Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 439, 23 April 1892 — Ourselves. [ARTICLE]

Ourselves.

It will be * »urpri«e to some of our friendg to read our annouoeeB)ent th«t with this iaeoe, our Snglish will eewe. For eome time "paet oor native readera have feit the kes of the page whieh hae been abetracted firom them and we know that Engliah is as daad a langaage asGreek, to foor»fifU»s of our Hawaiian sulieoribers, the dictnm of the Ss(Hrme Court ia a recent ease to tbe contrary noiwiihetanding. Whileihankmgotir Engiish reading friends for their support, and appreciation sooften kindljf expre«eēd, we are forced by cfareamstanoes to devote ourselves to tbe original and main supportert of Ka Leo. - \Ve have endeavored with such slender means as we could eoinmand to voice the Democracy, and ! we shall still eoniinue to do it in ' Hawaiian. We would sooner go out of tbe newspaper bosiness than "sel> out M ourssWss or our pnneiplee to a selfsasking syndioate, and such has been tbe fate of every domocratic newspaper started in Honoluln. We have never trimmedour sails to e&tdk %he freeh breeses of govenun«it advertising although we cmamaad a wider eircle of resders ihan any other paper in Honolalu. IPeie&e fiim the English-paper of the conflk>t conscious of the factthatwe have etood manfully toourpoot. There is ptrhaps no plaee of eqaal sis6 in Christendom where the press Cerberu* is so well muzsled as in Honolulu, and our conctoaenees of tbis foct half tempts us to blend our Adien witdi Au revoir. !