Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 36, 12 February 1894 Edition 02 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

[\\> do not hold onr«*lTcs m<poDsible for the opiuious or the nttcTunets of oui curre8}<oudents.] Editok Holomi a; Please inform me if guinea fowl comes untler the Hawaiian game laws. And if so. what then i» closed season. There is quite a number of theru on Ouhn and tbey might furuish some good sport. Ei»itor Holomi’a; When fem«les euter the arena of jx>litics. they must expect—notwithstanding their sex —to be treated as ixditicinns nnd receive their deserts as sucb. Tbefemale writer to an eastern paper, who over the nora-de-pluroe ‘Honolulu’ derides the Queen aml others, n!so that other female whose letter ap{tears in the i>. F. Chronid«, endearoring to belittle Mrs. Blount. caunot expect nor do they deser\e any lenit3’. Both of th« se femaies no doubt belong to one or more of the “schools for scandar' whieh are eommon among the societ\' clique of whieh they are raembers. The Christ- j ian like style of characters who meet in tbese scbools for scandal. may be jodged from ihe tone of the Ietters written by those two worthy females. “Honolulu” says, “Speech is ailver, but ailenee is go!den ” it would bave been mueh better for her to have kept silent on a ( snbject of whieh ahe knows nothing, or canuot handle with- i * out perven»iou of the truth. 1 1

This female says in one plaee. “I elaim no gre«t amonnt of inōuenee. but eome pemonal txpericnce$ with royaliy ect” Fnrther on sbe says, “I have ne penonal erperience$ whieh prove the truth or falsehood of these evil tales. having never been a hanger-on of roya!ty.” There appears to be a contradiction. II the «ssertIon “having novcr been a hanger-on of royalty” be true, sbe tbeu is one oot of a large number of ber associ»tes. To | those shametul stories whieh she had heard she was willing toshut i her cars. How very cbaritable and Christ—like but wbv does ' she not continne to show the s. rT r.“ CLiistian spirit? Ls it beeau-. she thinks tkat nothing fnrther is to be gained by being friendly to KoyaHy? Do not talk aboot bypocrisy madam “Honoluln,” there is plenty of it in the clique to whieh you belong. Referring to the interview of tbat Loltery Bill crmraittee of thirteen ladies, who entered tbe Royal pnsence, “with a ‘theirs but to do or die' uir,— tbey did not approach in any soch man ner, t)<i{ltbis female write r says, she heard afterward, that tbe Queen had “declared vehemently that she wonld make every woman who signed tbat paper smart for it.” “Honolulu” must know that no such reraark was uttered, but it suits her purpose to be charitable enough to believe that storv. She also show her Christian spirit by beheving more “hearsay stories,” and tells a falsehood when she says, that the Qneen “jeered at Mrs. Cooke and Mrs. Riee as missionaries,” and that the Queen had said “she had to shed a few croco!ile tears and thatsho“mimickedthe feeble step of Mrs. Cooke,” for the information of that fema1e writer it may be stated that the Queen is a person who has control of her feelings and is not soeraotional as “Hon»dulu would wish hcr readers to believe. As for jeer- ■ ing tbose two estimable. ladies. Mrs Cooke and Mrs. Rice. and mimicking the fecble steps of one of them, the Queen cntertains to high a regard and respect for those ladies to do such an unlady like action, as is attributed to her by the female writer “Hono luln.” That Lmale writer also te!ls a falsehood when she says that, “from this time on she (the Quoen) employed one Francis M. Euglish to wnte letters in favor of the lottery.” As “Honolulu” evidentlv has an abhorrence to the lottery why is it that a “game of ehanee is always carried on at the church ftii-held iu his city? Perhaps “Honolulu" will read the following with great iuterest. It is an estiact from an article publisl ed in Chamoers's Joumal of 181*2. “Ck riositits of the Lotery is the title of another volume of Mr. Brookes’s “01den Time Series ” Selling lottery tickets was regarded as a respectable caliing. “The better the man,” says Mr. Brookrs, the better the agent. Indeed, it was generally thought to be just as repectable to sell lottery tickets as to sell Bibles; and we have thcm elassed together in the same advertismeut. In Eugland we must not forget the fact that the business was conducted on the same lines in bygone times. The first lotterv in this couutry w*s * W drawn day and night at tbe the west d»Jor of St. Paal’a Cath - edral. London, frora the lltb of January to May 6th. 1893. The profit. whieh was cousiderable, was devoted to the repair of harI bours. The prizes consisted of » pieces of plate. In the United States, lotteries were iustituted for a variety of objects, iocluding building bridges, clearing rivers, rebuilding Paneail Hall, rais;ng money to successfully carry on the work of Dartmouth College, Harvard College and other se>tta of learning Tbe advertisemeots were extremely qa*int, and illustrated with crudely drawn but effective pictures, snpply ‘a »peedy cure for a broken fortone. ’ | . : - ■,

