The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-05
a IIOtGl.

With this caption, the official organ wakes up
from a Rip Vanwinkle sleep of five or SIX years,
to learn that we have no house for the accommo-
dation of strangers. The subject has been advo-
Gated from time to time, and even public meetings
held to endeavor to fix upon some practicable plan.
What the Gazette says below, is simply a repetl-
ton of what has been reiterated for the last ten
years.
The time seems to be at hand when a comfortabie
and commodious Hotel ought to be started IN Homo
lulu. 1t is little to our credit that neither our resi-
dents from the other islands, nor strangers lIohi
abroad, can arrive in town without announcement EN-,
barrassment, as to where they can hnd sneiter anu
food, that r~efreshment and accommodation "nlcn
every town, however Insignificant IN civihzeo coun-
tries, offers to travellers. s.
There. strangers have no hesitation, on calls OF
business or pleasure, to penetrate the most sparseiy
settled district, to arrive without previous nonceI ~
a town, at any hour of the day or night "hne neo'
the uncertainty of shelter is so great, ana acconuho-
dations so difficult TO be obtained, that IL amounts ~
~positive inhospitality on our part-a prohioi.'ch III
fact upon arrivals. Such a state OF things Is inJuIi-
Gus to our interests and a detriment 10 lhe Puoi0
welfare.
II needs no argument to prove that travel AVOIDS
those towns where no provision to meet the neeos VI
travellers exists; that visits to such towns are III
to those who are obliged to go there ana that sum
places only vegetate without CROWN anu PIog.~a'
and cut themselves off from the chances 1or improve,
ment and expansion that come to more puohc spiIi'o"
and Wide-awake towns.
The need of a hotel, while admitted by all, 10
no greater now than it was ten or even twenty
years ago. The great necessity is, not SO much
the capital or the men to start the enterprise as
an entire renovation of our political system. An
administration which shall enlist the support, CO.
operation and respect of the community, foreign
and native: an administration which shall do all
it can to encourage foreign immigration, instead
of shutting it out, as is practically the case now
an administration which shall be alive to the ne
cessity of introducing inter-island steam, and not
reject an offer when made, under the plea of no
means, as has been done during the past two years,
without such an administration, 1t Is useless to
talk of our other wants.
Here is what is needed Officers whom the
people can look up to and respect legislators
who are cit for the service entrusted to them, and
not the mere sycophants OF those IN power.
Strike at the very root of our troubles; make
these changes; invite free immigrants from abroad;
throw open the public lands to any and to all who
will come and cultivate them make good roads
railroads if Observation-Disclosures they are needed,
and they are needed everywhere stop squander-
ing public moneys on such worthless objects as the
two official newspapers; let private industry have
q fair chance in every direction and not drive
away every man who does not bow down and
worship the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
1t is idle to talk of hotels, until other and
greater necessities are provided for, and the way
opened for industry, when she knocks at our doors,
to enter, and find a dwelling-place among us.
When these reforms have taken place, then
there will be rivalry to secure the privilege of
a hotel, and this enterprise will be sus-
tanned and become a success.
But against any political jobs in this line;
against the voting of public funds for the accom-
of this object against any law that
.contemplates abridging individual competition for
the benefit of a monopoly, we shall sternly set
our faces. If private enterprise cannot erect and
carry on a hotel, but must be aided by taxes on
the people, as the government press now is, we
say better go without q hotel than use the peoples
money for any purposes, not strictly pertaining to
the administration of government, or the internal
of the country.