The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-21
THE QUEEN
EXTOLLED
How She Affected
a Literary
Guest.
CROWN LAND CLAIM
BEING DOOMED
Full Text of an Interview Lately
Referred to in These
Columns.
Especial to the Advertiser)


q AN FRANCISCO. Jan. 11.-Last
week 1 sent the Advertiser an ar
~ tlcle from the San Francisco
News Letter. written by Mrs. A. r.
Rose-Soley. II was part of an article
written by this Australian lady, after
an interview at the California hotel,
with Liliuokalani. 1 have now been
able to get full copy of the article,
proofs of which have been sent to all
the leading papers of the United States
by friends of the former Queen, with
the purpose Of influencing public senti-
ment in the matter of her claim
against the United States government,
for the value of the crown lands.
The story in full is as follows:
WITH LILIUOKALANI.
By a. r. Rose-Soley.
LAS to you comes the north wind. or
the west, bringing storm or fog, even
so have we the south breeze, the soft
mist, hundred influences of nature.
affecting for good or evil the families
that come within their circle
Liliuokalanis liquid voice grows
dreamy, and she gaZes beyond the en-
vironing walls. Is she bordering which
of natures influences was at its evil
work, when the clutch of the Ameri
can eagle tore her throne from under
her and flung into poverty the extern
sive family" gathered about it's steps?
One precious possession indeed the
eagle left, and it enfolds her as a regal
mantle; the refined and gracious dig
nifty, inherited from long line Of rul-
ers, could not be disposed of by any
republican aggression. In the small
private drawing room of a San Fran
cisco hotel where we sit, the eX-Queen
holds court as simply and as nobly as
ever she did in her days of power; a
quiet majesty reveals itself in speech
and gesture, a courtly Difference marks
the manner of those around her, the
gorgeous Californian chrysanthemum
at her side sways to her hand as a
golden scepter. A Queen displaced, not
deposed. it needs but little Illusion to
picture her amid her former surround
ings.
Yet Liliuokalani herself has no iilu-
sions. When I speak of the result of
her visit to Washington, the indemnity
she is sure to receive for the crown
lands which have been wrenched from
her. she merely smileS-a hopeless,
deprecating smile. Not that she is ret
icent in the matter. "Oh, you may
speak quite openly before my friends
here she explains; 81 have no secrets
from them, my interests are theirs"
Neither is she Indifferent; the woman,
let alone the Queen, who is absolutely
Indifferent TO wealth and its privileges
has yet TO be born. What she lacks is
in the United States Con-
gress, but not in the great American
nation and its sense of justice. My
friends at Washington are trying to do
all they can: they have already tried
to do what they can, but it seems so
useless. fear 1 am to expect nothing
And the hand which once held a
scepter falls YEARLY, as though dis
missing a painful subject.
Nay, but there is the American wo-
man." I protest eagerly, the great
mass of American womanhood with it's
strong enthusiasms, strong will, strong
heart. American women will never
stand by calmly to see you injureL,
their sense of justice is keen, they are
in swaying public opinion,
your cause is surely safe with them
Again that quiet, hopeless smile. "Ah,
yes" says the Hawaiian, II know the
They have sought me out,
they are very kind. very considerate,
very sorry for me and that is
ALL
This time the smile has a touch of
sadness. Liliuokalani. queenly though
she be. does not forget, and in her
memory Turk some curious illustra
tons of American sympathy. She can
recall the lost Hawaiian flag, for which
the Hawaiian Ladies' Patriotic Society
veinly petitioned an American Admir-
al; she can recall her own confiscated
flag. the Rayol Standard, hanging in an
American drawing room and gleefully
pointed out to her by an American wo-
man. She remembers beautiful Kaiu-
Princess of the Broken Heart
to the tomb without the ma