Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 274, 7 September 1891 — The Bulletin's Inconsistencies. [ARTICLE]

The Bulletin's Inconsistencies.

īii. : The Queon Strect "reiiecting orb" th©oght it could with impucity heap abuse over the Leo, whose self-defence it expected wi>uld soon be routed; it judged the Leo's brain capacity by its owu: but, funnv as our previous quotations may seen, the BuUetin\ i i editorial are yet an inexhaustible mine of drollcries to continue the fight on, and eaeh new attempt of the would be "leader of public opinion" only adds to the mine. One is a kind of prophesy: ,4 When the issues for next elections are defined, the principles; advocated by the IhiilHin will be the groundwork of the campaign" | ...always so pompously modest,j the beaver ! nobody ean have any principles outside of himse)f! But ? prav, dear little man, whcre are those principles of yours ? You claim.that they ha%-e been £, clearly defined and tbe Leo has not dared to assail them!" They haven't been ! assailed because you have never dared submit them to pubhc a])preciation ! The principles of the Eulleiin! Ha ! ha! lia! hi! hi! hi! oh! oh! thev must indeed be startlingly funny, the principles of a humpty-dumpty paper pledged to neither sect or oarty ! Well. anvhow, fork ihem out, those principles; we \vant ta see them and proB)ise t<) a<loro tnem, to swear .-inel abide bv theni. ifthey cannot bo as»;iiled; but darc us *u>t, little pups iuust not disturb sieeping Lku-. i j - At this point, howerer, one thing ) we must confess and pwlaini. .... that ahhouah devoi(J of known principlcs, the Brilh iin iloes reinaiu remarkably true to its moUo of neutral impotency. The reason of this howevor, wiM be when it l>ecomes k 'seasonable v * for us to publish the full list of it.s sharoholders, of the men and of uoiuen of high and ]ou degree who eontrol its (nan) poliey. The <>haractor of ihe "motley erowd" will prove

that whatevef it may be. the JBtdlelin will never be the honest exponent of popular rights/ the true advocate of the working classes, the tribune of the National Partyj and in the next campaign, wbatever may be tbe principles adopted by the people, the Bidletin if gtilt alive willbe found on the"other side," a meek satellite of tbe reform Adwr£iser,*unless it Bees financial advantage on our side. At any rate, the idca of the iittle minds of the» Bulhtin-s little men getting up a platform of principles for the people, as a groundwork for the next campaign, is perfectly luclicrous. . there is not a ilscribbler on the BulletivCs stafF morally able to produce a decent document of the kind« even if paid $5 a word for it; how ean writers pledged to neither sect or party possibly succeed in manufactunng any political declaration otherwise than as a jumble of u iwcoherent notiorts" forming a "heterogenous corapounvl, n whieh, without any doubt, I would absolutely lail to satis r y either of the militant parties. In politics, as they now are in Hawaii, 1 one must belong to either one side or the other; no juggling "on the fence" will satisfy anybody, and the t4 candid" opinion of a U tribunc" who makee a point of bel«nging to neither party, cannot fail to be u unseasonabls" and unpalatable to both. IV, The tiny editor of the decrepid and fast waning BuUetin smarts under the Leo's unanswerable thrusts; never, no never before, in his iuglorious life as a u senior" newspaper writer ' \ "continuous service," had he met with such a sound. — and well-earned — lampooning, and his soft, delicate cutiele Bho\vs the blue marks whieh make hiiii writhe and heis groaning with agony,anrl the throbs of his poor little heart shake the tottering co!umns of the decaying sheet. His an<3mia is particularly well characterized in his abortiye an answer, of Septem- i ber lst and sth. You are a failure, Dan, when left alone in tlie editorials anctum You had better take a froni the Lr:o's gang, whose sound so doUful to you; ans that is natural, for the Leo is tolling the BuUr.tin-s agony. Novorthelcss, thero is some good in the gist of your nebulous stuttering a])ologv. You admit that you, yourself, considered that €t it was' a shame and a diegrace for a constituency to knoek a fellow eold who never did it any harm n and so it was, I)an ! but the constituency knew wluit they were about, - — and would not allow you or 'mon Jike you, to ,4 lead" or U guide" or *'represent puhlie opinion 7 ' thon, not any more than you wiil be all >wed to do it now. lt was rough on your illusions, we sympathise with you, httle man, and we would never ha\*e recpened the bleeding woundof vourself*conceit; had vou not tried to sliove vour 4 Misgraee" a»d "defeat" on some other lollow. Be just and thf> : Lko will ieave you alone. Anoiher twoful oonfe>sioti: He indignanily rv*pudiatos the nssortivin of h:ivtni; assumed the ;vlor of iljo Partv ! \o ! ,4 Whon le;i!oreii a noM>Usativ>n hv an

