The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-03-27
THE ADVERTISER SQUEALS.


"Mail Accommodate" was timely
and to the purpose, than was
afforded yesterday by the Adrer-
tiser'S TRADE of abuse of some
imaginary foes termed "the ene-
mics" of the Oceanic Steamship
Company. Who these enemies are,
we are unable to discover. We are
aware, however, that in so far as at
least some of the stockholders in
that company are concerned, they
have had to submit to the inevitable
i'm their business relations with GER
tain shippers of sugar from this
port. Where they assumed to die
tate terms, they were met with
vigorous and effective competition.
Business men consulted their own
interests; and it cannot be denied
that they displayed an unprece-
dented degree of boldness when they
presumed to act for themselves.
Competition, however repulsive to
the ADVERTISER people, is neverthe-
less recognized principle in COM
merce, with which even so great,
disinterested and paternal friend
of the Hawaiian Kingdom as the
Oceanic Steamship Company has un-
fortunately come into collision. Not
withstanding the beneficent manner
in which the Oceanic Steamship
Company has conducted its busi-
ness, solely for the aggrandizement
of the planters and people of this
Kingdom, as the AdcertiSer all but
swears it has been doing, there has
been universal expression of dis
satisfaction at the mail arrange
ments of the past four months.
An act was passed by the Legisla-
ture of 1884, granting ga subsidy
of 81, 800 for each round trip, to the
Oceanic Steamship Company, for
carrying the mails between the ports
of Honolulu and San Francisco re-
spectively, said mail service to be
bi-monthly." The second section
of that act provided that "the said
mail shall be carried on first-class
steam vessels;" and the fact
of this subsidy standing on the
statute book very properly caused
the public to look to that company
for the required accommodation.
And when the BULLETIN asserted
that it matters little to the public
who own the steamers, provided the
service is performed satisfactorily,
it excited the wrath of the ADDER
tiSer by pretending to speak for the
public, without extolling the virtues
of the Oceanic Steamship Company.
To read some of the AdyeHiser'S
editorials without knowing better,
one would suppose that the inhabit-
ants of these Islands owed their sub
sistence to the paternal supervision
of the Oceanic Steamship Company.
1t is really amusing to note in our
contemporaries second leader, yes
terday, how suddenly the "ocean
tramps," of a few weeks ago, now
that they have become the property
of the Oceanic Steamship Company,
are, with some internal repairs, to
become "fast ships, classed A L."
A few weeks ago, the Zealandia and
Australia were among the played
out old hulks of the Advertiser's $
shipping list; henceforth we shall
hear of them as two of the finest
and tleetest steamships ahoat. 1t
makes great difference to our con-
temporary who owns the steamers.
The assertion that the BULLETIN
"crowed loudly over what ap-
peared to be the proximate with
drawal of the Oceanic Company's S
steamers" is easily disposed of. To
pronounce the statement lie would
be correct Anglo. Saxon, but as il
might be a little rough, we shall put
] it in more classic phrase by re-