The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-11-23
STEVENS ON HAWAII.
The Bx-Minister Discusses the
Much Mooted Question.
sPREOKLBs SEVERELY SCORED.

| The Submission of the Question of An
nexation to n Vote Of the People, He
! Says, Would Result in a Monster Cor
ruption Fund to Affect the Result.
WEST SoMERvILLE, Mass, Nov. o.
| John L. Stevens, LII d., of Augusta,
| Me, eX-Unitcd States minister to Hawaii
| lectured on Hawaii and Hawaiian affairs
| in a Lyceum course at West Someryillc
| Mass, laY night The Baptist church, IN
| which the lecture was delivered, was
crowded to it's utmost capacity. Tickets
/ sold at a premium of 81 each, and there
/ were nearly as many Boston people pres
/ ent as from West Someryille. The lee
turer rafraned from making any direct
| allusion to criticism Of the recent de
| velOpmeuts i'm regard TO the Hawaii ques-
| ton He did not so much as mention tee
name of the president or any of his minis
| ters or ENJOYS. He said he had firmly re
| fused to consider the Hawaiian question a
partisan question in any sense. If others
saw iit to make it so they did lit on their
own responsibility. He proceeded.
"Our interest in Hawaii appertains to
at least three questions more or less dis
tinct from each other, though they cannot
be considered entirely separate There is
the question of Christian civilization,
there is the question of American future
commercial power in the Pacific, and the
third involves the issue of responsible
| government under the American flag in
harmony with pledged American faith,
| the best American antecedents, and the
plain logic of American history and
| American opportunities. It is the aim OF
the present provisional government to cut
up the crown government lands and dis
pose of them to men of limited means
| who wish to make for themselves perm
anent homes and become responsible
citizens on American lines of develop
ment. Under the monarchy these crown
lands were leased out, often to palace fa-
vorites, at much less than their real value
and not unfrequently were the means of
political corruption
'While kalakaua was facile and good
natnrcd he had never assented to the con
stitution i'm good faith. He sought oppor-
tunity to change it and regain mis- lost
power. Dying in January, 1890, his sister,
by his appointment, became the sovereign,
Deep in the conspiracy to remove the vii
SOMEONE'S ministry, who all the best men
of the islands wished to continue, she
signed the lottery and opium bills, ap-
pointed to her cabinet the men who had
been the chief parties in bribing the lot
terry bill through the legislature, and this
was Immediately followed bv her attempt
to proclaim a constitution giving herself
arbitrary power, overturning an incor-
ruptible and capable supreme court, and
f giving to herself the appointment of new
judges, with the final appeal to herself.
This was on Saturday, Jan. IA. From
that hour the Hawaiian monarchy was
absolutely dead, and no restoration is pos
sible. except bv the exercise of some out
side and foreign force Attbe date of her
downfall the misouided and unworthy
Tiliuokalani was without the svmnatbv
and aid of the best native Hawaiians and
of all the resDectable and responsible
white residents of the islands. Not a hand
was lifted in defense of the semi-barba-
rian throne when it fell. conclusiyely
disprovinp the assertion of the unscrupu-
lous agent of the fallen aueen sent to
Washington to secure as large a sum of
money as possible for conveying to our
government all her right and title to the
Hawaiian throne and to the crown lands
to which she had never had anv other
claim than TO the income so LONG as sbe
reipned.
'sThis agent before embarkinp for Wash
inRton made sure of a large advance fee
of tbou sands of dollars. which the fallen
queen paid out of her own purse and he
thought it might help his case bv the Mt
terIv base statement that the minister
and naval commander had deprived Lii
uokalani of her throne. and CLANS
Spreckles. who wants weak Hawaiian
monarchy for his tool. tbough he was
1000 miles away VIII en- the aueen fell. secs
fit to repeat this absurd story of tbe
oueen's LAWYER who bappens To he one
who had formerly served Spreckles in
California and whom tbe upscrunulons
supar king makes use of in Hawaii
"It is literally correct to saw that az.
cordinp to the Hawaiian cppsus tables of
1890 there were then buf nbout 600 ner.
sons residing in Hawaii who were horn in
tbe limited States Bnt in addition tc
these a large part of the : 500 horn on the
island of foreign parentape and mt down
as Hawaiians are of American narantaoe
and tbev make an important norton oI
the American colony But hear q
wbisper in the air. Let the islands vote
| on the question
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