Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 159, 27 Malaki 1891 — Obiter Dicta. [ARTICLE]

Obiter Dicta.

Never piit monev in your mouth. ! A well-(lressed girl sat in a crowded Waikiki tramcar, next to a malodorous Ohinaman. The eonductor eame fbr fares. The Chinee placidly pulled a niekel out of his ear. The maiden drew a dime from between her teeth. The conductor weehanieally handed her back as change the Chinkeys, niekel. The sweet and innocent girl, from sheer force of habit, placed it between her pearly teeth until she could adjust her glove and dive for her purse. The revival of the g©vernorship reminds us of a joke concerning a certain governor, who, $n arriving at his official post, saw that one loyal citizeh ha4 hung up fbr a decorati«n a card beariag the word u aloha " arid a wreath, whieh was con«tructed by tying roges on a rope. But unluckily the roses f>lew away, and wheii tbe governor ap-j peared the first thing that met his | eye was a bangman's nAoss and a } gladsome inscription that seemed ! to invite him to puthis head inside I and get choked. « | A lady at the opera the other | night was overheard, by a crusty old bachelor, to remark on the ditticuity of how to obviate Bpoiiing a inee skirt by crugbing p:;>t c»ther folk to reach one's FeaL"' The whinper of the old baehelor to hih' friend ivas u tuereJy to crowd in a corset aiul petticoat. and put the outer garment on when the sea t i« renchod." Butreirarked the old oliurl, there ie a dnitdful iaek of

inventive power about the average fema!e." ! , I An Engiish paper to hand in i giving an outline of a le i i by a rfeturned eolonial, before the Royal Oolonial Institute, bringfe in an old chestnut about the semiconverted ' Australian blacks who jibbed on the ntissionaries with, u yon give it no more rum! Jso more rum, no i*ore bally hallelujah!" Whereat the podgeys of the institute gufFawed loudly* as if the superior races never showed the same sort of gratitude and ilunkeyisni for favors to eome. There are a few in this life who are governed by the higher ethicstsf-religion4 and it woukl be a liard world to live in if it were not so. But the Uriah Heep and other varieties oi artful young meaare numer©us, and when they want to acq uire and keep a situation are not slow to perceive that it is no hami to join some mutual admiratione rlij£ious association, that acts 011 the muiual scratch-me-l>ack principle. The P. C. Advortiser is evidently brushine up its rusty and badiy ,damnge(l weapons for the coming " reactionary " rchash. It hangs its wreath in moek approvai—very nuieh as a professior«al mourner would do, on that article ®f Col. C. Spreckles on the future of Hawaii, whieh production by the way, alti)ough slightly illogical in the concluding paragraph—-to whieh we will allude on another occasion— is not that of a croaker. The leading purpose of the article. is evidently to draw closer the bonds that unite us to the great Repubiic, especially on " perpētual reciprocal advantages," with wnieh we cordially concur. In briefly referring to the past, Col. Spreckel s has no lamentation for the faet, that thf? Advertiser's political 4i game rooster " got badly kno(;ked out. That wis too bad of the Colonel, he might have just sbed one tear-word of sym\>athy. īlowever,.we hear ii is duly a:i)!Ou.nced already, that Natiooal Reform is dfjad." and we shall have Professor Kinney again to the rore with the Game Rooster in his new ?purs like, — Two ghō|?ts, €rawled from tlieir gravej r ard nook And on the living world did look, When lo ! ihev heard a tread, Beneath whoee might the Island shook— One specter said to his brother gpook f '' The . R. crow«J aint eieael." The Advertiser can't forget its old vaip trick of lt gently reininding" pebple that it comes in a direct line from away back, as an apostle and prophet. It is of no use to remind that organ, that its former predictions v equally with its maledictions; got badly walked on, and are to-dav badly in want of ealt. We also would follow suit, and k> g(?ntly remind" the grmd«r of the platitudinal tomroyr6t in the- Advertiser; that the people at large, and not the snobocracy will insist on electing their first President, should they ever have a Reptiblican form of government. The w«>rd so gliblv tr<>tted out oii occasions Adverclser, we hurl back to its c>rigmator a.nd proper owner, with contempt. It isa proper thing to advocate that the inere user, or ehanee posessor of wealth, shall not pwamp out of political existence, the man who is, it mav be 1 i vinon his own land and I raising a f mily. It is proper tc : agitate an<l deintuid, that the man | : 'wh.o'eaine hcro but yesterday and i has no higher qualiiication f»r thf i h f ta be admitted to th>" exere ( f tlie hlgh< st franchise tliar r eei ;ing a wnpe o.f $50 a month i shall m.»t Bwamp a man born ii ! the and earning $49 f month, and now it will bc graveh

proposed to enfranchise every eon-. tract lal>orer entering from J*ipan, and if from J/apan, why not China? If the Actvertiser will devote some of it« spafee to an honest discussion of the inequality of' the |ranchise, it will be more honest, »rn4j4nore decent, than thr©wing s; r<jacfeftn^y v m\j,d. v . Ifcis .jnot_SuJ mueh tlieTorm as the substance of government we advoeate, and naturally we are yearly brought .■into". a closer observation of the j United States, where we Ind no l such inequality as we eomplain of. The anomaly of ' sorne professed; Americans in upholding the gilded i speetre of wages aud money quali- j fications for the purpose of exclud-: ing the honest son of toil from the ballot box, is a sampl« of true u reactionary" policy whieh the crowd who are howling through the Advertiser cannot justify by any known practise in the lTnited States/ The charlatans who attempt to create a privileged nobility here. were born quite a centnry late. and the obJect of the littie coterie of kid-gioved humbugs mjany of

whom are elevated ab©re th» piek and shovel, and the beejf-has-ket and the other meaas by whieh they onee got an honest industrious living—ean be 3readily seen tfrrough in the fkcility with which they ean get ahead of ; the mob in rgrabbrhg the *flt»ral soiirces of wealth; the Land a»<J t3ie Water !' We want a little more of that "all | men a?e free and equal," ,that we j hear 80 mueh about, to go round. I That's what? s .