The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-03-12
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. MARCH II.
a CharcoaI Sketch.


The Ministerial Organ continues its efforts to
set aside Judge Hoffman's decision regarding the
celebrated attempt to defraud the United States
Treasury by adulterating sugars with charcoal IN
order that they might escape the legal duty.
With characteristic pcrverseness, 1T seeks to
prove that charcoal is not black, and that mixing
charcoal with any substance only tends to improve
it. We have only to say that had the parties
who were engaged in this attempt to defraud the
American revenue, been detected in a similar at
tempt to defraud the Hawaiian revenue, these
same apologists who now labor so 2ealously to ac-
quit their clients of fraud. would have been the
fercest in denunciation of the transaction, and in
seeking to punish all who might have been con-
cerned in it.
All the sophistry of a shrewd lawyer, all the
arguments and false representations of a venal
press, cannot change the one great fact, which
stares us in the face, whichever way we may look
at it-that the mixing of charcoal with the sugar
was done ruth the sole and only purpose of reduc-
ing Tie duty on i, and therefore of defrauding the
revenue. No words in the English language can
be more clear, positive and condemnatory than
those of the learned judge whom VIC quoted last
week, when he denounced the attempt to enter
charcoal sugars as "MORALLY AND LE-
GALLY FRAUDULENT and those engaged in
it as having 8 BEEN GUILTY OF a FALSE APPLIANCE
AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICE WITHIN THE MEANING OF
THE STATUTE
ETA writer in Benneft's Oaon-who signs him.
self 80 Anti-Bigot,'' but who, were he to put his
own signature to the article would be recognized at
once as an extreme bigot of the worst type-un-
dertakes to criticize the action of n Protestant
clergyman of this city, in addressing a letter to
the Captain of the Donau on the subject of the
band of that ship playing while the crew were
marching through the public streets on the Sab
bath. We have seen a copy of the letter in ques-
ton. 1t is couched in dignifed and respectful
terms, stating that the playing of the Band at
that particular time of the day-between the
hours of eleven and twelve-disturbed the worship
in the Bethel Chapel, which commences ut that
hour, and suggesting that it would be a favor to
the congregation worshiping in that place, were
the practice discontinued. There was nothing
80 dictatorial,' - or Yankee ~notional - in this.
The recommendation of :" Anti-Bigot" to the
Austrian Consul to get up a letter which could
only be construed as an intended insult to every
American, is in perfect keeping with his ideas.
1t i'll becomes an admirer of the practices of
Catholic countries to sneer at Puritans,
whose descendants have established and built up
in permanent prosperity the freest and most en-
lightened governments on the face of the earth.
There are some of the descendants of that stern
but large-brained race on these islands, and they
are as proud of their lineage, with far better rea-
son too, than any titled aristOcrat of the old
world. Benefits OtCn has appended some very
appropriate remarks to the communication of
GO Anti-Bigot," concluding in the following words
90 IF he should search the world over he would not find more
liberal minded men than in New England neither could he
find more real happiness and true enjoyment than in the con-
of those States. Honesty of purpose, manliness of dealing,
open heartedness, open han lednesS, industry and virtue are the
characteristics of those people consequently, they are truly
happy and no country Can be truly happy which fosters vice
and immortality"
In this connection we may quote from Long
fellow, a New England Poet
al know this people and that underneath
A cold outside then burns a secret fire
That will find vent, and will not be put out"