The herald., 1895-02-20
The Constitution

before her, she said The Constitution
/ will stand'
~ was close TO her one day in the court
martial. Paul Neumann was questioning
! Clarke, who had lived on the bounty OF the
| ex-Queen with his wife for two years. You
! saw YOU boarded at Washington Place with
4 your wife for two years? he asked. "Dld
! you ever pay for your board?'
| a. L was a retainer, an adherent of the
| Queen, replied Clarke.
! q so you lived on her bounty, you and
! your wife, for two years and now you
I come here to swear against her?
! II have watched the face of Liliuoka-
! lani, " said Colonel Teed, while this was
| going on. l have never seen human
| face lighted up like that before. Fire
came from the fierce dark eyes the dusky
| cheeks were flushed the heart heaved with
the emotion hidden there.
II believe the ex-Queen knew of the
plot and had aided the insurrectionists.
but the court-martial failed to really con-
vict her of that. 1t was at first thought
to try the ex-Queen for treason. The con-
sequences OF conviction on the
charge were up before the Of
ticials of the Provisional Government
and the charges were changed Convicted
of the present charges against her the
ex-Queen can only be fined 5000 and i'm
prsoned for five years, and the minimum
amounts to nothing.
The Provisional Government is divid-
cd. Dole and Damon are together on all
propositions and are conservative in their
views. Castle, Smith and Hatch are radi-
cal, bloodthirsty almost.
Every body wants annexation; the Roy
alsts because anything is better for them
than the present Government; the p.
rs, because the Provisional Government
is maintained only by military power, and
military power is expensive, unreliable
and unciyilized; the natives, because they
believe that annexation means death to
the contract labor sytem.
Sugar is the pivot around which every
thing on the islands revolve. Fifteen
thousand Portuguese and twenty thousand
japanese contract laborers now do the
work on the sugar plantations. The sugar
kings are opposed to annexation. Should
the United States not see tit to annex the
islands the time will come when the Pro-
visional Government will ask England to
annex them. The United States will
never allow that
'No one knew the result of the court
martial when the Mariposa left the islands,
except that the nsurrectionists had been
convicted. These stories about torture
were all rot. The newspaper correspond
ents are responsible for them. Marshal
Hitchcock is an arrogant bullyish man,
but there is weight in the remark that it
was not likely he would torture his prison..
ers by putting them on ice, when he is
use in his drinks.
President Dole is a great man. He
ranks with the greatest statesmen of the
age. Paul Neumann is the highest mind
in the islands and says and does as he
pleases.
81 expected to find Judge Brunson on
the islands, but they told me he was in
Los Angeles. He got discouraged and
left too soon. He had a fine place there
brought all his furniture and bric-a- brac
from Los Angeles, fitted up a charming
place, and lived a bachelors life with
young George Stoneman, his law partner.
But he lost ambition, they said, as many
a good man does in that listless island
life, and an auction sale took place one
day after he had been on the islands
about two months, and he left.
II went over on the steamer with Cap.
Theodore Summerland by the way. Cap
tain Good is second in command
of the Provisional forces and is splen-
did officer Had he been on the islands
when the insurrection came, the chase
after the insurrectionists might have been
cut shorter.
The newspapers of Honolulu do not en-
JOY the unbridled license allowed in the
United States. The Government dictates
the editorial policy-in fact the utter
ances of the papers all through. They
imported a young fellow from Maine to
edit the Advertiser, and he IS pulling his
hair and prancing the floor of the editori-
al sanctum half the time. When he writes
leader which pleases one faction, he
gets polite note the next morning from
the other faction telling him to let up.
His life is fast becoming a burden"
Colonel iced was much benefited by
his trip. He has not fallen in love with
the dreamy life of Oahu, but has nothing
but pleasant words for the people who
live in fair Honolulu and the other places.
He has gained a perfect knowledge of
their life, socially and politically, through
intercourse with the men and women
who make the life OF Honolulu, and does
not by any means regret his trip.