The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-10-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
X 9.

CAAD op1 .
The official EIper OF a Government is generally
taken as the standard to estimate the character oil
the administration \ dignifcd, manly tome in
it commands respect while insoIencc and black
g~uardism inspire only contempt. The second
leader OF the Ga<ene is an instance Of the latter,
and may serve to illustrate the spirit Of the
administration. We had presented indisputable
facts and figures to sustain our position regarding
the movements OF sugar, and to disprove that oil
certain interested parties who control the columns
of the official organ. Finding our statement un-
answerable, except by personal abuse. the man
ager Of that paper indulges in the following dig
niied language:
"This editor Is in the habit Of threatening people
with whom he chances TO take offence, or who. for
cause, withdraw their patronage from his paper,
that he will " make them sorry for il :" and having
q great-an insane-idea Of his paper, and Of its
influence proceeds to insert in il sometimes, under
~pretence Of communications, and sometimes in the
guise Of editorial comments -blackguard sneers and
insinuations-not seeing that he has just about AS
much effect as the viper biting ut n file. Having
made q wrongful, and, il was to be presumed, mad
vertent statement. regarding the quantity Of sugar,
which no one would take any further notice Of, than
merely to set it right before the public, without
intending to give him any offence, he attempts To
justify il, by saying that he means so many tons Of
moiasxes and sugar, and then his idea of his own
Importance Is so great that, though other people
would willingly let him alone, he must stick to it
with the same persistency, that n puppy dog exhibits,
in Juggling at q root, but without the good temper
which that animal manifests in his vain and useless
occupation"
This is understood to be the language of Min
lister Harris, who has charge Of the official paper,
or at least it was endorsed and approved by hin.
and refers, Of course, to the editor of the ADvER-
TIsER. So far as the language imputed to us is
concerned, /" Of threatening people with whom he
chances to take O~fense, or who, for cause, with
draw their patronage from his paper, that he
will make them sorry for it," We brand the
assertion as a base and malicious falsehood, with
out the slightest foundation, and having no other
origin than in the heated brain of the writer Of
the unfounded Islander.
As for the rest Of the language of the above
quotation and leader, we are perfectly willing
that it should 20 abroad as that of the '' official
organ OF the Hawaiian Government, and that
the writer should enjoy whatever personal s~atisfac-
ton may be derived from its publication. Personal
abuse, however, Is not argument, and If His Ma
jcsty's Ministers can enforce conviction in no other
way, it is time that there were a decided express
sion of public opinion respecting their ~unftness
for Office. Cabinet councils which can produce
Only such verbiagc as the above, are n disgrace
To christendom.
The dragging in of the name Of one of our
merchants to bolster up the false statements of
the Ga=ene's commercial writer, was wholly un-
authorized, and as impadent rs unauthorized.
Yet it Is characteristic OF the management of that
paper, which seeks some respectable name to
corroborate irs iilsc assertion. 81 far rs relates
to a certain part Of the cargo of the CSn5ridge.
which the Gazette ssys was on board, ut a certain
date, and which was OF no material consequence
to the question involved, that gentleman did
assent to the correctness of the statement; but
his name is introduced in such a way as to leave
the impression that he endorsed everything that
the Gazette has stated ON this subject, winch
neither he nor any other intelligent merchant is
willing to do.