The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-03-23
THE ADVERTISER SQUEAlS.

on Friday last, under the heading
Mail Accommodation was timely
and to the purpose, than was
afforded yesterday by the Adcer-
tiser'S TRADE of abuse of some
imaginary foes termed "the enc
mies'' 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
in their business relations with cer-
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 benelicent 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 advertiser 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 tn
service is performed satisfactorily
it excited the wrath of the Adcer
tiser by pretending to speak for tn
public, without extolling the virtue
of the Oceanic Steamship Company
To read some of the advertiser
editorials without knowing better
one would suppose that the inhabit
ants of these Islands owed their sui.
sistencc to the paternal supervisio
of the Oceanic Steamship Company
1t is really amusing to note in on
contemporary's second leader, ye:
terday, how suddenly the "ocea
tramps," of a few weeks ago, no
that they have become the propert
of the Oceanic Steamship Compan.
are, with some internal repairs,
become "fast ships, classed A l..
A few weeks ago, the Zealandia an
Australia were among the playC
out old hulks of the AdvertiSe,
shipping list; henceforth we sh'
hear of them as two of the fine
and feetest steamships ahoat.
makes a great difference to our Co
temporary who owns the steamer
The assertion that the BULLET
"crowed loudly over what n
peared to be the proXimate wit
drawal of the Oceanic Company
steamers" is easily disposed Of. !
pronounce the statement a lie wou
be correct Anglo Saxon, but as
might be little rough, we shall p
it in more classic phrase by /
marking, that it is one of those co
stitutional defects in our contemp