The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-02-19
THE EX-EDITOR SPEAKS.

of this paper to refuse any one the
opportunity of attempting to ex-
plain an action which we have
criticised, we have given considera-
BILE space to two communications
from the pen of Payson Caldwell,
recently editor of the Hilo Tribune.
Mr.. Caldwell reiterates the state
ments made when he drew his last
breath as an editor, and adds that
no arguments have been presented
to prove that what he said was not
a correct representation of the SEN
timent among the representative
people of Hilo. He also goes so far
as to affirm that he stated facts,
and that his deductions were logi-
cal and displayed an average
amount of common-sense reason
ing.
Mr.. Caldwell would have done
much better to have kept quiet as
he had simply shown beyond ques-
ton his absolute ignorance of the
prevailing sentiment among the
citizens not alone of Hilo but of
this whole country, and also his
ability to distort facts. He says
the Hawaiian band is needless
expense, a burden upon the people
and useless relic of monarchy.
The assertion is so supremacy idi-
otto that it is hardly worth answer
ing. If the Hawaiian band is a
relic of monarchy and a needless
expense, the public parks of this
city, the occupancy of the former
palace and the expense consequent
to keeping the surrounding grounds
in condition must, according to his
reasoning, come under the same
category. If the ideas of the new
Moses are to be followed out, the
Executive building should be
rented and the Government move
it's department. Offices to the drill
shed. Think of the revenue the
Government might gather by rent
ing the Executive building to some
hotel corporation. The income from
this source would build a road all
around Hilo. Of course, there would
be no thought of putting that road
anywhere outside the Hilo district.
The public parks might be let out
to Cinnamon for rice patches. More
money for Hilo roads. It may be
possible that, in advocating doing
away with the Hawaiian band, our
f riend voices the opinion of three
people in all Hawaii, but not more
than that number.
As to the treatment of the Ha-
waiians at the Presidents recep-
ton, we must admit that the AD-
vERTIsER representative was not
present at that function. We have
it from equally good authority,
however, that the statement that
an old. native woman was brought
into the reception hall and there
/" guyed % and laughed at is abso-
lutely without foundation. Sup
posing a native woman had ap-
peared at the reception, what could
have been more touching, or have
shown more clearly the loyalty of
the natives than a woman poorly
clad, as she may have been, press
ing forward in the midst of those |
festivities to pay her respects to the
chief executive of the land ? Such |
an act would have been applauded
in the country from which our
whilom lawyer. and editor
came, but Immediately he arrives
IN Hawaii, he finds in it an
occasion to curse the Government.
The invitation of Hawaiians to this
was put in the hands of
native member of the committee of
arrangements, and if written" in
yitations were not forwarded to the
Hawaiians it was doubtless due to
he fact that other methods more
acceptable to those people were
Ised.
Judging from the former editor
al remarks of our correspondent
nd the contribution that appears
q another column we can but sug-
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