The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-12-31

hauled Mp 10y ii magistrate, and who got suubbed
oy various sensible folks and then he gets an
aoSconiiug scamp 10 father an effIsion OF dirty
spite 10 be printed abroad. The sneak that
helps to circulate such stuff j., to my mind,
meaner than the getter up. The latter had a
grudSe for excuse, where's the circulator has
only a dirty instinct to deal in dirt"
why, yes 10y the way there was n dose Of
II last Saturday IN the sheet set up by You folks
on the Beach II gives the Shepherd fits
don't it
Now. Don, I've never fancied the Shepherd
He never struck me as practical. He sticks by
things and folks that are played iout and he
wants TO run the country on the Quixotte plan :
bu5 don't like this singing mud at him, OF any
body else
Bat. friend Beach. they are an elect crowd
that have the muck rake in hand.
That's so, Don that one Of the special
bad features of our society-that many Of our
professed regenerates. many loud in protesting
love for a Saviour, are the bitterest of backbiters.
| know a man who will parsake Of the bread Of
a Love Feast, or Communion. next Sunday. who
has boosted to me OF having IA pigeon-hole full
Of secrets against his neighbors. That fellow
Allardyce was of that stripe. 20
We'll, l suppose, friend Beach, that back
biting is q disease of extreme religious self
satisfaction and some good folks find nuts in
this story about the shepherd"
But there's nothing in it, Don. What can
you make Of q story of dead men. when there are
no vouchers to sustain their statements? II
such kind of testimony is to prevail, you can use
up any individual in this community. just you
think OF any man, within n stones throw of this
Corner, and what stories can be raked up against
him. What stories of lewd associations and
bastarly what tales of sharp dealing or fraud;
and what meannesses and family skeletons
abound everywhere in the gossip of the streets -?
How weak and mean We all are. and who is fit
among us to so int" the secret closet and be
Judge and executioner there?
well, Beach, you and I are all right so long
as we don't run agen any interest. But let us
try to take care Of the country, and there's a
crowd that think they're born to take care of it,
that will show you who you are. A man who
wanted TO find out something about his family.
was told to run for Congress. That's what's the
m after now. The Shepherd is supposed to be
standing for the next Legislature. tohich IS not The
cas- ! an losH assured, bat the superstition il
enough to start a howl in a certain crowd"
We'll, Don, d n man that stores up q
docket against his aeighbor that keeps it foI
years that shows IT around to n dirty crowd
like himself with injunctions not to tell, and al
last has it brought out by other hands, when he
thinks it will block some move, or enterprise.
Such n man is a Thug the meanest and most
cowardly kind of an assassin in the dark, and
all the dirtier for his devotion. No man is safe
with such cattle around. / remember the Hon
olulu Mirror, another outburst of backbiting
bile published abroad and sent here-some OF
our best men were besmirched with mud and de
filed with dirty inuendo. Then there has been
many a mean stab at private characters in Other
pages that have appeared here from time to time
and 1 am sorry to repeat what I said before. tina
some of our professedly good, are tn livliest ana
most determined dealers in private "details OF g
neighbours life"
"Well, old fellow, that's all natural enough
How shall a man who takes pains to assert him
self as a saved and elect individual, better prove
his self-assertion. than by denouncing evil men
He may be warned to judge not, but his natur
is iii sympathy with the man, who is thankful
that he Is not as other men. He may be mast,
in his own inner life nasty in his private al
cove, but his self-assertions in the Temple salts
fy him with himself, and he seeks to prove t
others his acceptance with his God by his abilit
to use the muck rake.