“IT has been suggested to me that the American general reader is not well informed regarding the social and political conditions which have come about in the Sandwich Islands, and that it would be well here to give some expression to my own observation of them.”
This singular sentence demonstrates the self-control and tact that Queen Liliuokalani possessed and carefully employed during her reign. Instead of ranting about the appallingly small awareness of the “American general reader,” she delicately accepts the suggestion to properly inform those who did not know the social and political conditions, and writes a visceral and factual appeal that would affect anyone who read her words.
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