The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-01-22

of certain private llrms III tiie cioy'
These transactions the advertiser,
with that unscrupulous disregard of
truth and honesty for which it has
won most unenviable notorietr,
wilfully and knowingly misrepre-
sents, and employs to further the
despicable schemes of that political
abortion, yclept " the National
Party" AS specimens of the cam
paign bosh emanatng from that
paper, we quote:-
Cd "The fact that the men who
are finding money to elect the Oppo-
sition ticket at this election are dis
eliminating against American ship
ping cannot he denied. BY so doing,
they are imperilling the treaty"
(2) "They are chartcring the
British ships to carry their sugar to
the Coast, and will compel the
United States Government by their
greed to give notice of the termina-
ton of the Reciprocity Treaty"
(3) "The Hesper, q fine American
vessel, leaves in day or two for the
Coast, in ballast, as does also the
Amelia, an American bark. The
British bark Victoria Cross, on the
other hand, has secured full cargo
at about half ruling rates.
(4) "The British steamers Zea-
landia and Australia are furnished
with freight in opposition to the
American line of steamships of the
Oceanic Company"
How desperate must be the straits
to which q journal that was once "a
great newspaper is driven, when
such rubbish as is contained in the
foregoing quotation has to be used
for political effect. With respect to
quotation No. /, it is only necessary
to observe that the writer who PEN
ned the words knew the assertion to
be destitute of the essential element
of truth. 1t would, indeed, he a
sufficient answer to such state
ment to remind the advertiser peo-
pie of the proprety of minding
their own business. The firms re-
ferred to doubtless transacted busi-
ness before the Advertiser had an
existence, and probably never found
it necessary to consult newspaper
editors about the management OF
their affairs. But, to lay bare the miser-
able scheme by which the Govern
ment organ strives to throw dust in the
eyes of the American as we'll as the
Hawaiian people, we shall state q
few facts, from which the public,
with the advertiser in one hand, and
these facts in the other, can, if they
choose, form an opinion upon the
discrimination" question. In the
advertiser of Jan. 10th, under the
heading, "Forsign Vessels in Port u
there appear, l German, British,
l Norwegian, Hawaiian and Seoe,
American vessels. Of the seven
American vessels, five are for sugar
one, as the Aareniser says, went ir
ballast, and one, as the AdUertiSe,
is careful not to say, is in the lumber
trade, and never carries sugar. The
Victoria Cross secured cargo sim.
ply by being in port at the right
time to take it. The Hesper left in
ballast because the cargo for which
the agents were negotiating with hel
to carry was not ready, and the
vessel could not or would not wai
for it. That is discrimination
with a vengeance. If the Aavertise,
writer had informed the public thai
the Spreckels' firm year by year ant
month by month, have been "char
tering British vessels to carry theil
sugar to the Coast" he would have
made himself famous by utterins
one plain truth, all on the same day
but because such an intimatior
would be matter of fact, it is safe tc
predict that it never will appear il
the columns of that paper until the
exigencies of political misrepresenta
tion render its publication necessary
At the same time, the "organ'
ought to blow strong blast into
the ear of its masters that "by sc
doing, they are imperilling the
Treaty." And while our contem,
porary assumes to be in fighting
trim on discrimination" it ma,
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