The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-21
HAWAIIAN Poi
A DEADLY DRUG
San Luis 0bispo Papers Have
Fierce Row Over Former
Resident Here.

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other name, Ramon The SANDER
ing of that gentleman there denounced
is no doubt vile, but his defender, the
Tribune editor, had better keep away
from Hawaii until he tenders an OBJ
ject apology for giving the national
food of these islands the name of a
- drug" of dangerous composition. -
When he calls it beverage" he is
nearly as far off his base, though
among temperance beverages a poi
cocktail can not be beaten:
THE EDITORIAL.
The relatives and many of the
friends of j. Ramon Carton have re-
quested the Tribune to make a state
ment of the facts connected with the
misfortune Detailing that young man.
This they deem unnecessary in a great
measure, but called for owing to the
unwarranted stigma placed upon him
by the Telegram in an article headed
" Booze Drives Man Insane"
This latter, which can be termed
nothing else than an insult to the
young man and to all his family and
relatives was decidedly untrue. Dur
ing his stay in Honolulu Ramon Carbon
was attacked with the malarial fever
and a long siege of that treacherous
disease, so dangerous to people not
natives of the island, left him in a
weakened condition, affecting his brain.
Worn out and sick he returned to his
home in San Luis Obispo and later
went to the Halycon Sanitarium near
Arroyo Grande. While there he fell
from a window. He alighted upon his
head. This, coupled with his weaken
ed condition, resulted in loss of reason.
The statement that J. Ramon Carton
drank Hawaiian poi, native beverage
in Honolulu, was absolutely untrue. lie
knew of the dangerous composition of
the drug and stunned it. He often
told his friends about it and at no
time drank any of it.
The Telegram can not excuse its I'M
warranted mistake by simply SANDER
ing Warren NJ. John. The people of
the entire city are eondemning its
methods and the more it throws
villifcation into the matter the stronger
the feeling of resentment grows. There
is a day of reckoning coming. The
Telegram will not apologize for wrong
done any man. After heartlessly
placing stigma upon young man in
misfortune it viciously attacks War
rem M. John, our county's assembly
man. who saw fit to defend the good
name of his friend. j. Ramon Carbon,
with whom he was associated for years
in the fire department and other or
CARNATIONS of this city. c. A. Black
can not understand the honor that ex
lists in a bond of friendship. Mr.. Black
is invited to continue his mad TRADE
of abuse. The people know its vicious
purpose now. That is enough.
MR.. JOHNS LETTER.
Why should man in misfortune
be held up to scorn and ridicule in the
town where live his dearest friends and
relatives?
No doubt many person asked that
question of himself, as he read last
nights Telegram.
This dirty, disreputable and con-
temptible publication which is a dis
grace to the journalism of the county,
openly, and with malice aforethought
last evening offers an insult to the
family and friends of one of the best
boys ever born and raised in the city
of San Luis Obispo. There was no
occasion for it to so maliciously at
tack a mans good name in his hour
of misfortune and at a time when his
friends and relatives were grief
stricken.
With faring headline last night
the Telegram said in reference to j.
Ramon Carbon - "BOOZE DRIVES
MAN INSANE"
In the first place this was untrue.
In the next place it was heaping in
jury upon misfortune, and adding in
creased sorrow to grief. 1t is well
that the people of the county should
be fully advised Of the methods of C.
A. Black, the Telegram editor. He will
! resort to the lowest and meanest, as
well as the most degraded and unprin-
cipled methods to further his ends.
For two years he has willfully and
maliciously abused the writer before
the people of this county. ] care not
for that, for he has only served to
make more friends for me, but l can
not remain silent and let pass unno-
ticed his vicious, premeditated insult to
| young man, born and raised in the
county and who was always my friend.
In the hour of a mans sad misfor-
tune C. A. Black cruelty thrusts the
ruStv blade of couordI1y insult into he