The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-07-11


so long as Queen Liliuokalani is
alive. The queen is still the queen
to her people and they not only
honor her, but love her, and treat
her with as much difference and
respect to-day as at any time during
her reign.
This simply means that when the
change comes, and come it will as
sure as the islands remain, Queen
Liliuokalani will be on the throne,
not through any effort or design OF
her own, but by the expressed Will
of vast majority of the people of
the Islands. | say this advisedly.
The queen will take no part in any
attempt to recover the government.
She is willing to sacrifice herself and
her interests for the good OF her
people, but will under no considera-
ton jeopardize the welfare OF her
people for her own benefit. She has
persistently refused to counsel with
those who desire a change and has
kept in seclusion that is painful to
her friends.
Probably no woman has been
more maligned than the queen. Be-
fore her overthrow her virtues and
good qualities we're extolled to the
skies by those who lose no oppor-
tunity of slandering her in the hope
OF bolstering their own cause. The
people OF the United States have
been told all sorts of malicious
stories regarding the private life of
the queen and she has been pictured
as an untutored, uncultured, coarse
woman, whose sole object in life was
her personal pleasure. This is any
thing but the truth. She is wo-
man of education and refinement,
every inch a queen in talk, appear
ance and manner. Her face, which
the published pictures OF her much
belle, shows deep thought and deli
cate refinement. There is strength
in every line Of it and her everyday
life is counterpart of what it de-
picts. A member of the Episcopal
church, she is a devout and sincere
Christian, doing no lip service, hut
making her life conform to the
tenets of the belief. Her desire is
that her people may advance and
profit by the wonderful resources of
the islands and reap the benefits of
the improvement. In their present
condition of subsection to foreign
domination this is Impossible as
it is the policy of the Government
to keep all natives from places of
emolument.
The feeling of the natives could
not better be illustrated than by re-
peating a story told me by frien d
in Honolulu.
The government in its blindness
to the welfare of the islands has de-
vised registration rules and regula-
tions that are revolving to all decent
people. Among the regulations is
one requiring every person on the
islands to put his thumb mark on a
piece of paper after the Bertillon
method of identifying criminals.
An old native was asked if he had
registered. No. Was he going to
register? No. Then he would get
into trouble. What trouble? He
would be fined. He had no money.
Then he would be put in Jail. Draw
ing himself up he said
"We are all of one mind. There
are not jails enough to hold us all
and the government hasn't money
enough to feed us all if we go to
jail"
The thumb mark regulation will
be rescinded. 1t cannot be enforced,
especially as it applies to tourists
and visitors as we'll as residents.
The situation in nutshell is this:
The present government is unable
and cannot stand. It's adherents
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