The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-02
OPEN LETTER NO. 2.
Honolulu, Feb. 2, 1892.

Your conventional protest against
the anonymous Truth-seeker is noted
likewise your reflections upon the
bad manners and courage of my il
lustrious namesake. But that doesn't
answer the questions. That the mat
ters involved are antique, puerile, or
, in any way answered by your speech
referred TO is matter for the public,
not you, TO decide.
Your assurance-even to DiOgenes
regarding Christmas presents is not
satisfactory. You have attempted
to brand as bribe-taker an honest
and patriotic native son of this coun-
try, and with facts of which you
should have been cognizant he ex-
poses the falsity of your charge;
and what you first proclaimed bribe,
you now term a Christmas present.
Would you, as a lawyer, trust the
bare unsupported word of man who
had so acted towards another, when
he spoke in defense Of himself?
You do not care to explain your
self even once in your whole cam
paign to fairly intelligent audience.
The questions were honestly put to
you,-tho' it is confessed in the be-
lief that you would pass them by un-
answered, for the reason that you
would not attempt to deceive the in
teligent as you have the more ignor-
ant masses who have formed the
greater part of your hearers.
Your easy-going opponent has
taught you that you have too poor a
memory to be successful liar: you
are not yet too old to learn other
things. 1t is philosophical maxim
as old as civilization-and as respect
ed o-day as in its youth :-"Qui
tacit consentlt;" she who remains
silent, acquiesces."
The hope was expressed that you
would explain away the grave charges
circulating through this Kingdom
about you--not only for your own
sake but for the sake of your follow
ers. Do you for one moment con-
ceive that any decent man, even of
ordinary sense, is bound in any way
to support leader who openly and
publicly admits that he is traitorous
renegade?
You say that you are not Carpet
Bagger. Excuse me but read the
following definition: Carpet Bag
ger: A needy political adventurer
who goes about the country pander-
ing to the prejudices of the ignorant
with the view of getting into place
or power. Imperial Dict. And
perhaps you will recognize your mis-
take,
Yes-yon came to this country in
l9S3-and you referred to Sir John
Macdonald and to Canada, the coun-
try of your birth, in no uncertain
terms of contempt until your visit
there in 1889. You proudly pro-
claimed yourself an American citizen
and that America was the home
whence you hailed to these Islands.
You took active part in the revolution
of lS87-and you were the most
Jealous of missionaries"
Only few days ago yon boasted
from the stump that "missionaries"
and sugar barons" were the only
two trades of this country not re-
presented on your ticket. No mis-
sionary in this country ever spoke of
or acted toward the Hawaiian as con-
temptuously as you did, and you are
the most perfect living type of the
missionary who has brought misfor-
tune and ruin to the noble Hawaiian
race.
AS for "sugar barons"! Have
you forgotten your associate Ross
Why, don't you know that when he
ran plantation and was one of the
sugar barons himself, he ate kanaka
babies fried on toast for breakfast
every morning.
You were one of the "boodle"
revolutionists. The Ashford family
was out for the patriotism,
principle and honesty were words
without meaning to the carpet-bag-
gers, You were appointed Attorney
General-and you did act in thorough
and complete harmony with your
colleagues until your departure for
Canada in 1889. You approved Of
the proposed free trade treaty,
bounty, indeper dence guaranty, and
all-and you had the confidence of
your colleagues, until you went To
Canada in 1889.
But you went to Canada and you
were tempted and you fell. What
was the price, thou confessed brlbe-
laker9 What was the price which
placed you at enmity with your hon