Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 352, 24 December 1891 — Our Position Corroborated. [ARTICLE]

Our Position Corroborated.

The "HoloniHa" a Hawaiian r - wepapop, understood ta be un;i«ir thepatroimgeof J. A. Cummins, and otliers, including Hawaiiana of iiieans, has found out tbat the present oabmet has made cessions of Hiwaiian territory that is inimieal io tiie iodependerice of the country. Th?ā sudden awakening of the editor of the lt Holomua ;r to this startling discoyery has 86mewhat modified his belief that tbe Bu§h-Wil-cox faqtion are the ones who are" ready to cede tbe couritry away at their sweet will and pleasure, but it ie some e!se, so it seems, and that the parties representing the <- niger in tjie fence," include the principal al:>ckholders of the ikHolomua," whom our friend, the editor, has been unwittingly deferiding at the rate of about twenty dollars a \7eek, This idea of selling the coantry is very pointedly stated by Justice McCully, in the followiiag words: "When the present gov-i ernment of Hawaii collapses, the United States, n®t England .or | any power, will assume control. ,fV : at is practically settled by the Ha ioūian Foreign Cffice. y ' Othex Ha•vaiians will probably find out some <!av, whēn they cease to exist as a ition, and those who have money ..nd verv little sen?e, when they have Beeri both fleeced of moaey ;-d national existence, that it would have been more houorable > be trae to countrv and principle f»tead of to vanity and 3elīSsbness. j