The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-02-25

oil the wharf and shortly afterwards half "A
hundred people from the infected ship were
let loose among them, outside the wharf
a series of comments arose. As fer instance:
- Is II straining at a gnat and swallowing a
camel to prevent passengers shaking hands
with their friends on the mail dock. and to
allow them to go TO their homes. among
their children, to their wives? What DO
they TO in other ports when ships arrive
there infected with measles-a disease that
takes fourteen days to show itself after the
infection is caught Is there any use in
quarantining any body, at any time, if pas
sengers coming from a ship Infected with
measles may be allowed To pass freely
ashore? What about the warming We
ought To have taken from the news received
LIST week, ~ to the cases of smallpox on
the Zealandia? Is there not more need
here to he particular about quarantine mat
tiers than anywhere else in the W rid, see
ing that epidemic diseases always take such
quick hold of the population, and through
the ignorance and the prejudices of the ma
tives, they are so much more fatal than else
where? Is not any falling short of the ut
most possible vigilance i'm these matters
reckoned Il serious misdemeanor anywhere,
and is it not almost of the nature of a crime
here ?-and so forth.
Whether all or any of these criticisms,
and queries in which, as we have
already said, all sorts of people and ii very
great number of people have INDUCED so
freely are wise or not, We are not about to
express an opinion to-day. We reproduce
them here exactly as we heard them for the
benefit of our Board of Health and its Off
GERS, and commend them to their considera-
ton as worthy thereof.
y NEIGHBOR will persist in saying that
those interests, which have built the
cOuntry's steamers. reared its palaces,
etc, are absolutely unrepresented in Homo
lulu" Now, what does he want? Is he
so badly disappointed because a relative of
the Minister, who has SO heavily over
drawn on palace account, was not returned ?
Or because the firm that has lent Itself to
promote military expenditure has not been
represented? What else is the matter with
him
What bosh to say that "the capitalist
has not had Justice" and that I" the great
interests of the country are not better epre-
sented," in the Legislature. Will not Hon.
Charles r.. Bishop, represent banking capt.
tai ? Hon. j. Mott Smith, accumulated
plantation capital? Hon. Godfrey Rhodes,
the property holders of Honolulu? Hon. p.
Isenberg, importation and foreign steam
ship agencies ? ZION. 5. N. Castle, planta-
ton agencies Hon. J. o. Dominis the Off
ciality of the Kingdom? Hon. S. K. Kaai
the great native land interests ? Hon. John
NJ. KapeDa the postal service ? Hon. J. e.
Bush, the assessment of Honolulu property ?
Hon. A. 5. Cleghorn, the dry goods trade .?
Hon. ). c.. Wilder, railroad interests?
Hon. w. Rice, agricultural and planting
enterprise ? Hon. Frank Brow, the very
important revenue producing, wine and
liquor trade ? Hon. Kaulukou, the admins
tration Justice? Hon. Kauhaue, the native
clergy ? Hon. Lahilahi, the military? And
Hon. w. NJ. Gibson, the ranch and news
paper interests ? Now, could he, we ask,
pick out a more efficient body of men to
represent these great interests of the cOun-
try, than the above gentlemen, who will
all sit in the next Legislative Assembly ?
Unless possibly it may be the newspaper
interest. Perhaps, to represent it the oracle
of the old cliques, and the slipshod singer
of unmitigatei bosh thinks he might better
mete out "justice," or a more acceptable
toadyism to capital and the great interests
of the country, than the representative
called by the voice of the People.