organization cailing itself the workingmen's aesociation or something like that ,? (whai short memory and how very diadainfql of those who honored you. Dan) the edftor of the Bvlletin i4 volantarily that he should not be hanjpered by any pledge". ... . in other words, he accepted the nomination from and the moral support of the workingmen:s association with the jesuitical reserve and intention of betraying them and of turning over to the other party, had he bcen elected. Very well, Dan, it is fortunate that you were not elected; but anyhow, there is no danger of your ever being asked again to run on auy national tioket; you have been suffieiently Bized,politically any otherwise, and it will always be considered best to bave ppen and honorable politioal opponen ts. like Meesps. Walbridge and Von TemDsky to deal with s than friends of your calibre. One *more characteristic ineonsistency. The B\dlet : in accuses thf Leo's "crowd" of 4< raving" and uttering w volumes of rage" . . . now let us examine the different issues devoted withiu the last two weeks, to the asnihilation ot our poōr )ittle sheet —that nonenti ty not worthy of noiiee,— and let us take up at : random a few of the sonorous epithets hurled at us. The helpers, the "scribblers and scribes" of the | u lialf and half, mongrel" Leo are called "a gang, gangrenous limb, a coterie, a pareel of low class politit cians, swash- bucklers, lubbers, or venal ward-heeleTs, a malodorous | company, a recalcitrant and presumptuous knot of malcontents. a j heterogenons and contemptibly small faction of sore-hetds, a fetid 1 mass of spoilsmen and- wonld-bc leaders of the nation. a noisy paek. baying inocuously,.yēlping t biekering, foanjing, slandering. misrepresenting, banctying," ete., and our ''en-aiie politics" are said to be u a vulgar campaign of seditious detraction. of despicable and treacherous schemes, of sneaking treason, of sillv predictions, of cowardly attaeks, of rash and undignitied untruths, of spiteful Rmall personalities, a pestiferous campaign of detraetion, falsehood and misrepreientations, worse than the lant-ana piague, we make frantic attempts at a vague harum-Bcarum pōliey of maliee, of preteutious and selfish claims. and our opaque souls emit volumes of rage and maliee," otc. ... And yet, we still survivc and are more healthy than ever in the puhlie fiivor ! Ho\vever, if this extensive use of such a vulgar horsebreakers' vocabulary, not nsually employed by well-bre<l journalists, does not show "race" and "raving" on the part of the />VMrn itself, we lcave the public to decide. At any rate. it scems very incongruous aud unbecoming in those usualty placid an»l c oVmn eolnmna of our digniiied rt iloctint: orb, and vorv unworthv of tho 'Vrnit>r and niost rend newspsiivr«writer the workl ovor." ]>ut the Uible saying alwut motes aihl beams is aiways porttnent. Now tor one last wonl 01' advioe: Your ' 4 loaded- > .>h ve det*epttive little orl» ! hn*prostraUKl M nobo*ly but 'vourseif. lUu do not fool to mu,'i> ī>r>unil ihe I.k«i. Little hoys like y<vu. who »re wmit 'ioi>Uywith :ho ;uv. rsuMy get soorohod. an.l i\\. \

sives, you must ē*pect to.be biown into that w©rld of pub':ic scorr>, from whieh little brains nnd "niongrel" polit|cions to no sēct or Darty, ean never eome back. So listen to your paper's advertisement on the u C[ueßtion of the <iay;" to avoid yotirself all further eolie and bi!iousneßS r be careful to take Chamberlain'a remedy . . .. and keep out of the Leo's way !!