Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-14
FROM HONOLULU
Liliuokalani's Responsibility for the
Present Condition of Things.
SOME FACTS IN HER HIST DRY
How She Sought to ExaIt the
Royal Prerogatives.
FATE OF HER MINIST Err
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HONOLULU, March 20, 1894
In recent editorial of The Star it was
not inaccurately observed that the Hawaii
an report of the Senate committee made IA
vorable mention of nearly everybody con-
cerned except one individual-the woman,
in accordance with the example of Father
Adam. 1t cannot be denied that the wo-
man was the principal cause of the Hawaii
an revolution which abrogated the mon
archy. Yet. while Liliuokalani must bear
the chief responsibility, many other persons
participated in her acts and encouraged her
IN them. She was the leader and chief in
! stigator of the movement to overturn the
| liberal constitution and proclaim one which
would make the Kanaka monarch practi-
| raily absolute. let there was a considera-
| Die number of natives and half whites who
were urging her to do this thing. They
were bitter toward the whites, who occu-
pied nearly all the higher offices of state,
men OF kanaka blood being almost without
exception quite incompetent for high public
Office This is evident from the fact that
none or them have ever risen to any highly
responsible position in private business.
| Superior to Her Partisans.
Whatever the well-known moral defects
or the queen, she was morally superior to
the average of her partisans, even Of the
white men about her. With those people
the substitution of autocratic for liberal
government was mainly a question of be-
ing OF the ms, and not the outs-and, not
least, a question of Doodle. With the queen
herself 1t was a sort of religion to possess
royal supremacy-to rule as well as to reign
she was fanatical in her blind determine
ton TO seize what she deemed the natural
anu dlvlnely ordained rights of the mon
aI . All Hawallan tradition is surcharged
with extreme views of the sacred and abso-
iute power of the alii or chief. These prin-
! clples were very dear to Liliuokalani all
the more that she had not been born to the
purple, but had drifted up into what her
youth had no hope of. Up to the introduc-
tlon OF Christianity a king was a most sa-
cred being. No PERSONS shadow must fall
upon MIN on pain of death He was ap-
Proacned with the profoundeSt proStrations
Older residents here tell with what awe the
common people used to look on their chiefs
mere are old white people here today who
SUN themselves retain a species of religious
awe toward kanaka royalty. They learned
IL IN tender years, when kings and queens
IN Honolulu were really very sacred beings
An Ehgnshman may understand this curl
Gus mental attitude-this sort of religious
sentiment OF abject loyalty to a monarch
although to an American it may seem idi-
otto. ~
A Lower Breed of Chiefs
Liliuokalani in her childhood always felt
In that way toward the stately royal
princes Of those days. 1t was a religion
with her to render them a species of wor-
ship. When her family came to the throne
In 1874 the natives did not concede their
royal sacredness. They were Of a lower
breed of chiefs. They were not ihihi awe
compasseO and kapukapu (consecrateD.
IKE the kamehamehas, who had forty
recorded generations Of kings behind them.
halakaua was only a tilird-rate chief bare
ly able to reckon back perhaps to some
remote royal ancestor, with many n pie
pelan strain intervening. His grandfather.
kamanawa, had been publicly executed
In 1S41 for poisoning his wife His real
rather was a mulatto cobbler, John Bios
som.
All the more was Kalakaua emulous of
enjoying the full worshipfuIness of his
predecessors. He diligently made himself
great He went abroad and dined with
President Grant, and Washington for the
hrSt time welcomed a crowned head One
old darkey of practiced discernment scru-
tinized his majesty on Pennsylvania ave-
nue., ana IN great enthusiasm at such ex-
aitation to one of his kind joyfully ex-
Claimed, Fob God, he's niggerv Evil
IDENTIFY with a like feeling, an eminent col
ored clergyman of Philadelphia lately pub
lished in The Independent his earnest adj
hesion to the cause of Lilluokalani, who
shares the same illustrious paternity as
her brother.
That was in 1870 In 1881 Kalakaua, hav-
ing suffered a bad setback to his dignity
in the Moreno fiasco started out TO re-
Trick his royal glory in a voyage around
the world. 1t was a great success. This
first royal globe-circler was gone nine
months, during which he had been the
favored guest of the Emperor of Japan
the King of Siam and the Maharajah of
Johore. from all which celestial beings he
gained enlarged conceptions of royal pre-
rogative. India and Egypt he hastily trav-
ersed, their native royalties being sadly
Swallowed white In Jtolx
England and Austria he was received with
distinguished honors and found genial
companionship with his royal nibs of
Wales whom he greatly admired.
The Welcome to kalakaua.
On his return his sister, Liliuokalani, Is
regent. was foremost in preparing fulsome
welcome. Arches were hung over the
streets and palace gates, with legends at
tributing to the returning king semi-divine
titles of honor. The natives were any,
thing but enthusiastic. When he landed
but faint applause was heard. But at
the palace 1t was the glorious LAM, or d.
vine one, who was welcomed.
In little more than a year, the king
held a coronation, with great parade and
display. Gold and jeweled crowns of cost
were prepared for the king and queen, and
placed on their heads with immense pomp.
What was especially significant to the
natives, one of his ministers acted as a
herald, making loud proclamation of a
series of titles, or attributes, as appertain-
ing to kalakaua, to which every native
knew that he had no more claim than he
had to being white man. They were GER
tain titles of peculiar grades of sacred
royal blood, such as Wahi, Pho, Aiwohi
Niaupio, etc The highest of these titles
means that the possessor has concentrat-
ed extract of hghest-toned royal blood en-
gendered by being the offspring Of a royal
brother and sister. each of the very high
est and purest strain. Those old-time
chiefs paid great attention to sacred in
terbreeding, and begot princes of enormous
bulk and stateliness, whose superhuman
dignity struck awe even into white men
and women.
l<alakaua was himself a fairly bulky
chief Being king, he determined to he a
king, and go the entire figure, and set nm
for all kinds of blue blood Liliuokalani
took part nothing 10th. But three Old
chief ladies, who had the genuine rovaI
blood, kept aloof and took no part in the
coronation, in order to manifest their con-
tempt for his impious pretensions As the
crowd came up street from the palace Ber-
nice Pauahi, Ruth Keelikolani and Dow
ager-Queen Emma We're seen sitting in n
in dignitied scorn. They had the
blue blood, and kalakaua was a nobody.
To ENaIt the Royal Prerogatiyes.
All the more this intensified the Princess
religious worship of the roy
atty her family had attained. 1t became
with her fanatical aim to exalt and in
crease the royal prerogatives. The revolu-
ton of 1887, when a liberal constitution
was forced upon Kalakaua, took place dur