The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1895-11-01
CIRCULATION OF FALSE RUMoRS

WAS announced IN the ADVERTISER A.
40 IL eleven boarding scholars fne
number is thirty five, twenty being
pupils. Query; Who is responsible
for tine false ,to-ies that are being cir
|culsted about Puushou?
The above communication re-
ceived at this office yesterday is
worthy of more than passing no.
tice by virtue of the addenda, in
which our correspondent infers, on
what we consider good authority,
that there are those in the COM
munity who have taken il upon
themselves TO circulate false stories
concerning the condition al Puma
hou. In other words there are
those affected with educational as
well as political dyspepsia. That
there are those in this country
who, by an occasional casual re
mark are willing 10 become a
medium for casting slurs at one of
the leading educational institutions
in this country, seems almost in
credible, when one considers the
high intelligence and general phi
lanthropic spirit for which the
white population of this city
has very properly become noted.
And vet such things are
by no means unknown in Homo
lulu. The same disposition to cir
culate goSSipy rumors concerning
men, women, business institutions
and educational institutions crops |
out, day in and day out, in this
city, and in fact has become one of
the features of the place. Strange
TO say these same rumors pass
through the mouths of people, who
on the standard of intelligence and
moral purity are far above the
plane on which they place them
selves by becoming the medium
of exchange for tidbits, the truth OF
which they will not vouch for and
i brought face TO face with the
party or parties referred TO they
would probably try to avoid
whatever responsibility may be at
ached to them by the remark that
'So-and-so told me; that's all l
Know about 1t" This is mighty
)oor excuse for man endowed
With the first few principles of man
lood or the woman blessed with
he finer instincts OF womanhood.
The receiver is as bad as the thief.
nd the listener not one whit less
than the author.
The old Yankeeism, IF you can {
ay nothing good OF a man, shut
P" might be posted on many !.
doorpost in this city with
God results. Why it is that L
MS careless gossip has obtained in d
Ms place whyit is that some men
nd women will listen to deroga- L
'ry remarks concerning others (:
by it Is that there are those so d
'ady to step on a person when he Il
down, We will not attempt to a
lplain. 1t may be the isolation =
the country, it may be the eli .
ate but, whatever the cause may .
:, the fact Is certainly to be de- u
.ored. 1t may be claimed that
lis country is no worse than any p
her in this respect-which is. by tt
lie way, a very poor excuse; but Is
lere Is every reason why this Il
'untry, with its isolated burgs, a
lould be better than other
aces OF the same size" that might 81
: mentioned. u
II any person or persons, clique n
cliques, become particularly OBJ ST
oxiOus by their misdemeanors. il
len let their sins, so far as they \
ltiict injury on others, be dealt q
it'll; but, so long as the person or Sc
ersons, clique or cliques, are tt
lietly going their way, true to p
lemselves and endeavoring to p
;sist their fellow men, let the II
outh OF the vendor of rumors and b
casual remarks" be closed. n,
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