Identifier: beneathhawaiianp00good (find matches)
Title: Beneath Hawaiian palms and stars
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goodhue, E. S. (Edward Solon)
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Publisher: Cincinnati: Editor Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
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sh expedi-tion to Samoa to secure what the king was told by afoolish adviser would be, The Primacy of the Pacific ;scandals public and private, and, last if not least, a rev-olution. This was hastened by an act of dishonesty onthe part of the king. He accepted from a Chinaman$75,000 for a license to sell opium, and then before thelicence was issued, sold the same privilege to anotherChinaman for $80,000, giving the last purchaser the li-cense, and keeping the $155,000. Immediately all classes of citizens gathered in anassembly room, and demanded of the king the dismissalof the Gibson ministry, and a new constitution thatshould provide for an elective upper house, and make thecabinet subject to dismissal by the legislature only. The demands were granted by the king, much to thedispleasure of Lilioukalani. She thought the king didwrong to truckle to foreigners; she would have defiedthem. So she conspired with some of her adherents toforce the king to abdicate, and, in 1889, wTith Robert
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KING KALAKAUA. THE COURSE OF EVENTS 209 Wilcox as chief abettor, she brought natives to herhouse, and armed them with rifles. Shortly after, theyseized the government buildings, but were driven off bysome white residents who resisted the attack. Wilcox was first tried for treason, then acquitted,then elected to the legislature. It seems natural forcommon people, civilized and uncivilized alike, to wantto punish a man by giving him some office. Liliouka-lani now became queen, and, although she did not liketo take the oath to support the constitution, she at lastconsented. She saw that public opinion demanded it,and yielded, promising herself like a wilfull child, thatshe should have her way, by-ancl-by. Some one said to her that all she needed was a re-sponsible ministry, and she replied laconically: Myministry will be responsible to me. The constitution provided that only the legislaturecould remove the cabinet, but the queens party saidthat Kalakauas cabinet died with the king, this

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