The herald., 1893-11-22

traitors, and said they wanted to shed
blood. One of them included the queen
in his denunciatione. During the en-
tire time between noon Saturday, the
14th, and the afternoon of Tuesday,
18th, when the provisional government
was proclaimed, the queens cabinet was
without g plan of action and did prac-
tically nothing but rush about the city
consulting with various foreign repre-.
sentatives and citizens of all parties as
to what they would better do, begging
the American minister for the support
of American troops against the commit
tee of safety, and securing from the
queen declaration that she would not
again attempt to abrogate the constitu-
ton, which they hurried into print and
distributed broadcast to try and appease
the Indignation of the citizens and
break up the proposed mass meeting.
I'm support of the fourth proposition,
the essential factor of judging whether
the force of the committee was sufficient
and their confidence well-founded, is to
know what the same men, under simi-
lar conditions, had done under previous
circumstances in 1887. The king, by
the manipulation of the electorate, en-
crosched upon popular rights and OBJ
tanned autocratio power over the people.
He was supported by practically the
same persons who now constitute
the Royalst party in Hawaii. The situ-
stion then crystallized the opposition
| into an organization OF practically the
same men who organized and now con-
stitute the provisional government. Such
organisation was formed with the openly
avowed intention OF wrestling from the
king his powers and dathrouing him.
The executive committee of 13 in con-
troll of the movement called mass meet
| ing. Resolutions were adopted denounc-
| ing the king and demanding the grant
ing OF new constitution depriving the
king of all personal power. The resolu-.
tions wsre presented to the king by q
committee, who, unarmed and alone,
proceeded direct from the meeting to the
| fortified palace, with an ultimatum that
he comply with the demands within "a
hours or take the consequences. The
king was then in absolute control. His
military strength was greater and the
control of the public buildings more
complete than that Of the queen in JAN
uary last. He did not fire q shot, sub
mitted to all the demands, disbanded
| the troops and turned the whole control
of the government over to the rev0lu-
tionary party, who, in consideration of
his abject submission, allowed him to
continue on the throne in fgurehead
capacity:
now constitute the provisional govern
ments were in control OF the kings
government, conspiracy Was organized
among the Royalist supporters by the
king and Liliuokalani for the oserthrow
of the cabinet and the restoration of the
old royal power and constitution. The
conepirators took the cabinet by sur
prise and on the night of July Goth took
possession of all the artillery and forth
fed the palace. The regular troops, by
order of the king, refused to assist the
cabinet, who called upon the whole
MALTA and white citizens for assistance.
The call was promptly responded to.
Fighting opened at 8 O'Clock in the
morning with less than 80 cabinet sup
porters in position in front of the palace,
which number Yves later increased to
about 800. The 'Royalist revolutionists
opened with furious fire, with both ar
tillery and small arms. Within bali
an hour they were driven from their
guns. Seventeen were killed and II
wounded. Before dark all of them were
dispersed or captured, while not one of
the cabinet supporters was injured.
''Sucb is the undisputed record of
events under two occasions when the
Reyalists and the organizers OF the
provisional government came into armed
conflict, when there had been no sug-
gestion OF support to either side By any
outside power. Under thess cifcum-
stances 1 submit that the burden Of
proof is on those who claim that the or
ganization of the government cannot
successfully carry out the revolution in
Hawaii.
at is unnecessary for me here to
state the details of the bitter constith-
tional conflict which had been carried on
between the queen and the Legislature
during the seven months prior to Janu-
airy last, or to speak of the INTENSE indie-
nation existing among all classes Of
citizens by reason of open and successful
alliance OF the queen with the opium
and lottery rings. The political liberties
OF the people we're trampled upon and
their moral sense shocked. 1t simply
needed the added pfovocaton OF an ar.
bitrafy attempt to abrogate the consti-
tuition and disfrancfiise every white man
In the country to spontaneously crys-
tallize the opposition into a force that
was irresistible.
''In reply to the sneer that the per-
sons taking part in the movement were
ALIENS | would say every man by the
laws OF the country was a legal voter
whose right to the franchise bvl the
proposed constitution would have been
abrogated. A large proportion Of them
were born in the country, and almost
without exception those who were not
! born there had lived there for years,
owned property there and made it their
home. They were the men who built up
the country commercially, agricultu-
rally. financially and politically, and
created and made possible civilized
government therein. They were and
are such men as today are the leading
citizens of the most progressive com
munity OF the United States, with in
terests as thoroughly identified with the
interests of Hawaii as are the interests
of native and foreign born citizens in
similar communities in this country
identified with it,"