The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-05-10
d" Nordhoff Again :"
EDITOR BULLETIN

EDITOR Bulletin
Complaint has been that writer's
and newspaper correspondents who
visit us are not as rule truthful in
their statements concerning us and
the affairs Of our little kingdom.
Much Of this complaint is correct.
For over three months we have had
an army of news correspondents for
American daily newspapers and
periodicals eager to gather informa-
tion pertaining to the situation of
the Hawaiian kingdom and the
causes which produced it. Many of
the persons are writers of ability
and integrity and are familiar to the
readers of English current literature,
while larger portion of them are
ordinary and sensational writers,
who are simply INSCRIPTIONS hire
lings, void of all sense of honor and
truthfulness. To the State of Cali
fornia we are indebted for number
of the latter, who came here under
instructions to boom up annexation,
right or wrong. These are to be
pitied. When, however, we do find
men of undoubted veracity and we'll
known ability, like Mr.. NordhoT of
the New York Herald, being ira
duced and vili6ed for giving really
true account of our affairs, | deem it
as much the duty of a citizen Of this
country to complain Of such scurril-
GUS attacks upon those who do write
the truth as for us to complain OF
those who do not. have read Mr..
Nordhoff's letter to the n. Y. Herald
of April Sth, republished in the Adj
vertiser of May 9th inst, and | for
one can testify to the correctness of
every fact there stated and the
soundness of the gentleman's own
views. wish that our community
was blessed with more such writer's,
and saying which, simply speak of
Mr.. Nordhof from no other know
ledge of him than his writings about
us. He is evidently an indcpend-
ent writer, and one who well merits
the credit of being an American in
the true sense Of the word.
A writer in the p. c. Advertiser,
evidently an intellectual pigmy
alongside Of Mr.. Nordho1, under
takes to berate the latter, because
ne did not go into Mysteries when
he saw the "old flag hung up across
his pathway. The writer expected
that even the most prosaic" citizen
lis apt to experience u new sensation
and feel mighty moral sLlmula-
ton, when, far from home and separ-
ated by thousands OF miles from
early scenes and familiar expert
ences, he sees the flag Of his own
nation floating on the breeze This
poor fellow had better go home, as
he is evidently one of the light,
headed, lingo kind Of American
citizens, with whom Mr.. NordhoH
can we'll afford to differ. We are
afraid that our Hawaiian soil is
overhowing with too many of the
above species of American-the fiji,
clustering kind-who believes that
"old glory" is disgraced if Americans
do not uphold it in dishonorable
position before the world, such as il
was in when it was permitted to
cover and to perpetuate wrong act
toward a defenceless people without
cause, living on friendly terms
with the nation to whom the EN-,
blem belongs, Every American, and
every man Of principle and honor, il
proud to know that "old glory" is
not allowed to satisfy the ideas Of a
few of its vain-glorious citizens, and
to prostitute the "old hag," that en-