The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-11-20
LAHAINA. Nov. Is. 1856.

MIR. EDITOR Sc TRUTH in your last number,
imagining me to be Horspieee,' tries to apply his
mincing knife, but chiefly succeeds IN mincing Truth.
1t seems that only tuo boys were arrested for furious
riding, instead of three, and that they were not the
sons but the cabin boys of the ship masters who at
tended their trial. To these grievous errors of state
ment [ plead guilty, having made q mistake in these
particulars observing, however, that they were
flvorite boys with their masters, who were very indig-
nant at the injustice attempted towards them, and
efficiently protected them from it, by seeing that the
necessary evidence for their defence, as we'll as legal
services were provided. They were not 8 discharged
for lack of evidence but because the testimony of
the policemen who arrested them was rebutted by an
abundance of better testimony, which showed that
the boys were not and had not been riding out of q
moderate pace. The insinuation of I. that they were
not proved to be innocent by their discharge, is d
very unworthy one.
7. entirely slurs over the principal point of my remarks, which
were that it was necessaryto direct in a better manner the in-di-
rccted activity of our native police. 1 cannot see that any good
end of government is attained by directing the chief force of the
laws arm against strangers. L think no one who observes the
bearing on this subject viii deny that the delinqaencies of sea-
men are far more vigorously prosecuted than those OF natives
@1d Tesiients. The reason Is plain. They are easier e eaten,
largest and easiest yield, instead of laboriously ferreting out the
more hurtful crimes of the knowing and willy; A native police
man thinks a sailor is his lawful prey, and he deals with him
merclessly. Your readers will recognize the literal truth of this
remark. How often my blood has boiled at seeing the cowardly
brutality of a gang of natives as they Rugged a drunken sailor to
the fort, beating and dragging him like a dog. On the other
hand when the rest of q quiet family is disturbed by a drunken
policeman again and again on different nights, nothing short of
severe threats can induce his comrades to arrest and connne him,
and then j, is edifying to witness their meek appeals to the OBJ
streperous gentleman to come along. This is a kind of discrin-
inaion that L should like to see exactly reversed. 1t is simply
u cowardly way of treating strangers to mark them out as the
peculiar objects of the laws severity, and a very ungratefull, in
lospitable way of treating a class to whom this kingdom is so
the ignorant kafFo will merit well of their country, if they wli
give particular attention TO restraining this vicious propensity OF
Lis to Cypress the stranger. HosPEs.
For the p. c. Advertiser.
The oil adage &c it is best to let well alone'' is un-
doubtedly true, because when any thing apparently
answers the purpose for which it is intended, even
though it should not reach perfection, the chances
are, that by an attempt to make it pass for something
superlatively good, we either mar our own work or
else draw attention to Irregularities and blemishes,
which, although rough and glaring, might otherwise
have been passed by as beneath notice. All the
preaching in the world will never make sensible peo-
pie believe that u goose is q swan-the bigger he is
the more of a goose he is. Buffoonery is not wit any
more than hypocrisy is honesty, but both might pass
unquestioned for the genuine article were not the
sterling value of the coin too vociferously insisted
upon.
In some of his late articles, the editor of the Pol
qnesian seems to have allowed his zeal in behalf OF
some members of g our well meaning little govern
ment'' to ~outstrip his discretion, and good sense
Has this case been frankly and fully laid before
the public? Most people of our Island world, un-
connected with the Government Journal, who take
any interest in the matter, think that it has not, and
believe that the honorable gentleman, the Minister al
War, is somewhat interested in the sales made
by the ostensible proprietor of the Royal Hotel. II
that is not the case, why IRE all spirits delivered
from the Custom House for consumption at the hotel,
or disposed of by its proprietor, delivered only to the
order of that self-devoted victim to the exigencies OF
the State?
While on the topic of Hotels and high officials. the
enquiry might be hazarded: What are the honorable
g~entleman's relations with another establishment ~
the same description further up town
1t may be wrong to draw attention to the business
affairs of so mighty q functionary as the Minister, but
then it certainly dees not add to the responsibility OF
the government that some of its members should be
dabbling in business with the public houses of the
place, and it is well to remind those who choose t.
convert their dwelling into a powder magazine to bt
very careful how they scatter frebrands.