Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 84, 27 Kekemapa 1893 — At Last the Truth. [ARTICLE]

At Last the Truth.

At any time siuce Murch one might ask au\’ leadiug royalist. “Ouwhatdoyou base your expectation of the Queen's restoration?”’ and the invariuble answer would be. “Ou the justice of tbe United Stutes!” “But how ean yon feel sure of tbeir venlict that any injustice has beeu doue/ When the case comes to be tried aud argued perhaps you will lose j it;the uncertainties of the law are great.” “No, we shall not lose our case, it is clear aud ceftain that the United Sbites will redress the wroug.” The sublime but *ridicnIous faith heeame monotonous.» Ridicule expended itself thereon in vain. From tbe middle of March to the end of November the one unehanging refrain wus chanted. Conceive onr stui>efaction when we poor, deluded Araericans discovered that our deridyd BoyaIist friends were exactlv rigbt. They were not foo!ing. They were not tn ing to blind us nor to lay as’eep oar fears of their own conspiracies and machinations, a£ we had, in a way, so often fancied. They had boen simp!y and qoietly telling us the precise trutb.. without distortion or exaggreration. If there was anv art in it, it waa that of tho emineni diplomat who was in the habit of throwing his competitois oli' from his track bv the neat device of stating to tbem tbe simple truth. Yes, it was the tmth.— Hono~ lulu anrrespondetwe tn 5. F. CkronkU, Dec. Ulk. , i