The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-13
PEOPLE
FROM
HAWAII
Literary Bureau at
Work for the
Queen:
MRS. ALDRlCH
WAS NONSUITED
Lucien Young Has an Ovation at
Havana-Wm. r. Castle Jr..
to Marry.
Especial to the Advertiser.)

Especial to the Advertiser)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.-The follow
ing article in the News Letter of today
was written by Mrs. Rose-Soley, an Aus
tralian journalist, who interviewed Lii
uokaIani when she was here a few weeks
ago:
People interested in LiliuokalanI. ex-
Queen of the Hawaiian Islands, and who
anxious that she should have JUS
tice at the hands of the United States,
are sending out to the press of the coun-
try an article written \by A r. Rose
Solely which, besides having literary
worth. Is a strong plea for the deposed
queen. The author says of her:
LiIiuokalani, queenly though she be.
does not forget and in her memory Turk
some curious illustrations of American
sympathy. She can recall the lost Ha-
waiian flag, for which the Hawaiian La
dies Patriotic Society vainly petitioned
an American Admiral; she can recall her
own coriiscated flag, the Royal Stand
ard, hanging in an American drawing
room, and gleefully pointed out to her
by an American woman. She remem-
bers beautiful Kaiulani-the Princess OF
the Broken Heart-borne to the tomb
without the national emblem; small
wonder IL she should put her own value
on American kindness. Kaiulani came
to know what ii was worth and died OF
ed before the tyranny which came, and
in the name of freedom, to fitch her in
heritance; and with youths Impotence
of suffering she bent her dainty head
and gave up Hfe's struggle. Her aunt,
made of sterner stuff, trained and ma
tured in the school of suffering, has
weathered the storm with stately endur-
ance. A trihe more worn, perchance,
trife more weary than of yore, she
maintains her old accomplishing atti-
tude; no word of reproach, no note or
indignation escapes her; born to COM
mand she preserves her calm strength
through adversely. But do not ask her
to preserve her illusions.
Liliuokalani speaks to the author of
the personal suffering entailed by her
loss, but more particularly of the losses
sustained by her relatives, who, under
the old Hawaiian laws were sharers of
the crown lands-members of a patri-
-archal family. She is calm when speak
ing of political things, but is deeply az
fected when telling of her efforts to pre-
serve the history, songs and traditions of
her beloved islands.
1.-The foodgates are opened" says the
writer. sweeping down reserve and re-
Election. Neither queen nor woman sits
by me at this moment but a passionate
Hawaiian the blood of her race and the
love of her race leaping in her veins,
the old racial traditions surgtng at her
heart rapt away by her one fierce desire
to have those traditions safely preserved
for all time And then 1t is she tells
me of the south breeze and the soft mist
and the other nature influences that az
feet native life.
Everything in nature is an influence
with u.s. she goes on: no fog that rises, j.
no breeze that blows but bears des-
tiny. for good or evil to the chief and
chiefs family within its district. Tree
and leaf and flower bird and fish and
insect are all interviewer with our life.
AS each family has Its sacred bird or
fish. whose name it bears, whose life
ii respects. for whose death 1t pays q
penalty, so each is subject to the nature
influences around it. and suffers or joys
according to the whisper of the wind or
the moan OF the wave.
In the olden days" says Liliuokalani, .
all these things Were known and sung;
the story Of each family was the story
of its nature influences. and the history
of the whole nation was made up OF
these family stories. In the balmy
nights. by the light OF the cocoanut fires,
they We're chanted in soft, low voices.
and handed down from generation TO
generation. The art of traditional chant
IS already lost. but ere it can be entirely
forgotten. ere our forests be cleared by
the planters hands our climate altered,
our influences destroyed. / am collecting
the old songs and noting down the old
melodies thai they r1ay not be lost
The. cx-q,cen is still striving 10 regain
her crown lands. taken from her by the
United States, and the author OF the
article quoted makes this plea;
I'VE have brought her the curse or
civilization. it's sorrows and its vices;
We have robbed her OF her inheritance.
defrauded her OF her power 10 do good.
dragged her down from her pedestal.
In return she hands us the historical
traditions which prove the nobility OF
her race ere the white man was heard
Of"
The author asks the women of Amer
lea to help the ex-queen recover her
Own. concluding as follows:
We have but to gather your forces.
life your voices assert your sympathies.
and one more tradition shall be added to
Hawaiian story. the song of the white
women who wiIIed that justice be rem
dercd their brown sister"
SHE WAS IN HONOLULU.
Mrs. Minnie C. Aldrich. OF Oakland.
who was non-suited in her action to set
aside the final account Of Annie \. Bar
ten and Helen \. Dunning as executives