The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-08-06
DIR. TALMAGE'S TOUR.
THE EMINENT DIVINE WRITEF OF
HAWAII'S EX-QUEEN
Both RoyaiIsts and Annexationists Condemn
Our Attitude in Hawaiian Affairs.
Hawaiian Politics n Conundrum.
Copyright. Louis KIopsch, 1s94.)

Honolulu June 49, 1S9i.-The chamberlain,
come to invite us to the residence of the ex-
| queen, had suggested IL o'clock that morn
| ing, the best hour for our visit. We APP
| preached the wide-open doors through
yard of palm trees and bananas and cocoa
nuts and amid flowers that dyed the yard
| with all the colors that a tropical sun can
paint. We were ushered into the royal
lady's reception room where, surrounded by
a group of distinguished persons, she arose
to greet us with cordial grasp of the hand.
The pictures of her hardly convey an accu-
rate idea of her dignity of bearing. She
has all the ease of one born to high posi-
ton. Her political misfortunes seem in no
wise to have saddened her. She spoke FREE
ly of the brightness of life to any one dis
posed to meet all obligations, and at my
sugg astlon we found in life chiefly what we
look for and if we look for flowers we find
| flowers, and If We look for thorns we find
thorns, she remarked, 81 have found in the
path of life chiefly flowers. L do not see how
any one surrounded by many blessings
as many of us possess could be so migrate
full as to complain" She said it was some
thing to be remembers thankfully that for
fifty years there was no revolution in the
islands. She has full faith that the proVls-
ional government is only a temporary al
fair, and that she will again occupy the
throne.
She asked her servant to show me, as
something | had not seen before, royal
adornment, made up from the small plru
with a large name, the melithreptes "a
cifica This bird. l had read had under It's
wing q single feather of very exquisite COL
or The queen corrected my Information ny
saving that it was not singh feather, put
| a tuft of feathers from under the wing OF
| the bird from which the adornment was
fashioned into chain of beauty Tor the
| neck She spoke of her visit to New YORK,
but said that prolongs d illness hindered heI
from seeing much of the city. she talked
freely and intelligently on many supJects
pertaining to the present and the 1utur'.
was delighted with her appearance and
manner and do not believe one word OF
the wretched stuff that has been written
| concerning her immoralities. Defamation
is SO easy and there is so much cyniclsln
| abroad which would rather believe evii
| than good, that this queen, like all the
other rulers of the earth, has been beaten
| with storms of obloquy and misrepresenta-
| ton George Washington was caled ny
| Tom Paine lying impostor. THOMAS Jel-
| ferson was styled infidel, and since
| those times we said to have had IN
| the Uniaed States presidency biood-
| thirsty man, a drunkard and at least TWO
| libertines and if anybody in prominent
| Mace and effective work has escaped, let
| him speak, for him have l offended. After
| an exchange of autographs on that ady III
| Honolulu, parted.
| President Dole Greets His Guests-
| At / o'clock Chief Justice Judd came
| To the hotel with his carriage to take us TO
| tho mansion of President Dole. 1t was
| only a minute after our entrance when
| the president and his accomplished and
! brilliant lady appeared with a cordiality or
/ welcome that made us feel much at nome
The president is a pronounced CHRISTIAN
| man. deeply interested in all reilSlous al
| fairs as well as secular, his private life
/ nv
| parties. talented, urbane, attractive strong
| and fit for any position where conscien-
| tiousness and culture and downright
| earnestness are requisites. 1t was 10 me
\ a matter Of surprise that at a time when
politics are red-hot IN the Hawaiian lSlanus
! and President Dole so very positive III ms
| opinions on all subjects, L heard not one
| word against him. Hawaans ana Tor
eigners are alike his eulogists. When re-
ferred to the tremendous questions he ana
| his associates had on hand, he said 1t was
! remarkable how many of the busy men OF
4 these islands were willing to give so much
| of their time free of all charge, to the
| business of the new government, ana from
what he believed to be patriotic and Chris
| tian motives. The president is a graduate
| of williams college, Massachusetts, ana
when | asked him if his opinion of Presi-
| dent Hopkins, of that college, was as ele-
waited as that of President Garfield, he re-
| piled: eSi l tninK, as bdIueiu uiu, tAs'I
| to sit on one end of a log, with PRESIDENT
| Hopkins on the other, and talk with him
] or literary matters, would be something
| like a liberal education.
The presidents wife is charm of lowell
| ness and is an artist withal. Her walls
are partly decorated with her pencil. ANA
| though under her protest, as though the
room was unworthy visit, Chief Justice
| Judd took me to her studio, where she pass
| ed much of her time in sketching and paint
| ing. The ride l took afterward with the
| president and Chief Justice Judd allowed
me still other opportunity of forming an ell
| eyated opinion of the present head of the
| Hawaiian government. The cordiallty with
/ which we had been received by the pres
ent ruler and the former queen interested us
| more and more in the present condition
and the future happiness of the Sandwich
| islands.
| Hearing Both Sides.
| Aware of the different ways of looking
at things and of putting things, 1 resolved
| to get the story of Hawaiian affairs from
opposite sides We have always taken
il for granted that two and two make four,
and vet two and two maybe so placed as
| 10 make twenty-five. The figure is only
| the figure turned upside down. There
are not many things like the figure S-the
same whichever side is up. The different
| accounts L hear present are reports from
! different standpoints.
| 4 had opportunity OF earnest ana pro-
longed conversation with a royalist, edu-
Gated, truthful, of high moral
character. born in these islands, and of
great observation and experience. The fol-
lowing conversation took place between
us:
ouestion-"Do you think the ex-queen
! good woman
| Answer-'T have seen the queen very
| often. [ have been one of her advisers,
and my wife has been with her much of
/ the time from childhood, and has seen her
/ morning. noon and night, and under all cir
| cumstances and neither of us has ever
Witnessed anything compromising in her
| character She has made mistakes as all
make them but she is fully up 10 the stan
/ dard of the worlds rulers. She is the inn
/ personation of kindness, and neither my
| wife nor myself, nor any one else has
ever heard her say a word against any one.
In that excellence she is pre-eminent In
/ proof of her good character / have to state
the fact that there is not a household in
Honolulu that did not feel honored by her
| presence If she had been such n cor
rupt character some correspondents have
represented her, / do not think that the
hest men and women of the Hawaiian is
lands would have sought her for guest and