Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 20, 10 October 1893 — Another Missionary Falsifier [ARTICLE]

Another Missionary Falsifier

WRITES A LETTER. ]Ucdfuiy, Be-ars False Witness a<j:ainst the Queen and People who Honored her Husl»and. A Petticoat Politician Of the Intolerant Mififflonary Stripe. ( Ufīl-und-Back *) We reprint from the Bangor Me. Commercial, portious of a letter written to that paper by Eilen H McCulIy, widow of tho late Judge McCally. We regret to hnve to refer to a l«dy with the seven head lines, used above, but it is ueeessary to expose aud condemn the slanderous and spitefnl character of that clique of alleged christian (?) men and women in Hawaii who have ever beon its chief political cnrse. It wmld have been in better keoping with her christian char«cter and position astho widow of a respected judgo of the Hawaiian Monarchy, to have kept in her own heart her ill feeliugs against the Hawaiiaus: • • My attentiou has heen called to an article in your paper upou Hawaiian atfaire, whieh purports to be the opinion of Mr. Claus Spreckels ni>on the situation at the Saudwich Islands. W ithout takmg time or room to deny all the misstatements and falsehocxls containetl in the ‘sj>ecial, there are sorae of them, whieh, by your courtesy, 1 would like to correct. I know wheroof I write. I h*ve lived in Honoluln for twentv-eight ye«rs. I was there during the bito revolntion wheu the Qn©en w.ia dethroued I wa» one of four ladies preseut at the guarded vanl of tlie Government Building when the Americau flag was raise<l there, (but we did not assi»t at the pulling down of onr country’s flag.) I am pereonally acquainted with Mr. Sprockel?, and with the exception of Capt. King. the preaent minister of the Interior, with Uie heads of «11 the departmeuts of stato. I know the exQueen. I know Mr. Stevens. All these I tell you to oonvince you I do not write ignorantly. It is the stock falsehood of all the enemiee of the Provisional Government to say that the missionaries and Minister Stevens were responsible for the uprising. Mr. Stevens was no more rwsponsible for the revolutiou and the overthrow of the Queen than the editor of the Commereial himself; ueither were the missionaries. The qneeu hereelf, anvl she alone. is respousible for the revo!ntion. It was her s<ettled and obstmate determination to get the en:ire power of the government in all its branches into her hands. whieh rnined her. She even aspired to control tbe Snpreme Conrt. She w«s vejy jealoos for the “prerog*tives of the crown.” whatever thoee privileges m«y be in case of an ' elected monarch iike ber hrother > Kalakaoa. and ahe meani to re- i

store tbose she felt the king h»U • too weakly rieKied in IS87. In onier to cany her ends s»he did not he»itate at bribery. The qneen of a fanjily of chiefs. not the bigbeet. and who were always poor. Upon the extinction ol the Karaehamebas. Kalakana was eleeleil to tbe thron«. and appointed bis brother and sisters h’s heirs. The elevation spoiletl the wholo fami!y. They were not strongenongh moraily to j use the newly acquired power with moderation aud patrotic un- | selfi.sbness. As soon as Kalakaua felt himself securely seated on the throne, j he began to abuse his power and to usurp authority. The revolu- j tion of 1887 checked him for a j tirae on!y. He had forgotten l»is ! promises made >it that time and the constitutional obligations ira- i P >sed npon liim and wasreaching after nnlawfnl power again when he died. His sister eame to the tbrone only to ootdo her brother in the stubbora determination t<D beeome an autocrat. From the beginniug of herreign,she meaut to have a new constitution. and one whieh would practically make her snprerae ruler and despot. All iuoves for a constitu- | tienal government fell through. The entire whiie i>opulation was against a new constitutiou, or uearly the whole of it. Ihe ordinary Kauaka doesn’t know what a constitution is, nor has he an interest in sucb things. When other and lawfol moans for securing a new constitntion failed, tl»e queeu attempted n eoup d’etat. There was a great pretense of a native political organizati.cn c«nying tho draft of a constitution to th« qneen aud asking her to proranlgate it. It wus all a preteuse. The queen had originated the idea and had tho constitution written herself. lt is a significant fact that that constitutiou upoa the failure to promulgate it, was destnyed. Its friends never dar«d show it. The attempt was raade at the palaee immediatelv upon the prorogation of the legislature. The legislature has Iasted eight months. and during all the time the queen was interfering with the bnsiness of that body and obstructing it as she could. The foreigners had eome to see there was no possibility of stable government under Hawaiian nile The lotteiy bill bad passed and the queen had signe<l it against the petition and remonstrance of all the influential men and women of the lslaads. The opium bill hatl also pMwd, »nd she fcad signed tfcat. W'hen, then, the queen attempted to force a new canstitotioQ npon the people, the long forl>earance aud palienee they had shown toward her fpiva oat. and tbey dethroneil ber. Theforeign- | ers are the leaden» ia the iu even tbing. Not a single instance ean be sbown of a Hawaiian at the bead of any business. ! as a store, or a plauUlion, or a lumber yard. except that oee baif-wbite owns a large district of land whieh is eaien op by mortgages. So natur.il!v tbe wbites ied in tbe revolntion. bot not more than one raissionary was presect «t tbe me«ting. nor bad they anytbing to do in briuging abont the qneen s overtbrow. But I must tell yon, tbe wonl * missionary ’ does not mean in the politics of tha Hawaiian