Poetry, «s we*l as pictares. was ! , Iargely employed io adrert se- |. meots for lotteries. Moeh has been spoken and writteq against lotteries, bnt, nevertheless. in 1 some of the States cf the Union : they are still !awfnl." Eeferring to the Opium Bill Committee,‘'Honolula” perhapa is not ST.ire that another well | known lady of the same cliqne as herself, took great pains to telephone not only to the Qneen bnt also to the Chamberlain asking him k be sare to - y to the Qneen, “that -o-aud-so had ; asked him to ttil kcr (tbe Q’ n 1 not to pay ary ulleLl n to th_ ; missionaries. That the Opinm Bill was a good one and that were ber hnsband alive, she waa snre that he wonld advise the Qneen to sign it. There was evidentlv evidently a 1 ittle differenee of opinion on that subject, ; amongst the holy olique. ‘ Honolnla’’ forgets to mention anything of the hnndreds of people who petitioned the House of Legislatnre to favor the Lottery bill. Presnmably they are of no acconut. If “Honolulu’’ won!d carefully read the Eeform Party’s constitution whieh was promulgated at the point of tbe bayonet in 1887,she willsee wbat the constitutional relations be tween the Sovereign and the Cabinet are. The Cabinet was the proper source for those ladies jo present their memorinl and petition, not the Sovereign. Those ladies were reqnesting the Sovereign to perforra an Act whieh wonkl bring Her in direct hostility with the Cabinet. A!thongh the statement has been made bj* some, that the signing of the Lottery and Opinm bills were partly, the cause of the attempted overtbrow, “Honolulu’’ says, “it was not the Lottery bill not the Opium bill, [ nor both combined, that overthrew the Queen.’’ Tbat possib ly is true. The true canse of the attempted overthrow is no doubt the greed for lust and power whieh is entertained bv those revolutionary descendants of missiouaries. “Hunolulu” has the gall to say, tbat tbese raissionary descendants “are thoroughly couscientions in their actiou; it is for God and home and nativo land that they stand as they do.” Bosh! She thon says, “they are uot alieii'. Here are thcir homes, huro they were born, here they are bringiay up their families. Hawaii idear to them.” T h a t 8onnds very pntty. Does “Honolulu’’ wish to give the impres sion abroad that no oue else but descendants of missionaries are born in this Kingdom' Will “Honolalu” deny that other people are born here, h »ve their home? here are bringing up their families here, and who aro jast as mast interested in tbe “welfare of Hawaii and its people,” if not more so than these missionary descendants? These missionarv descendants elaim American citizensbip, tbey eall themselves Americans. No trne : Hawaiiau does that Yet these 1 Amenean —Hawaiian missionar\* - ! I desceudants want to rule and ; ■ rain the coantry, while no “trae” Hawaiian is to be alluwed a voice j j in the control of affairs. Al.eu» ' and filibosters are jast exnctlv j whatthey are madam “Honolnla” while Chapter 6 section 3 of tbe Penal Code says, “An alien, j * * *, is eapahle of committing troason against tbis Kingdom.” There will not be any need to give tbe words aliens and filibasters new definitions in the next edition of Webster’s dictionary either. As “Honolnln" is so ready and willing to believe i “hearsay storiea,” wouli she ; | readity plaee reliance on any J

st«rv (it mfty be trae) whieh m*y ! 5 be takta to her of tbe indiscreet * behavioar of any wife, »oa, or - danghter of ber society asso- 1 ciaters? It is to be ven* mueh < doabted. ' SycophaDcy isalsoa oharacteris- j« tic qoality of the members of tnose “8cbools for scandal. lt 1 mav be elearly seen in that letter written from Honolnla to San Francisco, in whieh tbe writ r ' ; of il endeavor= MrB!ocut. Becan.se Mrs. Bkmnt J . khe r bl :ter. •L ir off<r of oarri..gc drives. nced them to accompany ber when she made her e.iIU — pennitte>l them to sit near her 1 when ahe wag gick, and to pay ber other attcntions, her actions are referred to as “social dupli city.” What, may be nsked, * ean the acti<»n of those ladies who did all those wonderful kindnesses no donbt of their own volition, be called? Was it not the worst phase of toadism? That female writer does not mention the fact, that Mrs. Blonnt had n lady’s nurse to attend to her wants and to nnrse her. Nor does she sav how often the lady ! declined an invitation to take a drive. and how some cf the toadvists used to insist on her going. Wby is it, that that letter writer does not refer to [ that parting emhniee whieh took ' plaee on the deck of the steamer I r in whieh Mrs. Blount took her departure? It was rather one sided was it not? Let it be known that the wife of a naval officer or of any other official is expected to arrive on the “Anstralia.” Members from the “schoo!s cf scandal and sycophancy” will be sure to be | ou hand when the steamer docks to see if the ladv arrives/ “Yes, : she has eome,” says one. “She | { has driven to tbe Hotel with her I husband,“ says another. That’s enough. Away go these sycophants, post-haste to the hotel cottage whieh t e lady is to occupy, barely giving time for wife and husband to exchange greetings, rnsh in aud at onee begin cackling. “Why, how do you do?” “So glad to see you.” “Can we do anything for vou?’’ •‘Do uot hesitate to let us know if we eau be of any use to yon.” j “We feel slighted if you do uot do so. ’ In fact ofter their .-tnic s immcdia(6lv. Of conrse i i fk> rc is a hiddeu motivo ia all iii>' : of whieh the unwary visitor i perfectly miconscious of. The tiay after the lady’s arrival comes tie iuvitatioc to “take a drive,” o.her attentions follow. Aud the.se are the ladies who write about their fell >w creatures d;ridiug them, and eadeavoring tc be-little tbem. Shame on their h*adsl Observeb.