The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-10-01
THE PACIFIC
Commercial aNbettiser,


IL OFFERING to-day The Pacific COMMERCIAL
ADVERTISER TO our subscribers and the public
under new auspices, We would state that having
on the 9TH ultimo, issued a prospectus for a new
paper, to be called The Commercial Herald,
which was to have appeared on the 18th ultimo,
negotiations were in the mean time opened with
Mr.. II. NJ. Whitney, with a view TO purchasing
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser printing estab-
lishment. The Commercial Herald scheme was
therefore suspended, and we finally succeeded in
purchasing from Mr.. Whitney the good will and
plant of the Advertiser. This rendered the other
project unnecessary, and all we have to say to
our friends and subscribers on the present occa-
sion is, that we adopt az ours the views and
principles Of the prospectus issued for The Com
meroiaI Herald. That prospectus has been before
the public over three weeks. and has been sub
mitted to comment and criticism. We have
now the opportunity of modifying it if we had
desired, but " sec no reason to alter a word,
and therefore reproduce it, changing only the
name.
The time has evidently arrived when a new expo
nent of public opinion in these Islands is imperatively
demanded. The necessity has clearly arisen for a
Commercial Newspaper and Advertising Medium,
which shall be second to none of its contemporaries in
point OF execution anu IN It's mecnanlCal details,
which shall express the views Of the majority, and at
the same time, be independent Of Government infu-
ence and patronage
In presenting the claims of such a newspaper for
the support of the public, it is incumbent upon us
to declare the general principles by which We propose
to be guided.
In politics,-we have no implicit faith in the para
mount virtue or value of any particular form of
government. We find here a monarchy, and we
believe it to be well suited to the people. We shall
lend our assistance in adapting that form Of govern
ment to the needs Of the existing state of society.
We hope and intend in the conduct Of this paper to
be-to the King, loyal; to his Ministers, courteous
and to the people, true. We shall use our efforts to
strengthen the hands Of any ministry whose policy
we may consider in accord with the true interests of
the country, and will advocate a change, when in
our opinion, their policy fails by that test. Our
motto in this respect will be g measures. not men,
The material welfare and industrial progress of the
KingdOm,-it will be the special endeavor of the
Pacific Commercial Advertiser to advocate and
foster. The commercial, agricultural and Danufac-
turing interests will always find our columns devoted
to their wants. Reports from different markets, statis-
teal information, new inventions and improved
methods and processes will be diligently collected and
laid before our readers In advocating this industrial
progress, we unhesitatingly commit ourselves to the
principles of free trade-that logical ~theory-which
propOunded 10y the philosopher in his closet, has been
verified in history by the practical experience of ma
TONS We look upon the so-called system of Pro
lection - to native industry, by the imposition of
high duties on imported articles, as perplexing and
injurious to any country which adopts it, as the hot
bed Of monopoly and the bane of foreign commerce,
whilst it signally fails to secure to that industry
the protection it processes to afford.
The l"bor question, now so prominent, will have
our carNl consideration. We believe that the
Master and Servant Act is, in the main, just, right,
and fit for the state of society which exists, or is
likely to exist, in the Hawaiian Islands. The same
remark applies to contracts for labor for a term Of
years, intelligently entered into and justly enforced.
Religious discussions we consider out of the prov
IOPe of a OQuQral naUGnannr and ahan fhprpfOrp
decline them.
In thus explaining our principles and objects, we
think We utter no 90 uncertain sound and to those
who differ from us cOnscientiously, and perhaps
strongly, we proffer the hand of friendship and
trust that in reasoning together We may never allow
the discussion Of measures or principles to degener-
ate into vulgar personal pickering. Let us each
admit that the other has a proper motive-the public
goOd-and in pursuing that object let US be calm
from the belief that sound reason must in the end
prevail.
Finally, we crave the indulgence of all classes of
our readers, especially at the commencement Of our
newspaper fully worthy of being patronized by the
discerning public of these Islands is a very difficult
task, but we assure them that neither time nor pains
will be spared to make the p. C.. Advertiser the best
newspaper and the truest exponent of public opinion
n the Hawaiian Islands.
The only portion of the above prospectus which
appears to have been misunderstood, is the para
graph on the Master and Servant Act; which has
been construed as intending, to advocate the
system of double time. fines, irnprisJn-
ment, transfer and sale of contracts, and an
term of servitude, which now obtains
under the present law"
What it does say, is, that we believe the " Act
Is, in the man, just. right and 6t,' &C., thus
saving ourselves from being committed
% any of the Objectionable details of the law, if
Objectionable they be. When words are not al
owed to have the meaning which justly attaches
% them, criticism becomes unfair and discussion
The Labor Question and our