WEBVTT - Until We Meet Again

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart

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<v Speaker 1>Radio and Aaron Minky. Listener discretion advised. In eighteen eighty seven,

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<v Speaker 1>Queen Victoria invited fifty foreign princes and monarchs from around

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<v Speaker 1>the world to celebrate her Golden Jubilee. The jubilee marked

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<v Speaker 1>fifty years for Victoria as the Queen of England. Her

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<v Speaker 1>silver jubilee twenty five years earlier was barely commemorated at all.

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<v Speaker 1>Just months before that, her beloved husband, Prince Albert, had

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<v Speaker 1>died young of typhoid fever. Victoria had been bereft. She

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<v Speaker 1>remained cloaked in black and shielded from the public life

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<v Speaker 1>in mourning for decades. But now for her Golden Jubilee,

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<v Speaker 1>she was re emerging for the first time, a newly

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<v Speaker 1>minted Empress of India, a global queen, and one who

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<v Speaker 1>deserved a celebration that exalted her in all of her

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<v Speaker 1>international imperial glory. Among her foreign royal guests were crowned

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<v Speaker 1>Princess Lilio Killani of Hawaii, the sister of the King

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<v Speaker 1>and next in line for the throne. Lilio Kilani traveled

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<v Speaker 1>with the King's wife and to their surprise when their

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<v Speaker 1>ship arrived in Liverpool, they were met with all of

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<v Speaker 1>the royal pomp and fanfare that England had to offer.

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<v Speaker 1>Banners flapped happily, streamers danced in the wind rows of

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<v Speaker 1>soldiers saluted in perfect unison. A military band played God

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<v Speaker 1>Save the Queen. They were greeted by the Lord Mayor

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<v Speaker 1>of Liverpool himself. In Hawaii, royalty enjoyed far less pomp

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<v Speaker 1>and pageantry, especially since the white owners of the sugar

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<v Speaker 1>plantations had installed themselves into government. Those men, mostly from

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<v Speaker 1>the United States, England, and Germany, treated the native Hawaiian

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<v Speaker 1>monarchy as something between a nuisance and a threat. But here,

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<v Speaker 1>arriving to honor Queen Victoria, Lilio Collani and her sister

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<v Speaker 1>in law were among the guests of honor, treated with

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<v Speaker 1>splendor and majesty that most European monarchs took for granted.

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<v Speaker 1>They were brought to London on a steamer train with

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<v Speaker 1>an escort of one hundred soldiers, and granted use of

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<v Speaker 1>Queen Victoria's own carriages, horses, and drivers for the duration

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<v Speaker 1>of their stay. When Lilio Collani commented on the grandness

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<v Speaker 1>of their welcome, their minister bowed deeply. They had come

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<v Speaker 1>such a long way, he said. Her Majesty thought the

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<v Speaker 1>special honors were the very least she could do. Lilio

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<v Speaker 1>Collani was seated in the Royal Box at Westminster Abbey

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<v Speaker 1>for the Jubilee service, and during the prayers for Queen Victoria,

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<v Speaker 1>Lilio Collani saw a ray of light come through the

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<v Speaker 1>high windows and fall directly upon Victoria's head. It was

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<v Speaker 1>like God himself granting Victoria her blessing. She on. Lilio

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<v Speaker 1>Klani and her sister in law arrived back at their

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<v Speaker 1>residence that afternoon, their ears still ringing from the boom

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<v Speaker 1>of military drums and the shouts of crowd, their heads

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<v Speaker 1>still buzzing with the excitement of their private audience of

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<v Speaker 1>Queen Victoria. But they were scarcely in the doorway before

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<v Speaker 1>they knew something was wrong. Their household staff were staring

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<v Speaker 1>at them stony faced. Lolio Collani let her eyes trace

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<v Speaker 1>around the room, and she noticed that their bags were

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<v Speaker 1>already packed. They needed to go back to Hawaii immediately.

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<v Speaker 1>Someone said something had happened. A group of white businessmen

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<v Speaker 1>had assembled a paramilitary group and forced the King. Lolio

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<v Speaker 1>Collani's brother to sign away most of his power and

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<v Speaker 1>turned the monarch into a powerless figurehead. What's more, the

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<v Speaker 1>right to vote for the legislature in Hawaii would now

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<v Speaker 1>include exorbitant property requirements, and explicitly refused that right to

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<v Speaker 1>the many immigrants who had come to the island from

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<v Speaker 1>Asia and who had been voting up until that point.

