The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-07-02

1 n GlHlS Ida COldC 6HSa LUS dllc1uPt SIuiA oSbAA
be made, when the reading, thinking laboring por-
ton of the community, who are the life and soul OF
the nation, shall have an organ adapted to their ne
~ccssities, breathing their thoughts, carrying the spirit
of enterprise to every portion of the kingdom and
breaking through the crust of Incidence and lethargy
which is fast burying this nation and must soon
seal it fate, like the mighty stream of lava rolling
down the si1es of Mauna Loa, which turns the hither-
to impenetrable forest into a dreary waste.
We therefore issue this morning, the pioneer num-
Der of the ssPacific Commercial Advertiser. a paper
destined, we trust, to. exert more than an ephelneral
influence or. the industrial and social condition of
our community aud nation. The principal objects of
this paper have been set forth in the prospectus Is
sued by the publisher, some weeks since, which will
be found on the first page They certainly embrace
a wide field, scarcely occupied at present, which will
furnish material to fill the medium sized sheet on
which the Advertiser is printed. The main objects of
a newspaper should be to encourage every branch of
lawful industry-to be the exponent and leader of
public opinion on the great questions of the day--to
aim to make that public opinion powerful and IRE
sistable-to second the government IN all its honest
efforts to improve physically and mentally the con-
dition of the body poltc--to frown with imperious
scorn on every attempt to infringe popular rights and
on every act that tends to violate the confidence re-
posed by the nation in those elevated to authority-in
a word the public aOeJGre-these we conceive to be
the end and aim of q public press.
But in a community such as this, made up of in
habitants from every portion ofthe globe, from the
frozen shores of northern Russia to the most southern
portions of Africa, America or Australia, what can
be looked fer but diversity of thought and opinion on
every subject that may be embraced in the columns
of q newspaper, whether it be on morals, politics,
religion or reforms. One perhaps desires a paper to
commence a fierce attack on the government and
every member of it; another would have excluded
from its columns everything that bears the senlblance
of the teachings of morality and religion, and devoted
wholly to commercial intelligence while. a third
would frown on every item that causes mirth and on the
notices of public anlusements, but would have its col
INNS wholly devoted to morality and religion.
In the outset of our enterprise, we might as we'll
have a distinct understanding with our patrons. To
each and all of them we respectfully say, that in the
form and style and general management OF this paper
and its contents, we must be left to our own judg-
ment, to act with entire independence. ~Tocommence
on any other basis, would be but to render our sheet
what every former attempt has been, the tool of a
party or the mouthpiece of a minister. Suggestions
VIII always De corolally recelsea; assEatoh never,
is all we seek, to show when occasion demands it, that
the political wisdom of the nation is not all centered
within the radius of the chickering's of the foreign office
candle-light, or how far the financial prosperity of
the country is dependent on the movements of the
Lord Treasurer.
Ihe days are rapidly passing away says the
London Times, sswhen any Newspaper of character
can avow itself as the unflinching advocate of any
party or any person-of anything, in fact, except
that which ought to be the object of all periodicals
as well as all permanent writing--the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth. To give a
true narratve of passing events and to make ON these
events just, natural and pertinent reflections, is all to
which we aspire, it being a matter to us of the purest
indifference what party, what clique, or what indi-
vidual reputation may bedamaged or promoted by our
faithful and fearless discharge of the duty we. under
Itake.'
This is WAT we shall aim alto give q truthful
record of The present, and to point out the errors of
the past, that they may afford experience for the
future. 1.-THE policy of the government is clearly
detrimental to the public interests, or the acts of it's
officials open to animadversion or apprehension, the
errors of the former will be plainly pointed out, and
the shortco 1ings of the latter fearlessly exposed and
fcondemned
As this paper is established for the public good, so
its columns will always be open to a free and temper
ate discusao On of matters of general interest. Cores
~pondents vii always be welcome, but they will bear
in mind TINT brevity will be a chief recommendation
to notice. We cannot allow any one to monopolize
our columns, however important the subject may be.
Neither cai personal abuse be allowed by us, nor our
paper be prostituted to become the vehicle OF petty
individual disputes or party chickering's.
Doubts have been expressed to us in regard to the
property of publishing a portion of our issue for the
! Hawaiian race r. NAV ha that crob n r,,Il;o,4;o,H =.
not demanded by them, but we think it is, and are
willing at our own risk to make the trial. The truth
is, the experiment of a sterling weekly paper, partly
in Enelish and partly IN Hawaiian, ought to have
been klade by the Government years ago, instead of
wastilg its funds in foreign publications of doubtful
utilit The intellectual eyes of the native race have
beenppened for years, but beyond q few elementary
voluns, and some charitable attempts to provide
newslapers for them, they have been and still are
left togrope about. seeking light but finding little or
none. There are intelligent natives here and through