The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-02
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lIS4z1%Nyy young princess. They
pRMe5Fs n boarded the ship ing
N,c1bFTSAikUlANH mediately after she
left the health officer's boarding station.
There was quite an army of curiosity
seekers on the pier to get a glimpse of
the princess. A suite of rooms had been
engaged for her party at the Bre-
wort house and they were driven there
Immediately after coming of the steam
ship.
The princess is is years old; is tall,
beautiful young woman with sweet face
and slender figure. She has soft brown
eyes and that dark complexion that mark
Hawaiian beauty. She had come to the
United States, she said more for the pur-
pose of learning and observing for her
sell the nature of the people who had
been asked to control her country than to
make a formal petition for her crown
''That, - she said, lis rightfuHy mine,
and if the Americans are the noble
minded people l have learned to regard
them, they will not be party to the out
rage by which | have lost my birthright."
In regard to her views on various as
poets which the Hawaiian government is
likely to assume, Princess Kaiaulani re-
terred to her guardian, Mr.. Davis, but
she had issued the following address:
''To the American People:-Unbidde
| stand upon your shores today, where |
thought to soon receive a royal welcome
on my way to my own kingdom. / come
unattended except by loving hearts that
come with me over the Wintry seas. |
hear commissioners from my land have
been for many days asking this great ma
ton to take away my little vineyard.
They speak no word to me and leave me
to find out as l can from rumors in the
air. They would leave me without home,
or name or nation.
"Seventy years ago Christian Ameri-
cans sent over Christian men and women
to give religion and civilization to
Hawaii They gave US the gospel. They
made US a nation and we learned to love
and trust America. Today three of the
sons of those missionaries are at your
capital asking you to undo their fathers
work. Who sent them? Who gave them
authority to break a constitution which
they swore they would uphold?
To-day, 1, a poor, weak girl, with not
one of my people near me, and all these
Hawaiian statesmen against me yet have
strength to stand up for the rights of my
people. Even now l can hear a wall in
my heart, and it gives me strength and
faith of God, strong in the knowledge
that am right, strong in the strength
that seventy millions OF people who, in
this free land, Will hear my CRY and will
refuse to let their flag cover dlshonor to
mine.''
Theophilus Davies statement is as fol-
lows: 'After the revolution of 1887 Mr..
Thurston came into power and enjoyed
very generally the confidence of the ma
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cess Kalaulanl, helreSS preSumpCive to the
throne, was II years OF age and it was felt
to be very important that she should be
sent entirely away from the surroundings
and influences of Hawaiian court life. in
order that she might be trained in a quiet
home atmosphere, which would enable
her to more fifty take up her position as
sovereign. Mr.. Thurston repeatedly
urged that the young princess should be
sent to England with that object IN view,
and in 1889, when she was Is years of age,
the plan was carried out and Princess
Kaiaulani was sent to England in charge
of lady who was about to spend year
in Europe and who undertook to place
her at a suitable school, which already
had been selected.
sat the end of the first year the result
was deemed SO satisfactory that Kalakula
was persuaded to consent to continu-
duC6 Vi tLS young princess SbdY IN Eng
land, and as the lady who had been her
chaperone had to return to Honolulu,
request was made by the father CT the
princess, with the written concurrence
of the king and the Princess Kilioukal-
ami, that Mrs. Davis and myself would
act as guardians during the princess
stay in England. Princess Laiaulani thus
has been entirely as one of our own chill
dren and spent all her holidays with us.
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been to prepare her for her retun to our
own land during the present year, when
she attains her majority. One of the last
acts of the Hawaiian legislature, of which
four of the five commissioners now at
W Washington remember, was to vote sum
of $4 900 for expenses of the return tour of
the heiress apparent. Arrangements We're
in progress for her reception by the queen
OF England during the coming spring and
then she was TO make prolonged visit to
Washington, New York, Chicago, Boston
and other American cities, finally reach
ing Honolulu in October or November
for her coming of age.
HWhen news reached me by cable of
the revolution in Hawaii / wrote to the
minister. Pointing out what appeared
to me TO be grave difficulties in the wav
of carrying out by the commissioners
the proposal for annexation. ! stated
ing and no amount of bride would ever
gain pure Hawaiian vote and without
that vote annexation could be neither
completed nor carried out hereafter. [
then urged that convention of all classes
of voters should be called, carefully re-
vised constitution be presented to them.
that the queen should be requested to
abdicate and Princess Kaiaulani should be
proclaimed queen with a council regency
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OF the provisional government should be
president.
Son Feb. ID received this cablegraln
from Washington: Islands transferred.
Princess provided for. Whether this
cablegram was to be considered an official
communication | do not know, but it was
the only communication that reached me.
and absolutely none reached the princess.
The most striking fact in this cablegram,
next to the apparent heartlessness, is the
fact that its accuracy was not confirmed
by any kilograms that had been published
in England. Why it was sent or who