The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1877-10-06

To the Editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser i:
The disgusting subject of immoralities, adultery,
freelOve, cohabitation, ETC., which has for several
weeks past filled the newspapers to OVERLOOKING cau-
not be banished yet, and one of the would be saints
(of which Honolulu has its ample share) must come
again in this weeks Gazette, and give his sancti6ed
morality an airing. 1t is a strange fact that the
sanity newspaper preachers on morality take so
much delight in their capacity of ex oficio rag
plekers to grope in the filthy cutters Of society.
Does that help to establish a sense of morality But
why does not the sanity rag picker who writes over
the signature Of three celestial stars in the Garete
conhne himself to the subject and to truth Stars
says, the fact is, that an attempts made to
obtain public and legal sanction for living married
lives without the legal marriage Obligation" A
barefaced ~falsehood, as no such attempt has been
made. Stars calls it can undisguised defence and |
bold assertion Of the right to defy the moral tone of |
social demands which exist in England - forgetting |
the fact, that this is not England, but Honolulu. |
and that the moral tone of social demands ). in |
Honolulu Is not advanced as far as that of England |
(of which the sanity writer may know very little)
or 1t would be able to defend its social boundaries |
without the aid Of eonstables and sanity rag pickers
as well as in England. Such remarks as the follow.
ing are perfectly puerile and hypocritical. SIT NAV
also as well be put to the test now, Is whether, as the
ADVERTISER says, ait is simply untrue that the
tone of society here is as high as in New England or
Old England" or that "men who were known 70
be habitually immoral are eomplacently received in
the so-called 6 best society," Will Stars assert that
no men known to lead married lives without the mar
rooI'cum ever have been and are received in the So
called best society.
Rome was not built in one day, and society
cannot be moulded in q few years. But the
question at present is. will the Attorney General
and his marshals and constsbles be more successful
in creating moral instincts and conceptions than the
preaehersf Yes, what need of preachers. Neither
Christ himself nor his disciples preached virtue and
with q posse of constables at their back,
but told the sanity rag pickers to throw the first
stone, but 1 suppose this country, and its saints are
amply able to amend the Masters practice as well as
hey presume to amend his doctrine. At all events
hose sanity gutter snipes are of little benefit to the
of feelings of morality nor to the So
allied best society," The remarks of Stars upon
he efficiency and fairness of the law and law officers
re but 30 much balderdash and sanity effrontery.
However he says, 6 but until complaint is made to
be officers, and the names of witnesses of the offence :
re given, no prosecution can be instituted This -.
writer in behalf of morality would in behalf :,
morality institute every neighbor an informer +.
nd q sneak into his neighbours affairs and morals. !
hat are Attorney Generals, marshals and consta- Q
salaried for? I would commend to the notice of IL
e law officers the eminent fitness of Stars for the II
ice of informer and private sneak. and am certain I'll
Stars in a short time would reap the deserved m
,ssine of the community at large or q sound kick al
3, as sure as I sign myself. /. M. N.