Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 43, 7 November 1893 — A TRAITOR. [ARTICLE]

A TRAITOR.

For tbe special benefit of the Patriotic Leange, we repro«luce the following item whieh appeareil in the Aieie I ork Sun on the 18th of October. “Wo have been permitted to read a letter from Hawaii sent to a gentlemau of this city by a leading Hawaiian po1it i e i a n who until recently was an opponent of aunexation and a supporter of the ex-Quecn. and whose pictnre has been printed in the HenilA as that of a determined anti-annexatinnist. This patriotic native of Hawaii, in his letter to his correspondent *in New York, writes thu«: “Wo Hawaiiana are anxious to know what our destiny is to be, and what is Cleveland’s policy, so far as we are concerned. I was not at first in favor of aunexation, whieh, as I am pleased to know, is advocated in Aroerica by The Sun; but, after due eonsideration, I have eome to the conclusion that annexation. pure ar,d simple. is the only salvation for our Hawaii. I am now. therefore, a rank annexationist. This correspondent. as we learn, is not the only Hawaiian of importance who, after seeing his pictnre in the Herald, has changnd his views on the subject of annexation. He is a man of large inAuenee. We regret to say that we eannot give him the information whieh he desires concerning “President CIeveland’s policy" in the case of Hawaii. We should like to be able to offer the assnrance that this policy ! will be that whieh, as the Hawai- | ian writer says, holds ont the only hope for the salvation of Hawaii. Bnt we ean only say to him, in the plaintive old Ungnage of his native countn“Aloha nui loa.” ;