The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-05-14
GAZETTE CONSERVATISM.

EDITOR BULLETIN - The ga
zette," in a long and rambling edi-
torial, noticing short and concise
communication in the BULLETIN by
"Jusuce, announces "a SANDER
disposed Of" Your american"
claims that the charge referred to is
not SANDER, and that it is not dis
posed of Others--and they are
not all Americans either-agree in
this. And because we dare to differ
with the infallible and immaculate
Gazette, and have the temerity to
say so. it asserts that we are "woe-
fully ignorant and wilfully dis
honest, +" "vicious and malignant"
and calls us 'idiots," "beasts,"
"verminSus. We are grieved to
read such harsh and unkind Lam
guage in that staid and dignifed
paper, and begin to suspect that it
is reduced to the use of hard words
by the want and need of good tenn
per and sound reason.
While the present writer can in
dignantly repel the imputation of a
"vicious desire to excite the hatred
of the native against the foreigner,
through the verminous portion of
the native press" for he has had
no intercourse with that portion of
it, whatever that may be, or indeed
with any other, he did say in plain
English in the BULLETIN, not sat
last" but soon after the so-called
constitution was published, that be-
side other wrongs, it abridged and
lessened the rights and power of
Hawaiians.
Not having observed the "kicking
cloven-footed beasts" that are said
to be roaming about, but full of
wonder as TO their appearance, a
horrid horned dilemma is aimed at
us, which the Gazette says has two
horns, wilful dishonesty and woeful
ignorance. Declining to be i'm
| paled on the first, and accepting the
assignment of a place on the other,
at least for time, we can ponder
the dictum of the new Daniel, and
as we arc tossed about on our airy
and insecure seat, the very first OBJ
| ject is to us monstrosity, man
that has "inherited no franchise by
right Of birth - Does any Ameri-
can, or Englishman, or Frenchman,
or any patriot accept this dispensa-
tion as gospel? Then what are we
proud of and cherish, and are will
ing to fight for, unless it be fran
chises that We are born TO, and take
with our first breath. The Jews in
herited something by Gods promise
to Abraham, and breathes there a
man with soul so dead, who never
to himself has said, this is my own,
my native land.
The "disposer of slanders" writes
further, mo part of any franchise
has been taken from any man fol
being poor or for any other reason.
Yet further on he says, ''the authors
of the new constitution" Who were
they, how delegated, when anc
where did they compose it, and who
is proud to claim to have made the
King say, that he was duly author
lied and empowered to abrogatt
and annul the constitution These
authors "'had for an object to secure
more conservative influence thar
universal suffrage would give" sc
they drew six hundred dollar lint
which they knew would shut ou
many Hawaiians, and create privi
legged, wealthy class, to be legally
qualified repeaters-men who coulc
vote with the poor in their box, anc
vote again in another.
If two men had acquired from the
same source, and had exercised fol
forty years the undisputed rights tc
draw from the public treasury sun
of money in equal shares, and new
paymaster gives one something more
than his half-half the remainder tc
a new man, what is left to the othel
original partner? Oh, mol nobody
has been deprived of anything
Well, then. it seems as if his meas
ure had at least been diluted.
know in all my ignorance that in tn
United States poor man has a
much q power as a six hundred dol
lar man in the choice of mayor, o
alderman and senator and the con