The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1872-11-13

However, it is understood that the Editor is not
responsible for the opinions expressed by any
/ pendent.
Things in general and the Advertiser.
Mr.. EDITOR: Az moment when there ap.
pears to be an awakening interest in the COM
munty on various measures and matters which
may tend to promote the general prosperity, it is
by no means satisfactory to find that our indie
pendent Journal, the Advertiser, with its consid-
cradle circulation and excellent printing fails
! lamentably whenever it attemps to present any
/ original views on the questions thus occupying
the public mind. 1t may well be excused from
offering any very definite opinions on the subject
of labor and population, seeing that the ideas of
| the public appear to be somewhat mixed on this
important question, but surely it is great point
gained when nearly the whole community comes
forward and admits that it has a great deal to
learn on this subject, and seeks information. AT
this very appropriate state of mind however, the
AdreytiSer, both by its correspondent Islander"
as well as in the leading article of last Saturday
which indorses his views, takes the opportunity
of conveying a sneer which, as has been well OBJ
served, it is impossible to refute.
3" Islander" in the communication to which
the said leader calls our favorable attention, first
decides-that the problem the immigration So
ciety have TO solve is to bring permanent settlers
and producers; he then twits the Society with
not having proposed anything 10 effect this OBJ
ject, and finally proceeds to show that it is
thing impossible to be done any way; thus NULL
flying by his conclusion all that he had said be-
fore. The leading article harps upon the same
string, and whilst it admits that we have no
public lands" for Z" the kind of immigration we
need" it imposes upon the Society the task TO
bring about such a radical change in our policy
of public Improvements and the utilization of our
waste lands, that within comparatively short
time we shall be able to hold out good induce
ments to the right sort of immigrants for the
increase of our permanent population" That is
to say, the Society have to work things round so
that We shall by and by have the public lands
which we have not got now TO induce immigrl-
ton. Well may this writer say, And herein
lies the magnitude of the task the planning of
which the Immigration Society has as yet for
borne TO undertake" True, and more especially
if, as many of them believe, such public lands
would be comparatively useless for the purpose,
even could they be conjured into existence
As to Islander he admits it is rather soon
TO find fault with the Society, seeing that it had /
not yet had chance to do anything at all, but
he takes slap at their deliberations, neverthe- |
less, by comparing them with some farmers girl /
who said and did something the pertinence of
which is not very apparent. May we not, with .
much more propriety, compare Islander" TO Mr.
Squeers, at the Saracen's Head, when in fit o
Detulance, he knocked the little boy off the box
With a cuff on one side Of his head, asking him
what he did hat for, and when the child answered,
: | wasn't doing anything, Sir" he Knocked him
pack on to the box with cuff on the other side,
With the remark, Then don't do it again, Sir"
On such themes, however, as labor and popula-
ion, good deal of papably inconsecutive rea-
coming may be charitably overlooked in view of
he admitted difficulties of the subject, but when
writer's of this calibre venture TO lecture their
leighbors on questions of Currency and Bills of
exchange, with which most Of their readers are
olerably familiar, they apt to get hopeIessly
nred as the AdUeItiSer is in its article OF Thurs
ay and Saturday, on this subject, for it there
iscovers that because people had to pay two
er cent, premium for Bills of Exchange on San
Francisco by last steamer, nobody would be likely
o take whalers' bills even at pd'!!! Then the
iea that u whaler's bill on New Bedford Is of no
Sc to cancel our obligations in California is
Oddly original Any ofhce-boy down town knows
hat they are usually as good and often better
han bills on San Francisco itself for that pur-
ose. The intricate currency operations by Chi
amen with the fve-franc piece, the new Amer
an half-doIlar, aud the old halfdollar, by which
be AfTeTfiSer breads we may be flooded with
ve-franc pieces, l will not venture to enlarge
pom, lest l get into a worse mess than the Ad-
sfitSer on the Exchange question. will merely
bserve on this point that many experienced S
nanciers down town are not alarmed at the
respect of being flooded with fye.franc $
eces on the contrary. seeing that they are
lch ntrinsically of about the same value as two t
merican halfdollars of our currency, and at t
hich rate they pass, it is thought they would a
't be very unwelcOme description of food
Unsatisfactory as such articles are at time
hen we require all the light possible as well as
BOD temper, in the discussion Of these important
lestions, this Incompetent and carping style of
riting becomes insuferable when it is employed
impeaching the judgments of our Courts, as :
Is been done by the AdreTtiseT' lately, especially
rtaiu decisions of our Police Justice, and which v
far as the community has been able to ascer- n
in the merits have, venture to think, been
morally approved Of; decisions perhaps, in some
stances, of a little difficulty, but which it GER
inly is not competent for the wisdom and logic
the Adoetissr, as lately displayed TO reverse 4
its own motion.
Would it not be more edityiug if the Editor of
e AdUeITisir, when ITS admirable printers call n
r more copy" would supply them with an