Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 162, 13 Iulai 1894 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do aol bo!i oawelem responsble for the opūuona or the attensces of our corre*poniēnts.l Editob HoLoxri. The action of tbe Republican Congress of Hawaii, (self-elected) consisting of tbe combined Councils of tbe late demented p.g. bas solemnly resolTed to present that transcendently brilliant warrior," Mr. chum|>-in-chief Soper, late commander-of - the forces-witb-tbe-rank-of-colonel, witb asword; ostensiblv as a mark of appreciation -of that prodigy’s alleged “aen-ieea tothe State.’’ Entirely aside fromthe fact that Mr. Soper’s “serrices to the State” i during the last year-and-a-half have consisted chiefly in pocketing a fat salar) r for doing nothing, (because he was competent to do nothing witbin the scope of a military command), and a supposed participation in the profits of certain contracts for the pnrchase of militaiy supplies, we have to snggest the ineompleieness of this act of greatful generosity on the part of the self- ' elected Congress of this alleged Republic to the Savior, (for aeconnt of whom it may eoneom) of this thrice blessed country. It is misdirected generosity, we submit, that would donate a gold watch to a Hottentot, without instmcting him how to wind and use it. It would be farcical to present a go!d pen to a blind man, or a copy of Carlyle to an iuiot- On the same principle, is it not laughable to present a sword to the donee named, without sending a military totor to show him how “the old thing works,” and whether it should hang at the right or left side of his Belviderian form, or whether on the other hand, its more appropriate plaee would be on the I rear wull of the great eom mander’s eow stable. If this raoderu Hannihal is to have a sword, by all means let him be mstructed in its use and disposition. “Children and fools should not handle edged tools.“ K. Gr. I - I