The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-02
KAIULANI ON AMERICAN SOIL
Arrival at New York of the Hawaiian
Princess and Her English Guardian.
Another Touching Appeal by the Young Heiress
to the People of the United States and q
Statement from MIR. Davies.

NEW YORK, March 1.-Princess Kaiulani.
niece of the deposed Queen Liliuokalani,
of Hawaii, is here. She arrived to-day on
the steamer Teutonic. which sailed from
Liverpool Feb. %. With her were Theopho-
lis Dawes and Mrs. Dawes, who are the
English guardians of the Princess; Miss
Davies and Miss Whartoff.. companions to
the Princess. Z. G. McFarlane. the ex-
Minister of Finance to the dethroned
Queen LiliuOkalani, and Dr.. Mott Smith,
the present Hawaiian minister to this
country, went down the bay on the reve-
nue. cutter Chandler to meet the young
Princess. They boarded the ship immedi-
ately after she left the health officers
boarding station. There was quite an
s-my of curiosity seekers on the pier to get
Q glimpse at the Princess. Asuite of rooms
had been engaged for the party at the
Brevoort House. and they were driven there
Immediately after coming off the steam
ship.
The Princess is eighteen years old. She
is tall. beautiful young woman of sweet
face and slender figure. She has the soft
brown eyes and dark complexion that mark
Hawaiian beauty. She had como to the
United States, she said, more for the pur-
pose of learning and observing for herself
the nature of the people who had been
asked to take con troll of her country than
to make formal petition for her crown.
That" she said. lis ri0htfully mine. and.
If the Americans are the noble-minded peO-
pie | have learned to regard them as. they
will not be q party to the outrage by winch
l have lost my blrthright." In regard to
her views on the various aspects which
the Hawaiian government is likely to as
sumo. Princess Kaiulanl referred TO her
guardian, Mr. Davies, who had prepared q
statement both ON his own and her behalf.
The statement of Princess Kaiulanl is as
follows.
To the American People:
Unbidden, I stand upon your shores to-day,
where thought so soon to receive royal vel
come on my way TO my own kingdom. | come
unattended. except by the loving hearts that
have come with me over the wintry seas.
hear that commissioners from my land have
been for many days asking this great Nation to
take away my little vineyard. They speak no
word to me and leave me To find out as L can
from the rumors of the air. that they would
leave me without a home. "a name or a nation.
Seventy years ago Christian America sent over
Christian men aud women to give religion and
civilization to Hawaii. They gave us the gospel,
they made us q nation and We learned TO love
and trust America. To-day three Of the sons Of
You 1 to undo their fathers work. Who sent themi
Who gave them authority to break the Constitu-
tion which they swOre they would upholdi
To-day /, poor weak girl. with not one of my
people near me and all these Hawaiian states
men against me, have strength to stand up for
their vail in my heart, and it gives me strength
and courage, and | am strOng-strong in the
faith OF God. strong in the knowledge that am
right strong in the strength OF seventy millions
OF people who. In this free land. will hear my
cry and will refuse TO let their flag cover dis
honor I'd mine.
STATEMENT OF GUARDIAN DAVIES.
Mr.. Davies's statement is as follows:
After the revolution of 1887 Mr. Thurston
came into power and enjoyed very generally the
confidence or natives and foreigners. At tina {
time the Princess kaiulani, heiress presumptive
10 the throne, was eleven years of age, and 1t
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 more fifty to take up her
future position sovereign. Mr. ThurstOn re-
peatedly urged that the young princess should
be sent 10 England with this object in view.
and In 1889, when she was thirteen years
OF age, the plan was carried out, and Princess
Kaiulani was sent to England in charge OF a
lady who was about TO spend year i'll Europe,
ana VINO undertook 10 place her at q suitable
school which had already been selected At the
end of the first year the result was deemed so
satisfactory that Kalakaua was persuaded TO
consent 10 a continuance of the young Princess &
stay In England, and as the lady who had been
her chaperon had to return TO Honolulu, a re-
quest was ulhue Dy the 1dtnef or the Prl0cess,
with the written concurrence of the King and
the then Princess Liliuokalani, that Mrs. Davies
and myself would act as guardians during the
Princess's stay in England. Princess Kaiulani
has thus been entirely one OF our own chill
dren, and has spent all her holidays with u.s.
Her one idea. and our one idea, has been to pre-
pare her for the return To her own land during
the present year, when she attains her majority.
One OF the last acts of the Hawaiian Legis-
lature, OF which four OF the five commissioners
now at Washington remember, was to vote q
sum OF "a 900 for the expenses of the return tour
of the heiress app rent Arrangements were
in progress for her reception by the Queen of
England during the coming spring. and then she
was TO make prolonged visit to Washington,
American cities, finally reaching Honolulu in
OctOber-0r November for her coming voyage.
When the news reached me by cable of the revo-
luton in Hawaii wrote 10 the minister point
ing out what appeared TO me- 10 he the grave diff
hculties in the way OF the carrying out 10y the
commissioners of the proposal for annexation.
/ stated that In my opinion. no amount
of reasoning and no amount of bribing would
gain the pure Hawaiian vote, and that
without that vote annexation could be neither
completed nor carried out hereafter. 1 then
urged that a convention OF all classes OF voters
should he called. carefully revised constitution
presented To them. that the Queen should be re-
quested TO abdieate. and that Princess Kaiulani
should be proclaimed Queen, with . council OF