The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-20
TaE HAWAIIAN MONARCHY,

At Best Only Vensered BRrbaFiSm- Elk;
Queen LII q Decidedly smooth Article.
Honolulu Correspondence NJ Y, Tribune
Ono OF the foremost men in the
Hawaiian Islands, an archeologlst, has
permitted your correspondent to ex-
anime the manuscript Of a work which
he is preparing on the inner life of the
dead monarchy, 1t contains some SEN
sational disclosures which may be briefly
summarized;
The Hawiian monarch was nothing
moro than q VeneeFed baFbarism, and
the same is true OF the native society
which hourished under it, This fact ls
one OF wide application. 1t describes
the life OF Kalakua, Liliuokalani and
| their courtiers as surely as it does that
OF the island monarchs who preceded
them upon the feathered throne, Re-
garding the late sovereign, David Kala-
kaua, there is Il vast amount Of unwrit-
| ten history and there always will be.
Under his social polish and kindly man
ners was,the soul OF aPolynesian savage.
He was superstitious, sensual, corrupt
and he had a craving, which rarely went
unqualified, for raw fish, gin aud roast
dog. One fact that at such q
feast he would appear in broadcloth
and speak with the accent OF u gen.
tleman, put his innate barbarian into
still holder relief. Much of the secret
data of Kalakaua's life is unreportable
and none OF it can be related In detail.
His taste for the abominatiop' OF the
hula dance was as eager as that OF any
taltooed chief who held the island in
the time OF Cook. Correct in his de.
meanor when among refined people,
welI-dressed, well-groomed, a master Of
languages and u student OF literature,
with the semblance Of good breeding on
his lips and in his daily walk, Kalakaua
deceived half the civilized world. In
the latter days OF his life kalakaua In
dertook the role OF a god among the
brown Hawaiians, and nearly won over
the native clergy to a new church OF
which he was to have constituted him
sell the divine guide and teacher. With
him divinity vas an instrument OF Ii
Cense.
As for L~iliuokalani, she Is such a mis-
tress OF Discrimination that it is not easy
to convince many well-meaning people
that she is not the Christian woman
she has always protested TO be. Tho
church has never gone in vain to her
for pecuniary aid. yet she Is known to
have danced the hula herself and to
have maintained the institution at To-
lani palace. Missionary work has
thrived in the light Of her countenance
and yet her amourl have been and
still are open. fragrant and notorious,
At PRAYER meetings she has been a
pious exhorter, and at the volcano she
made a pagan sacrifice to pr opitiate
the deity OF the burning lake. When
the good women OF Honolulu called on
her in q body to implore her not TO
sign the lottery bill, she shed tears and
begged them to pray that God might
give her strength to do her duty in tho
sight of heaven; and then she signed
the bill.
The rank hypocrisy and half.concealed
paganism Of the house that Kalakaua
founded and Liiiuokalani brought to
grief wa endured year after year by u
white population which sprang from
the missionaries OF the Congregational
church. 1t ia right to say that no town
in the most theocratic corner OF New
England is more religious and moral
than the white quarter OF Honolulu,
1t Is a city OF churches, missions, Young
Mems Christian Associations and relief
societies. Its bars are closed on Sunday
and there are laws against many forms
of dissipation which pass unchallenged
in the United States. Under these con.
ditions it i. easy to see how the public
sentiment might have readily prepared
itself for the revolution which brought
the monarchy to a timely end.
1t may be the fashion. here and there,
to say that the queen has been badly
treated: but the blunt truth about her
Is that she stood for indecency, pagan
ism and commercial distress, and that
she deserved the fate that came to her.