The Arizona sentinel., 1896-04-04
NUMBER 20.
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and navy" Public improvements
 were neglected, roads became almost
 lmpas5a'le, while the king secured
 large loan from EnglanL, end squand-
 cred vast sums Of the revenue in loans
 and on Hula dancing girls.
 KAlakaua was not a aa,} man. He
 was weak, vain man, and easily in fuenced by bad surroundings. He
 was con<tantlr in need of money, tho
 his annuity was greater than the salary Of the President of the United States. He founI himself hampered by the constitution which limited his power, and declared his intention of giving the people another constitution which was in reality return to ab- solute monarchy.
 Great excitement prevailed, and re- volutlnn was threatened by the people whose liberties were endangered. until. lowing to the popular will. Kalakaua permitted the constitution to stand.
 It Is said that at this time the kingls sister, Princess LiliuokalaHi, was in England, a guest of Queen Victoria, studying royal life. She was very in- dignant at her brother yielding to the wishes of the American Hawaiians, and on her return to Honolulu re- yolution was precipitated by some of her friends to depose the king and place her on the throne. The Ameri- can settlers on the islands went to the rescue Of the king, and the rebelliob was put down.
 King Kalakaua died. January %, 1891. and was succeeded by bis sister, Iiliuokalani, as queen. The queen was thoroughly Eng.ish in education and sympathy. From the first she displayed intense harted for the Amer ican missionaries. Left alone she might have made an excellent mon arch, for those who know her say she possesses many good qualities; even her political enemies deny the islanders against her personal character. But the queen was ill-advised. Her race preJudices were reused by interested persons, The American missionary was held up in the light of meal pirate, who had left his conscience at Cape Horn, and come to rob and plunder the natives as the Spaniards had done in America, anI all under the guise of religion.
 In various ways she kept her sub jects alarmed by threats to deprive them of their constitutional liberti s. Tho her salary and income from crown lands exceeded the salary of the president of the United States by nelr. ly twenty thousand dollars, she was not satisfied. She was advised to be E. que n in spleniOr as well as name. A crowd Ot evil designing friends We're constantly about her advising her to Io what they should have known would be her ruin. There were near " two thousand Americans and over one thOus lnd Germans, as well as many English, at this time living on the islands, who did nor believe i'll the divine rights of kings. Many of tleese had, by thrift and honest toll, accum- ulated property amounting to millions. With them 1t was business propcsi- lion. Should they, in order to maln- tain a tradition born in the dark days of harbarism, and ,radled in ignorance and superstition, yield up the hard 3 irnings of their lifetime?
 Among the other schemes to re- pleniSh tine depleted treasury of the lueen was what is known as tine lot 5ery. The originator of this was MT. Thomas E. Evans, whose wi e was a maid of honor 10 the queen, and who mad held some offices under the kings
 JOHN R. MUsICK.