Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 263, 21 ʻAukake 1891 — "STILL HARPING ON MY DAUGHTER." [ARTICLE]

"STILL HARPING ON MY DAUGHTER."

īt wouid be an3iising to read the B i]lptin in these days 4 were.it not t; r ihe meiancholy journalistic dotage is sugg€rtbed inevery (riginal article that it publishes. it is not unusual for old men in their dotage to imagine themseives the cei*tres of rtspective loeal systems. without whom ! the march of events would suffer paralysis. So with the poor old Ēullelin. Its reputed editor, somewhere withih the siii>posed confines of that vague Bomething whieh heia pleased_ to consider his mind, has carralled the substitutes for two ideas, —one relating to the Queen*s recent tours, aod the other concerning the magjiificence of his own editoral inteJlect, and the collossal character of the journalifltic feats by him pefformedio nei and elsewhei*e.

- As th® gooond of those iopiei* it «iight by the prudish be thought the better plan for the editor to leaye the discovery of his genius toi others. 6ut the editor has perhapa read the motto, —"He that bloweth not biB own hom f the same shall not be blown." And lest no others «bould ehanee to discover the gems of thought with whieh his every literary effort is fairlv bedezzined, —lest tbat soaring soul should be unrecognized by the dull eyes of the vulgar eommon herd, — or 4 still worBe, lest the editor's plebian eonsti tuents should mistake the soaringangel for a floundering buzzard,— the knight of the quill } who still retains a trace ef method in his madnesB, comes to his own rescuē, modestly, but firmly and persistently discovers himself. and saturates his readers, (Heaven help tbe!n), with lect\ires upon tbe magniiieenee of his own capacitv aud career. He remarks, among other , brilliant things, that he has never been imder the necessity of begging for editorial contribntions. That is where our frie%L'B pride clouds his judgment, for wherever he should " beg." or otherwise obtain editorial contributions from the outer circle/ the tastes and interests of his readers would be the gainers. Any change in the liter&Q T style or volume of tbat nondescript mendipant for government u pap," will be for the better. A*professĪDg. jou rn alij&tic whose higheBt aim is-.to so prcserve the nicety of his halanee as to attract tbe advertising custom of aa ixnbecile and paralytic administration, while *voiding the expression of opiniooB too favorable tQ his patrons, has urgent need of hisowir pen to prate of his own ments and virtues. The slavery is the "sack M is nowtiere morē firmlv intrenched in Hawaii, than in the B ull«r tii v sanctum. Opon the somewhat threadbare topic of the Q,ueen's reoeptior(s in the course of her late tours, the Bulletin hedges, at last, behind the equivocal declaration that tbe hospitality tendered tober Majesty has been unexampled in any formfr royal tour of tbe group. We cheerfally concur in the accuracy of the

a)>ovfi,'if it «hall be <idf struvd; mean that no fornjer; of Hawaii was ever receWed by hūi own people wHh such a poveriy; a£ good-will as s&aj'ked the Queen's late junkets. As to tbe s«gar bāi:ons, they axes to grind at tbe Palaee, and have distinguisbed them3el ves by the spjen- ( dor of tkeirentertainments tpn<jSn3 j ! the Queen. This we have aH&long j declared. But those gaudy tributes i o£ avarice to a decaying power,—! those palpahle bids for a Roya! 'li- i cense to still further plunder her MsgeBty- f o'poQF subjects, are a shabby recōmpense for the opathy to\vard, or openly expressed, distrust of the Queen and her policy, on the part of the native Hawaiian. More than that. the ! Queen herself feels the indifference and hostility of the natives, and not all the palliations that ean be injeeted into the )ying accounts of her tours, as published m the missionary and nondescript presB of this* citv, eah Avholly allay the Royal anxiety on that subject.