Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 181, 28 ʻApelila 1891 — THE FERMENT OF DISCONTENT. [ARTICLE]

THE FERMENT OF DISCONTENT.

The, trail of the sycophant and ! toad-eater is everywhere, and an pnlimit?d capacity for swalkvring his own paet asßextions is the chief essentiaj of an editor-in-chief (savē the mark). Time was when the Bulletin essayist on ,4caterwa«line" waa a yery lively s«rt of politieal flea. lndeed, writing aa we do with some of his p£st editorial productions before us, he appears to be —what in all probabilitv he cver was--possess<»d of a» unhappy ineapac}ty for adhering to a»y principle that did, <not admit of some such coutortion as would illustrate the hihemieia» of 4 * a ma« turmiig his back on himeeU." A fiew quotations frora a weekly, when controiled by tfee prese.ni editor of the Bnlletin, would aptlv illustrate this too wellknown fact.

We are not disposerl to notice the c*ntetßi>table inuendoes of the Bulletin tbat our ceurse is one of "blacfemailing attantions to ller Majesty's Ministers," beyond stat-, ing as a Journal, we art' not kept afl»at by government pap ; neither are we after the fat ad. of any eoniuierce whieh would put a muzzl* on the free expression of our eonvictions. īf we were disposed td boast of ©ur repre«entative < i .harac : ter, we could say, that we exist by virtue of the support of the niekelē •f the multitude, and we are satisfied with th« re»ulfc; and we ean further say f that the Bulletin, whiltj it remains before the public as the expon«nt of n©thing, and only gnarls out juTenilt esaays on ' 4 catB and monkeys," will have to dip into the government bin quite freely for its corn. But the sweet kemel of public approval, and as the regult, the support of the penple, ia the nut we enjoy. We notice that the Bulletin hae removed the statem«nt whieh for»erly appeared well and truly spread in type, that it was the "workingman'B paper." We admire a wolf none the less for having cast off the sheepskin. /