The Daily bulletin., 1889-11-30

Gov. kckuanaoa, Rev. William |
Richards, Hon. Timoteo lIaalilio,
Sir George Simpson, Capt Brewer,
and other staunch friends Of the
Hawaiian Government in il, days Of
trouble; all are gone. Aud though
several of them could have told YOU
the story which You wish to hear,
better than | can, their lips are
dumb, and ! cannot therefore re-
fuse your request, that | should tell
you the simple story Of your coun-
try's great peril, and her fortunate
escape, which forty-siX years ago for
time swept the nation out of exist
ence.
Before enter upon this pleasant
task, however, must bc allowed to
express my personal qualification at
once more finding myself on Ha-
waiian soil, after an absence of
thidy.oue years. Here where twenty
years of my early manhood were
passed, where | found the health of
which | came in search, where | en-
ioyed the charms of this perfect eli.
mate. which well deserves its title
of the paradise of the Pacific" and
the protection of its mild govern.
ment, then just emerging from bar.
barism and rapidly adopting the
methods of civilization. | thank
God that am privileged to be with
YOU once more, and to see with my
own eyes. the wonderful progress
and prosperity Of the group, OF
which the evidences are on every
hand. Long may that beautiful
national standard of Hawaii continue
to float over an Independent nation
whose life, as its motto declares, is
preserved by righteousness.
The year 1913 which dawned up
on Hawaii, found her prosperous
Kingdom, isolated from the rest of
the world, with which communica-
zion was only had at uncertain and
distant periods. No steamers had
then found their way into the Pac-
tic. No railway had opened route
across the isthmus of Panama, much
less across the United States. The
King and chiefs had voluntarily
given up the despotic power, which
they had hitherto welded, had
given to the people q Constitution
and code of laws which protected
them in their rights. and the nation
was making rapid progress in civil
ization and gaining the confidence
of the then small foreign commun-
ity.
But the Government, even then,
had its trials and its dangers. Re
presentatives of foreign powers were
scheming to promote the interests
of their governments and their own
interests and secure a preponderat-
ing influence over, if not the entire
control or suhversion Of, the Ha-
waiian Government. 1t is not my
province to-day to speak in detail of
those Vaccinations and demands by
which the Government was continu-
ally harassed and its progress lin
dered. But in order TO free itself
from these embarrassments, the King
in 1912, by the advice of an intelli-
gent and friendly British nobleman
sir George Simpson, Governor OF
the Hudson Bay Company, who had
taken great interest in the progress
of the Kingdom towards civilization,
sent commission TO England and
France for the purpose of securing
from those great Naval Powers, a
formal acknowledgment of Hawaiian
independence. This commission
consisted of Rev. William Richards,
formerly a missionary of the Amcri-
can Board, Hon. Timotco Ilaalilio,
chief. and personal friend of the
King, and Sir George Simpson him
self, whose knowledge, standing,
and experience were of great value
TO these inexperienced diplomatists
These faithful ministers of the
King entered at once on their i'm
portant embassy, were favorably re,
ceived by France and England, anC
were making satisfactory progrcs:
in their mission. little dreaming OF
the gunpowder plot that was being
hatched at home in their absence
with the design OF. blowing their ma
lion out Of existence.
Alexander Simpson Ga nephew o
the good Sir George Simpson, wh'
had been in the employ of the Hind
son Bay Company, came to Homo
lulu, and being an able, IN
scrupulous, and scheming man, sc
10 work at once 10 circumveRt In
good intentions of his uncle (whon
he did not love overmuch) and bet
ter his own fortunes, by adding an
other station for the British drum
beat, which as the American states
man, Webster, sad, eneircled tn
globe, keeping company with tn
hours, etc. For time his scheme
seemed to have succeeded. lie per
suadcd the British Consul to leav
for England with a budget of com
plants against the Hawaiian Coy
ernment which had no real founda
ton, but which he thought Nigh
serve at least to delay Great Brit
aims acknowledgment of llawaiia
Independence until he, Simpson
whom the British Consul had ap
pointed his deputy during his all