The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1897-01-29
starts at Shadows.

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that good many nervous people of
Hawaii are afraid that the presence
OF the ex-Queen here will rouse Am
erica to such a pitch of enthusiasm
and sympathy that things will be
likely to go hard, hereafter, with
the annexation party. These credu-
lous people are prepared to hear
that crowds of sycophantic San
Franciscans have been delaying traf-
fic in front Of the hotel where Mrs.
Dominis stopped; that the militia
turned out to escort her to the thea
ter and that the President Of the
United States is pacing restlessly up
and down the platform OF the Wash
ington depot in the fear that the ex-
Queen may arrive there ahead Of
time and deprive him OF the chances
to greet her at the threshold of the
capital with becoming genuaectione.
Nothing less than an obsequious
recognition OF the old monarchy is
looked for by the shrinking annexa-
tionists, and all of them are quite
ready to say, 81 told you so," when
the direful intelligence comes.
To all such perturbed spirits,
peacel The ex-Queen arrived in
San Francisco without even causing
policeman to stand the straighter
or a militiaman to black his boots.
Aside from a mild curiosity to see a
woman for whom Mr.. Cleveland had
risked so much, no one in San Fran
cisco departed from the ordinary
tenor of his way because OF the ex-
royal presence. The same is true
else where. Instead OF hurrying to
the depot the President OF the
United States hustled off to the
North Carolina duck ponds and is
well prepared to go there again the
moment he hears that Liliuokalani
has arrived within the longitude OF
Washington.
1t is amusing to reflect that IN
view OF this development the Hawai-
ian Republic permitted Mrs. Domi-
mis- to keep the country in Torment
for two years and connive at an
actual revolution, because of the
fear that her appearance in America
would be followed by great popu
lar uprising in her favor. The de-
sire to send her to the Coast and got
rid of source OF annoyance and
trouble was common in the Annexa-
ton Club and American League of
Hawaii after 1898, but the Govern
ment was -aghast at the danger.
His Excellenoy the Attorney Gen
eral, as the gentleman who does the
law business for the vestry that rules
the parochial islands is called, was
particularly sure that things would
go to the dogs the moment the ex-
Queen set her ample foot upon
these sympathetic shores. So they
made her stay at Honolulu until the
conspiracies which her presence in
spired brought about an armed con-
fct, spilling OF blood and mark
ed increase OF taxation. All this
might have been avoided by little
common-sense, AS matter OF fact
il Mrs. Dominis had been sent here
while restoration was an active is.
sue in our politics little more would
have been heard of it except in the
jokes Of photographers at the expense
OF the Southern Senators who cham
pioned the cause of such an obvious
African, and in the cartoons that re.
vealed an aged colored auntie .on a
rampage for throne.
Tho trouble with Hawaii is that
long isolation has had the same
effects on its nerves that darkness
has on those of child. 1t only gets
over one cold fit to fall into another,
and cannot see shadow on the cur
tain or hear squeak in wains-
coting without imagining malign
influx of gorgons and chimeras dire.
Just now the bogy is the ex-Queen.
To morrow it may be the Japs, and
! the next day the British. There il