The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-12-05

The Bulletin charges the Advertiser
with the publication OF letter from
Mr.. GcStocker marked personal. II
says: "On the left corner of that letter
was written in ink the word personal. r."
The letter may be inspected by any
person who Will call at this office The
word personal does not appear any
where on the face of it. The word per-
sonal on the envelope was not noticed
velope was destroyed at once but as
the messenger who delivered it states
that it was there, this statement is ac-
cepted as true.
There was nothing of private ma
ture in the letter. It was not dis
creditable to it's author
If Mr.. McStocker had addressed a
letter to the editor of this paper, which
contained the good. words: Peace on
earth and good will to man." and had
marked it personal" it should be SO
treated. But if inadvertently made
public, the sender of it would in no
wise be open TO censure, although
thousands of people object to the
preaching of the obsolete doctrine of
peace and good Will. Mr.. McStocker is,
unfortunately, so far as his assumed
defender is concerned, in the position
of a man charged in the police court
with theft. Who appears for your
inquired the Judge. Il do" said a
bandy-legged cross-eyed lawyer, giving
the judge a Whit of his breath. "Pris-
oner," said the judge, you had better
manage your own case"
There are many ways of looking at
things. He is an ignorant bigot who
claims infallibility or exclusive knowl-
edge. We discuss every proposition or
opinion with the unwritten under
standing, that We all grope in the dark,
and are liable to err. What in one sense
may appear to be an error in idea or
in method in another sense is truth or
partial truth. We look at patriotism in
one sense; Mr.. McStocker looks at it in
another He may be all right and we be
all wrong Mr.. McStocker is honest
and sincere enough to advance propos
itions which many approve of. We do
not agree with him, as thousands of
others do not agree with him. But we
shall not say that he is "a man without
a country" because we do not agree
with him.
We work out our religious and poll
teal salvation in different ways, and
shall always quarrel over the best
way" of doing it.
There is sect, containing many
thousands of prosperous, honest, and
deeply religious farmers in the Shenan-
doah valley OF Virginia, and elsewhere,
known as "Dunkers.' In moments of
revival, they often imagine in their
camp meetings, that Satan is in the
vicinity. They abandon the meeting
and chase him into the woods, and
climb the trees in pursuit of him, and
throw stones at the imaginary Evil
One. They cfaim to be better men for
it. Shall we declare that they are abso-
lutely wrong? We may think so, and
state that we believe that they are in
error, but we do it, with the unwritten
understanding that they may be right,
after all.
1t was believed, only a few years ago,
that the sure way to stir up the pa
triotism of American youth, was to de-
scribe battlefield with its unutterable
horrors. and American troopers charg
ing with cavalry over the bodies of the
wounded and dying and planting the
flag on the ramparts. In these later
days, there is disposition to stir up
patriotism BY simple appeals to JUS
tice and reason. 1t is only a DISPOSE
ton, but it is. growing, without the aid
of blue lights,