Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-12-10
THE pAMpHLETEHR.

In the good old days when the man Of ex-
pcriencc had aught to say concerning the ques-
tons which were at the time puzzling the
public. he retired to the seclusion of his library
and, after mature deliberation, put forth n
pamphlet. He was gentleman and a scholar.
Literature was probably not his profession,
but culture and high breeding. a finished
and elegant style, courtly wit and refined
satire, chastencd By wisdom and good taatc.
embelishcd every page of his brochre His
production was the flower of scholarship and
he was not merely an ornament to society, but
was of some nae in the world.
The pamphlet has lost character Of late
years, and chiefly through the want of it in
the pamphleteer In these times no excuse ia
too feeble to warrant person in rushing into
print. The desire to be talked of and written
about seems to be increasing. or all manios
this is the siliest, yet 80 long rs it merely
brings the parnphleter into public disrepute,
we cannot see why we need do more than pity
and charitably dismiss him. But when the
troublesome fool foists upon the public mass
Of unsavory gossip with the sole intent of in
juring those who once defended him, we feel
that we lave some excuse for noting it..
Young Allardyce, it ia reported, is Of re-
spectacle origin; when he was a friendless
stranger in this Kingdom lie sought AMI found
aid at the hands Of those who could have
known little or nothing of him. He WAS re-
ceived, others had been received before
him, without question. 1t seems our destiny
to be at intervals merciessly betrayed by
those upon whom we have bestowed our con-
fidence and charity. When Allardyce was ar
rested in Lahaina for the robbery of certain
missing bonds, lie was defended out of pure
Kindness, by one whose sympathy he had
sought. 1t was not for himself alone that this
consideration was shown m-hc had already
begun to evidence the black ingratitude which
has now eliminated in his disgrace some
how one always thinks of the old people in
the old home, who are too often hapless and
helpless witnesses of the melancholy fate of
their degenerate offspring.
Allardyce was acquitted, unjustly, it now
seems, since the evidence against him is strong
in San Francisco. Having left the kingdom
under cloud, in the bitterness which seems
to have possessed him from the frat, he wrcaks
vengeance by issuing u scurrilous pamphlet
pnrporting to be IA resume of the aspects of
Social Life in the Hawaia,, Islands. Much of
ii has seen print before; it is thrice told
tale and has been a sweet morse in the drivel-
ling mouths of all the gn-besottcd wrecks
cast upon these deserted shores since the
earliest days of the whaling era.
That this young person has been able to
catch so much disgusting detail speaks volumes
for the length Of his cars Ii he rclishes this
sort Of thing he is welcome to it, but why he
has seen fit to tap the cesspool of his memory
and belch forth its copious filth, is past our
comprehension. His is not u solitary case,
though it is aggravated to a degree-he is of
that breed of vipers that sting the breast of
their preservers; lie has wallowed in the miro
with which he besmears his pages he is a
scavenger whose unwholesoine greed has
turned hs own stomach. Snch II creature, if
suffered to crawl through the purlieus of any
community under the sun, would willrnlly
rend the veil from mysteries quite as revolving
as any of tho ill-gotten scandals hc has been
Matching since his narrow escape from the
felons cell. 1t is noticeable fact that the
printer who printed his pamphlet, has had
sufficient regard for his own reputation to
withhold his name from the title page, and
the nnblushng whiteness of that perishable
bit o paper is sacred to the memory OF AL
lardyce.
To him, and to all his lk, we recommend
highly ingenious apparatus in Tho use of which
he may relieve his mind seoretly, noiselessly,
in the still watches of the night, while tho
consequences will DO found not only sanitary
but inodorous.