Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-11-28
SEATTLE OBJECTS.

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.l
In their attempts to extend trade,to
the Hawaiian Islands the merchants of
Seattle have encountered an unexpect-
ed obstacle. finding among the mer-
chants of Hawaii a sudden hostility to
the State of Washington and its citi-
zens. Catalogues sent out by Seattle
wholesalers to Hawaiian merchants
nave received in acknowledgment
clippings from an article in Tacoma
newspaper, republIshed in Honolulu.
accompanied by such remarks as this
I've are surprised that your section
cares to deal with such outlaws"
The article is a gross and coarsely
abusive attack upon the entire mor-
camille class in the Hawaiian Islands.
of which the following extract will
give a fair idea
"'rhe Islands need to be repopulatad
with immigrants and good. honest car
p,t-baggers before 1t will be safe or
judiCious to grant home rule. Any
man that has been permitted to live
and do business on the island of Oahu
| Is less fit to hold Office under the gov
ernmcnt than the poorest and most de-
spised native. If there is a white man
| on the island who is loyal and true
ana devoted to American institutions
| ne Is never heard from. The ruling
powers have boycotted and suppressed
ana robbed and spat upon him until r.
is so completely subjugated that he
dare not raise his voice"
II is no surprise that the people OF
Hawaii resent such abuse. and have no
| desire to cultivate business relations
with community where such senti-
men;s are held or expressed. Their mis-
I take. however. Is in thinking that the
| foregoing is in any sense representative
/ of the feelings of any portion of the
| Washington people. or that such at
lacks have anything save local or
| personal animus behind them. TIL v
are the utterances of a newspaper with
out character or standing even in its
own town; which aspires to be classed
dmCng the yellow sensational journals
O. the country. and is published in a
! community where public sentiment az
PATIENTLY only finds concrete expression
/ IN enc form, an attack on places of
/ larger population, greater wealth and
more trade. In that community there
Is no effort being made to cultivate
trade relations with the Hawaiian ISL
ands: while the efforts of Seattle in
thu: direction are looked upon with the
II the newspapers are to be accepted
az correctly voicing public opinion.
They would injure themselves at any
time IL in so doing they could likewise
irflict upon Seattle or hamper the trade
CT this city.
1t is altogether likely that the mali
cious attack upon the people Of the Ha.
Wa ian Islands was prompted by nc
other motive than desire to create
precisely the sentiment against toe
People of the State of Washington
which 1t appears has resulted from its
publication; and 1t is possible that It's
author is chuckling at having accom-
! plished in measure this result.
This ingenious and malicious attempt
| TO STIR up i'll feeling between communi-
ties which have enter tanned for each
other the most cordial feelings, and
which are attempting TO cultivate more
intimate trade relations. which will be
mutually beneficial, will fail of It's
effect II the merchants of Hawaii be-
come aware Of the motives of petty
spite which prompt all such illusions,
They should understand that Tacoma
nj wspapers on this subject do not rep
resent the sentiments of the people Of
the State of Washington. and they
| should understand further that the one
consuming desire Of the particular Ia
camo newspaper in question is to WORK
some injury to Seattle's trade, no mat
tnf what means II may be necessary 10
adopt to accomplish that end, and that
1T so doing will not hesitate for a mo-
mcnt to misrepreent the sentiment u
the business men of it's own city.