The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
THE ENVOY
or the Ex-Quecn Liluokalani, of Hawaii
Presents Co This Government Her Pro-
test Against Annexation.


or the Ex-Queon LiluokaIanI, OF Hawai-,
Presents Co This Government Her Pro-
| test Against Annexation.
New YORK, Feb 25.-The World pub
fishes the text of the precis on the
Hawaiian situation, furnished to the
state department by the ex-queen's en-
voy, Mr. Paul Neumann.
He says: The wishes of the natives as
to the alteration of the constitution
were confined to the following points:
1. The restoration of the power of the
sovereign to appoint certain number
of the mobiles
2. The diminution of the property
| qualification of electors.
s. Restriction of the elective fran
chise to Hawaiian citizens, except as
to such aliens who had granted to
them the franchise by the constitution
of 1887.
q. Increase of the salar- of the repre-
| sentatives
3. Reduction of the term of Gne JUS
tices of the supreme court from life
tenure to tenure for fixed number
of years.
The native population, as well as a
great number of foreign born taxpay-
ers and voters, yielded the power which
they could have maintained only be-
cause they believe that the movements
of the committee of safety is upheld by
the authorities of the United States of
America. The events which caused
this belief are the following:
l. The landing of the forces Of the
United States steamship Boston against
the remonstrance of the constitutional
government.
2. The assurance of the United States
minister plenipotentiary that, in case
of conflict, he would espouse the
cause of the usurpers. The landing of
the United States troops was measure
entirely unnecessary. Neither an ex-
cess of caution nor actual fear can ex-
cuse the landing of the American troops
in the afternoon.
He adds as to subsequent events The
provisional government declared mar.
tial law, and armed among others, the
vagrant and criminal element in the
population, prescribed free speech and
discussion, suppressed native newspa-
pers and established practical CEN
sorship of the newspapers published in
English, permitting only such state
ments as might be favorable to itself to
appear, and disbursed large sums OF
public money without authority of law.
This state of things was only possible
by the armed support of the United
States troops ashore, and the guns of
the United States war-ship Boston
trained on the town.
The usurpation of authority would
not have lasted an hour without such
armed support and encouragement
from the United States
AS logical sequence to these events
the lawless and criminal foreign ele-
ment, armed by the usurpers and paid
to terrorize the natives and law-abiding
citizens, now displayed mutinous
spirit, and the provisional government
was compelled to call upon the Amer
lean minister to assume a protectorate
and disband its armed force, which was
accomplished on February 1.
This fact alone demonstrates that the
so-called provisional government has no
strength of it's own either to preserve
the peace or enforce obedience to its
edicts.
1t has neither the moral nor the phys
ical support of the masses of the Ha-
waiian people, who protest with their
Queen against continuance of the
usurpation and pray for restoration
of their constitutional government and
sovereignty.