Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 267, 25 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Akter all thedrivelling rot whieh the governu)ent haa expended over the expenditure to Kalalau, there is nothing tragico-comic in learning that that eridently i* a’.i that our rc.lers do intend to expcnd for the men who went to Kauai and did their duty and who now find the governraent haggling over tbe pay for their services and try»ng to beat them down. Of course, the men who are treated so are toe special police-officers who were selected by Captain Larsen to go with him The '‘army”'would have no trouble —Mr. Dole knows enough not to step on the corns of his armed pets. But after all these men who took part in the both daogerous and decidedly very tiring and dissgreeable expedition have been praised and slobbered over and bad letters a la Buonaparte written to them from Field-Manhal Dole, and generally made to poee aa tbe defenders of the country and patenthercee, it seems rather mean to find the gorerument ooly consideriog the whole affair worth 12.00 per day or the pay of an ordinary docklaborer. Tbat the boys are kicking seema quite natural. We coosid-

•r«d the policy whieh ha« cr«ated •U th« troub!e at Kalalau injudicioua aud deeerTing of the stronge«t criticism but if the eoTerumeut onee uudertook the raatter and decided toeaddle the tax-pavera with another rid.culoue and oulrapeoua •xpenae it should fulfil ita proraises to the men who undertook the job, and it sbould pay them every cent due them and pay them at fair and decent rates