The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-05

The little Hawaiian Kinisom wos gor,5od
by kamchameha the Firsta That warlike
savage, club IN hand, conquered or killed
all The Other sayages upon the Islands. Tho
dynasty thus founded expired with KANE.
hameha the Filth, whose SUCCESSOR Lima
lilo of drunken memory, was elected by the
Legislature. Prior 10 that time the crown
was disposed of by the rcigning sovere;g.
naming his successor. Lunalillo rciy,ed
less tnan year, and was succeeded bv
David kalakaua, the present King; but. 40
unpopular was David with tho Hawaiians
that when 1t became known that the Plant.
ers Legislature or the legislature inf,p.
enced by 'hcplantcrs,had chosen him kim.
riot onsned in Honolulu which lasted
several days aud in which several persons
Perishcd His ncwly-made Majesty fed for
protection TO the representatives of foreign
governments, and they caused the marines
orthc United States aud England to he
marched on shore !or The purpose o. restor.
ing order.
I King David !, NOT royal. nor even p,,ye
! Hawaiian blood ami therefore tbo N, ,C,os
have never taken kindly Ia him. ~ 10 ba
understands perfectly himself a..d Il "
! known IN the court clrclrn Of IInnol,In
that considerable portion of his
revenue, which, under the treaty
amounts 10 $4,000 q year. ~
secretly disburscd among tho most turin.
ieht @, ms SUBJECTS for the purpose of plaza
ting them. lie also maintains. M ,bn ~"
pense ofthe little kingdom, n INDY .ri,sr,,
which he calls the Royal Hawaiian Army
of some eighty men, who live In barr,cis
ana nre uniformed in the fashion of the
Prussian Guards. With these applinuccs
backed up by the presence of one mr. tvsn
ureign shlps-Ol-war, his Majesty maneoe,
10 keep his plc-bald subjects I'M order snd
himself upon th throne. ii costs norn than
n million dollars year to maintain this
miniature Kingdom, with It's "ciyp
iist ana is "Privy Counciln--onr
OF Wnoin, A. fonR, Is Chinaman-its
NhainOerlnins' AMI ilsothcr humbuggcry
upon its royal legs, and all TO goyern INV
thousand rather unhealthy pcoplo and s cw
iOrcc labor contraCtsn for the nIor,.r'
/ The latter s the chief function az presen,
but nobody would seriously object To This
| nuppet SHOW, With its petty King-srdlna.
! rllN they would be laughed at---wcro II no,
lof the circumstance that the latter Is made
to masquerade around the world far m,
purpose 81 Keeping alive the sham known
ns the Reciprocity Treaty, because n lew
persons nFc making enormous sums of
money out oft at the expense of Tho pco.
pie OF this coast, Viewed from any min.
one chooses Il will be found that the consc.
Iucnces resulting from the present connee.
llon between thus country and the Islands
nre all highly immoral In England, mar.
ties 10 sucil an arrangement as has been
been formed IN this city, under the treaty.
would be indicted and prosecuted for CON
spiracy against the public interests. whilst
upon the Islands IL has produced n sy.trm
OF slavery that must be abhorrrnt In nil
mankind. And to these evils miyht h.
added still another and darker one Tho
prosperity born oi the treaty and thc
most barciaced lcentiou.nsss seem
to 20 hand In hand. ANY ono M ain
conversant with what Is going on n, Inc Ia
lands knows perfectly well that the palace
yard IN Honolulu In a soft of harem of ihe
dirtiett character, In which the relations arc
mixed up In what may be termed ronfrsion
worse conio,unded. And have we not seen
this dusky King paraded nj our own State
capital only few months ago, when, Il "
said, all OF its resources, including illicit
pleasures, were placed at his Naiesty's lis
position, and the men who thus paf,der 10
his pleasures. because they find profit IN Il.
aud who call themselves American ci,irons
are, u seems, willing to foreeo that citizen
ship for such humbug az q title of mobility
conferred upon them by this dissolu;c kina
-tkan EIantissp Cbfoniclc