Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-06-06

Wfsr sND orHERWfss.
Come. lei N now investigate y
The 'ti,er paltelh is bald pate
And this doth say
Investigate an ugly word
NY gentlemen II, never heard
I think II bcai had be deferred
Besides I've heard my 'ployet say
Il would not pay
MI Sprcokers monopoly mou,hpiccc
in this city is edited by New Zealand
newspaper man OF some experience.
Except IN The minor qualifications OF
good taste, good sense and ability TO
write either elegan, OF iorcibe English,
the editor in question is gcntleman-of OF
intelligence This pseudo journals,
acting under MI Spreekcls orders or
on his own responsibility, now that his
owner is absent has chosen to put the
paper he mis-cdits against not only the
intelligence but the dcccncy OF the
place. Not only does the Advertiser
stand Tor free liquor as il always did
but It stands also for unrestricted
liccntlousness A rcccn, article OF
more than a column long was devoted
to divcrting attention from one OF the
crying sins OF the hour 10y "a weak
invention OF the enemy in the shape
OF a counter attack.
Let us state few facts, Mr.. SprcCk.
els present editor was editor OF the San
Francisco Post for over three years,
during which time It's news columns
were nolrlously purchasablc by any
monopoly or humbug that cared to buy
them |, does not follow that they
Wetc purchased Because, during all
the years that Mr.. Sprcckcls' present
editor edited the Post, il was notriously
without influence, was rarely noticed
by any of It's contemporaries, and had
fully as contemplate reputation in
San Francisco as the Advertiser has
here.
The precious purst who now edits
Mr.. Spreckels Advertiser has the cast
iron assurance to reproach contcm
porary for publishing medical adver
tisemcnt Let any one who is curiou,
look through the advertising column.
) of the San Francisco Post for the year.
1882, 1883, and 1884. Bah TIL,
knavc of clubs charges the king Of dia
monds with being black
Now Mr. Sprcckels' Advertiser ha
t undertaken big contract if it means
= to defend every iniquity which disgrace
Honolulu. There are plenty of sins il
! this town which need reforming be
4 sides those special governmental iniqui
ties for which the proprietor of Ii,
$ Advertiser is responsible We shal
4 give the sleek and well fed Hessial
: hircling something to explain away from
S week to week; and wish him Joy of tn
+ Augean stable in which he loves to lii
in double sense
"We want to see the national busi
ness conducted in tie light OF day, ant
i exposed to the brightest glare OF popu
T, lar criticism. Every respet ttable citizel
i wants to see the laws faithfully admins
y tered by those sworn to perform tina
t duty. Nobody worthy the name of
S man will assent to having the statute
: of the country ignored by the minister
t of the crown" says the Bulletin of tn
Il end. SO say we all Of us. But it j
I talk of that sort that Mr.. Spreckel.
= paper does not approve of--and passe
= by in contemptuous silence. Ever
c one--exccpt MIR. Spreckels and hi
y creatures, governmental, business an
journalistic-wa 10 see "nationa
business conducted in the light of day.
But it is the "hole ,and-corner" method
of doing national business that enabl
o Mr.. Spreckels and his creatures t
D. run" the kingdom. "'rhe light {
y day" would compel them to be "ope
u and above board" in all they do-whic
{ they might find less profitable.
is Mr.. Spreckels' Advertiser is ver
L fond of "nailing lies which it
O rarely able to clinch. Yet fair san
IS pie of its own honesty may be found
e the reprint matter which it prints dali
= on its outside, heading it "original
e This falsehood may and probably do.
t; deceive its more illiterate reader
n but the less illiterate must sooner {
IS later detect the fraud
r Carlotta Perry is a fairly well know
@ poet, she writes chiefly fol the Chicag
n Tribune and the San Francisco Arg,
% naut. Her Auf Wiedersehn
,e has already been printed in at least
1t dozen American papers-appeared
y Mr.. Spreckels' Advertiser, OF la
n Thursday as original So appeared