The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1873-05-03
The J key Climb.

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jared innocence. be became a Kind OF auietype Of
our modern knight Errant Of morality. Joe"
When The redoubtable Don OF the rueful eounse.
nance charged the wind mills. assaulted the Rock
of sheep. battied with the knight Of tho Greer
Plum, avenged The imaginary wrongs Of suffering
maidens and rode a hobby horse into The realms Of
enehAntmcnt, be but iorshadowcd the mighty and
ehivalrous deeds Of The great " joe IL tho foot
~ oppression has been pointed toward a eoolic.
ii a master should have glanced askani at BIZ. ser
want, II there should be the far OF shadnWy sQuin;-
ing Of a violation OF a labor contract, that doughty
modern avenger OF wrongs Is aroused, be adjusts
his armor. his helmet, takes bis lance from its rest
and under the mighty shield Of Hrbeus CorpsS,
makes a terrible onslaught upOnsome vessel In
our harnor, or some master, and even boards the
Lord Chancellor on his wool sack, and shakes his
judicial ermine. II was that same ehivalrous spirit
that made him tilta lance in deieuce Of the injured
virtue aud innocence Of NJ" Bat In doing so, be-
mounts . bogus steed and goes Of on hs journey
in a dream OF enchantmcnt May he always be
high priest OF the " Jockey morality club, where
be can indulge In bis monomania OF Knight Erran-
try. M may DO his Squire, bis Sancho Panza.
and he should not sit still on his stoed outside OF
The ltata, while he is tossed in n blanket.
l do not regard the subject OF our social condi-
} ton. prostitution and venercal diseases u ct subject
for discussion through the public press. And IL Is
ineXeusable to aggravate tbccvils, t0augment crime
and 10 biazen it TO the world as tho Jockey mo.
rality club are in the habit of doing. They give
rise TO tho most absurd propositions for iinkering
in legislation. The last suggestion Of the GGscte
that men rs well ss women should be included la
the law TO " mitigate" certainly deserves The re-
ward Of a leather medal for q new political discov-
cry. 1t is, however, OF a class with all the schemes
- A-Ah - F.IHmF
would be something new under the sun.
will ask jock, If the moral and social con-
dition of the people OF these Islands, is not FAR
better than it was twenty years ago9 Then
drunken men and women recled nightly through
our streets, ~crowding liquor saloons and dance
houses. Then every form OF loathsOme diseasc
originating from social vice was prevalent. Then
the Station-house and Police Court we're crowded
with DRINKS, and the brawlers from midnight
aebauches. a little more than six years ago,
when [ FIRST arrived in the islanis, this state OF
things existed In q modified degree. There has
been a gradual Improvement fof tho better since
that time, so that now the streets Of Honolulu,
night or day, arc more pescoable, orderly aud
quiet, than those Of any commercial city In Europe
or America. Quiet and order prevails even on
festival days and election. Day after day passes
in the Police Court, without an accusation for
drunkenness or disturbing the peace, and yet In
tho face of these facts, che writer's OF the Jockey
club, rant and rave aOout the vico and immortality
of the people, and tie increase OF crime. / am too
busy now 10 examine the statistics, but I will do
so i'm future and slow the grave and serious errors.
which garbled iatements aud extracts produce,
and the false Impressions they create. My &C.
quainlance with the people OF these islands, In
every portion of the group, is more extensive than
that ~ any If nur nh vafeiana-thun that af a. IaNtuf
or any of lis club, and I assert without the fear of
a contradiction. based on misunderstanding what
| have nid-that the condition Of the Hawaiian
people is better to-day, morally and socially, and
they are freer from disease, than they were when /
first visited these islands aud basing my coBclu-
sions on facts derived from men OF intelligence
and responsibility, they are in q far better condi-
ton than they have been since the ante-missionary
period. They have passed the missionary period
and are now in n stage of progress, aud II /" Jock
and his associates viii only aid them aud encour-
age them and not heap approbrIum upon them.
they would have some claim TO philanthropy and
honesty of purpose. Abuse and calumny never
reform-unless on the principle of the
Irish Majors command-to advance backwards; and
that will always be the effect of such writer's as
" Juc" and M"
The tinkering of such fellows with the law 10
" Mitigate has produced great evil, and all the
cases of syphilis in the Queens Hospital may be-
attributed to such political %empyrics. Private
reasons caused the suspension of the execution Of
the Law, and the report Of the Queens Hospital
would exhibit the result. IL is concluded by
those in authority that its enforcement now Ii
necessary for the health OF the people.
Figures can be given to show how bene6cially the
law worked. M" sour and ascetic in bis closet,
knows nothing Of the operation Of the law. Al
though not latterly as well and thoroughly exc
cuted as it might have been, yet good resulted
from it; and if revived, with proper vigilance on
the part of medical agents of the Government, it
would soon eradicate syphilis from these islands.
/ was mortified and surprised on Thursday morn
last in seeing on the bulletin board of the present
proprietor OF the Gazette a reference TO a scandal
lous and scurrilous communication, evidently writ.
ten ia San Francisco, ana which was cut from tho
Daily Chronicle, and posted up In a conspicuous
place near the said bulletin board. Apart from
the bad taste exhibited in placing such u produc-
ton before the public, IL was blazoning forth II
contemplate SANDER upon one whom all persons
should respect for high character, above rcproach.
AS the scurTiloua communication alluded to was
signed "Kamaaina," the poster up Of the bulletin
in order 10 give a false impression in said refer
eHce stated that "another communication Of Kama
alma had appeared in the Chronicle" If IL was in
tended to give the impression that wrote tho ar
in question, it was not only false, but mali
cious. Since / have resided in these islands, / have
never been a correspondent for any paper In San
/ have never written anything pub
there unless it vas copied from our local
The article written by me last week went
to the publishing Office without any signature, and
| told the editor TO put any name be pleased to 1t
and so "Kamaaina " was placed there in the Office
Of the ADVERTISER. But as the skalewag who man
the Chronicle article has assumed that
name, l shall subscribe myself, KUAAINA.