Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 259, 11 July 1893 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

There is a story told of an old gentleman, who in his youth had heen a etudeut at Oxford. being seized with a d?sire to revisit the scenes of his bunchenzeit. He went one day and wandered round and finally arrived al the door of the very rooms be had formerIy resided m. He knocked at the dogr I and it being opened by the etudent occupying it, he ssked permis8ion to view or.ce more the sp>ot fae had spent so many happy hours in. Permission was graciously and promptly granted. and he wandered from room to room occasionalIy remarking as some object struck bis memory, “Saroe old pictum—dear old picture,” “Ssme old manUepieee,” *‘Same old table” and eo on. Finally opening one door he ahut it hastily, having caugbt a ▼iaion of a female skirt rapidly disappearing. With this the preseat lad occupying the room§ haatily interposed explaining, “Tbat Ī8 my eiater down viāiting my

rooms.“ *‘Ab! aaid the old genlleman quietly but 9arcasticaliy. •*S.ime oid Iiel” Same <Id lie!!” Thi- 9torv reminds us of the i St*r who, in it? dearth ol auything j ;'re«h in ihe vacunm waieh :t keet>s . as a receptacie tor ot'ier people ? ! br.ŪM9 nnderthe mis-apprehen.-u)n that t!iey are »ts own, ias *e«n rehashing the oft di?pr >ved as?er- ■ t oiis that the Hawaiians were freer and wou!d !>e so ag»in under ihe Mon.in.hy than unuer anyth1 the P. G. wookl b • desiroua J of grantmg them. Listen to it? ! melancholy morbid whine aud , consider: **rnder the monarchy they had, ; but the ?malle9t and m -t uns**ct.r« part in the mau g-:nent f t*’eir j o»vn polilieal e >no**rr.?. F.xeir voting previl**ge? wr • greatly abridg***l and narr »w->l hen one n*flect? that un>ler the m uarchv. Hawaiian subj**ct? Iiad the sole righl to vote and elect 2 y > members > f tbe Legis!;iture out of 52. includiug the 20 Iife-n*»bles appointed by the crown and the King's f>»ur fninisters until 1SS7, and that ttien occurred the only n;irruwing and abridgment ot their privileges by the iielion of the Reform revolutionary Ieaders in reduciug the nuinber ot the Representatives to 24, tfie remarks of the Star writer onee ra"re forcibly remind u? of tlie old g-ntleinan at Oxford. This doubtless in?p ; red f,ilsifier again goe? on to state: •‘As 3ubject? of the cr >wn, their wi?he? t'»uohing the per9onnel uf the chief of state were nut consulted, and at the tiraes of Kalakaua’a '■ ao-called ‘eleelion’ their preference9 ! were ridiculed and trampled in the du9t.” We have aimph’ to reiuark here thatas “subjects” —though ur - willingly of the F.G. —“their wi?hes touching the personnel of the ehiel of state” are certainly even les9 “con9ulted’' than then and that if anyone “ridiculed and trampled in the du9t” their preferences then that historv and the memory *»f perjured revolutionists will tell them that it was themselves and lheir a89ociate9 of other foreign nationalitie? that did it. As for the concluding rot in regard to the Monarchy being a avnonym for danger of foreign encroachment, e9peciaLy by Great Britain aud France, it is simply sufficient to point out the guarantee of independence by treaty between those two powers, and the various treaties,ofamity and friendahip perpetually, ainee negoliated with other naliona, We have bo often expoaed the Star’s ignorance or wilful suppre3sion and perversion of bistory that it is with pain that we have to point out to him that the Maoria of N'ew Zeland have four represeutativca cbosen by themselve9 to sit in tbe Legislatur* of that colony. be8id*»s there being two of the race elected aa the representatives of white people, and lhey als> have in every cabinet one minister, wbose soie duty it i? U/ attend to their special affairs While as to tbe fellahs of Egypt tbey bave a full representation and control of their hooses of Legiaiatur« by election aa had the Hawaiians before 1887. We pass tbe slur abont tbe Queen being ready to sell out the country irrespective of the wiahea of her people havmg previouBly refuted tbat lie at tbe time of ita

app«?ar*nc*, »nd aioinW noliee the ?lur at the Hawaiian as "no h>nger ! d poor kauaka ' *nd repeat t<> the man who, previ>’Ur y *rote ■*>• 1 niueh about the fr»nchl*e whieh was to be stiven t<> the Hawaiian, and the ?hare he to t:\ke in the j P. G- the aoeienl rhyme; Turn about an*i wht«l about An l ja:np ja»t eo; A d ereiy nuie r>>u tnrn abont You jmnp Ji n Cp>w