The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-01-15

SIR,-1our worthy contemporary and WOuld-be-
thought moralist of the Polynesian, has given us in
his last issue nearly two columns of-what ?-yes, of
what II have read and re-read it expecting at least
to find some argument or some new idea in ~justifca-
ton or extenuation of his own shameful verdict as
juror in that same case, but l have searched and read
in vain.
His whole production is either a mere miserable
milk-and-water hash dished up to divert the public
mind from the facts at issue, or it is an attempt at
something else-but really an abortion.
He does not deign even to inform his readers either
in his editorial or elsewhere throughout his paper,
Chat [ fnd) what the case was whether an action
for larceny, burglary, SANDER, rape or murder, but
evidently intends to dodge the verdict of the commu-
nifty upon his own verdict, by amusing them with the
length and wriggle of his tail.
He is "both pleased and surprised at the reitera-
ton by the District Attorney, of a sentiment publicly
advanced by the Hon. CHIEF Justice, "a sentiment admit
ted by all capable of judging ; the truth of which, he
has undoubtedly with his own eyes seen good evidence
every week of his life for the last ten years, and which
no one but himself (the Editor of the Government
organ) has to my knowledge had the fool-hardiness to
attempt to deny, cover up, or evade.
Having acknowledged the pleasure he felt in
listening in his place while the District Attorney,
described the pain, and shame and misery that follow
in the train of that vilest of contagious disorders, he
launches forth into a TRADE of what 1 suppose he calls
argument in which his usually foggy brain becomes
so completely befogged as to lose sight entirely of the
question. And all to prove what ? why if anything,
that Mr.. Bates had begun at the wrong end to do
what he really never attempted to do at all. That
the District Attorney, instead of going into court and
maintaining that Transforming our most respectable
hotels into business marts for the strumpets and
their associates, not only the city and metropolis, but
of the whole kingdom is q nuisance that should be
abated, should have gone there advocating the
erection of hospitals and the furnishing them with
food, bedding, medicines, physicians and nurses,
Sc praying God for bowels of compassion to teach the
poor, Ignorant, dying people, the difference be-
tween &c ordinary cutaneous affections and the disease
that we allow to revel amongst its surprised victims. -
The question at issue upon that trial was not as to
the most proper or appropriate treatment of syphilitic
disorders, it was simply whether giving up our hotels
our only legitimate and most public places of abode
for the stranger and home of the traveller, and trans
forming them into public brOthels or grand 8 Natlona-
Exchanges for prostitutes and their lascivious cus-l
toners under our own eyes, and unavoidably those of
the whole community, is, or is not, a nuisance.
This is the question and nothing but the question,
to which the government editor has devoted a leader
of near two columns length in showing his opinion
and position. And sir, it is the question for this COM
munity to decide. It is one which cannot be got over,
under, or around, but must he met. 1t is a question
sir, of vital Importance to this community, one in
timately and inseparably connected with the Sc i'm
provement of the domestic and social habits of the
native race as well as foreign, and as such one upon
which you as the conductor of a public press stand
pledged by the terms of your prospectus to open
your columns.
1t is the question upon which as I am credibly in
formed a packed (not a drawn) jury of Honolulu have
decided in the negative. The question now is, will
the public sentiment of this community sustain that
jury and their verdict?
As an humble individual of this community, whose
name has been for years, and now is in the %jury-box,
7 am unwilling to father this verdict, and protest
against its going abroad as the conviction of myself
or friends. What shall that aged mother and those
sisters whom I have furnished with our weekly
papers, learn from them that these are the avowed
f sentiments of the foreigners in Honolulu this the
morality pervading in the minds of jurors in the land
1 have adopted as a home in preference to that of my
nativity. God forbid.
But sir, [ trespass upon your space. [ have
neither the time or inclination to review the article
in the PolynesiGn, but what 1 ask is that this trial
be published entire-let us have all the facts which
transpired in court in relation to it that we, oul
friends, the public, and the world may judge fairly
of its merits, and its defenders. MECHANIC.