The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-09-27

stated, I try to be consistent In my
practice as we'll as IN my profession
of temperance.
When, therefore, the Advertiser,
rs party organ, attacks the pri-
vate character and professional re-
putation OF an applicant for IN Off
cial position, before his application |
has received favorable attention |
from the appointing power, upon |
the Aimsy pretext of protecting the
public interest, ii savors Of party or
personal spite to such an extent that
enquiry should be made, before
| judgment is pronounced, into sew
eral points connected with the tenn
perance question and politics in la
waii.
The chief point, and the main one
of interest to temperance people,
is, which party set the example OF
appointing Incorporate persons to
important public Positions l an
swcr, in accordance with the facts
and the record, the Reform Party
| bllt lutC o'N
temperance people will not pause
here; if the present administration
follows the evil precedent and e&-
ample of the Reform Party, temper
ance people to be consistent must
condemn the present with the past.
do not wish to overstep the
bounds of propriety, but in the in
terests of the public good, without
reference to party, l would like the
temperance men of the Advertiser
to pause long enough to count over
the official appointments, of the late
Government, who have repeatedly
disgraced their offices and the late
administration by repeated offences
against sobriety. Not once, hut
many times; not in one place, but
, in many places. The shame of these
same offenders, some of them hold
ing high positions, has been herald
, ed and gossi2cd about throughout
the circuit Of this Kingdom; not
=, by political or social enemies, but by
many of the hest and most consis-
tent men in the Reform Party. i
need name no names; those who
run may read.
Am / going too far in saying that
in one instance, at least, the late
Government condoned the repeated
= offenses of q high official in the face
y of protests which had been better
u needed? But the facts warrant
even stronger language. The heads
of departments who endorsed these
offenses by protecting them, have
also been guilty of upholding and
abetting with their moral support
. the intemperance of officials of the
q same character under previous ad.
y ministrations.
g Need l point out that these and
II similar cases, the public can fill il
k the offenders names, are well known
to the professed temperance gentle
men who control the Advertiser, as
they are to all other temperance
people in Hawaii: Yet the Adver
tiser has kept its editorial mouth
closely shut during all these months
and years until quite lately has ariseI
cause to defend its immediate Phari
saical-political faction.
As a genuine temperance reformel
cannot endorse such hypocritica
4 conduct; and although / will be
' compelled to condemn any future
appointments of Incorporate official:
am forced to doubly condemn tho
men and party who set the evil eX'
: ample and for political ends now at.
tempt TO pick the mote from an OPP
ponent's eye. Consistent temper
: ance people and all fair minded citi
zens will, believe, endorse thi
view of the situation.
- A FRIEND OF TEMPERANCE.