The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-03-10


Islands
HoSoLULU, H l., Jan. 1, 1855.
Dear H.-Pressure OF business has
prevented my sooner answering yours OF
November 9th last, which l received in
due course and from which first learned
Of your removal to Toronto. We have
had what our late Iamented friend Rev
II. W. Beecher would call a h of a
time out here, OF which YOU have I'M
doubtedly learned something from the
newspaper press. 1t is a straight year
now since the Revolutionary "conspir-
acy" commenced, with about a half
dozen men as the nucleus of the cha
} waiian League" The sentiment had
been cultivated" for months previously.
We succeeded, by force of arms, on June
Goth land without actual conflict, but by
a coup in wrestling absolute power from
a King who was more despOtic than the
Gar Of Russia. He was a wild despot
in many ways, and from a certain stand
I point a right good fellow, but absolute
. in the extreme. Almost before things
/ got to working under the new regime,
men OF the Revolutionary party-that
! branch OF it which represents the "mis-
! siOnary" element here, and who, as
/ such, form politico-social family COM
/ pact" and work to the seclusion OF adj
venturers from all preferment''-com-i
menced plotting to butcher those of the !
party whom they deemed adventures"
those very men who really had ac- |
cOmPiished the revolution This was |
the beginning OF conspiracies and coun- |
ter-conspiracies, which were only pre- |
vented from breaking into open conflict |
by the presence OF feet of British and |
American war vessels in the harbor. As |
it was, it came very near ending in a |
coup d'etat by the Kings party, this re-
suit being solely prevented, L think, by
indecision and instability on the part OF
the King himself and his confidential adj
vlsers at the critical moment In fact
We have been on the ragged edge of
political chaos, varying kaIeidoscopicallv,
but all the time existing, till within the
past four or five days We have
SUCCEEDED N FORCING THE RESIGNATION
OF one OF the Cabinet Ministers who de-
vel0ped into traitor to those who put
him there, and this was the beginning
Of a regular trouble from threatening
positions by the King and his subalterns
opposed to the people-laws which the
Legislature had passed by an almost
unanimous vote, and which had been
vetoed by him against the advice OF the
Cabinet, in direct conflict with the new
constitution, which provided that no act
OF his was effective unless performed by
and with their advice and consent;
coupled with his refusal to sign commits
slons OF most important officials whom
the Cabinet had seen fit to appoint:
with acts Of similar revolutionary ten
dency on the part of the King-have
combined to make the then existing
state most pernicious and the future
most threatening. But the present
change shifts things into the position
they should have occupied after July
9TH (the date Of the signing of the new
constitution land the days of absolutism
are surely ended, as are also, think,
those of missionary" supremacy in the
political management of Hawaiian af-
fairs; those very good but impractical
people Speaking from a political stand
point being now in fair shape to be
RELOCATED to the running of churches and
the gathering of coin by sharp bargains
with the natives, occupations which they
are more fitted for than the conduct of
public affairs.
OF the country generally so very little
can be said in the limits of letter that
VIII not attempt it except to say that
the climate is claimed to be the most t
equable in the world. The islands are {
In the trend of the northeast Grades" t
which blow with little or no interruption
and moderate velocity during the spring,
summer and autumn months. At anv S
given point the mercury varies but a
very few degrees from years end to
years end. The winter season is for
some reasons the most pleasant, though
sometimes very wet. But two out of the
three winters l have spent here have
been for the most part a prolonged
of our Canadian Indian sum- E
that the night and dav (
temperature is much more even, but l
with the same hazy atmosphere, de-
licious, sweet air and cIoudless sky. We V
have eternal spring or autumn, which Y
you please. One may see the fruits of q
the tropics at any day in the year, in
any and all stages of development, on
the same tree. Flowers bloom perpet-
lally. Some, indeed many, of the larg-
est varieties of trees are Towering trees. :
snnefhinn nnu..r GO NJ ali oor,.:,. L.