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<v Speaker 1>The new wealth restrictions meant the vast majority of native

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<v Speaker 1>Hawaiians could no longer vote either. The new law of

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<v Speaker 1>the land was the so called Bayonet Constitution, so called

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<v Speaker 1>because the king had been forced to sign at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of Bayonets. The nation to which Lilio Kolani frantically

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<v Speaker 1>returned was now falling into the grasp of business men.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a nation on the precipice, and that was

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<v Speaker 1>the nation the set and imperiled that she inherited when

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<v Speaker 1>she became queen after her brother's death two years later.

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<v Speaker 1>Queen Liliukillani tried to hold the bursting levies at bay

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<v Speaker 1>for as long as she could, but the waves of

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<v Speaker 1>imperialism came flooding in, swallowing Hawaii and eventually its last queen.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Danish Wartz and this is noble blood even before

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<v Speaker 1>she was technically queen, Lilio Kalani made it clear that

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<v Speaker 1>her loyalty would always be to the Hawaiian people and

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<v Speaker 1>not to the business interests of white non natives. Back

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<v Speaker 1>in she had been acting as regent for her brother

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<v Speaker 1>while he was away on a diplomatic trip when Hawaii

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<v Speaker 1>faced an outbreak of smallpox imported mainly from Chinese laborers

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<v Speaker 1>who were brought in by businessmen to work in the

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<v Speaker 1>sugarcane fields. A quick word about smallpox. It takes about

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<v Speaker 1>two weeks for the symptoms of smallpox to show. In

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<v Speaker 1>that time, a person might look perfectly healthy, all the

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<v Speaker 1>while they're spreading the deadly disease in person, through the

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<v Speaker 1>air and through the objects they touch. After that incubation period,

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<v Speaker 1>the symptoms slowly emerge. It begins with the fever and

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<v Speaker 1>a lingering, uncomfortable headache. Your limbs will become heavy, your

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<v Speaker 1>back will ache, you might be vomiting. And then the

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<v Speaker 1>red spots come Lesions that appear first on your face

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<v Speaker 1>and hands, and then all over your body. Little spots

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<v Speaker 1>that become blisters that fill with pus and then scaped

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<v Speaker 1>reveal deep pitted scars. Its fatality rate was about one

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<v Speaker 1>in three. That two week incubation period makes smallpox especially

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<v Speaker 1>insiduous and contagious, and because native Hawaiians had no inborn immunity,

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<v Speaker 1>the threat was a deadly serious one. As Queen Regent

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<v Speaker 1>Lilio Kalani made the decision to shut down all ports

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<v Speaker 1>and enforce a mandatory quarantine until the outbreak was contained.

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<v Speaker 1>Vessels were prohibited from taking passengers between islands. The sugar

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<v Speaker 1>growers were infuriated that she was putting a frieze on

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<v Speaker 1>their business, but Lilio Kolani stood her ground. Though three

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<v Speaker 1>hundred people died from the outbreak, there were zero additional

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<v Speaker 1>cases outside the city of Honolulu, But Lilio Kolani was

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<v Speaker 1>faced with perhaps even a greater crisis in eighteen ninety

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<v Speaker 1>after she became Queen, the terrif Act. For decades, the

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<v Speaker 1>United States had provided generous terms for sugar growers in

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<v Speaker 1>Hawaii in order to encourage American plantation owners to settle there.

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<v Speaker 1>While the Terriffact of eighteen ninety massively increased the tax

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<v Speaker 1>on imported manufactured goods, it eliminated all tariffs on sugar,

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<v Speaker 1>which meant that the American market was now flooded with

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<v Speaker 1>cheap sugar from all over the world, the Hawaiian economy

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<v Speaker 1>was crippled. Over decades, Hawaii's economy had constructed itself up

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<v Speaker 1>around the of her both terms the US had given,

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<v Speaker 1>and now the US had pulled that framework out in

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<v Speaker 1>one single stroke, and the whole thing was threatening to collapse, unless,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, Hawaii agreed to be annexed by the United States.

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<v Speaker 1>That was the ultimate goal of a group of white

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<v Speaker 1>American business owners led by a man named Lauren A. Thurston.

