The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-04-01

1t has always been our aim in conducting the
Commercial to subserve the best interests of the
public. To this end we have never hesitated to
expose any short-coming on the part of govern
ment functionaries, whom we view, and ALWAYS
will view, as the mere servants of the public, APP
pointed for the public good. Hence we have con-
demned official acts of real public injury or re-
missness of duty wherever found--be it with the
highest minister Of the crown or the most igno-
rant constable in the kingdom. And because we
dare to speak out when public interests demand
it, and condemn, when official delinquency is as
apparent as the light of day, the government
must rise up incensed and carp atus, though they
know as well as we that we are right and only
acting in the performance Of duty.
Here, only in the last issue of it's organ, it
again attempts what it has a dozen times before
attempted to show, that we have no cause for
complaining. The VIII lie article in that paper
relating to our just complaints of the police, was
uncalled for and apparently only written to fill
out space. In the course of its structures it says:
This week, in phlosophising about petty thieving,' it [the
employed to ensure a better watch on the part OF Of the 3 police e for or
these Expectations occur in the most p'pulocs parts Of the town,
like n policeman to be stationed in every house, on every prem
Uses ,"-Pofynesfan Of March q.
Hardly is the ink dry on the paper from which
we extract the above before Capt. Plaskett's trunk
is stolen as reported in another column, from
60 right under the nose of a makai," who ought
to have been, if he was not, at his post. And
scarcely is the sheet distributed about he town,
and the paragraph read which seeks to censure
the Commercial for urging the police to their
duty, before a bold and daring robbery is perpe-
trated Il in the custom-house Fright under the
of the makais,' and a horse is stolen within a
dozen or two PAGES from the very press that prints
the stale paragraph. We will not stop to ask
what consistency there is in the government in
seeking to upbraid us for daring to correct abuses
or urge greater vigilance in the police, or how,
under heaven, they can expect sympathy for
losses which they may incur. We say 9 seeking
to upbraid,' - for there is not a man in tie COM
munity, not even the writer in the Polsaesa an,
that doubts the justice of our remarks, or .hat
does not pity the government for the opprobrium
to which it is exposed by its organ.
Hereafter, let not the government again COM
plain that VT do it injustice when we seek to urge
its officers to ALPHABETICALLY the police, who
are employed and paid to watch over public and
private property, and who should be specially
vigilant when the whole town is slumbering.
We believe that the head Of the police is careful
and circumspect, but there is and has ever been
remissness of duty with the subordinates. We re-
greet the late heavy robbery, for the loss and incon-
venience to the government, caused by so great a
deficiency of funds, much needed at this time but
we equally regret that while we ere endeavoring
to defend public and private rights, it should SO
far forget it's dignity as to allow uncalled for
structures by its official press. 1t is by such in
discreet use of power, misplaced in the hands of
its functionaries, that its character is becoming
lowered in the estimation Of those whose respect is
worth retaining. If the government cannot OBJ
tain a mouth piece which can speak advisedly,
let it at least be silent.