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July 21, 1886, a Honolulu-based insurance executive with mainland connections, Charles Otto Berger, organized a demonstration of electric lights at Iolani Palace, sparking investments in innovative technology and carving a path for a new enterprise. By the year’s end, King Kalākaua and a handful of key government officials went up Nuʻuanu Valley to test whether streamwater could generate electricity.

By March 1888, Princess Kaʻiulani used the hydropower to light electric street lamps in Honolulu. Given Hawaiian Electric’s long history of dependence on imported fossil fuels, it’s worth noting that the first illumination of a public space in Hawaiʻi’s largest city came from a renewable source.

The monarchy’s success in bringing power to their kingdom was met with equal ambition from outside. At the same time of electrification of the islands, the seeds of revolution were being planted, largely by wealthy businessmen who sought to strip powers from the constitutional monarch to more freely expand their own interests.

What is most critical at this point in our local history is that the creation of Hawaiian Electric coincided with the last days of the ruling royals. As the following timeline follows shows, it was far from coincidental.

1887: A voluntary militia of white, including William Hall, organize an armed revolt known as the Bayonet Constitution. King Kalākaua was forced into signing a document requiring cabinet changes that appointed some of the militia members, as well as mandating substantial land ownership to vote. The overall impact marked a shift in the balance of electoral power away from Native Hawaiians and toward the white elite.

1891: The same year King Kalākaua died, the Hawaiian Electric Company was incorporated. Hawaiian Electric grew out of a partnership of four men, including William Hall, the scion of a prominent missionary-turned-merchant family. The company installed lights for free and customers paid for the electricity on a per-lamp basis. In the beginning, it cost 1 cent per light per hour, but Hawaiian Electric realized it was losing money and quickly raised the rates.

Mid 1891: William Hall became the first president of Hawaiian Electric Company, and was, by his own account, deeply involved in the armed revolt that gutted the monarchy.

January 1893:  Queen Liliuokalani, signed a law passed by the Legislative Assembly that gave the government the power to sell an exclusive 10-year franchise to a company to provide electric light and power in Honolulu. It came with regulations, including limiting how much the winning bidder could charge and requirements to be audited by authorities.

Two days after the utility deal was announced, the Queen declared that she had written a new constitution for Hawaiʻi that would restore many voting rights for Native Hawaiians and re-energize the power of the throne.

Three days after that, a small group of wealthy, and overwhelmingly white, businessmen — including three of Hawaiian Electric’s five leaders — responded by overthrowing the royal family and declaring martial law to consolidate their power. William Hall, also a quartermaster in the National Guard of Hawaiʻi, whose role was in part to ensure martial law was maintained. When the time came to bid for the 10-year franchise to provide electricity in Honolulu, there were no other bids than Hawaiian Electric Company.

Now here we are, over 125 years from its inception and Hawaiʻi is still heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels and residents pay amongst the highest electricity rates in the nation because of it."

Reference: HOW HAWAIIAN ELECTRIC POWERED THE ILLEGAL OVERTHROW — SIERRA CLUB OF HAWAIʻI (SIERRACLUBHAWAII.ORG)

Summary

The White Supremacists were activated in the Hawaiian Islands during the time of King David Kalakaua.

King Kalakaua was forced to sign a Constitution which was prepared by the White Supremacists with guns pointed to his head.

The 1887 Constitution was signed under stress, duress, usurpation and was null and void.

The purpose was to strip King Kalakaua of his Royal status and fall under the rule of the White Supremacists.

Queen Liliuokalani, successor of King Kalakaua had copied the 1864 Constitution which was signed by Lot Kamehameha/Kamehameha V.

Under stress, duress, usurpation, she destroyed the Constitution by burning it.

The White Supremacists were the men who worked for the Committee of Safety, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estates, the Trusts - Queen Kalama, King Lunalilo, Charles Kanaina, etc., the Hawaiian Electric Company, the American Sugar Planters, the Pacific Cable Company investors, Sharpshooters, the Portuguese, and others who were enlisted to assume Hawaiian lands as rewards, etc.

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  of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estates, the Trusts - Queen Kalama, King Lunalilo, Charles Kanaina, etc., the Hawaiian Electric Company, the American Sugar Planters, the Pacific Cable Company investors, Sharpshooters, the Portuguese, and others who were enlisted to assume Hawaiian lands as rewards, etc.

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