The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-08-20

WI received on the 18th instant a note
from S. b. Dole, Esq, saying. You
will please to stop sending me the u. c.
ADVERTISER, rs l do not wish TO take il
any longer and giving as q reason objec-
tions to publications in our columns On
referring to our subscription list we found
that Mr.. Dole had been the recipient of
this journal for some length Of time, and
there was no evidence on our books that
one dollar had been paid by him for tho
perusal of the paper-either during the late
or present proprietorship. Now we think
that a party who reads n paper as q dead
head, or who never pays till after long
dunning, should be modest in his indigna-
ton in regard TO its contents. But it has
happened, during the present management
of this journal, that about q score Of in
dignanC stoppages have been sent to us,
and invariably by parties who had not
paid down for their perusal of the paper.
Now, inasmuch as for the score or so of
%longwinded subscriptions withdrawn, we
have increased our cash sales of the paper-so
that these cash sales for the city exceed its
subscription in its best days we would be
content to nave every time-subscriber with
draw, because We feel determined and
assured, TO produce a paper of such variety,
value, and interest that our most prejudiced
obiectors-including Mr.. Dole-must read
us, and buy our paper, either directly or
indirectly. We greatly prefer the nimble
dime Of to-day to the slow dollar of the
past.
"MoRENo hoka,' or Moreno fooled,
is a text upon which our contemporaries
have expanded from time TO time. They
have discussed Moreno, the Don" the
Count the "BaZoO,' with an excess of
vituperation and nervousness of manner, as
though this man was some hOrrid ogre Of
humanity, and the dread hu .aboo Of Ha-
.waiian politics, and have scolded away at
him behind his back to IN extent that in
suits the intelligence and courage of the
community. Now, though we have reason
to remember much of Mr.. Moreno's actions
as illjudged and INSCRIPTIONS, and that he
was by no means our friend, yet we have
never feared, despised or derided him..
We found him n man of much natural
ability, with 4 large cultivation and very
wide knowledge, devoted too much to selfish
ends. He was capable of planning and cir
cumventIng TO some extent but he was not
by any means such 4 masterful genius of
evil, that it was necessary TO get mp n COW
ardly demonstration to mob him, or for in
telligent editors in an enlightened commun-
ity to continue with fearful anxiety To
hound him as an exposed plottcr Of some
fearful ability.
And especially we want to say, the chief
object of thin article, that there has not
been, as n contemporary states, any trial
of intellectual strength between Moreno
and oar Armstrong" at Naples. This state
ment ]presupposes that the objective point
of the " trial of strength" was the manage
ment Of or influence over His Majesty,-a
statement without foundation and an insult
To the King. We know that His Majesty
had settled this matter, long in advance Of
the arrival at Naples, and that Moreno had
been authoritatively informed, that his mis-
sion as a mentor, or care taker of Hawaiian
youths had ceased; and His Majesty main
tanned at Naples, the attitude he had taken
in advance of his arrival.
Mr.. Moreno, no doubt, with the unyield-
ing pertinacity of his nature. strove hard 10
secure some recognition from the King; but
the position Of Moreno, his relation 10 la
waiian youths and their status in Italy was
settled by their Hawaiian and Italian Ma
in the Palace Mt Capo di Monte with
out the slightest intervention OF concurrence
Of Mr.. Armstrong.
Orr iuyenjIe contampOr5ry ch9mnious