The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-25
Hawaiian Hardware Co., Id
Saturday, March 90, 1898.

Has 1t ever occurred to you
that the Islands are getting a
tremendous amount of free |
advertising? Has it ever oc-
Cured to you that it would be
better if the representative Of
one of the foreign newspapers
now sojourning here would
adhere closer to the truth and
to the principle of investigat-
ing rumors before publishing
them rather than publish first
and be called a scorner of the
truth afterward? Better for
the community and the paper
represented. 1t has to us and
we're not alone in the OPT
Mon.
The generous and general
advertising the country has
received during the past two
months will help us in many
ways and injure certain indivi-
duals in others. 1t will bring
capital to the country and tou-
rists to our shores. 1t will
create a demand for Kodaks
and bring globe trotters here
to view, what the representa-
tive of one San Francisco pa
per has made them believe, is
the most available spot on
earth for Parkhursting cranks
and the hotbcd Of intrigue and
deception. The Bureau Of
Annexation has proven itself a
better advertising channel than
did the Bureau of Information,
but then the latter dealt mostly
in climate and scenery. The
tourists now here proclaim this
a veritable eden, paradise,
the condensation of every
thing necessary to make life
pleasant and bearable, and the
society feature hits them hard.
Instead of the "half naked ma
tive" who carts treasures from
the Palace they found an in
telligent well dressed people.
Instead of native women run
ming the streets regardless of
dress they found them cos
tuned in dresses by Worth
and hats by Virot. Instead of
the 1.-TWO an ha'penny" shops
in whose windows they expect
ed to see curios and tapa they
find in our store the embodi-
ment Of everything new and
ornamental. They find in it a
larger and better displayed
assortment of house furnishing
goods than they ever saw in a
city Of three times the size in
the United States. We don't
like to boast but when such
decayed substance as lately
appeared in a San Francisco
. paper is placed under our
olfactory organ we are forced
to do it and to murmer a gen
| tie protest.
Does anyone suppose thai
the people who read the arti-
cles referred to believe they
would find in far off Hawaii 6
plow half SO good as the Hen
dry Breaker? Did any O
them expect to find in this re-
puted slow going community
a firm with snap and ginger
) enough in its composition te
take hold of new tangled
thing like the Aermotor ane
drive every other windmill ou
of the market? We trow not
We like advertising whethe
it be free or paid but give us ;
bit of truth in it. Let it b.
J known that the countr,
abounds in milk and honey
- that the land in some parts O
the Islands produces COFFEE
that will cause the Soutl
American article to blush. lie
them know that our establish
ment contains a complet
stock of implements necessar
to the proper cultivation of tn
soil and that we compete wit
the manufacturers in price
Tell them that there is hard
,, ware company in Honolul
with ideas just a few week
ahead of the times, and tn
people who come here to sta
and control politics can &c
q, their outfit cheaper in Homo
lulu than thew could bac