The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1868-04-22
WEHACIA.

| club, and n lald ABOUT one Justify Sels W
show of virtue, if no farther conse-
quences follow.
1t matters not what is assaulted, or who
is to be belabored. only give him good
whack with this club. and many will be
credulous enough to believe, that you have
done excellent service. 1t is our neigh
boris fayorite and only club, by which
with Quixotic courage, he assaults now
the Government printing Office, anon the
Aupuni, and last week gives savage
blow at the steamer, and knocks that insti
tuition endwIse.
The stockholders, by the conclusion
suddenly have come to a dire sense Of their
unhappy condition, in that they have in
vested their money to help the Govern
ment, and not the people, wherefore for
this sin give them double whack.
Private enterprise is doubtless a good
thing; associated private enterprise. some
times a still better Where people are
numerous enough to get all the conve-
niences they want, and competition and
capital enough, to hare all the accommo-
dations of civilized life, at the quickest
time and the cheapest rate, then every
enterprise may safely be left to private
resources. Whatever does not pay under
such circumstances, had better slide, a"
whether it be steamer, railroad, or per-
chance a decent newspaper. But private
enterprise has not been equal, to keeping
a steamer ahOat between our islands, and
the prospects are not fiatte1nsto those
who have been engaged in it, thus far.
Every time that the pinch has come on,
the owners have been only too happy to
solicit help from the only quarter, available
in our small community.
Last year when the Company had run
the boat to their complete satisfaction, as
to the tendency Of their affairs, she was
laid up, and it is our opinion, as one of the
owners, that but for certain arrangements,
made about that time, she would be laid
up still, and not all the wonders of the
volcano, though trebled, would have per-
suaded her out on an excursion trip -"
for the accommodation of the public, and
no amount of " Government interference
could have forced the company to put her
on such a trip either. 1t may have been
an Inconvenience to some of the public,
not to have been able to avail themselves
of the steamer last week, to go to Hawaii,
but has their support of the boat been
such, as to give them claim upon the
Company, to neglect its own interests,
when extraordinary emergency arises The
agents had a chance to charter the boat,
ID favorable terms, and more proftably
han if kept on her usual route for two
rips, and the people who own shares can
ind no fault with any arrangement which
,fsets the expense side of the accounts.
But what business had the Agents to
:harter the boat, and thereby disappoint
ONE of the public? Wherefore, give them !
double whack, as well as the charter |
'arty that their obligations to the public .
nay be knocked into their field of vision? I
The Government chartered the boat for
specific and laudable purpose, one which
very humanitarian must applaud, and pro-
ounce eminently proper in view of this
eruption on Hawaii. ReasoDa-
lie care was taken, not to overload the I
esign of relief with unnecessary adjuncts
'ossibly if His Majesty had not concluded
} go, the supplies and simple agent to
isburse them, would have been all that
as required. Nothing could have been
mpler to manage, aud the public could
len have been gratified with the sight of
lie agent and supplies having the whole
Gamer. But the club, in that case, would
ave been in requisition more vigorously
ian as it now stands.
The reports of the lava streams having
emmed in many families, made it proba-
e, that the greatest relief would be, to {
move them to other districts, aid the
pacity of the steamer in such case was
necessary to be kept free.
The only way to have pleased Hercules
ID avoid the whack of his club, would
we been for the Government to have l
ven out. that as the steamer was charter
with public money. therefore, every
'dy is entitled to a free passage. In such :
Sc, the public would have been eminent |
served. the distressed people of Kau,
Ore eminently, perhaps +? Q
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WHARF AT Hno.-The landing of passen- '
rs and goods at the Harbor of Hilo has been
cd ba hu;id;por If