Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume VIII, Number 26, 25 December 1886 — Mispresentation of Hawaii. [ARTICLE]

Mispresentation of Hawaii.

Whea » [>oor lellow abufieB s rich fdliovr i there tnav b® oomo •xcua» in iuo ueedy c«udition of tho poor #ne t ibnt when the gr®at tm<f the īieh elan4er the little an<l 4he pojir, thero is uo eawuae, and when thoee who are writerts aud mouthpiec«s for Engli«li o* American thought, and for Engiish fto< L people, wheu they ymty littje Hawaii, it īa cowardly; The newBpaj»ers in Engīi«h Rnd Ara«rican interest in thiB eity„ and «ome uewspupera of Ban Pninuiāeo and other plaeea iu Awerioa, are sayiiig a great mauy Uiiugs about Hawmi, her her people, and her gov«rn|t»ent that are not true, llawanaw feei the fal§|ty of the BtatementB and f egr*t that p«opte of great nationa »faould tAke pleaaare inbelyiog a little mt>; The lles about the King are foolish, the liea about tha governmeut are net eupported by the state of affaire, for instance, if the King w#re the bad debauched ma» that he is repr®seoted to b® by these writers, he would not fee, and he could oot be, the yōung, htarty, vigoroua, h«althy mnn that lie ig now at fifty yeara of age, hie presence givee the lie at onee to all aueh vilification, aud &s for the King'a Qovernmeut, whieh said to bc corrupt and incapable, all the factB are against aueh a siaoder." nation is mcreasing in people, in production, and in tho r®apeet of foreign stetes ia centinualiy naanifested in many ways, and peaee and. presperity provail throughout the land. *