Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-13
Editor.


With not unnatural Impotence the people
Of the United States await the coming Of
news from Honolulu. During the. past few
days there has doubtless been great dis
turbance IN TIE islands and every probable
fty points to happenings of the most san
culinary description. But those occurrences
are Of themselves merely incidental; the in
formation needed Is as to the conclusions
reached either through diplomacy or force
What this nation wants to know Is whether
or not the principal agent of the Cleveland
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to a great I'M
dertaking by and with the advice and con-
sent Of a Senate that knew not what it was
doing-has succeeded in breathing the
breath Of life into the nostrils of Hawaiian
monarchy. Failure to put the so-called
queen upon her throne would be a great
humiliation for the executive powers that
now be in this country, but success would
open up a field in which they could achieve
notoriety the like of which can be attained
by but few men. II 1t be proper for this
government to go behind the returns and to
undo those things that were done while an
other administration was in control there
are many pro-monarchical reforms that
could logically be inaugurated. Down in
Brazil poor struggling imperial senti-
ment Is endeavoring to assert itself and
would gladly welcome as an ally the great
republic Of the north. With such a combi-
nation there would be really no difficulty in
recreating the Brazilian Empire. Then it
would be but a step farther to cow repub-
hcanism in Mexico and to set up in it's
place a royalistic pronunciamento declaring
It to be the belief OF the administration that
the claims Of Macmillan TO reign in the
place Of the people of Mexico were we'll
founded and as the United States had done
very much to overturn Maximilian's en-
deavors to carve out a throne for himself
and as Macmillan was undoubtedly dead
the monarchy-ioving executive had deter
mined to put his widow in the rulers ex-
allied arm chair. It may be urged that poor
Carlotta Is insane and has been ever since
the execution OF her husband, but the de-
murrer is a weak one for as between an
advanced case of melarcholia and such
record as belongs to Liliuokalani sensible
folk would vote in behalf of the coronation
of funacy. 1t is certain also that American
sympathy and Of the official sort was potent
In bringing about the establishment and the
establishment Of the French republic.
Could 1t be regarded as unreasonable were
the administration to suggest to President
Carnot the advisability of his moving into
the suburbs while the army and navy of the
United States did its best to put the Bour-
bon dynasty in possession of the French
government? At first glance the average
reader may be inclined to regard these
propositions as having in them a tinge of
absurdity but a few moments devoted to
reflection will convince unbiased minds that
the distinctions between administrative &C
ton as to Hawaii and what the administra-
ton might do as to Brazil and Mexico and
France are not so very marked. OF course
there will be no serious effort to establish a
monarchy here-the constitution is ire
mendous barrier-but there are Americans
who voted the democratic ticket year ago
who are somewhat of the opinion that but
Few monarchical essentials are missing at
this time