The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-04-17
APPEALING WOMEN.
Address and Memorial to Com
missioner BlOunt.
Presented by Officers and Members Of
the Hawaiian WOman'S Patriotic
League,
Presented by Officers and Members Of

This morning a deputation from
the Hawaiian Woman's Patriotic
League waited on Hon. j. H. Blount,
United States Commissioner, and
presented him with the following
address to himself and memorial to
be transmitted to President Cleve-
land:
To HIS ExcELLENcY JAMES H. BLouNT,
SPECIAL COMMISSIONER AND DIpLo-
MATIc REPRESENTATIVE OF THE U.
S. GOVERNMENT IN HAWAII.
Honorcd Sir,-It is as a committee
of Hawaiian women of the Hui
Aloha Alma, that we are here to-day
delegated to respectfully extend to
YOU, sir, and to Mrs. Blount, a most
hearty welcome to our shores.
Moreover. as the representative
of the U. S. of America, sent to in
vestigate into the present deplor-
ably disturbed situation of these
islands, we are here to greet you, to
invoke for you that the Great and
Mercirul God may send you full
light in your work, and to submit to
you memorial drawn and adopted
by our Hui.
The Hawaiians as nation are |
Justly noted for their peaceful dis
position and their respect for estab-
lished law; the fairer sex especially |
is wont to live contentedly in the
retirement and domestic tranquility
of their homes, although we can
boast from past history that Hawaii
nei has produced women of strong
admirable character, who have been
worthy and devoted .helpmates to
our chiefs, in war and political
ruling. But it is an unprecedented
fact to see all the women of this fair
land arise in body, of all ages and
conditions, to take part in public
meetings in which all differences of
political parties and creeds are set
aside and forgotten; and it must be
an extraordinary, vital event that
brings them out to the front.
This event is the blow that threat
ems the life and precious indepen-
dence of their beloved Hawaii and
the continuance of its legitimate
monarchy There has been here
violent crisis, caused by disloyal
scheming aliens, who for their own
selfish purposes and, we are very
sorry to say, aided and abetted by
the U. S. forces, to this ingenious
pretext to overthrow the Legitimate
Queen, just when she was trying to
comply with her peoples wishes.
They established a Provisional
Government in which the natives
had no voice and rushed off to
Washington to barter away the
country, the public lands and the
civil rights of the inhabitants, false
ly pretending to represent the whole
nation.
: This revolution has been blow to
: all true hearts, and men and women
alike have felt that it was duty to
: solemnly protest. The men organ
> lied for that purpose the Hawaiian
Patriotic League or Hui Hawaii
r Aloha Alma, and their mothers, wives
and daughters rallied with enthusi-
asm all over the group to assist them
through our Woman's Patriotic
League.
4 In this common effort of the Ha-
! waiian nation, the women of Hawaii
, do not intend to enter into any poll
. teal consideration, but they are in
spired solely by the desire of saving
: to themselves and to their posterity
- the Independence of their native
a kingdom. They are moved by the
wish of protesting against the move
:, ment which menaces to destroy the
dearest privilege of nationality and
citizenship to which our children
s. are entitled by birth and right.
g The women of Hawaii may not be
). able to judge of all the economical
y aspects of the proposed annexation
+. to he Y. s., but, as patriotic wives
/ and mothers, they remember that
@ just forty years ago movement
l. of similar nature having been start
II ed, the American missionaries who
|. had brought here the knowledge o
, the Living God and the advantage
of Christian civilization, and who
have educated them and their chill
dren, then opDOSed annexation will
all their might, saying that the EFF
/ fects of it would be disastrous t.
the native race"
As the same reasons that prompt
Ie ed our respected American mission
1t AIRY teachers still exist, just as poten
le to-day as then, if not more so, W
Y are willing to abide by their worth
IL authority and we proclaim that We
ii the women of Hawaii nei, want t
Of preserve the autonomy Of our coun
rs try sacred for our children, VIII
&c have no other lands to seek for thei
le homes.
,e We are not inspired by the leas
o. hostility against the United State
is or their institutions; ON the con
at trary, we have learned to honor an
III regard them as Il kindly neighbor,
g. just friend and Il magnanimous pro
,r. tector for this dcfenseless kingdom
al and we have always extended to til
b. u. 5. subjects and naval officers tn
IS most hospitable welcome.
IS But we have been sorely grove
.r, by the strange and inimical condu'
Is OF some Americans in their yiolel
A. injustice and unprecedented m
re thods against our Queen Liliuok
ais lani, who has won our respect by Ia
rd conscientious regard for her people