Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-09-01
ORR NEU JOITUE.

The first number Of the Saturday
Press saw the light three years ago.
For one hundred and ffty.six weeks
this journal has appeared, until with
this issue, it begins its fourth volume
and its one hundred and iifyscycnth
number The most modest and rctir-
ing of journalists can scarcely fail to
admit the justi6ablcncss OF enough
sclflaudltion properly TO emphasize
the amount Of credit due n newspaper
that has grown in usefulness and power
as the Press has done during the three
years just ended Beginning as the
exponent of q knot Of men, assoc lated
for business ends, it has become the
recognized exponent of the clearcst
thinking and most honest public scntl-
ment Of the commonwealth Since
the present proprietor undertook its
unaidcd control, he has had many diff
cultIko contend with, incident TO his
previous incxpcricncc of newspaper
work, and TO the apathy of large por
ton OF the community concerning the
work the Press had cut out for itself
Now, however, both difficulties have
yielded TO persistent effort, until the
proprietor may say, truthfully and with
pardonablc pride, that he has made
the Saturday Press leader OF Hawaiian
public opinion, and that all of the com
munitY for whose good opinion any
honest man need care indorse his
course and support his paper. And,
because he is too modest a man to say
it, his editorial representative takes
this occasion to say it for him.
With this issue certain noticeable
changes arc made, in both typography
and makeup The reading matter of
the first and second pages is printed
in larger type than formerly The
third and fourth pages use loaded type
for their reading matter, thereby pre-
scnting q much clearer and eligible ap.
pcarance. The change reduces some
what the amount of reading matter
furnished in the body of the paper,
but this has been more than offset by
the amount to be furnished in weekly
iull-pagc supplements, which will often
be local in character, the additional
space available obviating the necessity
OF crowded out matter. of impor-
tance. In order to give the Press
greater interest to its readers on the
other islands, news correspondence Is
being arranged for as rapidly as pos
sble. The Saturday Press does not
pretend TO be newspaper" in the
popular sense. 1t does not aspire to
be. The usual newspaper is not, as n
rule, an agent of moral or mental i'm
provcmcnt; 1t is the exact opposite.
As the American Register says: "Mcrc
news items are the work OF the news
gathcrcrs, paid for and valued accord
ing to the sensational and startling
character of the items These include
murders, rapcs, robbcrics, and every
variety of felony, with details some
times sickcning and demoralizing in
their influencei on the community,
In character WITH this class of publica-
tions are the detailed accounts of nur-
dor trirs--snd other cases in the Grim
inal courts" The news in which the
Saturday Press chiefly deals is, of ne
cessity, altogether insular. 1t has not
room for mere gossip, except for such
as is altogether harmless and sulli-
cicntly humorous to be its own ap, logy
Its chief value has been, and always
must be, It's Independent expression of
opinion, its exposition of the views OF
the most pubic-sprited among Ha-
waiians of all races, all creeds and all
conditions