The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-23
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1898.
A CLAIMANT FOR REVENUE
ONLY.

ance against the writer's and politicians
who tell them, day after day and month
after month, that the eX-Queen is to be
restored. Such a tale never had any
thing back of it except the scheming
of an expelled and defeated sovereign
and her uneasy pals. 1t is absurd on
its face, to say nothing Of its disproot
at the hands of Mr.. Blount in
his statements to the pretender.
The idea that Congress, in whom
questions Of war and peace are vested,
would begin hostilties against the Pro
visional Government of Hawaii after
the United States had recognized the
latter in due form, doing SO on the
alleged ground that its own Minister
had erred in diplomacy, is thing for
common laughter and ridicule Not
being court fool among nations
America does not do business in that
way. Even if Mr.. Stevens, in his
obedience to the instructions given by
Secretary Bayard to United States
Minister Merrill, had gone as far last
January as the Royalist leaders say he
did, the great republic could not think
of doing one wrong to remedy another
and when it comes to plea for the
restoration of Queen who had written
that she yielded her authority to the
Provisional Government, on the pre-.
tence that her afterthought about having
been deprived Of it by Minister Stevens
was the correct statement of the fact,
the force Of nonsense could no further
60.
The natives who are outside the an
nexation ranks are simply being gulled
and deluded by the eX-Queen and her
immediate followers for reasons that
are not hard to discern. We do not
for moment believe that Liliuokalani
herself expects restoration. She knows
too much for that Neither do we
think that Paul Neumann regards such
thing as possible. The same is true
of three or four others who have ready
access to Washington Place. But it is
obvious if the Annexation treaty can
be delayed and embarrassed that there
may be a chance for Liliuokalani to get
that provision for herself and family
for which she was eager last January to
sell her throne, her flag, her country
and her people. TO this end she is
apparently devoting her own energies
and those of her fee-dividing friends.
If enough natives can only be held in
line to make showing against anneXa-
ton; if they will even tacitly back up
the plea for "liberty"-in whose name
so many crimes have been committed !;
if they can be induced to play the part
of the downtrodden lord of the soil
who must be recompensed for the loss
of his native heath--why, what more
likely that the friends of annexation
would either raise the required sum to
buy the claimant off or induce the
United States to do SC, as precedent
to the union of the Islands with Amer
ica2 Herein we believe is the secret
of all this restorationist furore 1t is
sad mixture of deception, greed and
chicane masquerading in the garments
of patriotism and having no other pur-
pose than the procurement of bride,
How long, we may ask, will the
native Royaists permit themselves to
be taken in by the pension gang' How
long will they stand out against the
policy that would bring them wealth
for the sake of pouring more gold
into the lap of a covetous and treach-
erous leader? How long will they de-
prve themselves of the chance to be
come citizens of great power to the
end that bogus Ali, without drop
of royal blood in her veins, may dicker
for subsidy