The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-12-30

crutches at the age of 20, but being at that
time made the Doge of Venice, threw his
cr2kehes away and for twenty more years
actively and faithfully served his country.
ana we nave a more recent and a more bril-
llant Illustration of this in the eminent
Gladstone, who after fifty years of dis
tnsulshed public service, and now APP
preaching the SOth year of his life still
employs his leisure in welding his favorite
woCtin MS axe in trimming the noble trees
of Isis Hawarden domain. Let us not COM
pain 81 work nor attribute our ilmehts to
oVcrw1r hat be regular and methodical in
labor -"! above all things, lire ~ thin oar
mean and then multitudeS who arr COM
planning of overwork at so or 60. may be
doing active duty for their families and
their country as o-ctogenarians like Dam
'ielo. Thiers, and the illustriouS Gladstone.
respectable, high-toned tanda of Journal
ism Public juuI mails should represent prin-
ciples, and should aim TO be worthy of being
leaders OF public opinion and if a dignified
n avoiding personalities, be maintained,
"A w~ell-ccnducted public press will hardly
iuil 10 secure and maintain a proper in
huence. But should thu. inspiration of a
public journal ppear to be inspired solely
by personal antipathies, it can no more
nope Tor public influence n q ~braggart
or a scold. The proprietor and editorial staff
of this paper have aimed to conduct journ-
alism upon a respectable and honorable ha-
sis. 1t was said recently by our daily con-
temporary, the Bulletin, that credit must
be accorded to the proprietor of this journal,
that as long as the ADVERTISER was
conducted under his responsible edi-
torial supervision, it was respectable
sometimes keen and %scathing, but al
ways gentlemanly." 1t has aimed to MAIN
tain the same character since. When the
proprietor took office, in the month of May
last, he Immediately ave notice that he
ceased any, further editorial charge of this
paper, and we say that, although the pro-
prietor has occasionally expressed his views
in regard to the tone or character of discus
sion, yet he has taken no active part what
ever as an editor. 1t is surely not nsces-
sary for us to assert that the ADVERTISER
is fully equipped with an editorial and roper
torial staff, who conduc this journal, to q great
extent, entirely independent of any direc-
ton or suggestion of the proprietor. How
ever, our contemporaries are determined to
ignore this fact, and whatever discussion
may take place in the columns of this
journal, 1T is not met with any sort of fair
argument or criticism of the conduct of the
journal, but almost entirely with personali-
ties against he proprietor. and if recently
weimitated this practice by ignoring ali of
Tending journal, and retortingu upon an indi-
vidual, we have done SO from the feeling
that proper criticism and fair discussion was
not the purpose of certain contemporaries,
but only personal abuse, to promote parti.
san purposes. We have not initiated such
practice, which we regret, and If our con-
temporaries will confine themselves within
the bounds of fair controversy, without per.
sonality, we will cheerfully accept honest
attack, without asperity, and be ready to re.
turn courtesy for courtesy.