Hawaii Holomua, Number 131, 3 January 1893 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

(H t do no( hnld our»t'īrff re*/>‘> i«ibtf for ('■>' i-(U "iur- > 'if ..ur corre*pondent».} Editob Holomua, The letter < f Querist in the “Bu!letiu" of S:iturday la-t with regard to John E. Bush atruck a vein of truth wc admire and indorse. The “Ka Leo" a aheet for whieh Mr. Bush ia responaible and he eannol hold himaelf excu?* d for ita utterances. H:a overgrown pompoeity, hia innate egotiam, hia se!f constituted imuortance, aiid his criminal neglect of the interests of his country, an<i particularly of hiaown c<>nstituents ia apparent to all men. liike Judas, he lias gone to hisi own plaee and politicallv. Hawaii will know him no more f<>rever. John E. Bush raight have had the good offices of his friends, his countrymen, had he but st<>od fast to the pnneiple- of lovaltv and honor he has so often enunciated. But no, he had not the stability and the strength <>f manhood to be just and upright in the; p>resence of corruption. Heligion is always in thi- maifs moulh,

he i* the *-vrrie3t expOOent of it lhat ever appeaml ii Hawaii nei. Prv>hibition in hrt moolh i» bla-phem_v. ami any etfort ft>r tb« £0*1 of men — put for«rard by tbeir felloirs, woulil be d d by hia advocacy. John E. Bush. i< *«V Honolula, Jan. ord, I v ->