The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-07-15

a friendly government ever piled up
such record of offensive conduct
as Minister Stevens had done long
before the events of January.
Even in what he purports to par
ticularize-the immediate circum-
stances of the revolution-Mr. Ste
vens reveals only such facts as suit
his special plea, while torturing the
significance of these with construc-
ton they will not bear. For in
stance, take the following note,
signed by the Queen and counter
signed by her four Ministers, re-
ceivcd by Mr. Stevens on the 18th
of January, the date it bears:
The assurance conveyed by royal
proclamation by myself and minis
ters yesterday having been received
by my native subjects, and by them
ratified at mass meeting, was re-
ceived in different spirit by the
meeting representing the foreign
population and interests in my
kingdom. 1t is now my desire to
give your excellency as the diploma
tic representative of the United
solemn assurance that the present
constitution will be upheld by me
and my ministers, and no changes
will be made except by the method
therein provided. I desire to ex-
press to your excellency this assur-
ance in the spirit of that friendship
which has ever existed between my
kingdom and that of the govern
ment of the United States of Ame-
rica, and which l trust will long
continue.
This note the ex-Minister chooses
to call an "earnestly-pleading docu-
ment from the fallen monarch and
the terror-stricken lottery gang"
The Honolulu organs chime in and
attach Importance to the document
in their favor, one of them saying
''it completely overthrows the ulti-
mate argument upon which the
royalists now depend, and which
was not set up by them, until some
time after the revolution, as an after
thought" Taking the latter part of
this observation first, it is nothing
more or less than fippant false
hood. From the very first, after the
revolution, the Queen and her advi-
sers enjoined her sympathizers to be
quiet and patient until the Govern
ment of the United States should
have received and acted upon the
| Queens protest against the revolu-
| tion aided and abetted by the
United States representatives with
the forces at their disposal. How
the document completely over
throws the Queens case now pend
ing before the United States Gov
crnment is something utterly incom-
prehensible to any sane judgment
On the face of it, taking the most
obvious and, in fact, the only admis.
sible meaning of the language, the
document is inconsistent with any.
thing but the Queens claim that the
United States had practically seized
the country. Why else should she
have taken the trouble to give the
United States Minister the assurance
contained in the document? The
United States troops were still or
shore, twenty hours after their land
ing as the Minister says. There wa!
no Government but that of the
Queen in existence, when the note
was written or when it was received
The document contains a recogni
tion of the fact, later protested
against by the Queen, that her Gov
ernment was menaced by the pres
ence of United States troops. Nh
Stevens has simply blundered int
giving an additional piece of evi
dence against himself and in favo
Of the Queen.
When Mr.. Stevens repeats hi
abusive language about "the lotter.
gang" he only revamps the piou
: fraud exploded here and in tn
United States time and again. Th
whole strength and sinews of war o
the lottery gang, outside of the mis-
) guided votes in the Legislature, rest
ed in the ranks of the annexation
party. Several of it's most promi
nent and active promoters have bee
rewarded by the revolutionary "bes
government the islands ever had,
according to Mr. Stevens estimate
with some of the most lucrativ
offices i'll their gift. The headquart
ers of the lottery conspiracy was in
deed in the Bureau of Information
at the head of which was l.. A
Thurston, leader Of the annexation
coup d. etat and now Minister of tn
p, G. to Washington. 1t was tn