Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 263, 21 August 1891 — The "Bulletin" is Mad! [ARTICLE]

The "Bulletin" is Mad!

Ha! ha! ha!-the poor mamal who, ha.s taken the t>lacē: of the , cat m the BīiHftins raer;agerie, is growiug wilder than ever over the humhle but truly independent Ka Leo. An eld latin proverb has it that, when a j

aian gots angry« it is a sure sign that he is wrong; how fuli of eonsterhati on and venom the Ihīlleiin is, and how conscious of disco.ifiture (as well as of the correctness of thē Leo's- assertions) is suffi-. ciently shown by the tone of'its editorial in Tuesday's i6Bue, whieh claims that the editor of that paper is alone responsible for what appears in it. This, of c6urse. is a fictlon whieh maj hold good legally» and figuratiyely; but, jf Applied to a previou& len^y, article whieh the puhlie attributed to either the Post MaBter General or the Mimster of Fi naneeH does not work, fbr ewy one in town knows by experience that thepresent editor of the JhdkHn is absolutely inēapahle of writing any long wind«d factum of the kind; and farthej*more, the one alluded to had oone of the costomarv Canadian ear-n«arke. However, the fact w(Mild »ot l>e worthy of notice. were it not that it Berves as h vehicle fbr Bome pent-up bile whieh £nds vcnt in $ccusiug. tbe

of "cowardJy attacks !" Th!s is rather bold s butfunny langriags from that stransce combin}Uiun °of catß» kangnroos ahd beavers, a very tt mongrel , V combination indeed,. whose only characteristic poir.t is their a6robatie hability to stand on a fence ,% pledged to, neither seet or party" with a fe!ine instinct of surely jumping aown at the criticaf tim<?j on the winning side, so as to secure a gco i y share of gov--ernmentpap! In what cQn4Ēerjis the puhlie official, wliom the Bulk-1 tin tries to shTeld, it is v( j t tooeirly! to make up the gentieman's poli-! tical halanee account; but it ean already be said. that he has weighed and found dencient; he i has broken solemn promisep, and, fr6m his former very look-wartn attitude towards the nat»onal patI ty, coupled with his prt sent allij ance with prominent reformers, it will suffice to say tbat he is now branded as that kind of a man, whieh* politically, it ie safer to have as an enemy ; sonner than as a friend, aocording to this principle that one cannot be betrayed or disappointed by a declared foe.