The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-25
PRESS COMMENTS
On LEuUOKALANpS MISSION

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Washington is occupying the editorial
attention of many of the leading news
papers of the Eastern States, A ma
jority of the writers appear to favor
the appropriation being made for the
applicant, but the majority at the same
time appear doubtful If Congress will
allow any claim that may be presented.
The New York World, the paper
which has been recently castigated by
President Roosevelt, says:
"The 100000 demanded by Liliuo.
kalani as an indemnity for her seques'
trated crown lands seems modern as
royal subsidies go. Will Congress balk
at granting the deposed Hawaiian
Queen a sum hardly as large as an
appropriation for country postofiice
building'
Having entered on policy of i'm
perialism, with its legacy of subject
peoples and island dependencies, we
should be prepared to discharge the
obligations these new wards impose up
on us. We are morally bound to ac.
cord to dethroned rulers that liberality
Of treatment which it has been the
enlightened policy of Rome and of Eng.
land to pursue toward conquered
princes. Shall full-blooded Queen be
compelled to worry along on mere
$4,000 year voted by the Hawaiian
Legislature-the salary of n chief clerk
or consular agenti The compensation
demanded by Liliuokalani is less than
the price current of ordinary ducal
coronets. An heiress could not begin
to buy French prince for that amount
"Being now by reason of our career
of conquest in possession of real
royal family, n ruling dynasty, we
should evidence proper appreciation
of the responsibility. Hawaiian royal
ty, adequately endowed and encouraged
against race suicide, may in the years
to come provide advantageous alliances
for our first families"
Let Her Have It.
The New York Times regards the
claim Of the Queen as somewhat
weak, " but believes in granting it af
ter all, In its issue of December l, the
Times says:
cone IS heart doesn It bleed very copi
ously over the news that Liliuokalani
sometime Queen of the Hawaiian Is
lands, has an annual existence of nc
more than $4,000. That amount, how
ever, is much or little, according t.
! the point of view. In the eyes o
royalty, though remotely insular an
of dark complexion, it is doubtless
miserable pittance, and in considerin,
the ex-Queen IS plea the circumstance
of her deposition should be remembered
as well as the fact that she probabl.
has number of dependents, poor rela
tions, and faithful companions in mis-
fortune, with whom her resources
whatever they may be, have to b.
| divided. ~ ssi 'aa"
rtfh the last analysis, her claim h
support from public funds may be
Bit weak, but, as vested rights 60
hers are not the least able to endur
examination. 1t would Be the part o
wisdom, if not of justice, to make tn
brown lady's declining days fairly CON
Portable and in accordance with he
own standards of comfort at that. Sh
wants 100000, which is good deal .
money, though nothing in compariso
with what other Queens in eclipse usua
" 1nansge to save from the wreck bf
throne. In Liliuokalani S misfortune
we played not very satisfactory par
and it is not pleasant THAI she shoul
have to emerge from her retiremer
with outstretched hands. A name wit
as many and as liquid vowels in it
hers has csanot be maintained Q
nothing"
, May Be Something Due.
: The st. Louis Globe Democrat su
=. gests that there may be something dl
/. the ex.ruler of Hawaii, and says;
n "Queen Lilioukalani is back in Was
u ington after something. 1t may be t
same old thing. Queen Lilioukala
4 thinks she has claim against the &C
q ernment of the United States, for tn
le its marines once landed at Honoll
" and marched to her palace, where tn
is hung the stars and stripes, which ha