Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-01-11
COMPLIMENTS TO THE STAR.
Continued from Second Page.

vince nor persuade. 1t dc es
show that that paper is quite en-
thusiastic over the matter; yet the
candles are left unlighted and the
public remain in the dark. "Gen-
tlemen do not cheat even at cards"
Why is the Presidents trip the
winning card ? If there are five
aces in the deck some of us who
are in the game would like to
know it, and, while preserving our
temper to the utmost, we shall in
sist that we have the right to
know it. The Star says:
president Dole's visit will
show what kind of man his
party chose to set at the head of
affairs in the present crisis. His
dignity, his wide knowledge of
men and affairs, not only on the
Islands, but elsewhere, his Judi.
cial mind, in fact the many attri.
butes which have made him a sat-
isfactory President here, cannot
fail to have an influence even in
Unconditional Washington"
The central idea of the Star
seems to be that when the United
States Senate sees our Presi
dent it will lay aside all
questions of policy; cut off
all enquiry into facts; stop
discussion and forthwith annex
the islands. AS to the Presidents
dignity | am inclined to think
that most people in the United
States will regard it as Of very
cheap and ansient quality and
that they will feel that he sur
rendered it in accepting the mis-
sion to Washington. His wide
knowledge Of men and affairs,
comprehensive though it he, will
not add to our strength at Wash
ington, rs we have on the field
Mr.. Lorrin Andrews Thurston
who is, if not the real, the puta.
tive father of the present annexa-
ton movement, and who Is prob
ably better posted on Hawaiian
matters and has "wider knowl.
edge of men and affairs not only
on the islands but elsewhere"
than even the President of this
Republic. President Dole's trip to
Washington may prove to be a
wise move. We all sincerely
trust that it may. Until then,
however, many of us will feel that
there is a great element of risk in
it, which should not have been in
Cured. 1t is absolutely without
a parallel in history, except per
baps in the case of the ancient
Britons who "sent their groans to
the Romans" This particular
question l do not intend to argue.
The affirmative has not yet been
heard from. So far it is simply a
question of bold affirmation by
the Star met with flat denial by
myself and others. One side is
as good as the other, neither pre-
senting reason for the faith that
is in him. / did intend to write
for-I do write for fair play, for
federation, for calmness and dig
nifty in the discussion of public
questions. Intolerance is worse
than royalty: it is without
a head and without a heart.
Men will not permit even the
Star to lace their bowels about
their necks for differing with it;
nor will they permit the Star by
threats of abuse to fill the land
with intellectual prostitutes. The
dangerous men in community
are not those who have and fear
lessly and freely speak their
opinions; but they are those her,
maphroditical individuals who
allow "the powers that be" to
chloroform their opinions and
strangle their conclusions. This
is not the day for thumb screws
Give them to rust or to the museum
BY its Intolerant course just be
gun, the Star promises to become
a power against annexation. |
may be that the hourglass of the
Stars editor "shifts its Tranquil
sands in the unvexed silence of I
Students CELL" and that sucl
environment forbids federation
This is unfortunate. He is a
least ultra. And to be ultra il
going beyond; it is attacking tn,
sceptre in the name of the thron,
and the miire in the name of til,
altar; tits mismanaging the affairil
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