The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-25
SOME RECENT HISTORY.
THE CRIMES OF THE QUEEN
DESCRIBED.
A Strong Letter From an Eminent
Hawaiian on Her Lottery
Bill Completely.

EDITOR STAR:-Mr. G. ]. Lyons is
competent to defend his own position,
but | feel impelled to put in a word
about the Bulletins effort to cover up
the offense of the queen in the matter
of the Lottery Bill. No one knows
better than the Editor Of the Bulletin
that that piratical measure never had
the support of any influential foreign
element in Honolulu. He himself did
not and could not support it, His own
moral sense spit it out; and he knew
that decent men generally felt the same.
Now he says Mr.. Lyons admits that
many white men supported the scheme.
MIR. Lyons admits no such thing. What
he says is that in an unthinking moment
they signed petitions for the lottery.
The Bulletin knows that those petitions
were signed before the issue became
public, and before attention was drawn
to the criminal nature of the scheme,
and that those men did generally with
draw their support from it--not formally,
bnt practically. Nordhoff's base fraud
in the matter, which the Bulletin now
supports him in, was in representing
that those old and secretly got up petit
tons were Of recent date and Of com
pelling influence upon the queen. The
Bulletin knows, as the slanderous
Nordhoff knew, that all the petitions
proceeding from the influential and in.
teligent classes, after the first secret
ones, were vehemently opposed to that
vile scheme of robbery and plumber of
which the Queen was herself the chief
promoter.
The latter course of that bad woman
in support of the Lottery Bill, fully
established the fact that it was her own
pet measure. She bad greedily adopted
the scheme year before. 1t was to be
her financial refuge; her means of
money supply to make her measurably
independent of public confidence in
filling the Treasury. She knew that
the whole United States had cast the
foul thing out with loathing. But it
was good enough for her, as long as
there was money in it. For months, in
the presence of the good ladies of
Honolulu with their petitions against
the vile thing, the woman kept up a
assembling profession of anxiety for
Divine guidance, when she was fully
determined to carry her pet measure by
any and all means, and was every day
| hriha ool the
members of the Legislature to do her
bidding.
This course of the Queen stamped
her indellbly as person Of deliberately
bad intentions and thorough falsehood
of nature. There can be no apology
and no oblivion for it. When she
bribed the native votes and signed the
Lottery Bill, Liliuokalani stood revealed
and confessed as the bad and false
character that she is. Her subsequent
act was fully in keeping, her attempted
destruction of the Constitution of 1887
the compromise and covenant which
secured a mOdHS OiVendi between
native sovereignty and the indispensable
white share in control of public affairs
ATTEMPTED" | need not say, because
it was the real destruction of it, since
confidence in her as a chief party to The
covenant became no longer possible
| l hope we may soon get past the
necessity of recalling this unworth!
woman's crimes. We shall all be glaC
, when we can be permitted to leave he
to herself. 1t is public disgrace tina
people continue to bring her forward
at candidate for restoration to he
forfeited throne, but until they cease tt
insult the community with such revolt
ing proposition, it remains necessary t.
recall the crimes she has committed
JUSTICE.