The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-10-27
TIE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
OCTOBER %

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made OF 1t, we assume from the leader of tn,
last Gazette, that DR.. j. NJ. Smith has com
menced his editorial career. 1t will be observed
that he launches out into the same stereotypec
hIghfaIutin style of those who have preceded him
III the same place, leaving the inference thai
there l. Something contagious in the very atmos.
phere OF Its sanctum. The editor starts of on
stills IN ms first paragraph, and announces, with
an air Of selt-c0nceit. that e we sought not the
place, but it sought Us "a statement which the
records Of the past six months fatty contradict.
Throughout the whole session Of the legislature.
with a diligence worthy of a better cause, he
" eought a place - under Government. Never
did a man follow his leaders more subsequently,.
lie may not have asked it in 50 many words
but " actions speak louder than words" Beg
gars should never be chooSers, and it was left TO
the generosity Of the Ministers to beetow such a
favor as they might choose. The E. member
from hohaia' surely ought not to have been
surprised - when the Minister of the Interior
offered him the charge of the establishment -
ana certainly the public were not surprised when
his appointment was made. The laborer is
worthy Of his hire - and if the Representative
has obtained his reward, it is only for VALUE
RECEIVED.
Forgetting all rules of honor, the new editor
follows the track of his predecessors. by making
an unfair quotation from the AdrerHser, in copy
ing a few lines from our comments on his ap-
pointment, in which it was stated that DID,. no man
can take this office, and retain his position as a
member of this community" This sentence was
marked in our proof to be corrected 80 as to read
80 no man can take this office and retain THE
RESPECT of this community" Finding that the
printers had failed to make the correction, we
called on the editor, the same morning the paper
was Issued, drew his attention to the error. and
marked The proper correction IN las olCn paper.
Yet after all this, concealing the fact that the
error had been corrected by us personally, he
deliberately takes his pen and appears before the
public as Il falsiier of our statement, by such
concealment. Our language, as printed, was 81
absurd that any one would naturally infer there
had been an error or %misprint. 1t is said there
Is honor among thieves. We trust the dav is
far distant when we have 10 announce there is no
honor among editors. The act is a dishonorable
one, and unworthy of 4 member of the fraternity.
w said, and still say, that no man can hold the
Office Of editor of the Government journal and
retain the respect of this community. The pub
lie well know HE MUST ALWAYS BE THE TOOL OF
THE MINISTRY hoopihneaGi. No man can
hold that position and act or speak his own sen
is a moral impossibility. How. then,
can the community respect one who virtually
himself, body and soul, to be the herald of
his employers
who crook. H. gEfi PEACEFUL tfI and d lawfur c1-T.,i
to secure the ratification of the append. ShrlsA
"a The t Gen silir bay slpo% ia~ninsf'
u;.L H.. .b,xa the professions of
is go-ot purpose in entering on the duties of his
ffce-' to be kin-.]v and courteous to ALL" and
TO avoid the unnecessary , wounding = any ones
ceilings or self-love." These professions were so
ontrary to the previous course of that Journal
whatever expectations were raised, alas, were III
rushed at once. For in the very next column ia
re find him charging n correspondent OF this a,
aper Z" with the customary perversion Of truth -
nd fact - and n little further on in the same
rticle is the statement that : the reverend gen. b
Icmen got into an immense excitement, stamped
violently, and if ne failed to give utter Y
nee to some Profane ,cords, came 50 near to it =
his auditors are in doubt to this day on the
uhiect." If this is has standard of kindness and
ourtcsy, heaven defend the mark. l. this striy-
NJ to avoid the unnecessary wounding Of any =
feelings? This maiden effort of the editor
o appear kind and courteous is very much like
hat Of the clown. But it is So on a par with =
verything in the Government journal, that we
re not at all surprised ut it.
In the next paragraph we find this assertion
1t has been noticed hitherto that the Ministry =
never replied to any matter making iudi- NJ
attacks on themselves" If the writer
intends to convey tie idea that the Ministers =
never written for their pet organ. and have
lever made replies or explanations. personal or
We brand the statement as false. We z
Know, the editor of the Gazette knows, and the
Ministers themselves we'll know, that they are
he only authors of certain articles which have
.pTeared in that paper-written in defence or
.yplanation Of their acts. We do not say that
he copy is in their handwriting, but that they
IRE the authors. When the editor of the official
,rgan assures the public that its past course
will be, as far as possible, the course of this
,aper for cne future" he states what the public
will very readily credit. -
We ~reiterate what we have often said, that
Ministry which fears to rely on the 10y
.lty of the people for support, and which main
aims a press of its own to forestall public opin-
on. and fatter themselves individually, must be v
,iewed with distrust and suspicion. No Govern "
nent has a right to invade the sphere of indi-
7idual industry, nor can it do so without bring .
ng on itself the odium it justly merits. No
LIBERAL Government would stoop to such mean
hess. and no Ministry can expect to be popular,
n this OF any other country, which thus violates
fundamental principles of eternal right.
Sooner or later the abnormal incubus of the !
press will carry down this Ministry as it
las every one which has sought to keep it up.
Ii can never add to, but must always lessen the
influence of the Ministers of any government.
THE rank Is hat the Cuin~as stamp, 1
The mans Tie Eosd fr a that