The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-14
THAT PORTUGUESE CIRCULAR AGAIN

THAT PORTUGUESE CIRCULAR AGAIN.
The Bulletin in a late issue takes |
or rather makes occasion to indulge |
its spleen in an utterly unprovoked |
and abusive attack upon the ADvER-
TIsER. We do not pretend to fathom
the motive for this ferocious assault,
nor do we know whether there was
any. In any case we are charitably
disposed to make every allowance for
the sensations of a defeated candi-
date
The ADVERTISER lately published
as an illustration of campaign lying,
an extract from a National Reform
circular addressed to the Portuguese.
We supposed at the time of publica-
ton that the address was complete,
but have since learned on inquiry
that it contained two or three tritiing
omissions. This statement we cheer
fully make. The omissions consisted
of statement with regard to Japan
csc immigration, with regard to the
Queens Hospital and of the cam
paign falsehood which Mr.. Bush
invented with regard to Wilder &
Co, and which was promptly denied.
This was substantially all.
We had consulted two competent
and trustworthy translators of Por
tuguese and are assured that the
translation in the ADVERTISER was
correct and faithful. The Bulletin,
however, says that our translation is
grossly garfield ''shamelessly
mutilated' and is ''tantamount to a
wicked forgery" These facts can
be verified by ''cursory perusal'
of the true version. The ADVERTISER
it appears has "fallen to such degra-
uaCrUu as 60 rarsTTy documents" and
its instincts are those developed in
following the rascally principle that
everything is fair in politics"
These are hard words, and if they
are true the ADVERTISER stands con-
victed as a disreputable journal
which does not hesitate to use dis
honest and unworthy means for the
attainment of its ends. We call up.
on the Bulletin, in the interests OF
fair play, in the interests of decent
and manly journalism, to substanti
ate its charges or to withdraw them
Let it publish its ungarbled version
if it has one, and prove, if it can
that the Portuguese circular did not
contain the statements which we
have published as an illustration OF
campaign lying.
As to the omissions which were
made in our translation, tAey are ut
terly beside the question. The cir
cular might have contained dis
QUESTION on the Hegelian Philoso
ply, an calculation of the Binomial
Theorem, panegyric on the civic
virtues of Mr.. Crowley Would the
ADVERTISER have been guilty OF
wicked forgery" in leaving all that
out?
The question is not whether the
circular contained those tabled argu-
ments which the ADVERTISER could
not meet, but whether it contained
the statements which the ADVERTISER
published as an illustration of cam
paign lying. The question is not
whether the circular contained GER
tain true statements not quoted by
the ADVERTISER, but whether it con-
tanned the false and misleading
statements which we did quote.
Until the publication of the Bulle-
tins ungarbled copy, the circular
stands as monument of shameless
campaign lying. 1t says that the
missionary party has reduced wages
to the starving point, that it has
never sought to furnish the people
with homesteads until the last two
weeks, that it sought to prevent the
Portuguese FROM registering, that it
objects to Mr. Bush on account of
his HONESTY, (?) etc, etc. We know
nothing of the authorship of this
famous circular, but it bears every
mark Of the hand of rascal. And yet
it is in defence of this circular that the
Bulletin takes the field and accuses
the ADVERTISER of Justification and
forgery. Unless the Bulletin can
find some other field for the exercise
of its editorial talents, it would do
we'll to be silent as to .'rascally"
principles.