Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 173, 16 April 1891 — Bulletin Bile. [ARTICLE]

Bulletin Bile.

Time was when the Honolulu Bulletin was a sparkling newsy paper, into whose pagas _ajaeader might look in the confident expectation of finding matters of loeal interest fairly and iutelligently discussed; but apperentiy, tbat age has pasged, and we are now enjoying an era of editorial bile. —- From a niaii who has gainēd an unenviablē reputation and cot|rt record as a writer of libels, the following in yesterday's Bulletln would be very rich: vv lt is unfortunate for the country at large that we have amongst us those who are at all times willingto misrepresent our actual polUieal conditions and placard personal libels against private or public eitizens who have become, either from the differences in social cas_te or othērwise, the unconcious enemies of the writers of such jo.txr.na,iistic rubbish. Social caste is artificaU to a certain extent, but it is real—very real—as far as the moral and inteliectual phaee governs. As to other reasons. they are generally political, representing the mere ideas and aspirations of individuals who gain eontrdl of a journalistic pen, without representing any considerabl# portion of the electorate." The reference to "social caste" is admirable if the pretty little horQily was written by a man who had to eome to this country in order to get a living, and whose great talents never jerked him any higher than the desk ofa third rate national school teacher, until a generous parent»in-law, put up coins for Bulletin stock. The reference to the "political market" indicates this-—if »nothing more—that there was brains in the question, the conspicuous scarcity of which in the Bulletin man will never get him into any u market" unless somebodv buvs

and stocks a stall for him.— 4 ' These gentlemen have nothing to lose, but having ever\rthing to gain,'* reminds us so forcibly of the fact that we have no reputation to gain by the beautifying daub of legal whitewash. Tbe "social caste ,J must be very ehoiee, indeed it must be "real—very real—as far as the moral and intellectual phase governs," when it is claimed by a man who ie not conspicuous for the clisplay of even average ability in the domain of either journalistic morals or inteilectual grasp. AVeare ofthe "Bush factionwhat factu)n does the Bulietin scribe elaim to belong to ? The working nien/eh ? Well we invite the self asserted ehaia* 5 pion of the * 4 working men's paper" to meet us on the p!atform beiore the puhlie and see who writes the "journalistic rubbish," that the people sneer at, In the meantinie we lnvite the man accused by Mr. Stagj?e of writing for the S. F. Exa!niner the scurrilous and contemptable article whieh sent a tlirill of indignation through the breast of every honest man —native and foreigner-—to clear himself of the charge. The manner in whieh the Bulietin charged an innocent man, and then bmught a on itself; is the talk of Hone : 1 1 and

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