Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-21


 ernment intended to interfere with domes
 tic affairs he wrote to his government ask
 ing that the vessel be ordered away vhic
 was done. He expressed to me his dee
 regret that any one should charge the em
 pire of Japan, having so many reasons t.
 value the friendship of the United States
 would consent to offend that governmen
 by interfering in the political conflicts i,
 these islands to which 1t was averss."
 Ar. Blount then proceeds to give the re
 suits of his investigation. The report say
 the causes of the revolution are remote ant
 proximate. Extracts are given from tn, constitution granted by Kamahamaha III in 1852 and the constitution proclaimed b, Kamahamaha v. in 1875. Touching tn operation of the reciprocity treaty of 1875 the report says that there came to the isl ands an intoxicating increase of wealth, new labor system, an Asiatio population an alienation of the native and whit, races, an impoverishment of the latter, and the many eo-called revolutions which ar. the foundation of the opinion that stsbls government cannot be maintained. Mir Blount estimates that the bounty paid on sugar by the United States to the suga, planters of Hawaii in the remission of duty before the Mckinley bill was passed reach. ed 30, 900, ,OOO annually. From 1876 tc 1887 the immigrants numbered 39, ,026, In. cluding 23. .26S Chinese, 9. TIT Japanese and 1O,2l6 Portuguese. The immigrants were poor and ignorant, the Japanese and Chinese women grossly unchsste. Labor treaties were made with various govern ments binding the lsborer very striDgently to his work. The report says that in the year 1845, under the influence of white residents, the lands were 80 distributed be- tween the crown, the government and the people as to leave the latter only 27, ,SS7 acres.
 The story of this division is discredita- ble to king, chiefs and white residents The chiefs became indebted to the whites and then the foundation for the large hold fngs Of the latter was laid. MT. Blount describes the good work done by the mis- sionaries on the island, and says that the descendants of these good men grew up iu secular pursuits. The Ievered missionary In his stead came the Anglo Saxon in the person of his son, ambitious to acquire wealth and to continue that political control reverently conosded to his pious ancestors. hr. Blount asks whether such 8 condition of affairs, with the natives convinced that the foreigners had stolen his land, had degraded free labor and exposed their own dsu2h- sers to the evil influence of an overwhelm- ing degraded male population, with the whites yaunting their wealth and intelli- gence, their missionary work and condemn ing the weakness of the natives was not powerful provocative to divergence and political strife.
 MT. Blount embodies 6 colloquy between Chief Justice Judd and himself touching the means adopted to extort the constitu. lion of 1887 and the fundamental change in that instrument. These changes, Mr. Blount says, conferred upon the whites ;hree-fourths of the power to name nobles md permitted ignorant lsborers to vote 1nder their overseers' direction to balance he native vote with the Portuguese. Two thirds of these were not nsturalizsd. The 1obles selected mostly by the foreign ele- nent held the veto power over the popu- arly elected representatives. The king ,ould appoint cabinet but could not re- move one. Mir. Blount tells of the various ,fforts made to secure a revision of this and then brings his narrative town to the propagation of the legislature n 1892, the announcement of the queens purpose to proclaim a new constitution and he refusal of two of her ministers to sign 1t. He tells the story of the revolution which followed. This part of the report was pub ished this morning. Mir. Blount says 1t seemed strange to suppose that there was any necessity for landing troops. "And referring to Minister Stevens) 10 consent .o an application for such purpose with put any suggs stiou dissusding the sppli- ,ants from 1t on the part of tue American minister with naval forces under his com nsnd, could not otherwise be construed than as oompltcity with their plans. This was the first time that ths American troops were ever landed on the islands at the in stance of 6 committee of safety without notice to the existing government. MT. 5tevens' despatch to Secretary Foster Is quo- ted where he says he recognized the govern ment after 1t was in possession of all gov buildings, and MT. Blount fsys the quick recognition wss the performance of his pledge to the committee of safety. He criticises similar statement made by the Hawaiian commissioners to Mr Foster and says: "Did the spirit of annexation mislead these gsntlemeni If not what msligu influence tempted President Dole to contrary statement in the cited letter to the American ministerp
 Says MT. Blount: "The leaders of the movement would not have it but for Mr. Stevens promise to protect them against any danger from the government. But for this their mass would not have been held. But for this no request to land the troops would have been made. Had the troops not been landed no measures for the or ganization of 6 new government would have been taken. The American minister and the revolutionary leaders had deter mined on annexation to the United States, and had agreed on the part each was to act to the very end"
 Tn oopn1niipn Nr p10rok sa-a thak a deep wrong has been done the queen and the native race by American officials per vsdes the native mind and that of the queen, as we'll ss hope for redress from the United States, there can be no doubt. The suddenness of the landing of the troops, the reading of the proclamation of the provisional government almost in their presence, and the quick recognition by MT. Stevens, easily prepared the queen for the suggestion that the president of the United States had no knowledge of these occur rences and must know of and approve ol disapprove of what had occurred at flu ture time. This, too, must have contrib uted to her disposition to accept the sug. gestions of Judge Widemsn and Mir. Ds mon. The prevailing sentiment smongs the natives point to her belief as we'll si theirs that the spirit of justics on tn,
 part of the president would restore hel
 crown.
 The correspondence ends with 6 lette
 under date of July 3l, 1893, in which Mr
 Blount takes his congs as follows:
 The condition of parties in the island
 is one of quiescence. The action of tn
 United States is awaited by all as 6 mat
 ter of necessity. This condition, It cal
 be assumed, will remain until the pSopo sition to annex is accepted or rejected. Il the latter contingency no sudden move ment Is likely to occur. The present gov ernment can only rest on the use of mill tary force, possessed of most of the arm in the islands with a small white populs tion to draw from to strengthen 1t. Ult mately 1t will fall without fail. It ma preserve Its existence for a year or two | but not longer.
 Mir. Blount adds that he has done hi duty as we'll as he could, considering
 was surrounded by, persons interested i
 misleading him.
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