The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-11-15
GOING OUT AND COMING IN.

With this issue of the Advertiser, the
present editor Of it retires, and his
place hereafter will be occupied by
another. The Advertiser is always lin
commission as the navy men say
though commanders and pilots change
The new editor is cordially wei
coined and the readers OF this journal
may be assured Of his desire and ca
pacity to instruct and please them.
Speaking to him in a stage whisper
the retiring editor ventures to say that
the average inteirigence of this little
community is higher than that Of any
community with the same number or
white citizens to be found on the Main
land. Distance from the American con
tinent; isolation: infrequent mail ser
vice in past years; the absence OF the
quivering pulsations of modern Amer
lean life throbbing through the brain.
the wOeful lack of diversified indus
tries which are the best proofs of the
genuine American spirit; the daily
diving for many years in the SHADOW
of a unique, and anomalous politlcai
life iii which the Polynesian dominated
in numbers, but was supported on
scaffoIding of alien intelligence and
influence; and lastly the entire de-
pendence of the Islands for prosperity
upon the proverbially uncertain leg1s-
- oil Of
have served to force the life OF the
community into conservative chan
nels and have partially severed It's in
telligence from progressive action, ex-
cepting in the matter of public educa-
ton.
The incoming editor assumes the
serious task of commenting upon af-
fairs at the time of radical and final
absorption of an independent sover-
eighty, with an extraordinary mixture
of races, by the Greater America.
The innumerable and perplexing
problems forcing themselves to the
front will, in a large measure, not be
settled by any local influence. The
supreme national power at Washing
ton will dispose of these in it's own
way, and in accordance with national
ideas. But there will remain local and
municipal questions, involving the sup
ply Of labor, the introduction Of divers
flied industries, the Improvement of the
educational system and the administra-
ton of local laws, which will deeply
concern the comfort of the members of
the community In these the incoming
editor will find ample opportunity to
inform and aid his readers, provided
he regards the philosopher Emerson's
aphorism, The truth is too simple for
us; we do not like those who unmask
our illusions" He will, therefore, find
it politic to avoid the brOadest truth.
He is. indeed, the happy editor who
correctly practices the maxim, "That
he who leads men must in measure
follow them For to follow only is
to confirm popular errors and mis-
takes, while ceasing to follow, even in
search of a larger truth, is to lessen
the present influence.
The anomalous position Of the editor
and of the preacher also is, that while
they find individuals thoughtful and
dissatisfied with existing affairs, every
where they find the community serene,
contented and above instruction. Dis
raeli said, There is no education like
adversely" which is paraphrase of
the maxim that Sweet are the uses OF
adversely" 1t is somewhat discourag-
ing to. the preacher or editor or teacher
that Calamity is their great superior
as an instructor, but that if they should
publicly invoke his aid, the people
would lynch them on branch Of the
suonkey-pod tree. Goethe said, who
so serves the public is a poor creature;
he worries himself and no one is crate
full to him for his services"
But to the editor and to all sincere
instructors. there come occasionally
manly words from manly men, and the
sweetest words from womanly women
which are the aH-sufficient compensa-
tions for efforts which are made to i'm
DrOye the common veal