The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

bic. because there were other ways, even
then, Of securing treasury deficiencies. I
ards and r: Armstrong were Cabinet minis-
tsrs, a deficiency so irexplicable occurred
| that the Cabinet was required to resign inn
mediately. and TO one of the retiring MEM
pers the popular appellation 'kauka-kope-
haia subsequently adhered pretty tena-
ciousiy. l refrain from translating, as the
| ute is not one of honor, but it still clingS
| to the family as an heirloom"
The untranslated word would have been
| boon TO the New York papers In the days
or Tweed and Carney. Alas that blessings
she mildly recalls the friendship and favor
extended by Paki, her adopted father. 10
| Mr. Gilman, and her sorrow that he should
i have implicit belief in all the absurd and
wicked statements circulated by the mis-
sionary party against my own character,
| and that of my peoples papers We're sent
vOuched for the truth of these abominable
political SANDERS, and at first / could
scarcely credit it. for this man was often
at the house of my adoption, and showed
great Partially for my society when / was
/ a young girl and he young man. he knew
| Pald and Konia, a couple of the strictest
morality, whose household was organized on
| the basis of the most regular family habits
and the most pious Christian customs; ana
these had taken me from my very birth
under their parental care.
He further knew me as the foster-sister
and ne daily daily companion Of Mrs. Bernice Pau a
kind care of her husband, Hon. Charles K.
Bishop, couple whose principles of ex-
allied piety, whose love for all that is good.
| honorable and pure, are too well known to
need at this moment the least praise from
me- and whose protection was ever and al
ways surrounding my earlier life. From
| their house. when married, | went directly
to that of my husbands mother, with whom
| lived to the day of her death, not so very
BOSTON MIsERIEs
! OF her month in Boston with her CO sins,
! Mr.. and Mrs William Lee, she speaks with
enthusiasm, and indeed the name of La
Refine Most Delightful" mischievously
applied to Queen Victoria by the exiled
Bourbons might very we'll be given to Lii
uokalani. Even sleigh ride, which must
have been torture to her, she will not
strongly dsapprove: II must say" she
writes. that failed to see the delight and
exhilaration of the sport, although enjoyed
the afternoon very much indeed; but If
had had the same charming companions on
a good road with an easy-riding carriage
| it seems to me the pleasure of the ride
would have been greater 1t reminded me
| of the play of the Hawaiian children, where
! they draw each other along with Smooth
| logs for runners. But it was extremely
! thoughtful in Mr.. and Mrs. Armstrong 10
suggest this for my entertainment, ana
| was only one of the many ways in which
these friends showed their goodness or
| heart towards me-.
! She speaks with pleasure of the gallant
| gentlemen, beautiful ladies and fair young
| girls who graced the reception given iii
| her honor by Mrs. Lee, but she sadly says:
Although, since my earliest remembrance,
| 1 have been accustomed to ceremonies and
! receptions yet, even after a winters eX-
perience in Washington. It IS not easy for
me to get that shrinking from the
! gaze of strangers acquired by years OF re-
tirement, eight months of experience as
! prisoner, and the humiliations of the time
| when l was under the supervision of gov
eminent spies or cuStodianS.
! 1t should be remembered, in reading this,
Tod Npfks
| ity have an unpleasant literal way of APP
! plying it, and when injured by Christian
suffer n tnelE re4g ih h nee claa also
| her book with a solemn appeal TO Amer
leans, warning them that God will judge
! them by their behavior in her case, and 1t
| is evident that she does not speak mechan-
ically, but as earnestly as any Hebrew
prophet
HER GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND"
Mr.. Cleveland's splendid ability and
rare judgment and lofty standards of right
win her praise, and she found Mr.. Nc
Kinley "a most agreeable gentleman. both
in manner and Words, and referring to
public comment on her visit to the White
House she says:
| strangers have remarked that in no
part of the world visited by them have
| they found the rules of etiquette so ex-
actly laid down and so persistently OBJ
served as in Honolulu when the islands
were under the monarchy. 1t is to be ex-
pected therefore, that | know what is due
| to me; that further, as the wife OF the
| Governor of Oahu, as the princess royal,
/ and as the reigning sovereign, 1t was not
necessary for me to take lessons in the
departments Of social or diplomatic ETH
! quiette before residing in the national CAPT.
| tai of the United States. or making and re-
| ceiving visits of any nature.
| Possibly, after being privately received
] by an Empress-Queen, after occupying
place of honor at the jubilee ceremonies in
| Westminster Abbey, being taken out to
| luncheon by the Duke of Edinburgh and sit
| ting between him and William of Prus-
/ STA, and after a Foreign Office reception
doris of the White House might not dismay
| the soul.
| favor after that of inherited rights, is one
which should appeal especially to Amerl-
| cans for it is that her own people, num-
| bering forty thousand, are in the majority,
| the American colony having but three thou
sand souls. This estimate excludes the per-
| sons imported as laborerS. The latest Eng
| lish figures are seventy-five thousand ha-
| waiians fourteen thousand whites of Itu-
ropean, American and mixed descent, twen-
| ty-four thousand Japanese and htteen thou
! sand Chinese.
Now, if the majority do not rule, why is
| the government called republican? II the
majority should rule, would the republic
| endure for an hour? Liliuokalanl thinks
not, and she very evidently also THINKS that
! If the Kamehamehas, who permitted mis-
sionary rule, were fit to reign she, who has
opposed it ever since she understood 1t.
| who has learned its WileS by suffering from
| them, is much more fit. If the treaty, as
| 1t stands be accepted, she is lost as a ruler
| and almost penniless as a woman. If 1t be
rejected the United States may again be
| asked to judge between her and those who
| have robbed her and are using the spells as
! part of a price paid to Uncle Sam for Civ
| ing them the name of children. The line Of
| the Keaweaheuhe has always been friendly
| to the United States, and it seems probable
| that she would consent to any terms of
| allowance not involving the cession of Ha-
| waiian soil. On that point she seems as
| reasonable and yielding George Wash
| asked allow
| a French fort to be built on one of the
| Boston harbor islands. Would Lincoln have
found her unreasonable?
THE PINGREE BOOM.
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