The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-10-07

which Is tlidC nea tel - Tie L. lte>t {
Inventinn,' in our issue of Mon
day last. In iC we accused GER
tain newspapers and private inli-
vi,tuais of circulating false rumor
that Chinese had been admitted into
the Kingdom in evasion of the Regu-
lntiOns OF 18th March. The Morning
Guide Itself was one of the papers
alluded to, but its editor liscreetly
omits all reference to this the main
purpose of the article. Neither has
lac had the manliness tn av0w that the
statement he made about the Chinese
being improperly admitted into the
country is not true. We challenged
Mr.. +. &. Jones. Jr., with being the
author of the mis- statement; but
that gentleman, through the medium
of the interviewer from the Morning
GUIDE office, instead of acknowledg
ing or disOwning, runs off into side
agination, accuses the ADVERTISER
of indulging in u cum ngl y -dev vised
scheme to iijure the firm of &. Brewer
& Co. 10y placing in an altogether
false light written application for
tile firm TO be allowed To bring in two
hun ired Chinese by the bark Ceyton."
Now we beg to say that, in the article
alluded to, we did not place Messrs.
Brewer & Co.'s application in any
light whatever-false or fair. We
merely mentioned it incidentally, and
left the task of guessing at the objects
of the firm in making the application
to- others more skilled in reading mo-
tives after the Honolulu fashion than
we profess to be. By what possible
twisting of words and sense II dispo-
sitiOm tO ''injure Messrs. c.. Brewer &
Co." can be discerned in what We
said, we are quite at d loss to know.
The only inference to he drawn from
the article is that there was a certain
amount of pique on the part of NJ essrs.
Brewer & Co. engendered by the re-
fusal to allow them to bring in these
200 Chinamen, aud that this had led
them to make hasty statements,
which after sundry repetitions had
grown into the positive accusation
made 10y the Guide and echoed by the
Bulletin, that the Government was
III the habit Of winking at the evasion
IF the Regulations. This has not
been denied even, any more than our
assertion that no ClIinanlan had been
into the Kingdom otherwise
than in accoIdance with the Regula-
tions, has been disprOven Or even COLI
tradictei.
Mat, then, is the meaning of the
sensaIiulal heading adopt q for the
article in the Morning G~ifke$ Where
4 ID what IS the "Ile" that has been
NJ. Z. T.. Jon IS, Jr., is re-
ported 10 have said that ''the ADVER-
TIsER'S statement WAS one of those
half-truthS. ina lies which are worse
than Ou right lies" TIiS refers not |
o the subject of the ADVERTISERS |
nrIit made IN it that Me-Srs. e.. |
Sre wer 81 Co. wrute to the Govern |
Ineut asking leave To bring 20J |
Chinese immigrants in the Ceyl"n.
Mr.. jones = )eS on tO make his ate
Ineht about the letter, which exactly |
with ours, as Ihe following
ractS frnnI the IwoarticleS show:
The ADVERTISER said that the firnI
Df &. Brewer IL Go. "rtcentIy app led
to have the Regulations cnntr riIing
Chinese immigration relaxed for their
personal benefit" Mr.. Jones tells
,he Morning Guide interviewer of "a
written application for the firm to be
allowed - bring in two hundred
Chinese by the bark CeylOn."
If the ADVERTISERS statement is
| ''half truth, half lie" then so must
he other be, for they are both alike.
Ir. Jones goes on to say that the let
er was "called for by Mr.. Gulick.'
That fact makes no difference, it was
If the contents of the letter and not
# how il came tO be written that we
poke. Aid the further fact men,
ioued by Mr.. Jones that the letter |