The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-06-07
Mr.. TAVERNIER ON RiL0 AND
MATTERS THERE.

EDITOR BULLETIN:-Allow me to
state my thoughts on some matters
about which l wish to speak plainly.
| wish also to assume the full res
possibility of what l say and conse-
quently l sign my name to this
communication l have lived on
these Islands for nearly four years
and the character of my work has
made me known TO very many whom
1 have not yet had the pleasure of
knowing.
Without being vain, l think / have
been of some use to the country in
helping to make its scenery known
all over the world, as have others of
my artist and newspaper friends.
When i think of the influence over
travel that some of my pictures have
had over other now very popular
and thriving health resorts do not
conscientiously feel that l have
lived either altogether in vain or
selfishly.
But the artist and the writer can
only advertise a country, or place,
and bring people TO it. 1t remains
with the inhabitants of the country
or place to do their full share to
make their guests pleased and COM
fortable. Unless this is done the
effects and purposes of the writer
and the artist are worse than use
less, they become dangerous and in
| furious. The good work of we'll
meaning men is destroyed by the
actions of even very few narrow
minded, bigoted and prejudiced
men, Einterestedsonly in their self
advancement and prosperity.
Hawaii, indeed, is Paradise
of the Pacific" and country to be
proud of if there did not exist a
class of men to attempt to monopo-
lize it and personal power and
wealth by grinding down their white
fellow men py using Asiatic and
other cheap imported labor as levers
to press honest vitality into already
well filled purses.
Now l want to prove this part Of
my statement by mentioning the
condition of things at Hilo, from
which place ! returned a few days
ago. For some fourteen months !
made that place my home and he
came familiar with most parts of the
surrounding country and have paint
ed and sketched some hundreds OF
its beautiful spots. Nature has
created few more lovely or enjoy
able spots. Its climate is both
healthy and delightful. 1t excels in
luxuriant verdure, in profuseness OF
fruit and flowers, and in most things
that man can desire to crafty hi;
natural wants. The bathing facili.
, ties, both of sea and river, are cqua
to any on the islands. The people
both foreign and natives are, as
rule, kind and hospitable, and al
unsellish man might live and worl
there ever happy and contented, i
some people did not interfere an,
unduly so with his liberty of actio
and conscience. Hilo had, and sti
has, every opportunity for that pre-
gress which is necessary to the re
: quirements of qhe time, and fey
wealthy and influential gentleme
, endeavor to assist her, but were dc
feated by others, who were to
short-sighted to see that her better
) ment would also be their own an
Y Honolulu's. There is now too muc
8 caut, hypocrisy and small tyrann
. in Hilo for her best interests.
How changed the place is since
. left it some seven or eight month
i ago. was both surprised and sorr
l. when / saw it upon my last visi
e Nature is still as beautiful as eyel
,e and the earth yields her increas
/, so lavishly that her fruits cover yo
you at the mere shaking of the tree
, but nevertheless the place seen
disolate. There is no life there bI