The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-08-05

mark. That's where the rub comes,
and where President Dole, whom we
are willing to allow acted on the best
of personal motives, made a garing
political error which his supporters
cannot overlook and which thoee OPP
posed to him cannot be expected to
overlook"
1t was not until we read the fore
going words, that we had heard 1t
suggested or intimated since the gift
was made, that the taking OF the
thing into his own hands" "and plac-
ing the niggerly sum Of $500, as the
cash value" of Hawaiian sympathy,
was the cause of so much criticism, and
had convicted Mr.. Dole OF "a glaring
political error which his supporters
cannot overlook"
There is really something funny"
about this view of the case.
Neither in the Press, or in the Leg
islature was word said about the
niggardly amount. or the failure OF Mr..
Dole to consult the people. There were
members of the Legislature quite
ready enough TO make the charge ex-
pressed in the Bulletin, IL there was
anything in 1t. II there was really a
heartfelt wish of the people to do more
for the fund than Mr.. Dole had done,
they were not precluded then, or even
now from doing 1t. subscriptions to
the fund will be gladly received.
We suspect that tender sentiments
about the niggardly OF the amount
sent, and Indignation at the failure to
consult the people had very little TO do
with IL. and for this reason;
President Mckinley had fervently
appealed to the American public be-
fore this time in a touching address,
asking aid to relieve the starvation,
and suffering in Cuba. The response
throughout America was quick. TINS
appeal was published here, and the
Advertiser twice called public atten-
ton to IT. Now. If there was a spot
on earth that had received vast ana
direct personal benefit from the insur-
rectiOn in Cuba, it was the sugar in
terests OF these Islands. The direct
benefit ran up into the millions. No
public response was ever made to Pre-
sident McKinley's call. When he
passed around the hat the supper
tiers OF Mr.. Dole, and others, looked
up at the ceiling or dropped in brass
button. The sum of $4,000, was raised
here on sight for the generous, appro-
pirate and patriotic entertainment OF
the boys in blue. But for the cause
Of humanity itself in which the boys in
blue were enlisted. the awful. heart
rending suiferings of the Cubans'
which had aroused all America, as
well as the President OF the Ameri- |
cans. no one here lifted his finger in
a public way. And, today, so far as
tne community Has d'tcu' 'h'io "'S
not been sent from this place to Cuba,
the price Of a cup of milk to moisten
the lips of a Cuban babe, dying for
want of nourishment in its mothers
arms in the open field. 1t Is these
Cubans. living skeletons at this
hour. and while we write. that have
rolled up the dividends of the sugar
plantations.
From this painful aspect of the case,
we decidedly infer that the Bulletin Is
in grave error, when it expresses the
opinion that Ut was the "niggerly
amo' mt" IN | the failure to consult the
people, that occasioned the criticism
we have alluded to. II its opinion Is
correct how can the failure OF most
generous and hospitable community to
respond to President MCI<inley's APP
peal he accounted for?
1t looks TO us as II some of Presi-
dent Dolc's supporters" are like Ma
poleon who said to Fouche, his Min
ister of Police, charge that man with
a crime ana then take him out and
shoot him for it,