Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-13
ANSWERING A SLUR


undef date of July Z, and signed b.
c. Bolte is the following:
! "Are you a paid pubIieist?
J. Ut so, by whom are you paid and
i for whom DO you shout?
/ Mr.. Bolte's sincere interest in me
and mY affairs is manifest by his
i writing and signing this rather arol
trary and kaiser-like inquiry.
Ia Unlike anonymous communications
the English is good Punctuation and
/ spelling are excellent.
Apparently, Mr.. Bolte has lived III
! America long enough to acquire not
only money but a toleraole use Of
i cur language.
/ 1t is to be regretted that he has
not been equally susceptible in the &C
/ quirement of American patriotism, and
a respect for our government and
Its foundations.
Just why Mr.. Bolte wants this spe-
/ cific information Of me, is perpleN'
ing, and his legal-like pointedness In
/ thus placing me on the witness stanC,
/ makes me feel as il he had trans
cended his rights as a pro-German
citizen of Honolulu.
preserve a faint remembrance OF
having heard of Mr.. Bolte before in
connection with matters neither poll
ticAl nor religious, and, upon refer
ence to my pigeon-holes, / find that
about three years ago he sent me
some literature regarding a local
branch of the German-American ALI
ance.
l think at mat time in answer to
a courteous letter from Mr.. Won
Damn, I expressed myself as to the
need of such an alliance in the United
States, or rather, as to the utter and
absolute uselessness Of such an or
ganization in a country like ours.
Mr.. Bolte, believe, as secretary
of the Honolulu branch of this al
lance, or Independently, has been &C
lively engaged In a pro-German pro-
paganda.
wonder II any inquisitiVe person
has asked him ttfor whom" he shouts!
. Ispresume not, for everybody knows
Hoch der; kaiser Il his, shout.
Now, If Mr.. C. Bolte is a naturalized
American CITIZEN resident here, and
engaged in business under the pro
lection OF the United States govern
ment, he has no business to be any
thing but a loyal American, doing his
BIT by word and deed with the rest
of us, to end this world war.
IL he believes that every patriot
should be materially rewarded for his
patriotism, then he should consider
himself long ago repaid by this gov
eminent for anything he can do to
support it in its hour of trial.
If Mr.. c.. Bolte has made all his
money here, or some of his money,
and otherwise identified himself with
the community, he has no business
to be the kind of an American citizen
he Is; for such Americans at this
time are worse than nothing-they
are menace to the country at large.
Some time ago when the "Adver-
tiser' asked him regarding secret
meetings his society was holding, he
Indignantly replied that his society
has as much right to- hold secret
meetings as the Masonic orders have.
presume that clique OF Ameri-
cans In Germany, holding secret meet.
ings on the eve of the war, could
have satisfied German officials with
such an answer.
Let me say that they would have
had too keen sense of propriety to
meet secretly, or If they had met to-
offer such an answer.
And, later, in defense of some Prus-
sian act, Mr.. G. Bolte in the capacity
of representative of the kaiser in Ha-
wall, wrote a long letter to the edi-
tor of the Star-Bulletin in which he
assumed the role of the attorney for
the prosecution.
Is he a paid Iublicist? And if SC,
by whom is he paid?
And If Mr.. C. Bolte is not an Ameri-
can citizen, but still remains loyal
subject to his imperial master, the
kaiser of Germany: his business so
long as he stays here is-to obey the
law and keep his mouth shut. That's
all. " H.
In neither case is he by law grant
ed or by society privileged the right |
to ask me or other native American |
citizens why we are loyal to our own !
Tag. Coming from an American with |
clear ideas of right and wrong, such |
i question would be an insult.
And the fact that Mr.. Bolte has
made himself conspicuously objection
able to good Americans at this time,
shows that he lacks the essential
quality of good citizenship SO neces-
sary in the makeup of a citizen or /.
A subject of any country righteously :
governed.
It is this lack which has made Ger |
mans impossible colonizers. Mr.. c.
Bolte appears to be the only live-wire
the alliance as it now
stands, with the outside world. He
q its kicking scape-goat.
In view of the money spent by Ger
many for publicity during the early l
part of the war, especially in the
United States. presume it would be
lnfair to expect that Mr.. Bolte could I
,elieve in the possibility of unpaid
oyalty to ones own country, or ever 4
Understand that men might suffer in Il
pecuniary and social way for the
AXE of truth. II
But so it is, even in selfish, greedy,
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Eyes inAamed BY expo
sure to Sun, Dust and Wind