The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-05
CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER LITERA
e TURE.
NO. I.

A re-hash of a seasons leaders is
made by the Daily Haa0ajiGfs to
serve for a retrospect OF 1884-a cheap
and simple method of journalism. All
the old abuse of certain individuals,
all the old misrepresentation not
even repolished, and some of the old
untruths strung together in dis
iointed way make up this "doleful
ditty.u
The abuse coming from where it
does is stale enough to be harmless
to those against whom it is levelled.
There is an old saying that "if you
throw plenty Of mud some of it is sure
to stick" Lie other "wise saws" it
is not always true, but it is often
enough so IN this world of human
imperfection TO give a semblance of
aagacity to it. This muddy maxim
has taken the fancy of those who
have contributed to the columns of
the Daily Hqs0oiioia ever since the
bantling was ushered into the world.
But as they always seem to have to
be picking up the old Maud for q mis-
sile, il is evident that it does not
stick. Find something fresh, my
dismal friends-"my merry masters"
would probably be the better phrase
for, after all, are not at least some of
them laughing in their sleeves at the.
public they are engaged in quilting.
The Misrepresentation come under
the same category as the abuse being
used as material for mud making.
They have been answered everyone,
and people ate tired of them It is
their want of conference and cohesive
ness that prevents the mud made aut
of them from sticking. AS for the
straight clean lies some of them have
been dropped, but a few are scattered
through this Daily HdtOa ian retro
spect, here and there, like the plums
In cheap restaurant pudding. Let
us pick some OF them out.
ssSonae 500 Cinnamon were landed
here by the Rio de Janeiro. which
gave rise to a series of spasmodic,
contradictory irregulations as to the
numbers which might be brought
HeTeS WuehCS oAN ny "A"tS 0A'E''
etc.,
This is pure fabrication; the Reg
ulations issued shortly after the ar
rival alluded to are the only regula-
tions ever made, and so far. from be-
ing spasmodic they were, as everyone
who has memory can recollect, and
as the official publications which are
at every newspaper EDITORS elbow
clearly show, they were held back
until the absolute necessity for them
was clearly demonstrated.
s.The Bank Charter Act had been
defeated by an almost unanimous
vote, which showed in what good
discipline the Ministerial party We're
kept. A similar Act, introduced by
the Ministry, wash them judiciously
dropped
The Bank Charter Act was almost
unanimously defeated because the.
Governnent objected to several of it's
provisions, and because the minis
terial party1 voted with the Minis
tiers. .rhe Act introduced By Minis
tiers was not ''simiIar' to it in the
seuse Intended for the word by this
writer, aud with the exception of one
or two sentences was good and
sensible Act, modelled upon one
which has conferred great benefits in
khe United States. Whether it was
siudiciously droppedp or not is not
question of fact, but of opinion. We
think. it was very iniudiciously
dropped, and that having once
drought it in, the Ministers should
have had the courage of etheir opin-
ions and not have abandoned it at
anybody's request. The Act that
subsequently, passed is an abortion
which will probably never be made
use of until it has been amended. 1t
neither introduces the British sys-
tenn nor the American, nor so far as
we know that of any other country.
If new banks are really needed in this
ssaall community, which We doubt,
the people would have been as liAely
to secure such facilities for business
without the law as with 1t.