The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1879-10-01
The SInnderer.

There is so much solemn truth in the fol-
lowing article that we reprint it for the pur-
pose Of holding up TO merited scorn and con-
tempt the habItual, constitutional slanderer,
whose baleful influence in any community is
as deadly and damaging as that attributed to
the Upas tree, whose contact produces certain
death. We do not agree with the writer,
however, who seems 10 cOnine her well-timed
and scatbing anathenas to her own sex. be
cause we have found as malignant slanderers
of private character among men as among wo-
men-men who delight in the practice of de-
flaming their neighbors, morning, neon and
night, through the livelong year, by detailing
the most foul and malicious ISLANDERS, know
ing them TO be such when they utter them.
For such men and women We entertain the
most inefable contempt. We are prompted to
say this much for ourselves on this occasion,
in view of the fact that Honolulu possesses
more contemplate, black-souled slanderers,
than any place Of fifty times its size in the
Universe, OF which fact we have had forci-
able illustration, during the past week, in the
utterance Of q foul and baseless sIander
against the character of an estimable lady in
this city, for which there is not cintiIla of
proof 10 support IL
are unworthy to live in any decent community,
and should be secuted wherever and whenever
met II such people were treated thus, it
might have the tendency TO put stop to the
tongue OF the sl1nderer, for if such miscreants
could not ind willing listeners, they would be
compelled TO nurse their malignity, and thus
carry in their own breasts the canker worm
that gnaws at their unholy hearts, and prompts
them 10 yillily and traduce the innocent vic
tins of their malice. No mans or woman's
reputation is safe in 4 community where the
slanderers are tolerated, and therefore we ad-
wise the good people of Honolulu to stick pin
there. The following is the extract from the
pen of Madge Morris, published in the San
jose (Cal.) Mercury.
There i. a class Of individuals in the world whose
narrow souls are developed in an atmosphere of
SANDER. The garden Of their hearts is foul IN
fertile soil that produces nothing but rank poisonous
weeds. They afflicted with disease physicians
call ''e4eoethes loqusudi-" There Is nothing in
which they take much ght as picking pieces
ueighbor's reputation, and they do it with as little
reuorse the savage tSrtuIss death his helpless
victim Prominent among this class is Mrs. Know
eyerything-her name suggests her vocation. She
Is TO be fonud in nearly every neighborhood and her
gzrTulO1s tongue Is the terror of the community.
She always knows great deal more about her neigh
b0rs than they know about themselves and if one Of
them is 50 unfortunate to incur her dsplsasure it
IrLLcf tnAL unfortunate klAt MILL stone
were uged about Der neck etc. There is never IN
end to the volume Of seahinz anathemas she will hurl
upon the ofendiag ones head And one had as we'll
attempt to reason with the beast that BALKAN rode
a. with her. She kaors, however, her malignant as
sertions Uould be bat empty sound we're it not for
another class Of women among whom she is very
poPGllri not because sthey like her or Hheve her
statements, bat because their weak nelleets never
above tale Of SANDER the arraug cement of
GO fure, IA mode She the bali and they keep
it rolling. l. is like the rolling .toue' that
gathers quite the contrary This little ball
Of malice and suspicion it passes from hand to
hand Is added to and multiplied until it becomes
mountain Of fAlsehooi with venom enough to poison
the social atmosphere Of whole community.
This sane Mrs. knoE-every- thing Is very often
member Of some branch Of the church aud 10 this
as in everything else, she 0Eeri7es the thing When
she has good f. en which Is rarely the case she
viii 90 to church and mingIe with the worshipers
there With face nunaturally solemn, she will
bend her pious knees and murmur amen, while tax
ing observations As the meeting progresses she
viii perhaps get happy and shout-f she happens to
Be oce Of the shouting kind-b1t at the frst gray
streak Of Mondays dawn. her religion is folded
nicely away with her Sunday harness, aud her re-
leutess tongue Is let loose with renewed fury for
snsther period Of days. She seems never to think
Of another day that il coming when the black list of
her false Villifezti0ns viii rse up unerriug wit
ness against her, Though her deathfg ISLANDERS like
creeping moth may feed the tender chords of
the heart. they kill the soul and beyond the
s3Gnd af her voice there is better country. where
people ''Iuind their business" aud where there
10 Mrs. EnaE-eTery-things.