The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-12-29

To make really independent and useful
journal requires ali amount of care, labor
and outlay which few who have not had ex-
perience In ii can appreciate. Up O. Adv.,
Dec. 25th.
The editors of the Advertiser may
give care, labor and outlay for their
paper, and how useful they make it.,
it is impossible to say; but it is very
certain that they do make it independent !
quite independent of all common sense.
Being happily free from all sense Of shame
in making themselves ridiculous as well
as absurd ought to save them much
"labor and care"
When they publish such stuff as this
" We have never had more united and
cordial support than now from the masses,
who are mainly interested in the susie
nance of a free press" anyone would
think they had the whole circulation of
the New York press, and would not i'm
agine that the entire English speaking
community in this country does not ex-
coed very few hundred. Which portion
Of them do they designate as "masses?'
Such sentences are of piece with the
following, from their placard, calling pub
lie meeting:
"The attendance of all interested in the la
Dor question. especially mechanics and work
ingmen, who compose the brain, muscle and
sinew Of the country, is specially requested
AS if any Of the small number of intel
ligent and well-to-do mechanics, doing
business in this country, are to be hum
bugged by the silly preteDtiousness of
patronizing them, and patting them on
the back, or will be persuaded that they
represent any more of the brains of the
country than an equivalent number OF
other citizens, as Clergymen, Merchants,
Managers, Physicians, Lawyers or as if
any one of these gentlemen would be in
any way grati6ed at being told that they
belong to the masses" upon which these
distinguished Philosophers look with pa
tronizing fondness, each one having the
full intention Of constituting himself the
Moses, to lead them up out of their sea Of
ignorance.
The fact is, these editorial gentlemen
swell themselves up by the contemplation
of their brother editors of New York,
and therefore feel it necessary to talk
about the masses. the surgiDg millions
that are excited by their glowing periods,
or Gained by their philosophic exPositions.
Having read in the papers of their New
York brethren, an exciting account of gold
operations, where gold is matter Of CON-
merce, or purchase for paper, the legal
currency Of the country, they feel the ne
cessity of imitation in this respect, and
talk about gold corner, because one
or two gentlemen wish to get as good
rate as they can for LENDING their money
to men who wish to obtain it at as low
price as they can on bill of exchange so
that one would think, to hear them talk,
that whaIeman's bill, which any one may
Desires to sell. and a greenback," were
one and the same thing. Not being able
to conceive, from their standpoint, that
any one should have the guardianship Of
public money without stealing it, and
reading in some party papers, Published
in the United States, that great corup-
ton prevails in this and that city that
where large contracts for paving, lighting.
or other public works are made, persons
having influence in giving out those con-
tracts, sometimes obtain wrongful profit;
wishing to make singing article III and
being perfectly unrestrained BY any feel
ings belonging to gentlemen, and not
having The sense to see the Righteousness
Of their insinuations. they inform their
readers that a man, whose duty it has
been to receive and pay out certain fixed
sum Of money year, and that not BY his
own hand. bat through anothers, (the
Registrar Of Public Aeeounts.) has been
able to make "princely Investments in