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<v Speaker 1>They called themselves the Annexation Club. Annexation would make things

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<v Speaker 1>a lot more convenient for them, but it would especially

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<v Speaker 1>help when it came to making a tidy profit from

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<v Speaker 1>their sugar plantations. So annexation might have been what the

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<v Speaker 1>American businessmen wanted, but the same couldn't be said for

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<v Speaker 1>the native population of Hawaii or for Queen Lilio Kolani.

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, since her ascension, she had spent nearly all

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<v Speaker 1>her energy trying to build a new constitution for Hawaii,

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<v Speaker 1>one that gave the monarchy back its power, and one

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<v Speaker 1>that once again granted Native Hawaiian's immigrants of color the

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<v Speaker 1>right to vote. In eighteen ninety two, Queen Lilio Collani

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<v Speaker 1>traveled throughout the country on horseback, riding from village to

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<v Speaker 1>village and talking to her people. She may have lost

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<v Speaker 1>most of her political power, but she was still the

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<v Speaker 1>country's queen, and she used her power and influence to

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<v Speaker 1>listen to the voices of the people who no longer

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<v Speaker 1>had a voice in government. Thousands of people signed her

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<v Speaker 1>petition for a new constitution, and finally, on January fourteenth,

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen ninety three, Lilio Collani presented the draft of the

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<v Speaker 1>proposed constitution to the government's ministers. This version of the

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<v Speaker 1>constitution would increase the number of elected representatives and eliminate

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<v Speaker 1>the property requirements for voters. Non citizen American and European

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<v Speaker 1>residents would lose the right to vote. A massive crowd

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<v Speaker 1>of Native Hawaiians gathered outside in front of Iolani Palace,

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<v Speaker 1>where the meeting was taking place. They were waiting for

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<v Speaker 1>the queen to emerge and proclaim that Hawaii had a

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<v Speaker 1>new constitution, but the weight was taking longer than they expected. Inside,

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<v Speaker 1>the queen's ministers all refused to sign the new constitution,

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<v Speaker 1>believing it would spark unrest. After hours of debate, the

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<v Speaker 1>queen finally gave in, and so when the queen finally

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<v Speaker 1>emerged to the crowd waiting outside, their cheers caught in

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<v Speaker 1>their throats. As soon as they saw her face. Lilio

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<v Speaker 1>Kalani told her people that they should return peacefully to

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<v Speaker 1>their homes. Later, some of the Queen's ministers met with

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<v Speaker 1>the business men to tell them what had happened in

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<v Speaker 1>the palace that day. The informants shared what had been

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<v Speaker 1>in the queen's constitution, how she was building power to

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<v Speaker 1>take back Hawaii. They spoke of the crowd of supporters

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<v Speaker 1>that had come to cheer for her. It was time

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<v Speaker 1>for Lord Thurston and his coterie to strike before they

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<v Speaker 1>lost or chance. Looking at a photo of Lauren A. Thurston,

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<v Speaker 1>he doesn't look like he was born in eighteen fifty eight.

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<v Speaker 1>Take away the old fashioned style of his suit, the

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<v Speaker 1>massive Victorian era, and not in the tie, the narrow lapels,

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<v Speaker 1>and he looks like he could be a stern manager

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<v Speaker 1>at whatever company you work for today. With his full

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<v Speaker 1>but neat beard and slight receiving hairline, he might even

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<v Speaker 1>be considered handsome if it weren't for his black eyes

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<v Speaker 1>and the unsettling intensity of his gaze. Thurston was born

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<v Speaker 1>in Honolulu, the grandson of two American missionaries, two of

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<v Speaker 1>the very first Christian missionaries to Hawaii. He had been

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<v Speaker 1>the one who had written the Bayonet Constitution that Liliuokalani's

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<v Speaker 1>brother had been forced to sign. On January fo Liliuokalani

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<v Speaker 1>proposed her new constitution to her ministers. That very evening,

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<v Speaker 1>after hours in a law office in Honolulu, Lauren Thurston

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<v Speaker 1>gathered twelve elite white businessmen. These thirteen men, all members

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<v Speaker 1>of the Annexation Club, formed a new group, the Committee

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<v Speaker 1>of Safety. Their plan was to gather weapons and raise

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<v Speaker 1>a militia and, with the support of the American military,

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<v Speaker 1>overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy altogether. On January six, the Queen's

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<v Speaker 1>Minister of the Kingdom, Charles Burnett Wilson, received a tip

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<v Speaker 1>that a coup was imminent. He requested arrest warrants for

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<v Speaker 1>the thirteen members of the Committee of Safety, all incredibly wealthy,

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<v Speaker 1>well connected men. Fearing all out warfare, the cabinet denied

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<v Speaker 1>the arrest warrants. The next day, when a native Hawaiian

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<v Speaker 1>policeman tried to inspect crates of weapons that were being

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<v Speaker 1>gathered by the Committee's paramilitary group. He was shot. The

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<v Speaker 1>policeman survived, and his was the only bloodshed in the

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<v Speaker 1>overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. The queen had watched from

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<v Speaker 1>the palace as the USS Boston approached the shore with

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred and sixty two marines on board. The U

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<v Speaker 1>S S. Boston had orders to protect American business interests.

