Liliuokalani was a good composer of music.  But she was lousy as a queen, with a corrupt and ineffective rulership.  Her only significant accomplishment was getting overthrown.  During the week before the revolution she bribed and threatened the legislature into passing three bills:  the distillery bill to set up a government distillery; the opium bill to sell for $500,000 a government monopoly license to sell opium; and the lottery bill to set up a government-owned and operated lottery.  Booze, drugs, and gambling -- just what Hawaii needed.  And back then there was not yet any opium overdose prevention or rescue kit.