The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-03-10

ences, show that she believed up to /
ne last that President Cleveland
would restore her TO the Throne. She
would have preferred that method, in
preference to an instruction. She
nay have reached the conclusion, that
ne instruction would succeed, be-
cause she would know that a failure
Of il would involve her deeply. She
had at the time of the overthrow, an
abiding faith in the cowardice OF the
One of her old friends,
who spoke TO her the day before the
overthrow took place, said: Il am
white man, and | know what white |
men can do. You must leave them |
alone" She turned on him and ex-
claimed You too a missionary? |
They never fight" She and her native |
friends shared this opinion. We once
asked Captain Nowlein what he ex-
pected the Citizens Guard would do,
if he and his forces had entered the
city of Honolulu, on January 9Th,
1895. He replied they would run away,
and hide Did you believe it?" we
asked. Eyes. our white friends said
they would run away, as soon as we
got in town" The Queen believed 1t,
and we will give her the credit of be-
lieving that no blood would flow.
Poor woman, she did not understand
the superior races.
She enters into some details about
her Imprisonment and abdication. She
says that when the instrument Of abd1-
cation was presented to her, mot the
least opportunity was given to me to
confer with any one" And, unless
did the will of my jailors what Mr..
Neumann had threatened would be
performed, and six prominent citizens
cher friends) be Immediately put to
death. l so regarded it then, and l
still believe murder was the aterna-
tive
She knows that this statement is a
malicious falsehood She had her
| friend in Mr.. Sam. Parker who advised
her fully. The Acknowledgement clearly
and deliberately told her, that the
| signing of the document would not
| relieve her in the slightest from re-
sponsibility knowing the character
Of the woman, the Government was
not swift to receive it, and most reput-
| able witnesses attested to her volun-
tary act.
Now comes an incident which dis
| closes the utter unreliability OF heI
statements Having said that she was
forced to sign her abdioation 1--WE have
exactly quoted her language. She
then presents the paper which she reat
in her defense when on trial before
the Court Martial. 1t says:
81 was not intimidated into abdicat
ing but followed the counsel of able AM
generous friends and we'll wishers, wh'
advised me that such an act woult
restore peace and good will among
my people, vitalize the progress AM
prosperity of the Islands, and 1nduc
the actual Government to deal lenl
| emily" etc.
On page 275 of the book, she says sh
abdicated to save men from being Kill
, ed, and the title of the chapter
''FIorced Abdication." On page 2Ss
| she saws it was an entirely voluntar
: act. The utter unreliability of he
statements is clearly manifest.
! She displays much hatred toward
Mr.. C. B. Wilson. She calls him dis
appointment to her A brave man, flu
of pluck, and a man who kept his wor
with the Government, a man VIII
t would perhaps have prevented tn
overthrow if he had not been hamper
ed. was not suited to her. Mr.. WI
/. | son stopped or tried to stop the senc
| ing of clandeStine messages to ne
e while she was imprisoned, throug
. newspapers wrapped about flowers. Sh
@ became angry. AS her custodla
! when she was released and parollet
he kept his word, given to the COY
:, eminent This made her angry.
S VIII.
She says that her visit to Washing
h ton was made in order to secure tn
s rights of the native people. Thong
e she had abdicated, she was resolved
i work for her dear people, who pc
e sistently refused to "pungle up Gel
/. for her expenses, or furnish her tt
n price of nights lodging.
g She tells her story, but makes I'll
: reading between the lines very cas-
" She played a lone hand for herse
y We do not blame her. But she lou
Ut be more honest about 1t.
n In summing up the story told IN ID
p book. we believe that it is just tn
- this woman should be judged not
is foreign" but largely by Polynesli
n standards. She acted on racial haDl
and instincts. She was not capable
no Polynesian is capable of, measure
the foreign standards, of comprehen
lie ing the force and value of political /
le situations. Compared with many 9th
female sovereigns, she is perhaps ecu
to the average of them. Like the
q she was not selected by the people
at o leader hut became so by the ac