IsLands. what von onderstand it I to mean, —a teacher of re!igion — : bnt rather a mau who Iives a moral life. bonestly pays his i debfcs, aud especiai!y oue who gos to church. In the use of the wonl. aud this only. were the **missionaries ’ the one who dethroned the Queen. As for Mr. Stevens. tbe Americans weie proud of their minister. They had confivlence in him On his dejx.trture they raised $ 1 ,(X)0 for a silver s€rvice j for him as a testireonial of their appreciation of his woxtb. He did not interfere in Hawaiian ! politics, The troops landed from the Boston, were lamleil solely for | the protector»t« of American in- | terest, —tfce lives and pro|»erty of American citizens. ami if Americans in tfce l’nite«l States eomplaiu of the procee<.lings, Americans wives aml mothers aud helpless women in Uv>noluhi eaunot do so. They felt a sense of protectiou at knowing Amenean soldiers were so near them in that tirae of trouh!e. The masse» do not want tbe qu«en restored. From my own personal knowledge the native masses are entirely indifleront about the matter. A popoIar vote woukl be no true expression of native sentiment, for the ordinary Kanaka reflects tbe opinion of the man who had his ear last or who gives him the biggest bribe. Orxiiuari!y be does not take the troublo to have an opinion upon any subject. I took pains to ask eommon Hawrtiiaus aft-r the revolution what they thought about aunexation. The reply was always “Jnst as you like. If yon waut it, it’s ail rSghtj’’or “That is for you to settle,” (raoaning foreigners :uid the le«ding Hawaiiana). “1 bave no elaina on it." The queen forfeite<i by her own act all her rigfct to reign, and the injustice would be in restoring her to the thrnne. to : traraple again upon the rigfct- of men who pay the tax«s, do tho bnsiuess. and who savo her little eonntry from heing like other heathen islauds of the Pac-fic ooean. Mr. Spreckels opposes annexatiou.becanse annexation will disturb the conti*act labor system now prevailiug at the Islamls. i and also bocause if the Hawaiian ) Islauds we-ie a part of the j United StHtes. n sugar refinery might so e*sily be starte«l there, «n»! so interfere witb bis San Franciscorefineries, Annex- i ation is against Mr. Spreckels’ sugar interests. When Mr H«rrisou sent th« treaty of anne’xntion to tbe Senatc. | il w«s not receivt?d as yon know. ! as a party measnre. S*>rae of the Democratic senators were its ‘ wr»nnest *opj>orter8, as M'>rgan of tfco Foretgn wbi!e «ome Repnblicana opjK>»ev.l it j The Provis«onal governuient ask the Uniteil States for »nnexation F«iliog here tbey may o*k • Eog!and. Thev would not h«ve • O • to knoek tw.ee at tbe door. The liUle conntry of Hnwaii is too stnall for independent governmeut. Her de*tiny mnsl bo ab«sorption by sonie greater pow«r. ! Amenea, England or Japan. | whieh it ahall !>• dependa npon ( America. I f«el sare tbe m»jority o£ ihe people. »lvay* eieepimg tbe £ngli*b re«idents woald soon weleome «aoexaiion to tb« ■ United Sutee as the best posaible 1

booo to Uie isUnds. Tho EnglUh resū»leDts oppose »nnoxstio> to Ajneric» to « min Knovixtg H««*ūans as I ilo, I do not expoet to hear of any bloodshed. The natires c*re Iittle for the qaeen —the fore gners ceoriainly vlo not respect her. It wiil require «me veiy hard work to nwat the eommon H»wsiiau> np to fightins; pitcb. N'aionlW the etfect upon b siness of the presont nnccrt«intv is depresstng. At proseat the people quietiy but peecefallv «nit Amenea'a answer to their petit»on, perfectly confident of the justness of whal they havedone,And o(their»beolute rifcht t«> ask annexat!onof Ame rice. or aay other coantry they might choose ’ £llkx H McCru.r. Kenduske«g, Me.. Aug. I0tb.