Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 259, 14 August 1891 — The Reason Why? [ARTICLE]

The Reason Why?

That if _tlse memory is £oad, she to }>e pitied, as slie must ft?ei an oecasipnal q\ialm of co»seience. whon her proaiises to her own native people reeOr to.her. $he having at*.Qd t!ie vQry of those i>roinise? 81)e professed tochen®h the people's cjkuse, and lonjjed for and honest govern-

ment, but now, after navingsecured hergelf in a tben dpubtful position through the supp«rt of her native pubjects against the disafFection and dissatisfaction of the foreign element, she now turns her back coldly on the and plays into the hands of the most dangerous and unscrupulous of the elements whieh' compose her sub-jects,-the m?ssionary sugar kings— the very parties who were the| leaclers against royaltv onee before. j | These acts have bēen the ,eause of j ?the lukewarmness of the llawai 1 ians toward their Queen, and we. cannot in any SftnH.\l>i;tme thoni. This treatment has built np a re-! puhliean feeling in the co'.intry j Hawaiia:ns, whieh ean i by asking the! thinking men among them. ,Naturally they are royalists, bat the deception and the unjust treat.aent they have been subjected to and jencouraged by the Queen and her government has lessened the lia- | waiians esteem for monarchy as it | now exists.