Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-24
The International Episode.
the tdltOr OF 1 ne Evening star:
Hawaii. the job of the ocean;

Hawaii the job of the ocean,.
The shrine of each patriots devotion"
ANY one who will examine himself after read
ing the Hawaiian treaty of annexation must
conclude that the law of nations, called in
many instances only by courtesy international
law, has made little progress in the matter
of recognizing personal and property rights.
We recognize the sovereign right of the queen
by making treaties with her. Resident for
eigners and some OF her subjects deposed her,
seized the government. the public property
and the queens property. set up a provisional
government OF their own creation, and this
provisional government instantly hands over
to the nlted States the sovereignty and the
property we have always regarded as Of the
queens government
We establish q protectorate over the pro-
visional government TO enable the provisional
government to successfully hand over to lis the
entire concern.
One OF the commissioners tells us that the
natives are ian afiectionate, gentle race" who
VIII make no resistance to annexation
But they have made no expression of their
wishes, and have been given no chance to
express themselves. In fact they are not
counted IN the transaction. Yet they are a
people and have peoples rights, and we have
always until now treated with government of
their own making. Mr.. Hills snap convention
on Mr. Cleveland is bauble to this When
General Bragg in 1862 organized provisional
government on the Kentucky state house steps
he should have induced England to extend
protectorate over his infant government until
1t could pull itself together to throw itself
permanently into England's arms. Then there
would have been precedent for this thing.
If We may accept all this from the provisional
government then the provisional government is
the thing. But then the queen ia nothing. If
she has any personal sovereign rights we
may not disregard them. Neither the commits
sioners nor the provisional government can
make wrong right.
If she has no personal rights why, then. do
we give her 100000 every year of her life? If
she has no sovereign rights why is she allowed
an army Of sixteen soldiers? We all say the
Pinkertons may not keep up an army. for that
Is the exclusive prerogative of sovereignty.
why, then. this ex-queen! Is it nothing be-
cause so little! We have not much more than
thousand times as many soldiers az this de-
posed queen. The Germans have one hundred
times as many soldiers we have. This queen s
army is more effective and faithful than the
army of the sovereign state of Kansas today.
We are carrying water on both shoulders with
out balancing ourselves. The lieutenant OF the
navy who. within day past, fell crushed and
Killed under the remorseless cable car that dis
tributes hurt and death over the capital once
boldly sprang overheard to rescue a sailor or
bravely battled boat through the waves to
ors government-Russia perhaps wanted to
mark the heroIsm of the American navy officer
and the needed resolution of permission was
scOffcd and fouted Congress. and we de-
clared that no faint of royalty should mar the
republican purity of our uniforms and archives
But here we are to have queen on our pen
sion list.
The treaty calls her ''ex-queen." But the
treaty does not say EEK princess of the heir ap-
parent. We "furtheragree to pay to tine Princess
kuiulani' S15O.OO0. We confirm her title and
salt it down with SI50.000.
Our soldiers and sailors NAV not wear a bit of
red ribbon in buttonhole to show that they
have done something for humanity out in the
world. The Senate may give Mrs. Waite and
and Mrs. Miller a pittance OF balance of month s
pay due the chief justice and the great associate
justice who both died in harness and the House
will strike it out and both houses will spurn
the suggestion to give the widows of their
illustrious men pensions But We pour out
$40, 900 year to heal the wound that honor
feels our hOnOr-and we set up a real. live
princess who fortunately has influential friends
in the provisional government and capitalize
her rights in prospective at sl50.000.
And just here is stroke of genius-an exhi-
bition of American business sense. The rela-
tons of the princess have that kind of sense
because they were born with it.
The treaty gives the .ex"-queen $40. goo
every year. But last wear we were recognizing
everything nov being shaken into our basket as
being the sacred, sovereign, international prop
ertv of the queen. This year we take IL all rs "a
gift from those who forcibly took it from hey
and we give her an income to keep her out of
the poor house. Why should we not next year
take the income? II Mr. Dominis the queen
American hueband. were alive he would con-
sider that. But the queen Is a widow, and We
do not raise points for the other side.
An American inspiration says the princess
canno; be lex A." so she must be a known GUAM
hNy fha tod Stato t.ly.. "a
her friends valuation and by letters patent and
great treaty seal confirm her title. She is 1.-THE
princess Or course we annex her along with
the other things. She becomes 'our prin-
cess. She i. an American princess and
thrifty. pension may stop. Never mind the
ten thousand year, one hundred and fifty
thousand may not yield more than nine thou
sand year. but the $50 900 will do
A time will come when the ex-queen will
YEARLY wait for yearly remittance that will
never arrive.
Then as the princess OF the United States
stands in line with the cabinet ladies at the
White House receptions she will be glad that
she capitalized her salary grab.
All over our colntry are buXom young women
married to old pensioned veterans who are ex-
pecting to fall heir to the country's gratitude
just now the winds whisper cold projects for
cutting on all these heirs apparent to pensions
who did not take their veterans within the five
years limit. The veterans are getting older
and more grabbed; the pension prospect for a
buxom widow is getting more and more un-
certain.
While they can these buxom helpmates should
capitalize their veterans some day they will
mingie thor tears with those OF the ex-aueen.
But the United States, with its easily acquired
plumber, and 1.-THE princess" with her slowed
away sum in gross, as they say information
ally, will be happy.
Let US work over some Of our old hvmn ma
teriaL Truly the world seems to be offering
homage to US. We have the home of the brave
and the free. We need new shrine of each
patriots devotion. Perhaps this is it-so hail
Hawaii. the JOB of the ocean
HUMBLE SOVEREIGN.
New Governor Of New south Wales,
l1Robert William Duff liberal NJ p for