The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-04-23
A Grave for One.
EDITOR BULLETIN

in its erratic career fallen upon evil,
and still more evil days. 1t is true
that il has not suffered any material
loss, for its star-chamber majority is
still intact, and the quenchless cour-
age of its army Of imported merce-
uaries still animates them on pay
day; aud the hold of the loyal
camp follower, in the leagues and
clubs, upon the treasury, is as firm
as ever. But the small stock-in-
trade of political morals-if any
that the infant T. G. may have had
in starting life, is becoming wofully
deprecated, and it has dug a sepuI-
chre for the solitary reputation that
covered the nakedness of its origin
al sin. 1t is the unfailing history of
all such petty despotisms as this
Hawaiian p. (Which claim to
travel on guupowder and gall--that
they furnish fathomless grave for
the public character of everybody
concerned. This is the one endur-
ing principle which clings to a pub
lie man more closely than bis shadow.
This is the true law of fate: the law
that will not be banked of its end
in one iota, and which compels
every man to write his own epitaph,
aud recite his whole history.
La the famous proclamation Of
January IL. 1893, issued 10y the
Stevens appointed junta styling
themselves a Provisional Govern
ment, there was but one name, that
OF 5. b. Dole, for whom the public
who were appealed to had any res
pect. 1t was the only name then
that could hope to find any reason.
able amount OF acceptance with the
Noble voters of this metropolitan
electorate. In every sense MIR. Dole
was the only man in the so-called
revolutionary proclamation who had
any public reputation to lose, and il
was largely on account OF the res
pect Of the public for Judge Dole,
that the surrender was effected with.
out putting Minister Stevens bonn
bast to the test. How has Mr.. Dole
justified the expectations formed Of
/ fair dealing on his part between the
! United States on the one side
whose officials and troops, by intimi-
dation, effected the conquest OF the
people by the overthrow OF its gov
| ernment and the inst stallation OF Mr.
Dole aud his fIiends-and the gov
ernment and people Of Hawaii on
the other handI Lot the dismissal
from public service Of every Hawai-.
ian who would not abjure his nation
ality and the hundred petty acts Of
inquisition and picayuuish despot.
ism, practised by Mr.. Dole's approx.
al, furnish the reply. In the discus.
sion OF every point pertinent to the
issue Mr.. Dole has acted the part Of
a quibbling lawyer rather than the
honest jurist which he was fondly
expected to prove himself, as wit.
ness the famous specifications" and
other controversial state papers
bearing on the position taken 10y
President Cleveland.
President Dole's arguments are
based upon the position that h.
reigns by virtue Of the sacred right
Of revolution" aud the ruled are
therefore to u .derstand that he il
at the head Of government of mill.
taryism. aud has therefore the right
to vary its political creed so rs to
include varying quantities OF mod.
ern theocracy or ancient toryism,
strangely disguised by longings after
annexation aud more Chinese, aud
universal equality--an anomaly n
uuaccountable as a republican mon
arch, or Christian hangman, or a
jail.ilogger who runs a society for
the spread OF humanity in the inter.
walls OF his professional duties.
Judging by results up to the pres.
ent time aud without printing a
schedule Of the discrepancies OF
conduct between Judge Dole aud
President Dole on the contract labor
and numerous other questions affect
ing the well-being OF Hawaii, il
would seem to his best friends that
he must have started business rs a
patriot from motives Of expediency,
and found that even the trade OF
being a successful patriot was too
extensive an undertaking for his
own moral capacity, and that his
soul was not large enough for the
position. Mr.. Dole had everything
to gain by proving sincere to all his
former professions OF loyalty to
principle aud his own conscience,
and he has apostatised in falling
market He was man capable Of
commanding respect and spent hall
lifetime in rising to distinction,
and then he apparently grew tired
OF the situation and bolted on to a
doubtful and ricketty pedestal to
avoid real success, and the conting,
ency was one which none of his
friends could reasonably have att
cipated KoMU 40.
"Woman, dare not to defy" She
was pale and resolute, aud she met
the eyes OF the angry man without
quaillng, Give it to me-" With a
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