The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-13

household, which were deeply and
darby heather. Her ethical and
political ideas were all fundament-
ally shaped by those heather infu-
ences acting upon the congenial
nature inherited from heather an
cestors. It is as such that she is
really TO be estimated and judged
In both her private and her public
life, and not by the standards and
probabilities governing our esti-
mates of the conduct of Europeans.
Take this woman's avowal that
in the latter part of last
year she entered into a secret con-
spiracy with certain whites and ma
tives to abrogate the Constitution
and promulgate a new one after the
only organization which could &C
lively resist-the Legislature-had
been prorogued. A Constitution
had no sacredness in her semi
heather eyes, although she had
sworn to maintain it. 1t possessed
no value to her, although it was the
covenant made in 1887, by which
the powerful foreigners agreed to
continue weak native sovereignty
in consideration Of having an influ-
entail voice in public affairs. The
only thing sacred or valuable in her
view was the provocative of mon
archy to make its own will SUI
preme.
The strange thing is that this
avowed conspiracy to destroy the
national covenant and make poll
teal fellowship impossible for
natives and foreigners, receives no
condemnation from Blount and
Gresham. Any conspiracy of a
queen is allowable. 1t is Stevens
conspiracy that alone is heinods.
He conspired, Blount proves, with
these fiIlibuster "aliens'2 who
would not put up with the queens
innocent freak of new constitu-
ton. Stevens alo8e is the great
criminal, and his accomplices were
those aliens, Tb1rston and Carter
and Dole and Smith, all bern here
and the parents of some of them
born here also.
LilinsSkalani describes most in
nocently her process of preparing
her precious constitution. The
call for it, she tells Mr.. Blount,
came from the natives in all parts
of the country. They wanted the
foreigners to be deprived of power,
and to have Hawaiian Government
wholly in the hands of Hawaiians,
although whites did all the bust
ness and paid most of the taxes.
So as it was a purely Hawaiian
| affair this native monarch takes
the concoction of a new constitu-
ton into her own hands. She does
not call in the aid of eminent
iurists and statesmen to take
careful counsel upon an in
strument of such Importance.
She takes counsel only with
couple of members of the Legisla-
ture, who may or may not have
understood English. With them
she botches up paper, out of the
forms used in the previous consti-
buttons of the kingdom. After it is
done, she asks Peterson to polish
it up for her. That was the whole
process and genesis of the instru-
ment which she proposed as the
Fundamental Law of the land.
In all this Mr.. Gresham sees little
harm. His moral sensibilities are
too deeply engrossed with the turpi
tude of Stevens in recognizing an
hour too early the new Government
of the men who had such a fanati
cal love of liberty and order that
they would not let this heather
queen monkey with constitutions
Stevens, and he above all men, was
to be condemned. The imminent
peril into which the order and
peace of the country were plunged
by the reckless tampering of this
woman is of little account to Blount
and Gresham. The earthquake of
confusion that shook the city when
her action was announced is treat
ed with disdain by those gentle
men. The one wicked man is
Stevens who landed 80 men from
the Boston on pretence of main
tanning" order and reassuring the
alarmed citizens, but really to
overawe this harmless queen.
Of the contents of her constitu-
tion deponent saith not and the |