The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-02-09

these papers was an exercise OF IlSnL
in anticipation of a possibility OF res
toration. 1t is unfortunate, in con-
junction with other unfortunate cir
cunstances, that the lady, after hav-
ing INDUCED in this innocent recrea-
ton, legitimate recreation, her right
claimed in open court by the learned
counsel, should, q very few days after
this uprising, have had nothing to do
with these papers, and lost all interest
in believing these probabilities, and
since that date they have been lost so
securely that even that lynx-eyed
Marshal of ours, who discovered bombs
growing in q flower garden, and rifles
in a rubbish pile, has not been able to
find a trace of those legitimate posi-
bilities since. If they are legitimate,
it Is to be hoped that counsel in the
discharge Of his arduous duties before
the parting Of the ways shall come,
will furnish her with q new set for
this legitimate use, for this legitimate
possibility, which has not been ex-
blamed to an interested public in any
way whatever. But we have the as
surance, and that ought to guide US,
that this legitimate possibility is not
at all connected with this uprising.
AS an advance sheet of the pros
pectus for the new order Of things, her
statement does we'll, and it is wise it
should go forward. 1t is unfortunate
that as to her diary, which recorded
the visits of the faithful who stayed
by their fallen queen, and evinced
their confidence in her hour OF trial,
that she should have so sighted them,
or that she or her attendants should
have had such q slight disregard OF
them that it was found necessary to
burn and commit it to the ashes In
the back yard before her arrest, and
before the minions OF the law came
down. Perhaps 1t was duty which
under the circumstances she felt was
more honored in the breach than in
the observance. Certainly the gentle
men who visited her, and who are
temporarily retired from public gaze,
I have, no doubt, appreciated the act,
and have nothing to say against 1t,
but in the burning Of documents OF
that kind, in the playful and innocent
performance and exercise Of q legtti-
mate right, is one Of those stumbling
blocks that I submit to the Commits
sion and to their judgment.
I submit that the undisputed facts
raised an irresistible presumption that
she knew what was going on. Two
thirds Of that affair ripened in her own
yard under her own roof, and this
whole defense, submit to the gentle
men of this Commission, cannot be
raised above the dignity Of a common
police court defense in petty larceny
suit. That is all it amounts to. The
fact that queen stands on trial makes
It all the more lamentable; but, with
the light Of truth upon it, 1T Is simply
that and nothing more. 1t Is q defense
that has its home and finds its greatest
operation upon the criminal side Of
petty court. Lamentable 1t Is that IL
should have been offered here. There
are men here born on the soil who
have lived under the monarchy and
accepted it until its acceptance meant
q loss of sef-respect; and, although
we are set down as the enemies OF that
lady and her illustrious predecessors,
i submit there Is not one Of US would
have put her where she has been put
today. Does this Commission believe
that upon any probability, any human
probability, IL those men were armed
that night-that Thursday night - the
accused knew nothing about it? Every
probability points to the fact that she
did know. Even If by the selection OF
her own household we have to intro
duce someone here to prove IL who they
now say is q veritable Munchausen,
that Is their misfortune, but not our
fed that he, in the absence of Mr..
NowleIn, was in charge of her
household. 1t is undenied that a
company Of men were there armed to
the teeth that night, no other night
and not before. Nowlein says he left
the man orders. He had to introduce
the man; he was put in charge. He
was, however, put on the stand and If
be is what they say, there rise up
cloud of witnesses, and the circum-
stances that carry Munchausen along
and would carry the truth along
whether he was there or not against q
very much more substantial evidence
than was offered in defense. 1t is q
police court defense. It is an "Irish
alibi'' to the effect, that this lady,
having eyes to see and ears to hear
and an understanding to grasp, neither
saw, heard nor understood, though
treason by the undisputed evidence
enwrapped that house for months,
fitted out of those doors day and
night and rested in the shape of that
guilty shell in the privacy Of her own
room, and upon her own testimony.
This raises a decided presumption
that as soon as we introduce the evil
dence of Kaae, of Nowlein, or Clark,
and of Kaauwai, it clinched the mat
ter, and ended all possibility of denial
or escape. The learned counsel sur
prised US q good deal with the conten-
ton that 1t was not treason; there has
been some remarkable advice given to
these native rulers and at this hour
looking back it must strike them with
peculiar force. 1t is q matter Of his
tory that the royal brother Of the lady
who now stands accused at this bar,
wrecked his throne with q carefully
II
opium bribery. Backed by white peo-
pie who are lost to the light but who
wrecked his throne, and when the
people arose in resentment and de-
manded their rights, stood aloof, but
when peace had come again, stood
like Absalom at the Kings gate and
said "would that we had been here
that we might do justice to this poor
deluded people," The lady her
self had referred to the 18th OF Janu-
ary when she stood with the Lottery
RfIl an 0na hand and tho Nauv Conati-