The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-03-09


genius which have atierIy distinguished the effn-
sions of the Editor of the p c. Aduegfise,-. his
article in his last issue, on the subject of Hotel
in Honolulu, stands so pre-eminert that crave
permission to offer few comments, which sug-
gest themselves to my mind in relation to it,
feeling, as do, that such style of journalism
ought not to be permitted to pass unrebuked by
the public, who take deep interest in the ques-
ton which he seems resolved, so far as his feeble
efforts can avail, (" to nip in the bud"
He cOoly asserts that the need of Hotel
while admitted by ALL is no greater than il icas
ten or ecen tCenty years ago and this in the
face of the fact that the present excitement on
the subject has been created solely by the antici-
pated conveyance of three lines of ocean steam
ers at this port, which will bring with them
host of travellers, who will naturally desire to
make more or less stay on shore, and whose So
jOurn can not fail to be substantial benefit to
our little community. An assertion so baseless
this needs no refutation for it carries its own
antidote; and yet its absurdity is ecipsed aud
cast in the shade by other portions of that strange
production, IN which the writer has contrived to
introduce re-hash of his trite and hackneyed
TRADES against everything savoring of Govern
ment,'-and more especially, that bugbear, the
s" Government Press" which has for so many
years, and indeed ever since his failure to enlist
under its banner, been the burden of his monot-
Onous song-Or, rather. howl-on every occasion
when the subject could be dragged into dis
cussion, however irrelevant il might be.
He says " 1t is idle to talk of Hotel till
other and greater necessities are provided for
and which " necessities be elsewhere defines to
mean, an entire renovation of our political sys-
TEN )" including, of course, the removal of the
present Administration from Office and the abo-
lition of your very troublesome journal as Gov
eminent organ. When this favorte panacea
shall have been accomplished, presume he will
admit that a Hotel may be a desirable acqusi-
tion but in the meantime and until the advent
of his political millennium. it will be hardly fair
or Just towards those innocent travellers TO de-
prive them of the possibility of sojourning
amongst u.s. and no less So TO deprive the COM
munity of the substantial benefits which must
result from so valuable an addition to our con-
sumers- i4- A-
70 most people of ordinary intelligence, whose
certainly seems that the subject of Hotel might
well be considered neutral ground, on which
every citizen, really and honestly intent on pro-
noting the rubllc veal, might meet and CO.
operate albeit they may be of all conceivable
shades grades of opinion on the subject of
politics, or any other I" vexed question Not
SO, however, thinks the genius of dscord who
presides over the counses of the
Advertiser, who seems to have dashed himself
into state of chronic frenzy, by the interminable
Of his ceaseless and senseess Rulings
and earnings at :. the powers that be" so as to
obscure his mental vision, and disqualify him for
looking at any subject, except through distorted
medium. 1t is rue, the community to a man,
has long since learned to appreciate his stereo-
typed Trades at their real value, and consider any
Of them superAuons; bat concurring,
as | do, in the soundness Of the position taken
in the leader in your last ISSUE not to allow his
to pass unnoticed, offer these
crude remarks, 10 be used as you may see ft
Another item in his political renovation de-
serves passing comment. He requires "Legis-
Iators who are ct Tor the service inirusted to
them, aud,not mere sycophants.s Now, consid-
eriug how long and how diligently he has Iabored,
in both languages, to educate the people, whose
Mentor he assumes to be, and to Undue them
with his DolitcaI views IA il mot IN no ,vonda-a
al that he should feel mortified and disappointed
10 find his labor to have been in vain. =
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