The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-06-17

science IL Is hard, certainly, to oblige q conscieu-
tious and industrious Jew to keep two Sabbaths a
week, and not a little annoying to him as we'll when
ne remembers that the Sabbath was instituted by his
God, and the last day of the week consecrated and
set apart for the purpose Of rest but the Christians'
God virtually taught and practicedI its infraction; and
ms followers some 800 years after his advent stole
the institution and transferred it to anotk er day of the
week to commemorate something quite different from
the creation of the universe, and enforced its observ-
ance by civil penalties. Besides Jews there arc many
buddhists, Brahmins, M~ahommeda Parsees and
Pagans, also in6dels to every form Of faith on these
Islands, all of whom are forced to observe, to them,
an rrreiigious custom. as repugnant to their spiritual
notions as Improbable in a worldly sense. Please
put these reflections in brackets, for they belong more
to the writer than the petition, but the petitioners do
say they are willing TO compromise the matter by
amending the present statute so as to conform to the
original law from which it was garbled-s.S Six days
shalt thou labor" There are no Ifs nor ands about
that. If" thou shall not do any work. on the Sab
bath, why is not one part of the law as morally
binding as the other.
Notwithstanding my prejudices in fovor Of our
present puritanical law in regard to the observance
of the Sabbath, l must confess the petitioners are very
reasonable. particularly in the application to this
country, where the people are so eager 10 avail them
selves Of such laws for the sake of obtaining the
penalty or for the more detestable motive Of curry
ing favor with their spiritual guides. Yes, I go in
for the present law, amended. so as to oblige every
vagabond to trOrk six days and then rest on the
seventh, instead of vagabondizing all the week and
Sunday exert himself in laying traps to catch un-
believers. The present law, taken in connection with
the climate and habits of the people, seems to invite
every one to idle away his time for six days. and
then forces him to rest ON the seventh, if his constitu-
ton will endure it.
Excuse me, Mr.. Editor; when l took pen I had not
the most distant notion Of saying anything about
petitions, but merely to correct a statement that
might possibly be believed by some of your readers,
perpetrated by one Of your correspondents signing
himself $ Kona.'
No people can have a higher opinion of Rona coffee
than the people of Hilo. We willingly and c~heerfllly
admit that Kona coffee is equal to any coffee in the
world, not excepting the celebrated Mocha; in fact
we believe it to be superior to Mocha. In c~onceding
thus much we do not wish to be understood to have
a poor opinion of our own coffee. We know that if
Hilo coffee is properly cured it is equal to the best
coffee of commerce, the Kona and Mocha excepted.
have no doubt "Kona" expressed what he be-
lieved when he stated that people of Hilo had labeled
and sold their coffee as Koaa to mercbapts in Homo
@a To refute thai staisrA@Fii will be only neces-
sary tor me to say, that "Kona'' has much less
opinion of the sagdcity of Honolulu merchants than
Hilo has to suppose they could thus easily be taken
in. l have no doubt there has been plenty of HiIo
coffee sold as Kona, but not to Honolulu merchants.
The Hilo coffee crop will be light this year.
Yours, &C., Hno.