Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 282, 17 September 1891 — "KA LEO" ABROAD. [ARTICLE]

"KA LEO" ABROAD.

Some days ago 2 Jhe Advertiser made the following allusion to Ka Leo u although it is not widely known, yet there is a sheet in this city, whieh day by day rants about slaveB, slave-owners, drivers, whips, j ehaine, starvations etc. By eome ehanee this might be read abroad | and eveiv Thus, tlie ife $ke'4dtoertim % •»' • ••• . . . ... ■. _.■., ■ .1 ißgly t yet more cotyrteous. andn^ore journali*t*]lke than the Buūetvn "ffcribblerfl," wae eo«Birained to «d--ttit the existenqe of £a Leo; "although not wiiely known^and expressed fear ef its being read abroad. By a singular irony of fate, it only to?k a few days fbr ttie 3serehani Street daily to find out, — not c»nly that the Lēo does go abroad } — but that ü by some ehanee" it is reeeived and even quotea as an authority by the leading iiolitician of the Advertiser y s Party, when it serves his pnrposes or ean be used to furtherhis party's ende. We do take good care that Ka Leo sliould go abroad» to let the Yank3e helpers and sympathizers of our designing reform naen know | the t]-uth about things here and we ihnnk Mr. Thurston for his doI ing hiā best to have us <4 believed" abroad. Yet we eannoi help eommenting on the contrasts and eontradid;ions of that party's conduct to us. Abroad. we are held a sahelping authority, even on tliingsi we have never said. Here we are per??ecuted and prosecuted by the same partv in the most unfair and unmeiciless manner, and ifKA Leo has not long since been crushed, it is not the fault of the Reform Party, who are sensitive 011 questions bearipg on slavery, while we are the $laves' organ and advocata But, as there seems lo be a lato. tendency in th% to make aniends fbr the past a busea againat Ka Leo aod

even to conur with tis on many point of jc>ublie interest, we shall meet that newspaper ,with- true christian sp : irit and charity, and hope to discuss our political difterences as becomes gentlemen.