Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 128, 1 June 1894 — MORE SWEARING. [ARTICLE]

MORE SWEARING.

Another Oath Needed | It is erident that the members of the provisioQal goverameQt | know eaeh other» aod fuiiy realize how mueh trost to plaee iu i the booor anJ integrity of themj selres. Anotber oath is needed. Tbe wiaemen who constitate the coBvent»on have tu pl«Hfge them1 seivts ouee ioore to abjnre. »bhor and never aliuw tbe mon»ichy They b;ive nli sworn before. T»king ān oath is as freijuent ;» habit with them m tak>ug a dnnL. but tbev cuu't get eooogh --ouths we Ail of them hitve been >w.irn and sworn ag«in | and ag»in. but wisem.in Wilder waate«.i more swearing »nd he got it- Tbīs is the l ite.st oath: i *'l do 8oiemulv swenr in ihe ! presence of Aimight\ tbat I will 6Jpport »nd bear trne aliegi- | anee to the l'rovisionai Govern;nent «>f the Hawaīian lsiamls, 1 and wiil oppoee any atte:upt to re-estiblīsh moaarcliical gov- rnmeut in »ny form in the Hawuilan Islanls. an«l will faitbfaily perform thedutīes >>f « meinber «>f the Constitutioual Couveution.” Of eonne. the coinmunitv ean have uo «•hjoction to the swe;«ru>g bubit, but we wunhi i.k** to ku«»w why our esteeiue«l fr.e>i>l J >hn ! W . Kalu.i oppuse«l the lutest fonu of pledge. He has n>*ver beeu ; verv p»rticulur m that respe«,‘t. Souietunes he wouhi take an outh to oppose the goverument—- ! aml theii he wonid break it. Sometunes he w >uld "swe»r o.tf' anJ take u ple«lge to Fnink Judd ! —»nd tlien ho wuuhl l, smile. ” , At otlier times he swore solemulv i to sapport Liliiiokaluni—and then he joiue«l the p. g. and swore to uphold the canse of unnexation, und to down the mouarchy. Why one inora «>r less oath should worry the “honorable” gentle- ' man fro u W ailnku. we t\re unahle to fatiio u Oatljs are ouly made to be broken. Now, we aro not after our frien.l £rom lao esp«)cially. He has not ilone an\th ug whieh hasu t been «lone by the suprerae being who now is styled Allah j Dole. Mr. DoIe took an oath in j 188t> He bn>ke it in 1887. Mr. ; Dole to.«k an..tli«T in 18«S7, before j an ejjecntive coimnittee «>f a revolutiou.iiy jnnta -»md he broke it. Mr. Doi« swore again tiud heeaiue a judge. That oath was j broken by him on the 16th of ,Januar>, 1893. Mr Dole has • taken a fow oaths s>nce; we muy ■ all live to see them hr ken. Oh, . no, th« re is no reason to hlame Kalua. Fo«r John takes his tip froiu his Christian fri«?ntls «»f the Centra! Uunn and he follows ' suit like n little mau. An "l.ieial oatli or nn oath of office evidently doe§u’t amount too mneh among the men who to«lay nm t!ie sliebitng. Antl wh«n they consider th»t an oath is un en>jity form, we oannot see whv they still should go ubead ' and coi>tiune with snch « fnrcical I operution. In old dfiys »n oath j was con-«i«lered a soleiun pledge ; that bonnd the sonl of the t..k«-r before tue A)mighty with a bond never to be broken. The Chris- j tians of those barb<rian ag**s i consitlered a f>erjnrer a fit obj*-ct » for everlustiug punishaient both j in this w«»rld as we'll as in tbe next. Bnt in tho.se old-fashioned j days a :nan was a man. a word «as a word, and an oath was not eu8ily takeo and hardly ever broken. Remember the words of the old f»oet: Uu l impn.« an o*th makes it Not b- that lor <x>OTt*Dienc«> take« H. Isn t tbat so Mr. Dole! ■