Evening star., 1896-11-27
QUEEN ILLS PARDON
Hawaii Has Now Settled Down to
the New Regime.
TALK ABOUT JOHN ". FOSTER'S VISIT
The Feeling in Opposition to An
nexation to the United States.
THE SUFFRAGE QUESTION
al Correspondence Of The Evening Star

SPECIAL Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
| HONOLULU, November 6. 1896
| The full pardon extended by the govern
ment to Liliuokalani seems to call for some
notice in this correspondence. The subject
! was laid before the council of state on oc-
tober %. and by them unanimously an
proved. On October % the pardon was de-
livered to the ex-queen. All the proceedings
were extremely quiet. No previous intima-
| tion of intention had been made by the ex-
ecutive. The people generally manifested
| no interest In the matter. The local press
was almost absolutely without comment
on the subject. Entire apathy seemed to
prevail about the formerly great parsonage.
For more than year Liliuokalani had
been In the enjoyment of substantial lib
| erty, having been released on parole In
| September. 1895, from the confinement she
| had suffered for eight months in the upper
part Of the executive building. her former
palace. 1t will be remembered that in the
preceding February she had been convicted
| by military commission of the crime of
mfspr1Sion OF treason and sentenced to i'm
! prisonment for five years and a fine of
$1,000. She had been proved to be cog
INFANT Of the futile insurrection Of January
| q. 1885, made for the purpose of restoring
| her to the throne Since her enlargement
| she has lived very quietly, and there has
uoWucES DSeH manifest any disposition to
| initiate further attempts to overthrow the
government of the republic.
Mrs L1liuokalani Dominis, eX-queen of
| Hawaii, has evidently become a back
numoer number, she forms no part of any ones
political schemes any more than If she had
deceased. Doubtless her formal abdcation
| before her trial has done something toward
| this result although it would count for lit
| tie IL her former adherents continued loyal
| to her, which is not the case. They have
very generally come to recognize i'm her
Willful and reSentful disposition, which has
| alienated them. Whoever has not supported
! her In all her schemes through thick and
| thin has been made to feel her lasting dis
| pleasure, even though she may have made
| temporary use OF them. Whatever loyalty
| to monarchy or purpose to seek its restora-
| ton still abides among natives and half
| whites-no doubt a good deal-probably
| turns in the direction of Kaiulani.' Doubt
| less there are many of the people who look
| upon this untried young person as their
possible queen. and who hope for some con-
| junction Of affairs to arise, some new deal
| Of the cards, which shall establish Miss
| Clegnorn as the representative native mon
arcn. All such must feel, however, that
| there are at present no favorable signs in
| tnat direction. Somewhere lately, i forget
| where, there appeared suggestion that
universal harmony would be easily secured
by allowing katuiani as queen to exercise
nominal power, leaving Mr.. Dole and his
colleagues to continue in actual power as
the cabinet, to do all the ruling!
Hawaii for Hawaiinns.
The main significance discerni5le in such
| proposition as emanating from a royal
| ist source is its illustration Of the despair
| to which that party are reduced. The
whole aim of the royalis.s-natives and
| half whites-has hitherto been to gather
| all the ruling power into native hands,
and to exclude foreigners This was pre-
| eisely what Liliuokalani aimed to accom-
plish by her attempted coup d'etat of Janu-
! ary, 1893. which dethroned her. She was
! supported in that attempt by a great zeal
/ or the part Of majority OF The natives.
| many Of whom were excessively indignant
when she drew back intimidated by the
attitude of the whites. and were ready to
| slay her and her recreant ministers on
! been diligently propagated by Kalakaa Ia
| and Liliuokalani, that the Hawaiians
owned exclusive rights in the government
| Of the country, and that foreigners were in
| truders and must be kept from exercising
any voice in public affairs The war cry
| was Hawaii for the Hawaiia1sr' Had
the natives and rulers been cordially will
| ing to leave the practical conduct Of the
government in the hands of representative
| white men, who possessed the necessary
| capacity, the islands might have continued
| indefinitely under the native monarchy.
The revolution of 1887, which wrested a
| new constitution from Kalakaua, was ex-
pressly for the purpose of securing con-
| troll of public affairs to the capable whites,
| leaving the king practically figure head.
and putting an end to his perniclous ard
disgraceful meddling. kalakaua plotted to
restore the old regime by means Of the
futile insurrection of Bob WILCOX in 1883
to which Mrs. Dominis was privy. Iiliuo-
| kalani undertook to do the same thing by
| direct public fiat in 1888 The whole series
| of conflicts forms chapter Of contin Ious
| contest for political control between the
| incompetent and incapable native Ha-
| waiians. whose methods of government
| could not rise to civilization, and the able
| and intelligent whites, mostly born here,
| who were directing the great and multiply
| ing commercial and productive Interests OF
| the islands. Had Hawaii continued to be
| as formerly a remote and isolated group,
| far from the great currents OF ocean traffc,
| she might easily have been left under the
| control of the aboriginal race. But after
| commerce began to center here, and vast
| agric ultural interest grew up in the bands
| of the white men. an ignorant native con-
troll Of the government became no longer
| endurable or possible. The men who di-
| rected the commerce and production of the
| islands were compelled to take entire pcs
| session of government.
1t is therefore a significant fact, when
! the native royalists have advanced SO far
| in their perception of the logic of events,
| that they are now ready to concede to the
| whites all that the latter insisted on hve
and ten years ago-that the native monarch
| should retain his throne only on condition
| of remaining a fGurehead. OF course,
| they are altogether too late in their oher
l
| decrepit monarchy, and has become habit
| uated to the methods of republican govern
| ment. The country can no more resume
| its former monarchical status than a crab
| can get back into the shell it shed last
| year. Miss kaiulani need have no fears
| of ever having to carry the burdens of
| state upon her feeble shoulders. or of losing
! the independence of private life. Hawaii
| will never have any use for her. beyond
| " lat it has for any pretty and exemplary
| young woman, such as she is supposed to
| have developed into.
MIR. Fosters Visit.
| A few days ago the Hon. John w. Foster
and wife arrived at Honolulu from San
Francisco. They propose to spend here
| about three weeks. Mr.. Foster has at
tained much higher rank in public life
| than any other statesman who has yet IA
| vored US with his presence. Having oc-
| curied the position of Secretary of State
at the time that Mr. Thurston and his COL
| leagues visited Washington in February,
| 1S93 for the purpose of securing a treaty
| of annexation, Mr.. Foster himself drew up
| that treaty and signed it. That fact rem
| ders him a most interesting guest to this
| government and to all parties favoring an
| nexation, even had he not gained such
| eminent distinction in diplomatic labors at
various courts, and especially at the close