The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-03-06
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terprise.

HiIo town 10 an exceptionally fine
and growing young metropolis. Hilo
is the center of one OF the finest
plantation districts on the Island of
Hawaii, and believe is destined
to become the commercial and ship
ping center of that island, if it is not
so already. Hilo has never been
Sleepy Hollow" although she has
had almost as much fun poked at
her as pale, ambitious Boston.
Hio has been unfortunate in har"
boring a clique Of citizen cranks, who
like the egotstical boomers of Bos-
ton, have done incalculable injury by
provoking satire. Yet, notwithstand-
ing this, Hilo and her advantages
and attractions are fully appreciated
in the capital city of Honolulu.
When the tourist punches the Homo
luIuan in the ribs and demands
whitherward he shall wend his way,
the answer is invariably TO Hilo and
the Volcano. Hilo is the poetica
Mecca of Honolulu. She deserves
to be.
Our interests have espoused Hilo
as the sleeping beauty OF Hawaii,
but, alas, the cranks Th,se have
drawn such q smirch across fair HI
los beautiful face that we of capital
Honolulu are often forced to break
into outright laughter. The cranks
of Hlo town leave us under the i'm
preston that Hio Graves TO stand as
the center of the earth and would in
her vanity snatch the crown OF ego
tism from the fair front of Boston.
This sacrilege we demur TO in the
name Of struggling humanity, dying
daily with its stern face turned to
the "vioIet crowned" city of Massa-
ChusettS
If the citizen cranks, who INSIST
that Hio town must have the earth,
in order to be happy, will only pause
in their mad demands, Honolulu will
doubtless show a spirit tor fair d.
vision, and will allow Hllo two
thirds OF the globe, without money
and without price but further than
this we dare not 90 without the con-
sent of the rest Of the world.
IIilo makes no such demands as
| am well aware; but her citizen
cranks have repeatedly demanded
such Impossible concessions in her
name. | do not pen these lines in
jealousy, neither IN anger; but when
lIilo's latest citizen crank publishes
the following nonsense, L think IL
| time TO remind our sister city that
some OF her leading men are attempt
ing conspiracy against her interests:
sour harbor is good, but we need
breakwater and good wharves. We
want good roads into our idle and
waste coffee lands in the District of
Puma. Give us capital, roads and
wharfage facilities and energy, and
this town will soon come to the front,
as the center of thriving agrlcuI-
tural country"
Never before has Honolulu and
the citizens of the Islands OF Hawaii
been cooIiy informed that Hilo lack
ed energy" Her citizen cranks
certainly have a plenty OF energy
even though their judgment is mi.
nus quantity. The town that only
needs "capital, roads and wharfage
facilities and energy is guilty OF
demanding those things which have
been the essentials in the development
of the worlds greatest financial and
commercial marts, - but in Hilo's
case her crauks have made the de
nand without the consent of the re-
!nainder of the world. llllO is, a:
she justly claims, the second city IL
Importance in Hawaii nei; but she
must not allow her citizen cranks I,
claim Arcade, before their individual
debts are paid and the food Of tn,
worlds commerce has made the i'm
/ lIovemGnts for a metropolitan seaport
clamOring necessity. AA.
Honolulu. March 2, 1891.