The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1884-07-22
TIL PACIFIC
COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
TUeSddy, JuIy 22, 1854.
Editorial Articles.
FROM THE DAILY p. c. A.
OUR CHRISTIAN BROTHER.

1t is refreshing to turn frem the ear
the pretty, edifying columns of the
| Saturday Press. This truly Chris
tian journal, gathering its inspiration
from the pure, clear fOunts of Chris
tianity, and breathing of the higher
| life, and the joys TO come, is a news
paper after our own heart. Our
chief delight is in it's virtue. 1t dis
| cusses temperance with q moderation
rare, indeed, in these radical times.
1t wants local option, and it wants
to see the saloon keepers go clear out
| of business. The Press shifts at every
| man engaged in selling liquors as a
near relation ofSatan, who, by the way,
| is the mainstay of every Christian COM
| munity. By this we mean that if
there were no SatanS there would not
be the least necessity for -piety, and
| the editor of the Press might dance
the wicked h1ty0 every night of his
life, sure of going to heaven in a
| hand-barrow. With the mild fOrbear-
ance which would see all the gin-seII-
| ing sons of BeIial burned ut the stake,
! the Press drives cOntentedly ahead,
| and concludes with wet-nOsed invi-
! tation to all the temperance people in
! the nation to stand in with il and
! crush out the liquor Jrade Of these
! islands. We can imagine that at
! this stage of the editorial the writer
| locked the door, gave the proprietor
| a thirstily suggestive squinU, and
pulled his bottle from its secret
drawer for q good Christian bar-the-
! door snifter.
/ Refreshed by the eye-opener the
| the ADvERTISER-whi indeed, APP
! pears to be the principal business of
! these Honolulu journals-as follows;
! There is no other word which so
! trippingly rolls from the Imposition
Hessian's tongue as sore-head. There
| is no counter check quarrelsOme to
! such polite stigma, save to be equally
! polite and cali the gentIemanly Hes
sian very gentlemanly liar. Sore
! headiSm is q disease that is so univer-
! sally prevalent that the Independents
of Hawaii-nei would he indeed lucky
! if they escaped-as a party. We have
/ done a little TO show up q few MEM
! bers of the Independent party in their
! true coIOrs We do not deny that
! there are sore-heads in the Independ-
! ent ranks, etc, etc"
! This Is fierceness. An Imposition
! Hessian is a cruel word, and in ad-
mirable harmony with the sewing
! circle order of satire, in which the
I rest of these paragraphs, some half a
! dozen in number, and all aimed at the
. ADVERTISER, are cOuched. Twenty
! one hundred miles is long way to
( travel for the luxury of being called
! an Imposition Hessian, but the ocean
/ was smooth, and the steamers ac-
! cOmmOdatiOns were incompatible \
/ Hessian is one who differs from the
/ Press, and an Imposition Hessian an
''anonymunkIes and pseudOnymunk-
les who, fighting behind their fiimsy
/ ambuscade. think to divert the Press
from its path of duty by the ku-kluX
tactics they have adopted" These
names are even worse than the fore
/ going, but as the Press is a Christian,
. and a brilliant reflex of the Christian
| spirit of its friends, we are astounded
! that it has had nothing more to say.
/ We find that it is the custom of the
! Honolulu fnllnrror Of the ord to