The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-07-22
Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum.

To the Editor Of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser 1:
SIR-In the Rapaiiaa Gazette of the 19th ap-
pears a paragraph over the signature Of W. r.
Castle, explanatory of his remarks made in the Leg
islstive Assembly on the liquor bill. His Ex. the
learned Attorney General intends to correct the
statements made by the Gazette as well as by the
ADVERTISER. by stating facts. Can it be that in
the construction of the Government House the acous-
tic properties of the noble hall were overlooked by
the architect, and is the Ministerial bench so unfor-
tunately placed in q corner that sentences uttered by
Ministers, by opposing currents of air entering
through the door are so much affected that their
import is changed and perverted? If such is the
case, it would be highly desirable and really necessa-
ry, while appropriations are on the tapis, to have an
appropriation made for the purpose Of investigating
the cause of this remarkable phenomenon, as the
country and the Ministry no less must be sufferers
from the existing defects; or is it perhaps the cloud
Of uncertainty which in common parlance is said to
hang over law and utterances of lawyers /? The facts
are, as stated by Mr.. Castle, that he had denounced
in the strongest terms the retail liquor trade, charac-
terizing it as low and disreputable. The Minister of
Foreign Affairs asked, I" How about the wholesale
business! unfortunate question y and many
members understood the reply to be, sc equally as
bad, " while the interpreter certainly rendered it in
Hawaiian, " Ia like no lie inc - and now comes
one of those unfortunate currents of air, mischiev-
ously cavorting around the Ministerial bench, and
swallows, according to Mr.. Castles '' facts" a large
part of his reply That partakes of the same
character to a certain extent, though it does not
stand on the same basis" Mischievous Puck land
Puck perhaps was learned in the law or studied at
New York; takes a bite from the sentence, throws q
"lke no 3" to the House while whispering In the
Ministerial ear the comfort and consolation, that
wholesale is not as bad as retail, and the "assur.
ance 81 that g there is a vast difference And so of
course there is, if people only would look at it from
a lesrned and legal stand point, or had studied the
fine points of legal discrimination under the shadow
of old Tammany.
Who would dare to say, for example, that o
butcher who sells a tainted hog weighing 500 pounds
is as disreputable as be who retails a single pound of
sinking pork? As Mr.. Castle would say, "I as
sure you there is a vast difference though common
brains cannot perhaps grasp the point. The Tom,
Dick or Harry who sells to the poor or to the common
customer a quarters worth of liquor on a hot day or
when exhausted by labor, is a low and disreputable
fellow, and quite different from him who sells to the
retail dealer the liquor by the barrel or whole punch
con, to retail it again by the drink. The pound of
tainted pork sold by the small butcher is offensive.
in fact stinks, and makes the small butcher stink too,
but The whole tainted hog of 500 pounds weight
smells nice, and gives an extract Of Lubin favor to
the wholesale INDEPENDENTLY if he is a Min
lister.
These are uiceties and points of law not easily IN
derstood by the uninitiated. and are only mastered
by intense and diligent study in the legal institu-
tons of other lands. Happy this country to have the
means of securing such wisdom and legal attachments.
PFTAn.