The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-26
AFTER MANY THREATS.

pursued by the Royalist leaders,
does not as yet appear to have been
fully determined. OF course it will
take them some days and much |
intellectual travail to formulate |
new plan Of attack which will hold |
water even in the presence OF the
average gullable Royalist. There
seems to be a tendency, however
in the new leadership Of the lost
Canadian English Royalist cause to
desert the ex-Queen and her claim,
at the very moment these scamps
should be true to the political
patron who has been true to them,
ever since she found she could not
sell out her dear people for
United States gold.
1t may, however, SAVIOR too
much of poetic justice to revile the
present royalist leaders for not
being true to the cause they have
at sundrv times sworn to support
and protect with their lives, II
necessary. Nobody who knows
them expected they would be
true to any cause after they dis
covered the boodlers' chances were
gone. Poor, deserted, eN-queen; II
there was still a chance for restora-
ton there would still be hopes OF
doodle and she would not now be
forsaken by her leaders.
The trainers and supporters OF
the Republic will have something
to say, however, to the cool, clear
cut proposition Of the political
vagabonds who now demand the
rights of suffrage for remaining
Royalist natives, in the hope of re-
Installing themselves in political
power after they have shamelessly
deserted the ex Queen and her
cause. The cheek Of these politl-
cal deserters, however, is equaled
bv the brazen effrontery of the
proposition made that HAWAII
should be reorganizcd under CON
stitutional law as they interpret it
Pray, when did the leaders o
the monarchy and the late support
ers of the ex-queeen learn the prin
ciples and proper Interpretation o
constitutional law? Was it prior t.
January II, 1898, when their prac
tice and policy of violation OF al
constitutional law caused the over
throw of both monarch and hood
lers? Or have they only learned t.
make professions of devotion t.
constitutional principles since ad
versity has taught them that NOR,
lasting political rewards follow al
upright course? Have these self
regenerated royalist leaders latel,
learned that lotteries are
moral wrong and that replenish
ing the royal and persona
strong box by the illegal sale O
opium licenses and other disreput
able means, is in violation of con
stitutional principles
Gentlemen, ye ask surcease c
the punishment being meted b.
your own misdeeds all too soon
Reconstruction" is politica
privilege that cannot be lured a
the beck of a half dozen royalist de
serters, some of whom have il
times of danger already had thei
eye upon convenient stone walls
or carried the protection of read
passport under their belts. Come
now, sweet gentlemen-frOm Den
mark, Canada, England and where
not-but really and truly you ar
not quite ready for political recon
struction, and your little schem
for Doodle will have to wait unit
the natives ask something 70
themselves,
Speaking Of asking for thing
calls to mind that pension matte
in the form of an annuity. A
this point the Royalist politicians
who coolly propose desertion, ar,
again wrong. The supporters o
the Republic and the Provisional
Government that represents then
for the present have not even pro
posed, much less offered the eX
Queen a pension in the form Of al
annuity. If such a proposition j
ever made it must come from tn,
former ruler OF these Islands, JUS
as did her previous offer Il
sell her claim to the Unite,
States. The Republic owes tn,
ex Queen and her needy anC
rascally crew Of improyident poll
ticians not one cent, either tor past
misdeeds or future support and any
gratuity which might be secured
after direct application, with the