The times., 1897-04-18
Private Secretary Palmer Ana
lyzeS Some Criticisms.
SHE is A CHRISTIAN HYMNIST
Ex-Oueen Not q Descendant of Canni.
balls and Did Not Mean to Tell
Minister Willis That She Must
Have the Heads of Her Hawaiian
Enemies Her Washington Life.
To the Editor of The Times:

dIuNit bil NuS pCIsoildl tlidIdCteT vi L-lHuO-
kalani, OF Hawaii. which fas been sent by
me to any paper since the arrival OF that
lady in this country, 1t, Therefore. pans
me excessively to see in your editorials,
repeatedly and, perhaps, ignorantly used,
the words ''camibai dynasty" If you
will turn To the History of the Hawaiian
People published by the board of edu-
cation, written and approved by those in
active sympathy with the epresentHawaiian
government, you viii find in its index.
page 334 ''Canuibalism Unknown. 81"
This is the only reference thereto in the
volume, and the text says that evil was
always regarded with horror and detesta-
ton by the ancient people OF those is
lands Could pages Of argument be stron-
ger?
/ have never met DR.. Taimage, but
would your readers like to hear that
which | knew before this visit to Wash
ington in regard to his acquaintance with
the ex-queen, whom he respects and es-
teens as highly as all those Who meet
her The reverend doctor arriving in Homo
lulu like myself, like Miss Field, like
all who visit there, was at once taken
in charge by the very bospitahle residents.
There are two causes for this. One is
that our American colony, as you love to
call IT. contains the kindesthearted and
most hospitable people in the world; the
other that, desiring to raise with author
ity the American flag, they see 70 IL that
a visitor is kept from contact with the
aboriginal people, or those sympathHing
with the queen.
on this day anddate DIR TalmaGe was to
preach at their very beautiful and ex-
elusive church. without mentioning his
object, the doctor asked his host to leave
him by himself at the church some time
before the ceremony. This was done with
out a suspicion. He stepped across the
street, and sent his card to the queen at her
private residence, was at once received and
had charming call. Then he returned 70
his pulpit, publicly declared what he had
done, and called her enemies TO order III
brief, courteous, hut emphatic words for
their reflections On so kind and good
lady And the very man who wrote your
editorial would have done the same in
his place, soimpreSsiyelydoes Liliuokalani's
presence speak for her character.
Since she has been in TINS city have
presented TO her by name and by card
about 5000 persons, and were TO repeat
IN your columns one-tenth Of the enthuSi-
astic remarks made To me by la dies have
never seen before and shall never see
again, you might justly write OF me as
the hemosuConsummate off1attering Courtiers.
No one but her own heart can know the
pain which a wronEly-reported remark,
hastily put into circulation for a political
purpose, gave to her few years ago. 1t
is with the greatest reluctance that /
have even made this allusion, andI should
not do it now We're IL not that her friends
In this city, where she has made legion,
tell me that it is due to the public.
I refer to her alleged reply TO the request
for amnesty.
Search the very history above quoted
for the word il was said she used and you
will search in vain; the punishment Of be-
heading is not known in Polynesia. In
modern OF ancient law of Haw iii il las
never been recognized, nor was such an act
present even to the ina gina ton of the lady
who was asked to personal conversation
by MI Willis.
Neither she nor her friends have ever
denied that when the matter of future
policy was presented TO her for considera-
ton. she gave her personal opinion that
Judgment should be as the law directed.
Would not Abraham Lincoln or U. S.
Grant have returned the same reply, had
there been intcrv ention of aliens in behalf
of Gen Lee and jefferson Davis? To
guarantee protection is one thing; TO use
executive clerucncy, quite another Those
who know the queen (amongst them Mr..
ciate since childhood would have had, in
any event, and did have in her own hand
writing, full assurance that they should be
undisturbed in their persons and their
property, if they would assistin the estab-
lishment Of good government, broad
exercise of executive charity, which eX-
ceeded even her constitutional rights Be
fore the stenographic notes of Mr. Willis
interviews were fully written out, she
sent him word that full amnesty should
be given to her enemies, and emphatically
disolaimed TO her friends the use of the
offensive phrase. This is no news; t may
be found in my printed reference TO the
occurrence as sent by me TO the Boston
Transcript when spondent on the
spot, and on the most friendly terms with
men of both parties. Its currency today
is but another illustration of the impos
sibility of recalling conversational phrases.
The three words, Rum, Romanism and
Rebellion changed promising Repub-
lican campaign from hopes of victory to
defeat. But that phrase was history; tho
one | criticise s fiction.
How did it occur? Any phonogra phic
reporter can illustrate its origin. The
sounds and h are identical, save that
the latter should he made heavier; the
skeleton of the two words at opening is
the same; its close is not dissmilar. Just
as Mr.. Blaine owes his failure to be Pres
ident to an ill-natured word, SO, to a
stenographic blunder. Liliuokalani owes
such references as have appeared in the
columns OF the opposition press. There
was never woman more royalty born. her
ancestors were the assistants of the first
Kamehameha. freeing the islands from
idolatry, and uniting them under one
rule; her great-grandaUnt was the heroic
woman who descended into the crater,
sang Christian hymns to the fire-god,
deSecrated the sacred berries, and broke
forever the hold pele had upon her peo-
pie In the first constitution of Hawaii,
as reported on page 124, Senate CT the
United States Reports appears the names
OF the counsellors of the King in 1910, all
of whom had vote: mo law shall be
enacted for the country without their con-
sent is the exact language; they arc
fifteen, five Of them being women chiefs,
among them is Keohokalole; that word
means nothing TO most readers. To the
lady at the Cairo il has the signification
the most sacred 20 each of US, FOR it was
Liliuokalani's own mother Thus, fifty