The Washington herald., 1908-08-02


Almost Caused n War at Time.
Honolulu. T H. July 15.-As the At
Iantic feet entered the harbor Of Homo
lulu the great battle ships steamed past an
old hulk anchored in the shallow waters
Of the harbor's edge on their left This
wooden hulk is al that is left Of the
navy Of the kingdom Of Hawaii. which
was organized and sent out 10 assert the
supremacy OF the King OF Hawaii over
the South Seas. through which the feet
under Read Admiral Sperry nov sweeps
without a rival; 10 establish for his
majesty King KaIakua the .-primacy or
The Pacific" just as to-day the com
mander Of the great white fleet is showing
TO the world thar the power OF the United
States on the Pacific is absolute
Twenty-one years ago the vessel Of
which the hulk alone is left, and which
is used for the storage Of oil. passed out
OF the Honolulu Hsrbor 10 carry the lord
high commissioner Of Hawaii 10 Samoa
70 treat with King AIalietoa 70 induce
that monarch 70 recognize the suzeraInty
OF King kalakaua over the kingdom Of
N--th-aH t-a-A ~ ANAl-l MN an dALldTlCe.
offensive and defensive. through which
all the isles Of the South Seas should be
banded into a confederacy 10 resist the
advances Of the white nations in the
Pacific
The Hawaiian monarch had just re-
turned from tour Of the world in which
his recognition BY the sover5igus or
Japan. China, the native states OF India.
and of Egypt had fostered his iuordinate
mis-
idea had been seeded in his simple soul
and had sprOuted and grown exceedingly.
Ambition grew as he stepped about his
kingdom on his return and the primacy OF
the Pacific doctrine developed. bringing
about one OF Jhe most Iudicrous series OF
incidents in the opera boufe government
OF Hawaiian royalty
Chased by German GunbOat.
Early in the spring Of lSS7 the Kal-
miioa departed for the south. -Four
months later she returned. and Lord
High Commissioner John r Bush pre-
se1ted report that the mission had been
highly successful Then the truth leaked
out by degrees Of her officers manv. had
died through the debaucheries Of the vov-
age, the lord high commissions had .
only landed on Samoan soil by stealth. /
The kairliloa- having been chased about .
by a German gunbCa1. coming in for an Z
anchorage only after dark and chasing I
OF for hiding place behind some Of the /
smaller Islands before dayb-eak.
typhoid and delirtuu tremens in the
iorecaStle and deliriUm tremens In the
cabins mad reduced the crew bv half
While in the archives Of the Territory of /
Hawaii there are yet on file the com !
plants Of the commissioner against the I
~
both. and all three against the cook. In I
which. IN most explicit language charges /
OF drunkenness and wanton bestIaIitv are 4
made
The net results Of the attempt 10 assert
prlUacy OF the Pacific doctrine was 4 hole
n the Hawaiian treasury Of S16ana0 and
the Grand Cross OF the Order Of Oceaufa
which had been pinned on the counis-
s-oler's gaudy uniform by the royal hand
of Alalietoa- when the two seuatte9 under
a Qa1danus tree and hid from the Ger
man MARINES one Samoan night discuss
ing Affairs Of state
Ship Was British Built.
The Kaim!Ioa was q 1Ta-ro7 steamer
as the British steamship F,x-
olorer, and purchased and rech-isre7ad
She cost $4,000 and her fittings OF FTa-
Taiian mahogany, her crested crockerv-
IND her armament six 6-pounders and
.wo gatings, added $4,000 10 her cost.
She was manned by an admiral and
itan- captain and stan. hula girls. ma
ines and sailors from the reform
school and musicians. The admiral ,
vas a white man named Jackson and !
ne other officers were men in whose 6
'iood flowed more OF less white blood. 1 ,
At that time Walter Murray Gibson :
vas premier in the Hawaiian govern d
nent- and 20 his fertile schenina- vas .
he Samoan venture due. Prior 10 his Z
me, IN 1es5. he had sent Capt Trippe
ND p l. Clarke as royal commission
Is 20 the Gilbert Island and New Heb Z @
loes. and parody on the Monroe doc :
rlne had been set forth In zrandflo- . =
.uent protest addressed 10 all the great >
.oWers, warning them against any fur :
her annexation in the Pacific ocean :
nd warning them that Hawaii claimed :
he exclusive right ~to assist them in :
their political and social :
Nations Got Interested.
At the tine Of the attempted extension -
this hurlesQUs doctrine 70 the samoan :.
roup three great powers were Interested ;,
here, and g conference was about m :
pen at Washington between Great R-i-- =,
in Germany. and the United States - :
eteruline the status OF the Islands in =
lew OF which the mission OF the Hawaii "a
rs 10 King GanetOa was seized 17po7 cl
: the Germans as something backed bv q
he American government in an argran- U
cement policy TO include the annexation IL
Hawaii and OF Samoa Added 10 the q
Embarrassment n IN which this placed al
'ashington was the fact that the Ha- n
al1an commissioner returned with Z m
ln1rnission for Mr- Carter. the Hawaiian "
mister al Washington. creating him as "
ell the envoy extraordinary and minis re
T plenipO-entiary' Of the Samoan king v
IN at Washington. while Carter was q
agotlaung for the cessiOn 20 the United ~
.ates OF Pearl Harbor. u
On January q. 1sS7. news OF the Ha- IS
allan expedition. magnifed out Of all l'
'oporton- having reached the British w
lvernment, a warning note was sent ont e
ON the foreign Office, II being suggested 9l
the time that this was another in =
ance where Downing street received f-s X
spiration from the Wflhelmsrrssse Al 10
at tine the British commissioner AZ
onolulU requested the Hawaiian gov de
nment not to interfere in the affairs Of n
-mOa- But the loading Of gin on the IN
aimilOa went merrily on. despfte rba III
owlings OF ths British lion, the notice N
tracted from abroad pleasing the Ha- Oh
Allan King 81
Almost Started a War. -