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<v Speaker 1>Chaos is bad for business. They would only get involved

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<v Speaker 1>if there was fighting, which sounds well and good, except

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<v Speaker 1>it meant in practice that the queen and her supporters

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<v Speaker 1>were paralyzed, powerless when it came to defending themselves against

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<v Speaker 1>the coming insurrection. Almost five hundred men were rallied to

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<v Speaker 1>protect the queen. The Committee of Safety had fifteen hundred,

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<v Speaker 1>all white and heavily armed. Under the strict gaze of

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<v Speaker 1>the ship of American marines in the harbor, Lalio Kolani surrendered.

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<v Speaker 1>Lauren Thurston made Sanford B. Dole President of the provisional

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<v Speaker 1>Government of Hawaii. The Dole had declined to officially be

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<v Speaker 1>a member of the Committee of Safety that technically overthrew

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<v Speaker 1>the queen. The United States minister who had approved the

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<v Speaker 1>marine presence during the coup, wrote the Secretary of State,

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<v Speaker 1>the Hawaiian pair is now fully ripe, and this is

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<v Speaker 1>the golden hour for the United States to pluck it.

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<v Speaker 1>But unfortunately for the conspirators, something inconvenient was happening in

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<v Speaker 1>the United States a presidential election. Though Benjamin Harrison had

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<v Speaker 1>been eager to annex Hawaii, his successor, Grover Cleveland, was

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<v Speaker 1>staunchly anti imperialist. Cleveland was in his second of his

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<v Speaker 1>two nonconsecutive terms, and upon taking office, he immediately with

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<v Speaker 1>true the treaty for annexation that Benjamin Harrison had sent

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<v Speaker 1>to the Senate. Cleveland also appointed former Congressman James Blount

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<v Speaker 1>to investigate what exactly had happened during the overthrow of

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<v Speaker 1>the Hawaiian monarchy. The results of that report were crystal clear.

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<v Speaker 1>Blount determined that the U. S. Minister to Hawaii had

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<v Speaker 1>landed the U S. S. Boston under false pretenses in

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<v Speaker 1>order to support the coup, and the coup was carried

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<v Speaker 1>out against the wishes of the majority of the Hawaiian population.

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<v Speaker 1>The involvement of the U. S. Military was unauthorized, and

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<v Speaker 1>Queen Liliuokolani should be restored to the throne. In an

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<v Speaker 1>address to Congress, President Cleveland stated that the Hawaiian government

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<v Speaker 1>had been overthrown by quote, an act of war committed

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<v Speaker 1>with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United

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<v Speaker 1>States and without the authority of Congress. President Cleveland's representative

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<v Speaker 1>met with Lilio Kolani and shared the good news. The

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<v Speaker 1>United States would be willing to help her return to

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<v Speaker 1>the throne under one condition that you give a full

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<v Speaker 1>pardon to the group of conspirators who had tried to

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<v Speaker 1>depose her. Lilio Klani refused. She believed that she would

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<v Speaker 1>need to consult with her counsel and punish the traders,

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<v Speaker 1>most likely with banishment and the confiscation of their property.

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<v Speaker 1>The American representative was aghast. By the time he made

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<v Speaker 1>it back to Washington, the story had become twisted and distorted.

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<v Speaker 1>Propaganda in the papers shifted public opinion until Liliuokalani was

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<v Speaker 1>seen as a dark skinned barbarian queen who wouldn't be

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<v Speaker 1>satisfied until she saw the American businessman beheaded in the streets.

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<v Speaker 1>Lu Kalani wrote about that experience in her memoir about

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<v Speaker 1>hearing second hand that she was calling for beheadings. She wrote,

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<v Speaker 1>there's an old proverb which says that a lie can

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<v Speaker 1>travel around the world while the truth is putting on

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<v Speaker 1>its boots. That offensive charge was repeated to my hurt

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<v Speaker 1>as often as possible, although I immediately sent my protest

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<v Speaker 1>that I had not used the words attributed to me.

