The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-03

matter much personal thought anu,
Ladies. / NAV say with feeling, l am
with you in all you have sald. a.
this for one thought we had been his
informed concerning her -S
ON lotteries. We heard afterwafu'
however, that she declared vehement
ly that she would make every woman
who signed that paper smart Tor IL:
11Smart for what? simply for begging
her to stand between her people anu
ruin. .,a
1sTt will be asked If we are sure the
queen made this threat. answer tuat
the SEQUEL justifies US IN our oeliei ]ha'
IL is true: From this time on sne eui-
ploved one Mr.. Francis Nj. English 10
write letters in favor OF the lottery.
Mr.. English and his friends made no
secret of the fact, and she also spent
money freely TO elect Male ana hop
kins to fill vacancies in the House Oh
Mobiles, they being pledged 10 support
the lottery" "a. claw
length along; a vote of want OF conn
dence removed the Cabinet, aud TWO
newly appointed cabinets were
nromntlv treated in the same way.
Finally one was accepted; such stat
wart combination that pubic conn
dence immediately went up. W.
could hardly believe that we neaIu
Il.
ter counsels had at last prevalieo'
and now she would start fresh. but,
aIasi it soon became manifest tnas, as
DIR. Reecher once said of the temper
ance people, she had "only let go 10
spit on her hands,"
THE NEW JUDGES.
Two new judges were TO be appolh-
ted and must have the approval OF the
]
| were two upon which the Caoinet
| agreed; but, while the queen was Will
/ inc to accept one, she wished to SUD
| stiIute for the other one who was en-
/ tireIy unworthy and incompetent;
| Remonstrance was of no avail, ana az
except the Minister OF Finance gave
| up in despair. He reasoned pauenlIy
| and prevailed, and both commissions
| received the royal signature. Before
he could reach the legislative nan
messenger from the queen bad SUM
! moned Mr.. Dreier, of the House Oh
| Mobiles, to the royal presence, ana ne
was asked to vote against the Caolnet
when q vote of want OF commence
should be called. He refused, giving
her some sound advice, wElcn Was, Si
course, wholly wasted.
The lottery bill had been apparently
dropped. Several members OF the
| LEGISLATURE went home, as their own
private business affairs demanded
their presence. The United states
steamer Boston left port for trip TO
Hilo and the Volcano, having on
board as guests United States Minister
T. L. Stevens, his daughter, and the
wife of one of the naval officers.
Everything seemed as calm as morn
i'm June in Honolulu, but il was the
, calm that precedes storm. Ihe
opium bill passed its third reading
and was sent to the queen for sigma
, ture. A committee of 1--WE ladies'
: waited on the queen TO beg her not 10
SIGN il. Mrs. Cooke, the old teacher
Of the chiefs. and Mrs. Rice, another
: missionary lady, and Mrs. Mary
: Clement Leavitt, were on this COM
o mittee. They were cordially recei yeu,
= and the three ladies mentioned au-
!. dressed the queen on the Dill.
n AGAIN SHE wEEPs.
= She actually wept, tears rolled down
= her cheeks and she wiped them away
with her handkerchief. She said she
was ALWAYS glad to receive advicei
that often it was hard to tell what was
:, right and what was wrong. She asked
- the ladies TO pray for her, and also
- asked, through them, the prayers OF
- the church. She had always made 8
II GREAT pretense of affection for Mrs
- mittee withdrew she jeered at them a:
:, "missionares," said she had to shed I
a = few crocodile tears" and mimickec
n the feeble steps of Mrs. Cooke.
9 Events followed rapidly now. Th'
=, Cabinet was ousted aud replaced .,
- an appalling combination the lot
. terry bill, supposed to be dead, came
to life and was rushed through tn
now depleted Assembly, and Saiurda.
10 of
= "Iong Parliamentp dawned. Whel
- - the few remaining members assem-
~ bled the new Attorney. General, A. L
- Peterson, announced that the queer
~ had signed the lottery and opium
Q bills.
Do YOU wonder that, in the face Q
20 such duplicity, people felt that TN
- queen had no word of honor? ina
afternoon she struck her final blow
a and the throne OF Hawaii fell with
,g crash.
- Just here there are two or thre
points to be emphasized. IL wa
* not the lottery bill nor th
opium bill, nor both combined
>, that overthrow the queen, but he
he own revolutionary act. she may hav
IN thought that the Court would test tn
as coustitutionality of the lottery bill
90 and her new constitution would sci
ar tie that point, SO she threw the bonn
~ and it recoiled on herself.
ne MIR. NoRDHoFF's INEFFECTIVE
III POINTS.
he
Mr.. NordhoT made much of th
fact that there were auuexationist
who had favored the lottery; it was
weak point, showing how hard mp Nj
ly Nordhoff was for sound logic. IN
he lottery bill was only one item whic
he went TO prove the utter untrustworth
nd ness of the queen. 1t doubtless adde
1T, strength to the convictions of some
Iat but no one claims that it overfhre'
,rs the queen except Mr.. Nordhoft.
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