The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-04-13
ASSAlLIkG TIE DEAD.


Anyone would think that common
decency if nothing else would restrain
public journal from denouncing and
holding up to- scorn the memory of
their dead king. But it seems that
the Advertiser not only lacks this,
but is deficient in common sense in
supposing that such course will
meet with sympathy from any section
of this community, unless indeed it
be few cowardly, hypocritical vam-
pires such as are found in all COM
munities, who hide their m dignity
under a species of religious cant,
Such men have reason to feel CRATE
full, in having found journal such
as the Advertiser, who will not only
air their opinions but protect them
with the halo of editorial dictum.
Such an article as appeared in that
paper of the 18th inst, was 4 vile,
malignant and uncalledfor effusion,
upholding the opinions of its contem-
porary Tue Friend as against an able
and scathlng rebuke administered
through its own columns, in a letter
signed "In Memoriam" of the same
issue. In this article the Advertiser
says, "Iet there are occasions when
such references cannot well be avoid
ed, and when plain speech becomes a
plain duty" Indeed
What occasion was there, Mr..
Advertiser, for the rev. editor of
the Friend to introduce the late king
at all, into wholly irrelevant dis
! cussion. The occasion in point was
pickering between two rev. editors
over some marriage ceremony with
which the late king had nothing d-
rectly or indirectly to do. The poor
/ king was, however, used, with true
Christian piety, by one of the rev.
editors as a sort of bomb to destroy
the Other, with a double purpose of
/ finishing himself at the same time.
If this is what the Advertiser calls
Occasions which cannot be avoid
1 ed" it must have taken leave of its
senses. The Rev. Friend may safely
be left in the hands of sin Memori-
am, who is well able to handle him,
while the Advertiser, this champion
of morality, this public oracle, who
from the superb heights of its edi-
torial sanctum tells US what qualifi.
cations are necessary for man be-
fore he can be made into statue
must be judged by the public to
which it appeals. Take its own
words: Monuments are for heroes
Men who by their genius or virtues
are entitled to respect and admira
tion, and who have earned by theil
benefactions right to the gratitude
of mankind. No one else has any
claim to be remembered in this way"
| Just so
1t may well be asked who has 8
greater claim on the gratitude of this
community, than the man who was
instrumental in procuring treaty fol
the country, whereby she became
rich and prosperous. If that is moi
benefaction, what is? But when the
Advertiser goes on TO appeal to thu
moral sense Of the community, anC
believes it will not allow such an out
rage and affront TO the public, it be
comes sublime. Dear me A maj
may well pause to consider and won
der what in common sense the pape
means. In the first place who is thu
exponent of morality in this commun
ity? Is it the Friend, the Diocesan
Magazine, Ka Leo, or the Adver
tiser' Here are few versatile stand
ards OF morality.
Secondly, it is to be regretted tina
the Advertiser never mentioned
sample of one Cf its own heroes
such as would fill the qualification
for a statue, especially as il leave
the public in some doubt as to wha
its own moral standard may be, ant
obliges them to draw conclusion
from the paper itself, which, to sa,
the least, Is rather hard on the Ad
vertiser. Lastly, ! would recommen'
the editor or the writer of that articl
to take bath and clear his brain o
some of its cobwebs before he agail
ventures to attack movement whicl
is defended with more brain and NOR
alty than either he or his contempt
rary ever dreamed OF in their philo
SONNY. REsURGAM