The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
BY ALICE RIX.
: Special Correspondence of The Call.

=: HONOLULU, Aug. 16.-The Flag o1
 :Hawaii. is fallen. The little troubled
 Republic is no more. The Queen Island :. of the Pacific is become a subject of
 the United States of America. History has. turned the page on which Hawaiis S
 nanle' Is written.
 .. Ffoni the Executive Building-once a Palace where crowned heads were laid to their uneasy sleep, from the Judicial
 Building, before which a bronze Kame- . hameha; King and Conqueror, stands,
 from the color sergeant's standard of the; Hawaiian Regiment which was
 banded by a king. from the Kamehame-
 Ina Schools endowed by the daughter . of q. royal house, from Lunalilo House,
 kings gift to his needy poor, from
 library and museum. school and hall,
 founded by kings, built by kings, en- :. riched by kings, called after kings,
 there floats to-day the banner of the
 greatest republic the world has ever
 known.
 I love the look of It against all skies. against all winds. love the stars upon tits heavenly plain, the red that bars
 its stainless field. I love its story and lis significance, its history and it's
 promise. I cannot see it floating any
 where, raised over any land without a
 quick. warm joy to know 1t waves. But here, set above the standard of this : .frjendly people, so gentle, sorrowful, unwilling, the proud, new sight of it Is .: fit to make me weep. It Is the emblem of liberty which has Hawaii in the leash. It is the banner of free
 ..doIn which deprives her of her
 own rights to be free. The taking : of these islands by a stronger nation :. was. inevitable. Ours was the nearest
 hand We needed them-or at least i've :needed that they should go to : none beside ourself. And so we took them, deliberately, imperially, as Great Britain would have taken them and :":caIled our need-Or our greed-by the
 hnenames of military necessity and the :. S@fVat1on of Hawaii: and so, perhaps if is one or the other or both according 10 the laws of man and the policy of empires. Only there is the law of God and the traditions of a Republic. If .> America had gathered this little vexed ; land to her broad bosom as a mother
 takes troubled child, had she estab-
 +l1shed here protectOrate and left Ha- .. waii her name her flag, her country. + her identity, the History of these . United States would have shown 2
 A c :. policy, what lessons do republics teach
 t0 kings?
 >:Qh, little monarchy crushed on Free
 -dom's breast! Oh. little Republic. lost
 In Freedoms arms. Oh, poor flag. low
 cred by Freedoms flag! Oh people. oh. right Oh justicei Oh tyranny! Oh liberty oh bondage! Oh world! Friday, the twelfth day of August
 came weeping from the skies. The . dawn was dismal and the noon was worse. Clouds brooded over the noun
 tains, the rain fell in the valleys. The ocean was dull thick. oily as paint. A :. pregnant calm lay on the world strange. gray pail hung between earth
 and sky. The sun burned through it as Tayless heat. People on the street went a bout. saying 1t was earthquake <: weather. People In the houses opened
 doors and windows, gasped the suItry air and looked upon the sky.
 ". Toward 10 o'clock the rain came down From the valleys and fell fitfully in the > town-not the light, inconsequential, trivial :sprinkles which fall daily on the just and tfe unjust of Honolulu, without the: power to wilt an organdie or take the courage from q feather, but a fine. soft. soaking, melancholy rain, which .puStfed the roads and hung great drip ping CurtainS from the trees. The pro- cessiQn of ducks and organdes in the streets put up great. black silk umbrel- las. and plOdded wetly to the Executive groufids, There was no shelter except In, the foose-t -thatched arbors, through which ;the rain poured as through sieye.
 :: The platform for the annexation eX- :ercises: was finished on the Executive EroundS:' It was two days in the build ing. The. falling of the hammers reached Liliuokalani in her rooms at Washington place. Once she stopped and listened and asked bitterly, Are they. putting up the scaffold In the Palace -grounds?" At least, so I was told but for the truth of it I vouch no more that this.
 : The platform was built out from the lower balcony of the Executive build ing, on level with the first landing of The broad main steps "a SiZable square: unimpressively decorated with little flags and shields at punctual dis tances about it's face, provided with 1 ,seats:f for the invited guests and fami- Hes Of officials, with wide center aisle | down which the official party made It's way.
 :. Two vacant chairs were prominent | In the crush upon the floor They had | been placed there for the ex-Queen and | the Princess Kaiulani, who were sent | formal invitations to the ceremony. | fC' IS- IdlIeI to lHe cTeulC or depOSed 1 royalty that 1t received the tactful at- tentfon without comment of any sort
 In spite of the rain Honolulu wore fife best; which is not stunning by a mile and a half, and covered it up with funereal umbrellas, which gave the platform the appearance of a mush room crop. So far as I could see under the umbrellas and from my seat at the extreLne end of the platform, there was not one Hawaiian among the women seated on the stand. and only those men whose official duties required them to be'there. In the grounds were mum bers.. of the common people-the sort which would flock to executions. if such entertainment were made public and