Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 107, 8 May 1894 Edition 02 — Go Slow. [ARTICLE]

Go Slow.

Tlse St'tr has, since it w;»s starte<l, b*ien verv persistent in its attH<-ks }>ersoiiHl «ml otlierwis<on Mr. (,'l;ius SpreckeU. S;nc*tlie departure of th«t gentI<M>iHT> the [rts >11«! att«c'ks bave ce>-* l but tiie Oeennie St<-a»nship (' > n [>!in\ i- \et tlie butt f»r lii** p-iini of tbe S(’ir pen him! it is eridently tLe b >pe of that semi-oflicinl sheut to s e the snbsidy t>» theO S. S. d Hcoutinued. We ean h rdlv believe that the C>»'mcils, 01 whoaver will be iu poweritia fe« nn>ntiis will take any rash st -j<> tiiat tnay r**sult in impairing Hawaiis ineaiiH of coinmunicati<>n with C iIifor<iit s>*vered The 5'</r desires to bave the subsidv ean celled because tbe AuMealiu is an oM boat and uses seven d «y> t<> get in here The S(ar wants n twin screw steainer and w <nts tlie distance botween Sm Fritncisc and H'inolalu covered in fom days Tiie Sl r wants the freig'it r ites cut down and will not alhiw any understanding of a busiuess nnture between the differen! l’aciSc Companies and the O. S. S. The Slar fiually suggests tput on a “planter’s steam r whieh presuiuable shoald h;ivtall the good and fast points thai the Aitntralia is claitned uot t> have and pres<itnably shuuhl carrv all freights. the mail nn<l the anuy of tourists. that novei coraes at a niero iKuninal rate. Ithere anytlung else tbat onr es teeiued eonlemp <r iry in ight de s'ro? Would a subsidy to th« stirrv orgmettu frora the O S S be iieeeplahle aml if obtuinablwouhl the services of the liue au<i tlio eonlinuanee of the subsid' be eoiniuemlahle aud satisfactor\ The Star is not rec«)gniz ng th« true situation here. Because it> editor lives here and has heeome a very great inan ilawūi to him has swelled as mueh in sīze ahas his own he id. The fact re niains though that these island are yet very ins’guific«nt and tli;*i a c<>inparison of tiie demaiids tii.«> re «s<»n «bly ean be m «de by the San Francisoo — Honolulu e >ui muniealion aud trale witli tlio-. pr.»per for llie N >w-York E.xrope business is more thau absurd AVe c *nuot see tb «t tlie eoai uuuiealion between H« waii and C.«lifornia c«i) b ira[»roved un<ler tbe presem situ «tion aud it is eaiiain th «t it will not be iiuproved by dicontiuning the subsidy aud ther by perhaps causing a parti i with«lr«wal of ves-els. Bef.«r the S(ar and the eouueila ge' ready to «lo the sbipping ol Hawaiian sug«r in vessels be Iongiug to other corapanits or in m '*pi «uters steatujr” it wonld b«well to find out if it is u«»t a fact that ther«> exists a o »ntract be tw*>en Mr. Spr>ekles aud th p anters acvording to whieh tli first-naioed has b »ng!it the vvh«»!«outout of Hawaiiau sugar f.»r s terra «>f yeais Hiid h«s the r gh* t> ship it iu his owu vesse!s. ll so ,there would hardly be uineli sng«r for the P. M. S. Co . or tuo O Jk O. coiopmv or for the planters twiuscrewed stearaer. But in CHse tbe subsidy is w»thdr..wu th.»»-eare g«xxl proopects for us to be reduced to sailiug vessels and get back to tbe g<>o«l old d«tys wheu a three-weeks old a ra»il was c«»usidered extreraely satt.sfact«iry. It ’s not g«x>d p>»licey tu tl»row the water you are usi:»g before you &re s<«re «<f obUinmg sonie eleau, »ud it might pn»ve eqnally m uuhe hhy to throw overboard a steamship liue tbat bas given H<twuii«n tbe best ser» lee sbe ever bud. sitisf «ctorv to ail tr*.vellers aud sbipp«>rs altbougb diss«pproved of by the 9mt moA (mly