The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-29
FROM THE CALLED JADE.

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The following letter, which differs
from most of the communications we
have had from Independent party lead
ers in that some of it's sentences will
parse, is given the same prominence
that was granted the article of which
it complains:
Editor Advertiser: Under headlines,
Politics and Prosperity" of yesterdays
issue, you once more abused the privilege
of an editor by misstating the attitude of
the Independent party, and repeating in
Situations of a character rejecting on the
integrity and honor of our party leaders
1 advise you to desist from such publica-
tions in future or you may be called on
to prove the same in a court of justice.
! Further, you reflect on the platform of
our party, as passed on June of this
year, making criticism of same, especially
the portion relating to remuneration to
those who suffered reverses during the
troubles of 1895. Why criticize these prop
ositions of nearly four months ago-when
the Evening Bulletin, an acknowledged
Champion of Republican principles, has
the following, among other things, to say
regarding the platform of your party,
just passed in conventions: The issue
OF the local campaign will be protection
OF the suffrage, establishment of munich
pal government, payment of the damages
suffered through the destruction of Chi
Enatown, and liberal provisions for the ex-
Queen and those who suffered with her
by virtue of the political upheavals thai
have taken place in recent years. On all
the points the party takes a progressive
ard straightforward stand. 1t demands
the protection of the present liberal suf-
lfrage; it declares in favor of county and
municipal government; it's favors the pay
ment of just claims growing out of the
chinatown destruction and advocates
liberal appropriation for the Queen"
offer no criticism of this-simply ask
you to publish it and then turn and clean
cut your own nest before attempting To
befoul that OF others.
Poverty is no crime
Push mears our success.
Patriotism is our bend.
Three p. p. p.
That will pull us through the present
tcampaign and give victory to the cause
of right and justice, as espoused by the
independents.
= Our motives are lofty; our purses slim;
but all the "cold business that you can
las. ess your adherents for will never
. break the chain that binds us to our pur-
pose.
In God we trI:st
ia mau Ike ca 0 ka Alma i ka pono."
Respectfully, yours for truth.
DAVID KEOLA.
, There is nothing in the editorial on
Politics and Prosperity" to be taken
back; there is nothing said about the
designs of the Independent leaders
which has not come to us in well-au-
> thenticated form from the inner coun-
, ellis of their party. AS for being called
to account in court of justice for the
I information we have given and the de-
: ductions we have made, the threat is
a so puerile and so inspired by fear that
q the Advertiser may tell the whole
h truth about the hungry and thirst,
a crowd which is seeking a chance t.
plumber Hawaii, that the proper an
swer to it is laugh.
9 Our correspondent heads his lette
: with the phrase BE Consistent" ano
:, proceeds to contrast the Advertiser
!, warning about the Wilcox party's dea
= with the Chinese over the fire claim
q with the Bulletins statement that TIL
Republican party favors the paymen
u OF such claims. This journal is no
= aware that difference between its ow1
statements and those of another pape
raises against it the presumption of in
consistency; that discovery is native t
- the astute mind Of Mr. Keola. How
ever, there is vast difference betwee
. the independent idea of paying all tn
CLAIMS out of the Territorial treasur
:. IN return for an accepted bride and TIL
10 Republican idea of getting Congress t
g permit the payment of just claims GU
n of the Federal customs receipts in Ha
"A wall. So far as this latter plan is con
Nv cerned we are in favor of it and shoul
] not object if pretexts could be found
divert the Hawaiian customs receipt
&c into the channels of Hawaiian bushes
o for all time to come.
20 Our correspondent need not hav
dwelt on the lofty virtues of the Inde
pendent leaders The public Nigh
es have been left to discover or remembe
u those virtues for itself. Why paint tn
- lily or gid refined gold? Why try t
n add luster by mere words to the i'm
maculate character of Bob Wilcox
. the man who never broke a moral la
. nor betrayed a principle. Why white
the sanity fame of Kaulia, the ma
who never tried to deceive electors fo
- their votes and to whom red hot stow
: would be no temptation? Why vast
= the treacle of praise upon the othe
% disciples of sweetness and light who al
in the van of Independent politics?
-, seems that our correspondent woul
~ have done far better to let his lido
a. stand without his comment, serene /
:, their own altitude of virtue, maxim
81 their own story of righteous sacrifiC
- for the country's good.
re
The Star thinks there can be nothin
in the idea that Marconi has sold O,
to the telegraph companies becau:
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