Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 270, 1 September 1891 — The Bulletin's Inconsistensies. [ARTICLE]

The Bulletin's Inconsistensies.

That wonderful self-styled * c orb" who, in its frantic attempts to ( mis ) lead puhlie opinion, begins to realize that it does not" relTect" anything at all, outside of the ineoherent twaddle of its eouple of disappointed editors or sore-head shareholders, that ignominious failure of a newspaper, the Bulletin, has not been heard of ,since its last effort agaipst Ka Leo that cfTort exhausted their tiny brains. and the famishing public are therefore reduced to hlank editorials on the coffee eup as a baronieter, or on Consul Bmith's Apocryphal effusion on the condition of a kingdom he does not kn®w anything about. To keep th'e Bulletin bcfore the public, it is necessary to go feack issues and to gather up the crop of funny things from the%rb , s >> inkstand/ whon its editors attempt to dabole into editorial ooin|X)iitions.

Tn its isvsae of Aug«st 12th' the pul»lished the to]lo\ving memomhle ailmission: 4< the onlj* uian who was beaten at tho }x>lls of an otherwit?e hiiīhly tr\ >phant ticket, presmning to set hio>Mf as a tribnneuf-Ihepeople» is anovel sipht in eonstitutional ix>lities!! M Aml so it ripht you are Moses! Rut prav, who is that man? Why!

l «Kiisor of €bfe Bulletin : B tnb«iie\ ē£, osur£§» _ Dan Logan, who was '£K> ; diggracefully defeated in Mani, m sprtfe of his haviug aBauraed for tbe time being, ihe colors of the |sationjal Party! Such was his popularity, j and such his success in trying to i' 4 lead puhlie opinion when puhlie lopinion did not want to be lead by him!" confesslon comes j from his own paper! Rough, is it not?

The Bulletin indignantly reoudiates the accusation that it is uon the fenee"— u with regard to any existing questionj but rēady to express a candid opinion on snch } when seasonable." We are happy to record the bold (and bald) assertion, but the trouble wjth the Bulletin is that it aever knows when it inay be "seasonable" to express an opinion: it is exceedinglv careful not to be out of Scason, so ae not to lo®se some advertising patronage, and therefore, although always ready t& express an opinion, candid or otherwise, it never does risk it out, except when there is absolutely no danger. That may be very good financial policy, but it certainlv deserves to be called a "on the fence" policy, and the public so calls it.

The Bulletin terms u snarling or sneering" every thing said "»r written nort in accord with its ov* line of "seagonable" opinions. Andit does not like to be sneered or snarled at! Dignified little minds, selfassumed infallib!e men, would-be " oracles, tribunes or leaders of the public, never like sneers, and we are inclined to think that they are quite right, in their way; but unfortunately the puhlie enjoys just sneering and healthy snarling against presiimptuous fops, and the funny thing is that the Bulletin naen just do unto others what they do not like to be done unto them. Ob, consistency, you are a jeweli But more anon. ; .•... :