The Arizona sentinel., 1896-05-02
HAWAII, THE PEARL
 OF THE PACIFIC. /"
T'Rle ESth of a Series of Letters
 by .sOhn R. NEusicB<.
Author of ssTke Columbian HiStOr- icaE Noyels," ''BrOther Against
 Brother" etc., etc.
Copyright 1896, by FUNK 6 WAGNALLs COMPANY
 New York.)
The Louisiana Lottery The Rebellion
 in 1895 and How it was Put Down.

in 1895 and How it was Put Down.
 After the Louisiana Lottery had been driven out of the United States, it's packers and supporters began to look about for some place convenient to America where the gigantic swim 1le might be resuscitated. The Ha- waiian Islands were regarded as the most convenient place. MT. Evans went to Chicago, where he met the willing to engage in the An arrangement was made whereby the Chicago capitalists, providing the franchise was granted, were to pay the Hawaiian government the sum of five hundred thousand dollars per annum for the term of twenty five years. At the time the l ttery bill was being agitated in the legislature, another bill, fully as odious to all decency and morals, known as the "Opium Bill," was brought up.
 The queens cabinet was composed men who inspired confidence in the minds of the people, but they did not prove sufficient to check their head strong ruler. The legislature, like the Long Parliament in Cromwell's time, was in session until the more respectable members were compelled to leave for their homes to attend to their business. They had scarcely left before the opium and lottery men, taking advantage of their absence, hurciedly passed the bills known as the Opium" and Lottery" bills.
 The decent and respectable people of Hawaii saw the danger that menaced them. The missionaries realized that the race just rescued from heathendom was about to be exposed to all the vices of civilization, and land to-day filled with churches and school houses, aboit to become the Monte Carlo of the Western Hemisphere. Another class of Americans looked on with alarm at the condition of affairs those who had business interests at at stake which were in jeopardy. A party of Christian ladies waited on the queen and petitioned her not to sign the Odious bills. It is said she wept with them; they prayed with her and left, assured she would veto the bills, but she signed them almost as soon as they were gone.
 The alarm spread and increased. meetings were held, and some dis cussed taking measures to avert mor- al and financial ruin. The queen pro- rogued the legislature, dismissed her cabinet, and appointed in it's place a set of ministers obnoxious to most of the respectable people of the islands. The excitement was now as it's height. This high-handed trampling on the liberties of people, many of whom were born on the islands, was resent ed. A Committee of Safety was form ed, and citizens began to arm them selves.
 The queen announced that she was going to give her people new consti- tuition. The new constitution was written and signed, but she failed to ge the signatures of all her cabinet. The document never came to light, but it is known that it provided for the disfranchisement of all white men not married to native women, and that only the property of the whites should be liable for taxes.
 The Committee of Safety organized and formed in companies. Arms were concealed in a hardware store, and, on the morning of Jan. IT, 1893, MT. John Good, now Captain Good, MT. Benner, and two others. started with them to the armory of the Committee Of Safety. On Fort Street they were attacked by the police. Captain Good fired and wounded one man, and MT. Benner knocked another down with the butt of his whip, and thus they escaped.
 There has probably been more wholesale lying, in print and out of print, about the action of Minister Stevens and Captain Wiltse than about any other subject since the days of Ananias. The day after the landing of the troop, the queens cabinet called on Minister Stevens to ask the aid of the United States marines in sustain ing the queen against the Provisional Government then in course of forma- ton. Minister Stevens answered.:
 "Gentlemen, these men were landed for one purpose only, a pacific purpose,