The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-26
ROYALIST TACTICS.

The statement that the friends of
royalty feel their hopes grow less
with the Republican victories an
nounced with the last mail is GER
tainly significant. 80 long as the
Democrats were in power quotes
a leading royalist paper, the hopes
of Cleveland and royalty were at
their best. 1t now seems rather
unkind for the royalists Of Hawaii,
who still threaten terrible things
through Legitimate means, )" upon
every thing and every body in
Hawaii to also enter a covert
threat against the people and Con-
gress of the United States.
We had thought from the oft
repeated allegations of the Royalist
press, before the downfall of mon
archy and the turn of the tide Of
popular feeling in the Great Re-
public, that nothing could stay the
course of monarchical restoration,
so great was the force of its own
political inertia. The Government
had been snatched from the hands
of the defenders of monarchy by
the treachery of American diplo
macy; now American diplo
macy is ridiculed openly. Wa'
there ever such inconsistency
Probably never since the hour re
peatedly passed when the king
dom" might have been bartered fol
poker chip.
The trouble is not with the
alleged "obligarchy" Of Hawaii
it never has been with either the
rank or file back of the Republic
The real trouble of the politica
failure of the monarchy lies in the
instability of native character, frs
and last,-frst in their women
secondly in their men and thirdly
and last i'll the children of the
household, who in their home lift
have missed instruction in thos,
traits, which would make success
of either a monarchy or a Republic
That the monarchy has failed 70
these and similar causes none wht
has lived his year and day" il
Hawaii will deny. Subtract tn
purity Of tie family JrOm tie purity Q
tie State and national failure is tn
me5la5Ge result.
There is little need for either tn,
religious or lay members ofreligiou
bodies in these islands to put al
interrogation at this point of on
national development and offe
some theoretical remedy. There is
in fact, no remedy short of tina
which the necessities of revolution
have already thrust upon US, tina
have opened up an entirely new
field i'll matters of civil rights 70
the residents of these Islands
irrespective of racial questions.
But the qestion of question!
which is foremost in the minds o
the citizens Of these Islands is no
so much one of the racial position
of political forces, or even racia
prejudice, as it is one of financia
and commercial self preservation
This question is greater to the mer
chants and planters of these eigh
Islands than all the twaddle royal
lists can write about native rights
which, if the law Of mortgages i
carried out, would be considerabl
less than the imaginary patriotism
daily alleged in their name, bu
about which the average nativ
does nothing and cares less.
To allege once every twenty-fou
hours that the missionaries" frs
and the Americans secondly are t
blame for the downfall of the mon
archy would be cowardly were it
evident foreign and anti-Ameri
can source not so we'll known. Sup
pose the half dozen foreigners who
by their own personal foolishnes
have made themselves the politica
laughing stock of all Republican
and most natives, should appea