of the licenses offered without competition at the upset price, and we feel confident that the same would take plaee m regard to the opium licenses. The working under the opium license granted Chung Lung was very satisfactory and althougb the licensee made an immenee profit, the government had, besides a hand8ome revenue, very little expenae in looking after the carrying out of the provisions iu the license, and neither the Custom House nor the Poliee Department were ealleu upon to stop smuggling or any other infringement on the right of the 15censee. We hope that tbe House will amend Mr. Ashford’s bill in thie respect and we believe that such action will be of benefit to the country. We were surprised to see the □ame of the diminutive Marquis of lao attached to the report. The spirited Nohle must have broken looae from Mr. Baldwin’s aprowstrings and tried to paddie hia own eanoe. We wonder lf he is eontemplating to foIlow his poliiieal idol from Haleakala and skin oat. What a loes to the country and to the lao stockholders!

The M Adrerti9er ,? is responsible for the Btatement that Mr. Frear is to be made a Circuit Judge for Oahu. We lave been asked who the gentleman is and oan furnish the information that although he is a parlner of L. A. T. he is not to be oonfounded with the eleolion partner whotook the“Advertiser s polilieal hope away on the ‘Australia" —the latter is of vastly superior intellect to the former although not so harmless. Noble Baldwin has taken the wisest part. and we are sure it ought not to be taken away from him. He now attends to his plantations, and looks after Baldwin's interest. If the rest of the Legislative planlen would do the same we are sure that business would run more smoothly, and everybody would be pleased except “Hennery” and hia hand organ. We are glad to notice that there were only six merabers who followed the Advertiser’s advice, and tried to rob the MeNeal Safe Company of the money due it. This is another sign that Hennery is not infallible. We advise him instead of making an addition to the building whieh contains his paper to increase the contents of his “upper story” where there is plenty of room for more cerebral material. The editor of the Ang)ican Church Chronicle terms the late Henan a man of thin intellect. We would like to know how the editor would designate his own in tellect if he ever gets a ehanee to write h:s own obituary. The reverend boy-thrasher from the Kamehameha Schools is out again in the Advertiser. In his true style as a Chameleon he has changed colors, and this time he appears as an anti—annexationist. Probably he has received a hint from thc trustees of the aehool that it is not proper to speak annexation openly; he might teach his eeniimenla to his pupils in an underhanded diplomatic way so as to prevent ill-feeling among the Hawaiian parents. The trustees ehouki follow the example of the autocrat, and great mogul of the Board of Education and forbid the teachers to express, or in tact have any political opiniona. It was touching to see the longing expression In Mongooae —Joe’s little eyes when be watched the “Bostonians” in the Opera House doing the minstrel and elown business. Mr. Crowley is generally considered a fair man, but we think it decidedly unfair of him to leave poor Joeout in the cold—and audience. Refused as a Cabinet Miuister, neglected as a elown, sat on by Jones, what is left for Joe in this world ? Sail in and win the Hawaiian Hardware Co’s prize f*>r the best Christmas dinner. If he cannot make it he ean eat it. It was reported this morning that a bird of passage mueh wanted by his countrymen was stopped in his flight by the ever vigilant poliee. The always alert “Advertiser” reporter will probably get on to the item in the course of a eouple of weeks. We don’t chnrgo him for material furnished to Hennery'a paper. It is a well-known and induhitahle fact that persons who profe*a to he more religious than the | average are mostly of an emotional nature wilh a strong tendeney

toward hysteria. This probably accounts for theinsanely h\etencal and illogical shnek of mixe*l metaphor. shocking spelling. and incomprehensible akusion worth\ onlv a furious fish-fag after a seven-dav Samoan spree, apparently directcd al this paper in “Ka Leo.” On second thought, j>erbaps it was nol super-religious frenzv directe\l into the unaccustomed ehannel of un-Christianly venomous invective. The nominal religious editor of the sheet may |X)S3ibly huve been too busy in planning how to further enlarge or rebuild his religious house out of ihe pockets of his legislative opponents, or in revising thoge wonderfully excellent family translations for the Printing Commiltee.. And so, thisevaneecently iridescent i gem of idiotic ignorance may have slipped, unnoticed and unchecked by either ihe ever-vigilant religioua or the pecuniarily devoted eye of this selfstyled solitary Liberal, from the hand of one of the irresponsible 3$ men and a boy who intermittently don as a disguise the tattered and torn editorial we of “Ka Leo,” (through whieh however the nakedness of their personality so prominently peeps forth) and eall themselves a “voice” in r ery small capitals in the intervals of manufacturing faliacious finaneial problems. slave-driving orientals, cork-drawing. drawmg trust funds, writing other people’a plays, hawking indecent photographs, snaking chickens, stealing , opium, making bomb«, hatchiug conspiracies or other of the thou- i sand and one employments they, from time to time pursue, until interfered with by the poliee. If so we forgive this infliction of his unintelligible hysterical ravings on an unsuspicious and long-suffer-ing puhlie. It must have been hard to be called a crank when one had merely been attempting to make an eagle flight on the sole

! support of ;he p«n-feather of 4 gooee. There, uever mmd. Soncv Don‘t do it agaia' Don’t rj You’re more fnghtened th.m