Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 47, 26 February 1894 Edition 02 — HIS SAD CASE. [ARTICLE]

HIS SAD CASE.

A Worthy Specim- n of the Ha'waīian Missionary.

The soc-alled Ke , ’ereud Sereno E. Bishop’s report to Commissioner Biouat is of such a nature. | that if the commonest rules of decency wou‘d allow us to publish it, a storm of ind : gnation would arise whieh would sweep the blackgaarding, old gossiper oat of sight. Mr. Bishop besraīrches the cbaracters cf the living as well sa of the dead. Ile iudulges in heaisay evi<lenee whieh if be bad onlinaryseuso ! e woold know would be inadmissable before any court of jastice anywhere in the world. Bt-sot-ted by fauaticism and hatred against poliiieal oppouents he does not realize tl.e contempt and sarcasm of Mr. 131ount’s, but ue slides along in his seurrilous libeling, his old-woman gossip and the extrdordinary harvest of his prurient and unelean mind. He makes the most outrageous stitemeuts agunst Messrs Parker, Colburn, Peterson and CornweII. And then he always adds when asked by the commissioner for b s sonrce of infonnation, that he doesn’t know what is he talkiug about from his oien personal obseri'(ition. He accuses Mr. Petrson of being an opium āmnggler — and .Le adds “1 do uot kn >w of any individual trausaction of his.’ He states “that the Queen had beeu for two weeks in consoltation witb k.thunas before ber endeavor to submit the constitutiou, and tbat too on the very day that sbe wasconductii gsacrificial

worship.” Aud when questioned, *‘How did you get that?” He answers ‘‘I do not remember how the information eame to me.” He vilifies the dead wife of John E. Bush, and bases his loatbsome slauder—not by personul observations —oh, no, but by “it be ing a notorious fuct.” And this mau who calls himself u Christian, and moreover a servuut of tbe grftat.Teaclifl.rnf trnth aUil love among men goes on in this straiu, dodging Ihe truth, bluckguarding his fellow-men, and cowardly stubbing thera iu the dark. And yet he refcrs to a conversation held by P. C. Jones

ou the steps of the stone ehurch where they were going to teach a Bible classl! The language is insulficient to describe the feel iugs whieh fill the heart of every being entitled to eall himself a man when he coutemplates such a creatnre like this “reverend” thing. No wonder that L’olonel Blount finally succurubcd to h s feeling of nausea, aud ordered the slauderer out of his presence aud ouly bv an e\treme effort restraining himself frora kickiug him out uf the yard wheie the flng of the republic under whieh ■men live, was fl<-at-ing. We have done with Mr. Bishop for the present. May he iu the last few years of his existenee learn true chrisfiauity and so avo:d the cotaing wrath of God aud meu.

We have received a Ltter from Mr. Johu F. CoIbnrn ‘ whieh appears in nnother eolumn. lt furnishes a goovl in.st.uce of the ineliualion iu this cotamunity of gossiping aud snsj>octing and watching. Mr. Colburn calls on privat« busiuess at the office of au attorney. In another office, iu the same buildiug, some government officials are attending to some business of their owu. The veiy “being together” under one roof and “com:ng out” from the same door of business men belongiug to differer.t j>olitical

parties seems enoagh to tbrow any party into convulsions in this city. Verily, we are a very Lillipuiian crowd.

Tue arrest of a school teacher on Kaoai for embezzlement at the reqnest of a California aothorities sbows tbe carelessnes8 wtth whieh appointments of strangers are made under the Board of £docation. The penon in qnestion bas oniy been a short while ia the coontrr, bot nerer-

theless he recei\ed a goTernaaent position withont any enquiries being made a;» to t;s lente or generai reput.ition. It is to hoped that the new Board will be more circu’nspect and only appoint “tbe nncles. aunts and cousins” now in neei of the almigbh- doll--r.