The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-05-20
SUNDAY CoaIing Again.

Mr.. EDITOR Il was pleased to find by your last
issue that my humble endeavor to wake up some in
dividual to a sense of the apathy into which our
officials had fallen proved successful.
1 regret though that my friend SO far forgot him
self as to be abusive in the use of language ; the
poverty of his cause and argument is made clear by
the use Of the epithets to which he treats me.
The views 1 expressed are a mere matter of
opinion and l hoped to be able to express them with
out being abused for opinions sake. never have
imagined that the steamers would be delayed because
of my opinion. 1 may be Puritanical is my belief
and opinion, but rest assured that TO be styled q
t~sniffling Puritan is not the worst that could hap
pen to me such terms do not convey the odium that
my friend may have intended.
My friend mistakes my ground there is a differ
ence between steamers being delayed by stress of
weather or other circumstance beyond the usual time
of arrival, and steamers which are started upon O
voyage of twenty-one hundred miles every fourth
Saturday with a time table arranged for their arrival
here every fourth Lords Day. A passenger by the
Nebraska assured me that the agents of the steam
es told him to the hour when she would arrive here.
The chief engineer of the Nebraska is reported to
have said that the steamer could have arrived here
ON Saturday, but the time table stood in his way.
From the tenor of can't Bigot's" communication L
believe that he will be able to see the difference and
concede the soundness of my position.
In my opinion, formed after reading history, no
ommunity can be lax in the observance of the
) LAY Hitnout suffering Tue penalties. history,
sacred and profane, teaches of the dire calamities
visited upon those who violate its observance. Coal
ing steamers in the ports of Europe and America
if it is a common practice-among communities
whose civilization dates back hundreds of years,
whose principles are fixed, will work results quite
different from the same practice in a community of
mixed nationalities, the laboring class of which has
been recruited largely from Heathendom, and which
only last year celebrated the fftieth anniversary of
the arrival of the Bible and its opponents in its
midst.
In the proportion that the day is properly or i'm
properly observed by communities, the proprieties of
a Christian civilization will be noticeable. Break
down this barrier in this community and | predict
that a long train of evils will follow through the
breach.
Every individual in the community is, or should
be, interested in this matter, and should use his in
fuence to the end that a change may be wrought
hut if it should so happen that there should be no
appreciable public opinion upon this question in this
community, possibly the gentlemen who control the
steamers will so arrange as to have them arrive upon
some other day. WOODEN.
There is sound sense in what "Woden - says as
10 the timetable of the steamers. In the absence of
any necessity shown, there can be no reason why the
day of departure from San Francisco cannot be so
timed as to obviate the arrival here on Sunday, and
the rude shock that is experienced by the community
in witnessing that which the majority have been
to reverence as a Holy day of rest, turned
lawlessly into a day of more than ordinary toll and
sense of his own dignity to be annoyed by being
called names-classing one with those noble men of
history, the Puritans, is surely no disgrace.l