Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 255, 10 August 1891 — THE SITUATION. [ARTICLE]
THE SITUATION.
Inspired by the example of aur revered and ruptured contemporary, the P. C. we submit. for the information pf our readers, in for<āign parts, a reBume of island events during the past three weeks. The Qoeen and her atiendents returned from their toOr.of Kauai, on July 19th. Her vmt' to that island was a dismal and humiHating faUure t in so iar. as it aimed at the elioitation from the Hawaiian population of evidences of respect and admiration for their new sovereign and,her government, There was ample eauee for this failure. The Qneen has alienated the lovē of her own people .{with a generous share of whioh she was surrounded on her accession to the tbrone), by her persietencein ignoring theip wishes, and in preferring the attentions an.d luaus . pf.. t the eugar kings to the more hUmhle, but , more sincqre devotion of ,the aimple Stod guileless Hawāiiap. The latter, being at onee of keen perceptions and*jealously and righteously resentful of such sb'ghb. hāVe for the most part taken a languid, or 'openly hostilē interest in the Queen and her junketing. Ia it is, notorious that, as an incident of the tour on Kauai, where
- a censiderable conoourse of natives had gathered to 44 see the show," an'mdignant and eloquent Hawaiian» in the course of a fljpeech, dononneed in bitter ahd scathing tera;s the course the Queen and her Cabinet have seen fit to adopt, in ignoring t!ie. natives, while courting the favor and entertainment of tjae rich missiouaries, an4 that neither the Quedn, the CabiQet, nor any one else attempted to refute the orato i*s chargeg. On the w hole, the service" paid to her Majestv ®n Kauai, eame exclusively from the foreigu sugar magnates and their importedemployees. The natives were unappreciative, or sullen, ot both. There was a pleutiful laek of thal spontaneous aloha with whieh the Hawaiians are wont to greet and entertain their loved, Io short, at eaeh stage of her Majesty's "progresB" on Kauai, * appearances more strongly suggested an smbulance than a victor's iinr, as the character of the royal | chariot. I
Perbape for the purpose of re? trievingr her £srtunes. in the particulars above suggested, her Msjesty deterrained upon a "starring tour" of East Maui, upon whieh enterprise she.eailed in great state, —and on a steanier,—on Julv 28th. Arnved in liana, she again enjoyed I the attentions —7 and of olanters' servants, while numercms«atives gathered to hear the Band play, but the afleciion of the Hawaiiansdid not overflow upon the hem of her Maj ?ty*s garment. The same at Kahului, Spreckelsville and at Paia. The Qūeen hethought herself last Tuesday morning, betbre it wu.s
fairly light, that tbere was is!e of ihe gro«p left.* that she notstarred," and at onee ehe «et ou t to u swing around thē circie"- bf Oahu. With a too nunierouB following of artists and supes, (wfcen tho larders of her impoverished pe'ople are eonsiderēd). her Majēisty sailed in splendor,—and again in;a. sraal I steamer —to Waiihana'le. THj»e ■ tele.phone jreports that severalvscnres | of Mongdlians, fitted up'fortlke oecasiOn, there iuet the sovereign, who welcduoed her \rith all, the interesting enthusiasm o/ that picI turesque raoe; also, that sonie dozen K Hawaiiat)S, who still retain a foo|U hold upon the land of their fath#s in that locality, turned out to hear the Band. Oar firiend, John mins, the late Preniier, wiio was iiH»ntiftent|y "fired" by her Majesty, upon her aceession, was landldiid i and catērer to the hnngry retinue. t John has apparently sworn a iraee i witn Royaity, an4 i# now no )eBB attentive and obedient than he was lately hostile to the Royal wigh. v Ii is an edifying spectacle watēh a whipped cur perform thē valoreris ceremony of licking the bopt from whose kiek he is still smarting. >leantime. the denizens of Koolau and Waialua will consuit their x.nterest by driving their' pigs and chickens to £he mountains. And this reminds us that the vicioos rhetoric in whieh theAdvMtiBer, &Tid Bullctw seek to ir.islead tbeir readers into the belief that the Queen's tours have been a series of ovations and triumpha, is the laBt possibility in the dir€ction of jouriialiBtic Bērvility and shameless; lying. i
The Supreme Court closed its July Jurv Term, on August lst. The tucst important event of the term was the aequittaL after a week's trial. of the six ehinaman, charged with the murderof a fellow countrymaa at Kamoiliiii; flonoluJu. The verdict in that case m»y well form the text of a future eomment, suifice it, for the present, to describe the result as a manifest failure of justice.
His Honor, the Chief Justice together with his family, is rusticating at the residence of Mrs. C. H. Judd, Koolau. He met the Queen there, last Satnrday, while on her trium* phal (?) march. His Honor no doubt received her Majesty as "Most Gracious of Queens," —whereupori ihe sovereign will eall horCbancellor the -'moai sapient of Judges. ,? How sincere and accurate eaeh will be time can tell. -
There is a new man at the helm of thē iinaneial shallop. The glemah'B naine used to be Smith, when exercising his profession for a liveJiho6(i, in Honolulu, not sgo. Bat a decades re§idence | ii» the holy city of Boston has revereed all that, and the vulgar and plehian has by a process of evolution, best undeeatood by I hia Excellencr t hlossomed into patrician compos«fd of Mott-Smith. (Given name, Johu, we be!ieve.) Itomanesque, isn't? They sav it is a sign o{ intellect when a man partB Uis hair or his nanie in the midd!e. We iovo and reverence a hyphenate<l * N Pi»litics are quiescent. There is a move in miBS»onarySsngar circleg to secure lcgislatioh perutittting'th» free aitroduction of Asiatic ricc, as
di«4 |bip their ia&orers* Whea it is conisldere<i that the ricelands of the lai|dsof tbe Kingdom are principa|ly owned by Hawaiians, (being al| tbat tlic missionaries. in their caa-eer of i>lunder have teft to the sods of the soil), and that free fore%n rice would mean the extinction o€ the loeal rice industry,renderigjg rice lands vaiueless, the heartfessnegg, greed and depravity 'of the missionaries may" in sbme measorē be understaod. ; ' Son. K6bert W. Wilcqx returnied on' tbe 4th iastant from his ia-W : wsit to Califōrniā. He is aeeompa-' med bs* has brother-in-lawv Signor m ltalian uoblemai&3ffh!E> | will make his home in our fair land. We weleoine both gentteman. Mr. , Wil«bx faoidā a plaee m the l?earts of his cd%atryman, whieh nothing but an \mworthy and unpatriotic |Course ean eject hini. We havss confidence such course will not be '-IUB.