Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-02

| in the North Pacific should not be a Brit
| ish possession.
\ OF course, the average English resident
| in Honolulu has not taken In all the pres
| ent and prospective considerations named
above As rule, however, he does not
| lack a strong instinct that Americans have
| been getting an immense advantage here
over his OVID country, and he hates them
| accordingly. The average Briton feels
deeply aggrieved at seeing the Yankee as
sert himself in Hawaii He consequently
sympathzes with overturned and PROSTATE
Hawaiian royalty. The Briton elsewhere
| Is not much given to tender consideration
| of the sovereign rights and claims Of alb
| original races. While on the whole he
| treats them with rather a larger share of
| justice than other Europeans do, John Bull
rides over them quite relentlessly when
thew get in his way, like the Maories of
| New Zealand, cognate people with the
| Hawaiians, and fully their equals In ca
| pacity. II Englishmen, instead of Amer
| leans, had had the handling of Liliuoka-
| lani. it is quite unlikely that they would
| have left her to live unmolested in Homo
| lulu, to carry on continual intrigues against
them They would have made short work
| of deporting her.
The Englishman has a deep, ineradicable
| sense OF his superiority to all other races
not only. but to all men of his own race
| not born and bred in England He looks
down on colonials of Canada and Aus
| tralia. He regards as still more inferior to
himself the Yankee, who has diverged SO
| far In tone and sentiment from the parent
| stock, and has become, as he thinks,
| seriously deteriorated variety of Anglo
| Saxon. This feeling of superiority is least
| extensively prominent in the higher bred
| class OF Englishmen and women. In their
middle class, especially the lower mid lie
| class, 1t is often ludicrously manifest. In
| Honolulu there reside a considerable num-
per OF very respectable and intelligent
| Britons, people Of good character and abil-
| lilies and valuable citizens. Many of them
| are fairly agreeable members of society; a
rev are exceptionally so. 1t is seldom,
hat
| counter among them more or less of tone
| or condescension, not Intentional but in
| stinctive- This sense of superiority makes
me majority OF our English people feel
| that things have gone all wrong in Hawaii
when these ill-conditioned Yankees get into
| the saddle and rule the country. A few
OF them are willing to cooperate and par
| ticipate In the government, like good citi-
zens. The majority stand aloof and lend
their sympathies to the deposed queen.
Position of the English Church.
A prominent element In promoting this
British alliance with native royalty has
been the Anglican Church in Honolulu.
Alexander Kamehameha Nv and his queen.
Emma. in 1868. induced the British Society
for the Propagation Of the Gospel to send
out here a bishop and his staff of clergy.
The young king had visited England and
been delighted with the worship of royalty
prevalent there. The American mission
aries while cordial friends and supporters
of Hawaiian royalty. were totally devoid Of
that sense OF alteration which Hawaiian
| chiefs had always enjoyed from their SUBJ
| jects. Bishop Staley had the right feeling.
and could delightedly abase himself like a
good subject. Robert G. Wyllie used to do
| the same thing. He was q very worthy
| Briton of diplomatic education, who served
| the Kamehameha kings for some twenty
| five years nlnister of foreign affairs, and
was of great service in making treaties
| with many of the European powers. This
| capacity of Britons for complaisant sub
servience to royalty, in which We Yankees
were deplorably lacking, cemented per-
| manent alliance between Hawaiian royalty
| and the British residents here.
| In this alliance the Anglican Church led.
greatly to the detriment of the former high
influence of the American missionaries with
the king and court Bishop Staley carried
his adulatory attitude very far, but was
person Of little sense or force. He was sue
ceeded some twenty-five years ago by Bish-
op Willis, who is a person OF much greater
force, although extremely arbitrary, and,
&C Consequently, disliked by nearly all the
| white members Of his church. Willis has
always gone to an extreme in worship Of
royalty. An instance of this comes to mind.
| king kalakaua was a member of the Angli-
can Church. in good and regular standing.
despite the fact that he was excessively
profiigate and dissolute and conspicuously
| scandalous in morals. The eliminating
point of his profiigacy was near the close OF
1856, when he cheated the wretched China
man Aki out of his paid up opium license
bribe Of $4,000 and about the same time
conducted the disgusting orgies of his tubi-
lee birthday. Immediately after these scan
dalous affairs. and while the air was reek-
ing with their shameful details, Bishop VIII
lis personally administered the holy COM
| munion to the king
Differs With the Bishop.
The Rev. George Wallace. an American OF
| sound piety and good sense, was at that
time rector of the white congregation. He
promptly demonstrated with his bishop for
giving the sacrament to a man OF such no
toriously scandalous life. The bishop looked
at Mr.. Wallace with an expression Of sur
prise and scorn, replying only, why, he is
| the king This is given on Mr.. Wallace's
personal authority. To the mind of an
Anglican like Willis the king was a sacred
being, lifted high above the conditions and
moral limitations Of ordinary mortals. Will
lis Is himself a pure and devout man, and
an earnest advocate of purity of social life.
He is simply a benighted ritualistic Briton.
| to whom Ill royalty is invested with a halo.
1t is accordingly not strange that the
| worthy bishop has, all through the late
| troubles, most loftily and vehemently in
| Weighed against the wickedness OF the revo-
| lutionists. At the latest dates he was de-
| claring his confidence that the queen would
be restored, asserting the righteousness Of
her cause. and denouncing the shameful
| treason Of the missionaries sons"
| A considerable number OF Americans Of
Episcopal affiliations are members Of the
| white congregation at the Anglican Cathe-
| Ordi Nearly OF quite All OF tneSe are SUP
porters Of the republic, as well as many
of the English members. Their British pas
| tor Is a man OF great practical ability. de-
| votion and good sense. non-committal In
politics. Both he and his people have been
In great difficulties with their bishop. A
majority. however. OF the congregation
have too much British feeling not to be on
the side of the ex-queen. The late British
minister, Wodehouse, and his wife, have
been. by official position. leaders in this
Anglican community. They have been no.
torious sympathizers with the ex-queen
| Mrs. Wodehouse has been In constant COM
munication with her She was an ardent
| partisan of the queen in all her extreme
proceedings just previous to the revolution
On the 18th Of January. when the queen, by
heavy bribery, secured a majority In III q
| legislature to GUST the reform cabinet Of
Wilcox and Jones. Mrs. wodehouse stood
up In her chair and waved her parasol In
| the house.
Strong Anglican Influence.
The sympathies Of Captain Rookie of H
B. NJ. s. Champion and Of his officers have
always been warmly declared for the queen
and against the government. At the criti-
cal time. when her forcible restoration by