The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-01-27
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sition to watch all Governmental action,
and if 1t is not in accord with principles
pertaining to the public welfare, it should
be promptly and sharply criticised. We
will go farther, and be willing to accept not
merely a criticism, but also allow a sharp
and censorious discussion of q public officer.
They are fair game for the politician
and the publicist. People like to see the
public dignitaries o~verhauled, and we feel
assured that His Maiesty's present Ministry
expected, when til y took office, their full
share of criticism and abuse, and thus far
they nave shown no disposition to COM
plain. Nor will we complain on their ac-
count; but we feel indignant at attacks
upon the King, whose position places him
outside of public criticism. Yet, even in
His Majesty's case, a fair criticism might
not be wholly Objectionable; but such base
and unworthy comments, and mischievous
words, calculated to provoke bad blood,
which have appeared in two of our contem-
poraries, are utterly disgraceful and intoIer-
able. The proprietor of one paper, Mr..
Walter Hill, and the responsible editor and
part proprietor of the other, Mr.. A. 7. Atkin-
son, are both holding good offices, and are
each receiving about $4,000 per annum from
the Public Treasury. Some sense of decency
should restrain these men. We know that,
on some occasions, His Majesty has treated
them with his wonted courtesy and
urbanity. They could AVE nothing to
complain of; and that they should, without
provOcation, reproduce in their columns
extracts from the most shameless and sour
rilous specimens of journalism in America
is, to our mind, amazing. Along with
this miserable, atrocious libel, utter
ing the meanest fllibustering sem
timent in America, there came from
that great land the noble manifestations of
the mighty, generous, and magnanimous
people, when all the high dignitaries of
the nation bestowed the most distinguished
respect and honor to the remains of the
representative of our humble little State.
That noble and generous spirit is the senti-
menu that truly commands in great
America. The c~owardly, abusive, and
fillibustering spirit has had al occasional
expression there, but the genius of the
Great Republic has invariably crushed it.
This was illustrated when one Walker,
representing precisely the sentiments
which our contemporaries have published,
had induced a number of misguided Ameri-
can men to accompany him on an expedi-
ton to invade, like robbers, the peaceful
homes of the people of Central America.
This man had his career cut short by Pauld-
ing, commander of an American man-of-
war-a grandson of the noted revolutionary
Paulding-whO turned him over to the
authorities of the people he had so flag
rantly injured, and they put a speedy
termination to his mischievOus career.
We are not surprised when men of imper-
feet education, and those who nave fallen
into low and vicious associations, should
delight in talk derogatory of the most
honored things or persons, but that men
of education, like Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Atkin-
son, should cause such villanous abuse to
be republished and circulated with a view
to pander to the sentiment of a vicious,
ignorant class is a matter of great sur
prise and regret to us. We think that,
when they father and circulate such trea-
s0nable insinuatiops against the peace of
the country, they shoul at least have the
grace to forego the emoluments that they
receive from the Government which they
abuse. These shameful publications have
aroused a widespread and just Indignation
throughout the community.