The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-06-24
NEGLECTED. Kan.

Mr.. EDITOR II am going to ask Of YOU a few
pertinent questions. Those whom they imme-
diately concern may call them fmperfiHSHt, If it
so please them. Why is it that we Of Pahala,
who always pay our school tax, have never had
a better school system? just now, oHiag 10 an
accident, We are well provided for in the way of
a teacher.
Again, why is it that we who always pay our
road tax, have not seen a Supervisor for two or
three years? 1t is a notorious fact that Pahala
paid for road taxes last year nearly eight hun
dred dollars, and Yet for iUo years or moro we
have not seen one cent of the appropriations
made by the Legislature for roads, expended
here.
Again, in regard to mail facilities, how is It
that our Maui letters are always carried to Hon
olulu, and not delivered till return of steamer to
Maui? Surely these things are enough 10 max
Job lose his patience. We might just as we'll
complain TO that humbug supposed TO inhGbit the
the moon, as to complain to those known as the
Interior Man and the Z. NJ. G.. Now, as We
pay to see the show, VT think we have a right
to growl, and we intend to groWl until our grow
ling reach the ears of those who are 10 blame,
and they render us the justice due us. 1t may
be that the parties manipulating government
funds salve their consciences with the idea that
this place is paying so well under it's present
management, that it needs no help from the
government III the way of mail, road and school
reform. We are a long-suffering people in this
community, but 'forbearance has ceased to be n
virtue" Per6. Sap.
The Govt. road from the Volcano is simply
horrible. An English tourist on his way TO Hilo.
said to me, Il like your country very much, il
is beautiful, but your roads are beastly." Even
that assertion does not do justice to the case. A
few days since while / was riding along this road
in attempting to jump across a gulch, my horse
fell in and together we went to the bottom. After
a while managed to crawl out and while sitting
on the bank waiting for my horse to eXtricate
himself from his government position l
prayed for all the public officials in this King
dom. l am, at all times, a second edition of
Job, as far as patience is concerned; but on this
occasion, / am afraid l was not just up to the
standard. As 1 sat on the bank and caressed my
sore shins and bruised body, l summed up the
matter thusly: 81 wis.,. the Road Supervisor, if
he is to blame, or the interior Man or the Lee
gislature, or the Ministry if they are to blame
might have to patrol this road in dark nights,
mounted on a blind jackass, till they were older
than Methuselah, and more miserable than the
Wandering jew" May each aud every one Of
the guilty parties have his hair pulled by his
wife, till there is room enough to write the
Kings Message on his miserable head. But Sc
riously speaking Mr.. Editor, sometime some
man will cripple himself on this ''beastly " road,
and will then sue the government for such an
amount that government will have TO pass the
Ten Million Loan Bill in order to pay his claims.
j. II. S..
Pahala. Kau. June Is. 1882.