The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-11-23
MONARCHY.

What gam 90 tne DulN OF Ine hON"i'
lists hope to get should restoration
come to them? 1t is, to the onlooker,
very like the slave asking for the
gives again, it reminds one of the
prisoner in Picllwick, who used to be
let out for "A certain time daily, and
who began to get later and later till
. the turnkey threatened to lock him
out. when he never put his foot out
side the gate again. Hereditary rule
is one of the most ridiculous of re-
strictions that minkind has put upon
itself and once rid of it, nation
should rejoice that it has done away
with relic of the feudal past. The
money spent in the trappings of roy
atty, once you have swept them away,
is expended upon useful and pro-
ductive works. not for the advantage
of one man or woman, not for the ag-
grandizement of one family and its
dependents, but for the advantage
of the entire state. This is what Re-
publicansm does while Il return to
Royalty would mean not only In
creased expenditure upon an individ-
ual, but the pouring out of wealth up
on horde of parasites.
Why should a man or a woman by
right of birth rule over any set IF
men? BY such Il vicious system
sometimes good monarchs appear, by
lint nj
prove the rule. Because one monarch
is good it is no guarantee that his
progeny should be good. If men are
free. they should be free enough 10
appoint their own head of state, rs
they appoint their own representative
in the parliament or Legislature or
whatever the popular assembly may
be called.
If one looks little into even recent
history, and the history of only one
country, we can see what hereditary
monarchy produces. On the death of
William III hereditary monarchy
brought George | on to the throne of
England, a man who never could learn
to speak English, who hated England
as place to dwell in, and who was
never happy unless in his beloved Ha-
mover. However, he very naturally
took what he could get in the shape
of emouments and perquisites and
settled upon the land his venerable
mistresses who got estates and honors
Georges hereditary rights. For the
moral law is all turned upside down
by Royalty. To be the illegitimate
offspring of an ordinary man is a
deep misfortune, the world regards It
as a stain and disgrace; to have i'm
proper relations with a man in ordi-
nary life is social death and ostraclsm
10 woman, and this is just, though
sometimes it seems hard, but to be the
mistress of a sovereign. to be the IL
ligimate offspring of a sovereign, is
regarded, even in this nineteenth CEN
fury, as somewhat of an honor. Eu-
rope is full of left handed countesses
and princesses, and "A spawn of left
handed families with royal blood in
their veins.
Then another sovereign that heredi-
tary right gave England was George
III. He, at least, was respectable in
his family relations. In this he was
pattern. But he was a man of small
intellect untitled to his position, and
holding the narrowest views with that
stubbornness which only people IF
small intellect can. Compare George
III intellectually with Washington or
Franklin, or jefferson, or Adams, and
what intellectual giants you haze
against the pgmy king. Then poor
George III used to have his mind en-
tirely clouded and wandered around
his palace "A miserable imbecIle.
And again hereditary right gave
George ", one of the most dissnlute
of royal rascals, vain, shallow pated,
debauched by every species of de-
bauchery, spendthrift whose deEts
amounting to millions of dollars the
nation paid whose sole act Of clever
ness throughout his long career of
prince and short one of king, was dat
he had invented shoe buckle.
That heredity should now and
then give a good monarch is true.
That it should have given probably
the best that ever sat on a throne in
the person of Queen Victoria is incoI-
there are very few Nicto las ald The
chances of getting George Tvs are
rathertgreater than of repeating Vic
toria's reign.
The more men become edncared,
the more they must combat the tGes