Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 285, 22 September 1891 — "We are not Careful to Answer thee in this Matter." [ARTICLE]

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"We are not Careful to Answer thee in this Matter."

j "There i- a point," says yester|dav"s I'. C. Atlvcfti&er, when "for|bearance ceases to be a virjtue>?' | That point the Hawaiians have ī reached; and. have started to reali ]ze and apprec*iate and Ka Leo is ' thcir exponent. The systematic |robbery that has l>een prācticed ! upon thc Hawaiian people has !caused their :, forbearanoe" to [ long ago, and the sharpers who have been robbing them un . der disguise of teachers of religion, | and who are now. prating about | and forbearance," would |do well to study the matter, and Jlet the motlev sugar reform |crbwd see if a little eommon sense iand self-respect would not teach ] . . ■ W . -■■■■.:>■ ■ :.''■ them ar;d their Gristian professors to be circumspect in their language towards those whom they have fleeced of nearlv everything they had. j\ Ye hellish crew, how mueh more tvirtue 5 ' and *'forbearance" would w)u show the Queen, after that wntch you showed towards King Kalakaua and his people, who saved you from going back to your old occupation of begging contributio£is fbr yoūr support ? Ye prate about the Queen; what mercy would you have for her anv more than vou had fer her brother, who obtained for !vou favors from the United States, I whieh have made you rich and arrogant instead pi-tlie beggarly syoophants that your erowd would have been reduced to through bankruptcy and inabilitv to otherwise eam a living than by and through the Hawaiian King and V his*people? Yes, :t is time that forbe«rance should u cease to be a virtue" and every Hawaiian, whose soul has not been tampered with - hypocrisy until dead to all sense of honor and self-respect, should uniteand answer the hydra-headed beast who flaunts about the streets of Honolulu in hi9 carriage with his famiiy, with his Asiatic sluve as driver, and who like his counter-part the bloated phafisee, who says, itis timethaiso mueh wickednoss as Ka Leo shonld not be tolerated. Ka Leo has only one replv to make to the traitors to King Kalakaua, and to their sneaking implied threat ;' "We nre not careful to ans\ver in this mattcr."

That tke iJtandard height for future Polioemen wiilbe six-foot-*two an<J all their fat. Tlxat Hon. and Mrs. C. B. Wilson will live at tho Bungalow in&i<ie the palaeo yard ; in the near futqre.