Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 340, 8 December 1891 — Complacency. [ARTICLE]

Complacency.

The Advertiser is makiōg quite a splurge* and is full of eomplacent self ?audationg, Its editors evidently aspire to be the !eading journalists of th« kiugdom. l>ut it. is equally evi<lent that Uu* jK«wer 'is not īn them. Boine afits . M.e editorials have bcen excellent. b*it m trred by n©(Hlless pf:rsonnl ab\ise.

that resembles the peculiar journalism of some noted California papers. But we do expect for a momeant that this critique will disturb their complacency. No, they are of the wealthy 500 who will believe that they have established themselves as a seclusive political sect outside of which there can be nothing good: The editorial assault on the martial was well timed, though it is spiteful, rather then dignified. But why was the marshal

attacked alone, and the Attorney General screei\ed: one belongs to the 500, the other don't. Is this impartial journalism ? And why this sudden freak of virtue since certain proteges of the 500 have been guilty of worse boodling than the marshal. And how are the puhlie benefitted edified by the gratification of the personal spite of the editor of the Advertiser in his parade of the "Poliee Newe" aec®uiit of Dr. Hammond. That kind of personal black guardism is better

let alone in Honolulu for we are a city of numerous social glass houses and if the stones begin to fly, there would be a ghoulish rattling of glass all over the city. We could tell tales, and prove them too, that would create consternation among the select, from their ragged outside edge to their inner sanctum sanctorums. But we are taught to have faith, hope and charity for the weaknesa of our fellow men • we are told that the greatest of these is charitv.

In its issue of the 2nd inst., the Advertiser affects a superiority of advice to voters, and intimates that the opinions and intentions of Ka Leo and its supporters will sink Hawaii into oblivion and drive every industry to the wall. It <illegible> a complacent conceit of this designgenerous sheet that they, and they only are the oracles that are to be believed. They hur back at us the charge we have been making against them, and we hurl it back, and reiterate that the Advertiser and its crowd, be they 500, more or less have not shown themselves fit to lead in political affairs, and the attitude they have assumed, affords grave doubts as to the integritv of their purpose. The missionary reform party wlhom they represent are mistrusted. (To be Continued).