The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-11-17
THE HAWAIIAN ogTaAGE.


President Doie's Cousin Denounces the
Cleveland PoI,cy.
SEATTLE, Nov. is. 1898.
To THE EnIToR: Capt Cook discovered
the Hawaiian islands in ITS, and was
killed and eaten there the following year.
kamehameha l. was an able savage. and
for sixty-fiye years after his death the
throne was occupied by rulers who were
more or less under the infinence of the
better class of whites. Americans and
Europeans were encouraged 10 settle and
TO invest large amounts of capital. Tens of
millions of dollars were Invested in
the sugar business alone. From
1900 to 5000 tons of sugar are
raised annually on the plantation of which
my cousin, George IL. Dole. had charge
and was a part owner for twenty years,
and some of the plantations controlled by
Mr.. Spreckels are still larger. Without
aggression and merely BY the superior
abiiity and enterL rise of civilization, the
whites came TO own most of the property
and to exert powerful influence for uni
versal education and the growth and de-
velopment of free institutions.
In 1874 the direct line Of the Kane
hamehas became extinct. and Kalakaua,
parentage. was elected king by ballot. He
proved 10 be utterly corrupt and, besides
squandering his legitimate income of
about 500. 600 year on his wees con-
nived with his officials 70 rob the public
treasury. If l remember correctly, of
about 500 o,000-an immense sum for so
small kingdom. This led to bioodless
revolution in 1857, by which the king, in
order TO preserve his throne, was COM
pelled to accept constitution largely
modelled upon that of the United States.
The deposed queen, sister of Kalakaua.
has led life so openly shameless that re-
specialize people, as rule, have declined
to take their wives and daughters to re-
ceptions at the palace. About year ago
she attempted 10 abrogate the constitu-
tion which her brother had been forced TO
accept. She undertook to limit the right
of suffrage and of holding office to natives
and the husbands of natives, and TO
make the tenure OF the judges of the
supreme court dependent solely upon
her will. in other words. to make the
law whatever might be most pleasing to
her, and to disfranchise and disqualify for
Office the owners of three-fourths Of the
property in the kingdom, the very people
who had been encouraged to settle there
by her predecessors and who had ac-
quired vested rights under their pro-
lection. The whites had no choice but
revolution or ruin. The result was the
revolution of ten months ago and an APP
peal to the United States for protection.
The London Times, although bitterly
hostile 10 annexation, declared that the
fact that 5. B. Dole was at the head of the
new government was guarantee that the
movement was in the hands of the best
classes and that British investments
would be safe. The result has proved that
the movement was In the hands of the
best classes. Except in leper outbreak,
which exposed the people TO general con-
tagion, not a life has been sacrificed.
Quiet and order have been main
tanned. Corrupt government has
given place 20 honest government, the
public debt has been decreased, the public
revenue has been collected without fric-
ton, and the public treasury Is compare
lively fail. The people OF the Hawaiian
islands had ten times the cause for revo-
luton that our foreiathers had, and with
out bloodshed or disorder they have made
the revolution an unqualified success
President Cleveland sent out a commits
sioner and, il seems. has taken his ex
parte statement that Minister Stevens and
United states marines participated In the
revolution, while. on the other hand, il Is
claimed, and think not denied, that Min
lister Stevens at the time vas on a hunting
expedition in the mountains, and tha, the
marines made no demonstration of force
other than landing for the avowed pur-
pose of protecting the lives and property
of citizens OF the United States.
Suppose that Minister Stevens and the
marines coantenaneed the revolution and
gave il their moral support From what
provision Of the constitution or laws of the
United States do cur president and seere-
iAry OF state derive power to restore de-
posed monarch or overthrow an es,ae-
lished government The war making
power is vested by cur constitution in con-
gress III Mr.. Stevens exceeded his powers
is IL good precedent for President Cieve-
land and Secretary Gresham to fcllowf
The Hawaiian islands, small as they are,
are an independent natlon- Ii Mr.. Cieve-
land restores the deposed queen. hox IS be
to keep her on the throne without main
taining protectorate hy foics OF armsg
And where Is his constitutional or legal or
moral right 20 DO that
Suppose he had constitutional power, Is
il humanity, not 20 say common sense. 20
destroy an enlightened ard successful
government and 10 give woman, who -
essentially savage. wigh the added ylces
of ei.iExaiion. abSolnte power over men
ana women ike ourselves. majority Of
them OF American birth or parsntages