The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-08-12

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mfte ne fenaft ,hsi ihr iHehI Ifraa
Fifea n ssfrfissrf amount ~ ussF ron.
sIi,slng that thiH city has no cable
Communication sith the rect ~ the
vufif iiut No a matter ~ fact thla fr-
suit T. reached because OF the ahsenre
II oskisd neseaFra ana not in spite n
|H iNrt "a eotid nesH service
l,a~ws the iionoiulu papefs bach on
[ thss owe held vhcrc news u Cleaned
18th 80 asadui,y unknown in any
rnsisisnA city e similar pnpulat on.
We stay add that the work ~ done
wns fews men than ~ customary on
the mainland. Five writers In all pro-
duce original matter In the twelve page
daily aud sixteen page saturday Nd
ve,tiE.r. hut the fourtecn-page daily
CNroric,e q san Francisco requirer in
the ats editors department alone, In
Cludtsg the city editor ana his two as
sistart editors. not less than eighteen
men Fouv ~ the twelve pages Of that
paper are given 10 Geographic news,
one to editorial and one TO the work OF
the commercial editor and his assistant,
,AeayJng but. six pages, less the space
given a. advertising, 10 carty the work
% eighteen editors reporters and spc-
cial writer's. II may be Judged from
this that Honolulu reporters have TO
hustle. and the pages Of the Advertiser.
for one. show that they hustle to some
purpose
Yet IL must be confessed that there
IN enough news left unpublished in
Honolulu to keep n paper IA large a.
the Advertiser filled; and that being
true II follows that enough news never
sees type In San Francisco To iill
dozen papers OF the size OF the Chron-
icle. a good newspaper is not better
known by what 1t prints than by what
II leaves out of print OF matter not
deemed available to a Honolulu paper
the islands. with their diversified In
terests and especially diversified popu-
lation. are peculiarly rich In the one
item of society alone-folowing the
theme through all It's racial ramifica-
tons, high and Lows contained
enough of sensation TO Al the yellowest
OF journals. But a moral and conserva-
tive public has to be thought OF and so
a very definite line has to be drawn
Badness cannot all be kept out but the
worst OF IL liz, and the public Is never
the wiser. 1t IL comforting to the day
workers on the press to know, however,
that they collect and print enough news
in this small and lonely group and espe-
cially in this little capital to excite the
surprise and admiration OF every look
er-on.
VII SOfilt ACCOUNTS IL ~ " bt lfBlfll'u
that the journals OF the time cannot
fill in all the details of the passing
show; for out Of the bite of news and
picturesque description here and there
collected and sent to print, people will
one day try to make the full mosaic OF
history. But historians have long since
learned to fare badly at the hands of
ews-gatherers; not that the data given
are deceptive but because they are not
full enough. We can conceive some
writer OF the annals of San Francisco,
fifty years hence. contending that, at
the beginning of the century, San Fran
cisco. though in constant touch with
ports which had the bubonic plague.
was itself free from that malady. He
would satisfy himself az to the truth
OF his postulate by n careful reading of
the files of our San Francisco contem-
porarles, wherein nothing whatever il
said about deaths from the Asiatic
scourge. Yet every man in San Fran
cisco, who knows anything is aware OF
the presence Of the plague. History
may not be made up as Carlyle said of
lies agreed upon" but 1t is made up
OF the Information which the people OF
the past thought expedient to write
and print.