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<v Speaker 1>Even so, in order to restore the monarchy, that December,

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<v Speaker 1>Liliuokalani agreed to Cleveland's original terms a full pardon. But

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<v Speaker 1>by then the provisional government had consolidated its hold on

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<v Speaker 1>the islands and Cleveland power when it came to the

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<v Speaker 1>issue of Hawaii had weakened. Congress, controlled by Cleveland. Republican

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<v Speaker 1>foes commissioned their own investigation, the Morgan Report, chaired by

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<v Speaker 1>former Confederate general and Jim Crow proponent John Tyler Morrigan.

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<v Speaker 1>That report concluded that America had done nothing wrong in

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<v Speaker 1>the coup, and so to the American government at least

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<v Speaker 1>the issue was closed. When counter revolutionaries tempted to overthrow

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<v Speaker 1>the new white government, Liliukolani was arrested, her home ransacked

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<v Speaker 1>by soldiers from Garrett to seller. Every drawer wrenched open,

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<v Speaker 1>their contents spilled onto the floor and swept into bags

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<v Speaker 1>for evidence. Though she had not been directly involved in

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<v Speaker 1>the counter revolution, She was brought in front of a

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<v Speaker 1>military court and convicted of misprision of treason, meaning she

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<v Speaker 1>had been aware of potential treason but hadn't reported it.

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<v Speaker 1>Hundreds of her supporters were arrested, and six were scheduled

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<v Speaker 1>to be hanged in order to spare their lives. Liliukolani

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<v Speaker 1>formally abdicated the throne, or so it appeared. When she

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<v Speaker 1>was presented with the formal contract, she signed her name

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<v Speaker 1>as Liliukolani Dominus, her husband's last name, which she had

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<v Speaker 1>never taken legally. It was the only small act of

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<v Speaker 1>rebellion left to the queen, who was always willing to

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<v Speaker 1>sack advice for her people. That might be the end

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<v Speaker 1>of Queen Lilio Collani's reign, but there's still more in

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<v Speaker 1>her story. Stick around after a few brief words from

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<v Speaker 1>our sponsors to hear about it. If the name Dole

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<v Speaker 1>sounded familiar, chances are you're familiar with Sandford's cousin, James Dole.

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<v Speaker 1>James Dole had been about nine years old growing up

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<v Speaker 1>in Massachusetts with his colonial pedigree family. When the monarchy

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<v Speaker 1>in Hawaii was overthrown. When James turned twenty two, he

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<v Speaker 1>decided to move to Hawaii, where his cousin with the

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<v Speaker 1>governor and began the pineapple growing business that blossomed into

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<v Speaker 1>the multinational Doll Food Company. But Lilio Colani has a

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<v Speaker 1>legacy that survives to the modern day as well. You see,

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<v Speaker 1>in addition to being a queen, Lilio Kalani was a

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<v Speaker 1>gifted musician and composer. She sang and played guitar, piano, organ, ukulele,

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<v Speaker 1>and the zither. While imprisoned, Lilio Collani was denied books

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<v Speaker 1>and newspapers, but she continued composing music in transcribing music

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<v Speaker 1>that she had already composed. One of the songs she

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<v Speaker 1>wrote was called Aloha Ai. You almost certainly know it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been covered by Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley and

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<v Speaker 1>Johnny Cash, But if you're my age, you probably know

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<v Speaker 1>it for a slightly different reason. The instrumental version of

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<v Speaker 1>the song has been used in countless episodes of one

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<v Speaker 1>of America's most popular cultural exports. A certain cartoon character

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<v Speaker 1>who lives under the sea in a pineapple doll or

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<v Speaker 1>otherwise SpongeBob SquarePants. The song aloha Ai was inspired when

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<v Speaker 1>Lilio Collani saw a and some Hawaiian colonel embracing a

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<v Speaker 1>young woman after the coup, when Hawaii went from a

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<v Speaker 1>monarchy to a republic, and then from a territory to

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<v Speaker 1>a state. For many, the song became a more meaningful

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<v Speaker 1>ballad mourning for the loss of Hawaii as it had

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<v Speaker 1>been in English. The title of Lohai translates to farewell

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<v Speaker 1>to the one fond embrace before I depart until we

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