The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-05-27

facts were in issue, this bafsron 80
should testify under oath to the truth 80 -
we should look about US very sharplv far $50.
impeach his character for truth and vero.;.. !. s.
ne did not " break dov1 , on the cross-e,.n.%
Let us examine for q moment the statem.n.-
witness, and the source of DIS inforu.,;o. ma
witness found any number of illicit bousss !. Inc
part of the town, and that the business Of un,.Ney
selling prevailed to an enormous extent. Th.-~
be one or two houses in Honolulu where ,o,e":
sold " on the sly" although We do not know
is quite natural and consonant with n -.
knowledge of mankind. to suppose that there NAV !.
found a man here and there. in all large commr.:
ties like Honolulu, who, in the meter Of ,;,n.-
selling. will try to evade the pecuniary prohibi,;o..
and restrictions of the law but to say that !, -.
walls to the extent testified to by DIS paragon of com
potency, we have no hesitation in pronounc;n,
piece of exaggeration-nay, more, a decided untru,h
We have inquired Of several residents of Honolulu ~
relation to this matter, since the appearance of d.,
No. 2, and the result of our inquiries is, that tbav
do not believe that unlicensed retail liquor dealer
exist in Honolulu to the extent stated by DelaparE
witness. That there might be SOM they did
deny. x
Now, as to the source of DIS informall6nE7
ICBOCA Will o tu0O AE OotUAIC4 ~ -
not under oath and that, when he repe3
whether through the press or anywhere else,
nothing but mere hearsay evidence. And yet,
the strength of this evidence, inadmissible in .
of justice, this writer on morals roundly accuse9
eral respectable men of completely with law-bg
ers-with men who are endeavoring to. cheat
government out Of a legitimate source Of rev
Verify. we say unto you, O Delauan, thou Al
and charitable in thy generation
The complimentary platitude paid by the
nent mercantile celebrity of Honolulu to D4
sense, no doubt elated him amazingly, and PR
him to the achievement Of his second letter.
at a loss to know what the aforesaid mercantilel
means by such twaddle as 81 have often been stru
&c., contained in the extract from his letter to
haina friend, quoted in DIS communication
pity that the mercantile man aforesaid n
struck with the idea that a decent respect
opinions of men ought to have confined him
the truth as his nature would admit of. be-
penned the postscript which kindred spirit q
with so much JUNCTION. 1t is only necessary
in r~efutation of the mercantile mans postscriI4H
the men who are engaged in the business of d
liquor here, with a few exceptions, are remar4N
n~on-committal on the license question. In a
versation with one of them. a few days since, he eH
pressed a wish that the Legislature would not grant
licenses for Lahaina-not, MIR. Editor, that he be-
lieved with d. that the not granting them would
diminish the traffic here-but on the contrary, that
the granting of them would be the means of suppress
ing nearly all of the Illicit selling that is now carried
on in Lahaina and this is the opinion Of every for
elgner upon the Island OF Maui, whose opinion upon
such n matter is of any weight. .
Now for the nOn point, says D.-the damages
done to La1aina. He deprecates a contemptuous
hearing0 We'll be might. The good people CT La
nasnS ought to feel obliged to D. for the handsome
manner in which he speaks Of them and their town.
No doubt they do. "Dilapidation, grog blossoms.
styes, pools of vice. and other epithets equally
choice and elegant, perform a confused dance through
the mazes of his unlocked rhetoric. This is " the
melancholy madness of poetry without its inspira-
fiop fha upwbo1oaomo fruif of n mind ia rEano1 hy
prejudice. incapable of seeing a subject in any
Hther light but the one a sectarian education has
tade~tfQ walk in from childhood. He attributes
the decay OF Lahaina, and its present want of pros
perity, TO rum, and to rum alone. We think that if
Delapan could denude himself of his preju1ices, and
look about him for a moment, he might discover
other causes for the decay of Lahaina-he might
discover that the chief cause of the want of enterprise
here and elsewhere in these islands, is owing to the
narrow and intolerant spirit which for a long time
ruled in the councils Of the nation.
Again if he will only observe the number Of
Chinese dry goods stores in Lahaina, and the costly
silk and alpaca fabrics in which the native females
array themselves daily, it will assist him in account
ing where a large SUN of the money left here yearly
by the whaling feet goes to the extravaganza Of
the native females in dress, is by far a greater cause
of poverty to the islands than rum. As for rum
driving ships away from the place, we do not believe
oword of it, the Lahaina Ship Chandler and Delar an
at the contrary Notwithstanding. If licenses are
granted here, says the Lahaina Ship Chandler, our
business will be diminished twenty per ceatum.
Let us see if this statement will bear examination.
Every person who has taken pains to observe the
materials of which the whaling feet that resorts to
these islands are composed, knows that the greater
portion of the crews engaged in that arduous service,
when ashore, free from their ships, have q decided
prediction for rum and frolic s. and they will
have it at all hazards. Now, if no rum can be had
here, what is the consequence? Why, simply this,
that as soon as the crews are discharged and have
settled their voyages, they are off for Honolulu in the
first coaster they can find. Consequently the captains
recruiting here will have to go to HonolClI to obtain
new crews. In the name of common sense, we are at
a loss to perceive how a Lahaina Ship Chandler, with
his eyes open, could utter the above remark. We
ask him, and every other man of candor residing in
Lahaina, in what way the granting of liquor licenses
for the place is going to increase the sale OF liqNF
and drive away ships. Is it not notorious that Gquoss;
is now, and has been, sold here in every zee avail .
able for the business And to say that liqd0 drive
away ships from the islandsSis mere bosh. \css,
would suggest to the Lahaina Ship Chandler. W :
ever he may be. the decency and good policy of keA~
ing quiet upon the subject of liquor.
In parting with Defaran for the present r;pr
would say that. giving him credit for the ~ fens'
he was not born a reformer, nor can ~
any course of moral or intellectual training, how.
severe, become an athlete in the cause. A resp 80
BILE Presbyterian clergyman, addicted now and NJ
to a little cant and twaddle. perhaps, he may&6V
come. And we can't help thinking that, had lot
been cast in the sixteenth century ms of the
he might, by application md industry,
have become a not obscure MOI Of the Synod OR
bort. VERITAsSki
Lss.sa Nm Mr.. wa.erhon.s.
HoxoLULu, May "A, 1853.
OR III have made an investigation into
III a the fire on Thursday last that destroyedae
ii ON buildings on nv premises on the NuuanFP