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

"Are you a paid publieist?
"If 90, by whom are you PAID ana
for when DO you shout?
Mr. Bottles sincere interest in me
and NV affairs is manifest by his
writing and signing this rather aroi'
trary and kaiser-like inquiry.
Unlike anonymous communlcauons'
the English Is good. Punctuation ana
spelling are excellent.
Apparently, Mr.. Bolte has lived III
America long enough to acquire not
only money but a tolerable use OF
cur language. I
It is TO be regretted. that he has
not been equally susceptible In the &C.
Iouirement of American patriotism, and
az respect for our government anu
| its foundations. - 49,.
Just why Mr.. Bolte wants this spe-
cific information of me, is perpleA'
ing. and his legal-like pointedness In
/ thus placing me on the witness stanci
makes me feel as If he had trans
cended his rights as pro-German
citizen of Honolulu. i.
I preserve a faint remembrance OF
having heard Of Mr.. Bolte before in
connection with matters neither pom
teal nor religious, and, upon refer.
ence to my pigeon-holes, ! find thai
about three years ago he sent me
some literature regarding q local
branch OF the German-American ALI
ance. =. ~ 49,. i
I think aI mat time In answer to
20 courteous letter from Mr.. Won
Damn, expressed myself as to the
need Of such an alliance In the United
States, or rather, as to the utter ana
absolute uselessness OF such an or
eanization IN q country like ours.
Mr.. Bolte, / believe, as secretary
Of the Honolulu branch Of this al
lance, Or Independently. has been &C
lively engaged In q pro-German pro-
paganda. -
I wonder If any inquisitive person
has asked him 'tfor whom" he shouts!
I presume not, for everybody knows
Hoch der kaiser h his shout.
Now, If Mr.. C. Bolte Is a naturalfzed
American citizen, resident here, ana
engaged in business under the pro.
tection I 81 4lie United States govern
ment. he has no business to be any.
thing but q loyal American, doing his
hit by word and deed with the rest
of us, to end this world war.
II he believes that every patriot
should be materially rewarded for his
patriotism, then he should consider
himself long ago repaid by this gov
ernment for anything he can do to
support It In its hour of trial.
If Mr.. C. Bolte has made all his
. 4. of hid TnnnQV
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 TINS
time are worse than nothing-they
are a menace to the country at large.
Some time ago when the "Adver-
User asked him regarding secret
meetings his society was holding, he
Indignantly replied that his society
has az much right to hold secret
meetings as the Masonic orders have.
/ presume that a clique Of Amerf
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 q sense of propriety to
meet secretly, or il they had met to
offer such an answer. 1872.
And, later, In defense of some Prus-
sian act, Mr.. C. Bottle In the capacity
of representative Of the kaiser in Ha-
wall, wrote long letter to the edi-
tor of the Star-Bulletin in which he
assumed the role Of the attorney for
the prosecution.
is he paid publicist? And If SC,
by whom is he paid?
And IL Mr.. c. Bolte is not an Ameri-
can citizen, but still remains a loyal
subject to his imperial master, the
kaiser Of Germany, his business 50
long as he stays here is-to obey the
law and keep his mouth shut. That's
all. 50 ss.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
flag. Coming from an American with
clear ideas of right and wrong, such
a 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 citizen or
a subject of any country righteously
governed. "
II is this lack which has made Ger
mans impossible co1oniZers. Mr.. C..
Bolte appears to be the only hve-wire
connecting the alliance as it now
stands, with the outside world. He
ia its kicking scape-goat.
In view of the money spent by Ger
many for publicity during the early
part of the war, especially in the
United States. l presume it would be
unfair to expect that Mr. Bolte could
believe In the possibility Of unpaid
loyalty to ones own country, or ever
understand that men might suffer in
a pecuniary and social way for the
sake Of truth.
Rut an II il. even in selfish. greedy.