The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-28
o LUSO HAWAIIANO.

More of its Observation-Disclosures on the
Something for Somebody to Ex-
plain.
The following are translations from 0
Luso Hawaiiano of November oath AS
to the one on this paper, its misrepre-
sensations are too obvious to require
designation. With regard to the Rifles
the complaint is one that the manage
ment of the shooting competition and
the commander of the corps can hardly
afford to ignore, but there is no excuse
for our Portuguese contemporary self
stultifving efforts to stir up in his cOun
trymen the very prejudices of trace and
religion" which he complains about.
THE ADVERTISER.
Somebody translated our article of
Saturday, under the title Portuguese
Ship of War;" and caused it to be pub
lshed in the ADVERTISER, organ and
according to what they say prop
article gave pain to the ADVERTISER, and
this in the midst of its agony exclaimed
that the article was calculated to keep
alive in the minds of the Portuguese the
anti-Asiatic feeling, and advised that it
would be better to let it be forgotten. 1t
further exclaimed that it knew how
strong was the anti-Asiatic feeling in the
minds OF the Portuguese, but added that
this feeling was not justified, etc. So
much for the ADVERTISER and the white
Asiatics.
What the ADVERTISER said may be
summed up thus first, that it is more
and more surprised at the probable de-
feat in the next electoral campaign.
Second, that it wants to deny to the
Portuguese the right and the justice of
their anti-Asiatic sentiments. There is
not criticism made on our article, as
someone in sympathy with the clique of
the ADVERTISER caused to be scattered
among some Portuguese, for the purpose
OF ridiculing what we said, or else from
Grass misinterpretatiOn OF what he tried
to read. And, even, granted that the
ADVERTISER did make a criticism, 1t was
not thing for any patriotic Portuguese
to rejoice at, for all know the antagonism
OF that journal against the Portuguese.
HONOLULU RIFLES.
TWAS Company B that gained the prize
offered in the shooting exercise on Fri
day of last week. We do not wish to
say that the Portuguese Company G
could have gained the prize, but what
we do want to say is that an insult was
offered to that patriotic company, by the
manner in which the major, or whoever
actually directs the battalion, worked
against it, leaving it till the end, when
the twilight of the approaching night did
not permit the mark to be seen.
What is the reason that Company c.,
being first in number, and third in order
of organization, was given the last place,
both in the exercise of shooting, on
which depended a valuable and honor
able prize, and in the arrangement of
the battalion during the marching? If
the question should be asked of US, we
should say without hesitation and with
out fear of mistake, "simple contempt of
the Portuguese"
Without doubt, the members Of Com
pany G will know how to be united and
how to~labor for the improvement of the
company, and one day will avenge
themselves for the outrage which they
have suffered. The basis of our argu-
ments on all the questions with which
we have occupied ourselves in this
journal, with relation to the Por-
have to raise themselves and make
themselves respected because as for the
other gentlemen, from hostility (rixa) of
race and religion alone they intend to
humiliate us.