Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-16
DENVER SCRIBE WRITES WILDLY
OF PRIVATE AUDIENCE With Queen

| tib missionary party JnaJ ldu icIElNet
| Der of her kingdom and pronounced
upon her the degrading sentence of
i i've wears imprisonment with hard
| Iabor-a Sentence which they lacked
the courage to enforce ami therefore
''UardoueJ her. II is q fine old
/ fashioned white square mansion, built
10 the colonial style, with pillars and
rorticos all around. II is set in the
center OF It's, own grounds and shell
tered from the heat of the sum bv
great tropical shade trees The gar
dens abound in tropical shrubs and
! flowers. and flower fringed-, gravel
walks. lead in. and out and around the
three or four small bungalows to be
seen within the Enclosure. 1t is, in
fact. what it seeems, an ideal tropical
retreat within the city limits and far
enough back to escape the noise and
dust of the street.
The Queen Owns Other Properties.
The queen owns other properties
which she inherited, the income from
which is being applied to paving off
the indebtedness which she incurred,
after the overthrow, in her efforts to
recover her kingdom, through the Unit
Ell States government, from the de-
scendants of the missionaries that had
been so Hospitality received and so
generously treated by her ancestors
and who, finding it more profitable. to
ICngage in trade and commerce than TO
continue teaching the doctrine of the
lowly Nazarine, had become rich and
powerful 49, NJ -,
When the monarchy was Overthrown
the crown lands were seized. The rev
cnues of these crown lands-amount-
ing to about $4,000 yeaf-always
had been at the disposal of the soyer-
eign, yet not one dollar of these vast
resources ever has been turned over
to Queen I.iliuokalani since she was
dethroned. .--s " III.
When the United States annexed
the islands in 1898 the queen and her
adherents had every reason to expect
that some COMPENSATION would be made
her for the loss of ties crown lands
revenue, but the legal aspect of the
ease seems TO be, and it has been so
decided, that the lands were held by
the crown in virtue of the Office, and
that the transfer of the sovereignty
carried with it the transfer Of title. /
Notwithstanding this decision and the
legal teehnieality~ involved, i find
among all classes a strong feeling that
justice would not suffer too severe a
strain If the United States government
were to compensate the queen, to SOME
extent at least, and that the courtesy
of such action would be instantly rec
ognized by the Hawaiian people, who
still are loyal to their queen. Surely |
this great country Of ours, which is |
about to hand over $25,000,00o to the
little republic of Colombia that tried /,
TO hold us up on the Panama canal
Loncession-and faiIe,l--can afford to
stretch point and give the queen at
least enough TO pay off her indebted |
ness SAY 100000, or $4,000, or even
$4,000, which latter sum would bel
equivalent to one year S revenue from
the crown lands, at the time they were
seized, and which have vastly in
creased in value since,
$1,000 Monthly Allowed to Her.
The territorial government, however,
provides for the queens immediate ex-
penses BY allowing her $1,000 a month
ON which to live. If the allowance
seems RSueEOuS, ds II II, Sut Has HtttN 4
calls on it, and besides, there are
many natives who look to her for food
and shelter, as their ancestors looked
to her ancestors for food and shelter in
the DAYS before the white man came
and after.
The queen may be seen occasionally
in smart victoria. drawn by pair of
chestnut horses, driving through the i
city streets or along the road that +
leads to the beach she always is ae-
companfed on such occasions by ma
tive woman, who is known as her lady
in.waiting. As the carriage rolls by,l
rich and poor, native and foreign, of
fer some sign of respect.
Deposed as queen and living in re-
tirement, her home is yet regarded bvl
social climbers as the fountain of all
honor. The list of her visitors is very
small and very exclusive. but quite as
large as she cares for. There are many
wealthy women in Honolulu who mix
freely in general society. and cut a
wide swath generally. but who lack
the hallmark of having been received
BY the queen. The queen receives
those who are privileged TO call on
her, but she does not return calls.