The Liberal, Volume I, Number 40, 28 January 1893 — A DELUSION. [ARTICLE]

A DELUSION.

Many friends of the monarchy are indulging the vain hope that the United States will, upon hearing of the "late unpleassantness," at once send orders to have the late Queen restored to her throne, and to dissolve the Provisional Government. People who hold such opinions must be demanded. No doubt the wish is father to the thought with them. But they are too sanguine. They evidently mistake the mission on earth of the United States Government. Whatever the latter may be, the deluded people in question may rest assured that the mission of the government is not the restoring of defunct monarchies or of discarded monarchs. The American people are not so much in love with monarchical rottenness and insolence as some of their champions seem to suppose. The new navy has not been built and manned for the perpetuation of monarchical forms and the protection of monarchical monstrosities throughout the world. Let the partisans of royalty take a hint in time to be of some benefit to them, and cease hugging their delusion. There's plenty of better material for that purpose in Hawaii, than the phantom now in their grasp.