St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-15

Revolution of Last January Com
j pared to the 1870 Affair =
High Handed Outrages of the
i Late Queen-To Re-establish
Her Would Be a Great Crime
Against Liberty.
SEATTLE, WASH, Dec. IA. Feek,
"a Seattle contractor, arrived home to-
hight from Honolulu. where he has
secured contract for constructing
fifty-fOur miles OF railroad around the
island of Calm. He was made bearer of
all address to the people of the United
States from the American League of
Honolulu. The address says:
We, like you, believe in good govern
ment. and, having cooperation with
others freed ourselves from the reign
of corrupt rule and established a gov
eminent Of the best classes of society.
we protest emphatically against the
reported assumption by President
Cleveland that the provisional gov
eminent of the Hawaiian islands should
cease to exist because the proposition
for union with the United States of
America had failed to meet his
approval. We insist that the pres
ent government of Hawaii has the
same right to exist that the
United States had after the sue
fact the corruption and misgOvernment
that brought about the revolution of
January last were so fragrant as to be
unbearable. and the late queen had
planned not only to continue her cor
rupt rule, but set aside the cOnstitu-
ton of
THE KINGDOM
and attempted illegally to promulgate
a new one. DISTINGUISHING many of the
most intelligent citizens, and by her
high-handed outrages destroyed the last
hope of improvement over the
corrupt and Illegal aggression
OF the executive power, that
no alternative was left but to
depose her and establish all honest and
capable government. This has been
the United States, but the movement
was carried to a successful issue by
people born and raised On the islands
and others who had resided for
many years here and were citizens
of the country and loyal to its
best interests and only organized fer the
overflow of the old system after all hope
OF redress for the many wrongs done by
the late queen and her partisans had
ceased to exist. We are ready to
acknowledge that we. loving lib
erSy and good government. hon
estly administered, approved of the
deposition OF the late queen
and the organization Of the provisional
government and give to the said pro-
visiOnal government our hearty sup
port, because we know that it represents
the best and most advanced relig-
ious, moral. social and business
Interests Of the island, and we assert
that these several interests are so unit
ed as to form a government strong
enough to stand and maintain itself
against all internal 1prisings or insur-
rections, and that the well-known char
acter OF those at the
HEAD OF AFFAIRS
gives positive assurance that the gov
eminent will be honestly administered
and that the rights of the people will be
honestly administered. 1t has been as
serted by the adherents of the late
queen that the president Of the United
States would forcibly, if necessary, re-
enthrone the late queen and re-estab-
1ish her authority. We cannot believe
that President Cleveland has been
decide. we appeal to congress
and the people of the United
States to prevent so great crime
against liberty and good government.
The right of revolution has been we'll
established method of deciding great
wrongs and checking the Entertainments
of kings and despots generally, and
by no people has the right been
more generally acknowledged than by
the American people and in appealing
to her people. especially as we have
right, truth and justice on our side, we
feel that we shall have candid consid-
Grafton of our claims of recognition. So
confident are we in the justice of our
cause that we are certain that our
course will receive the approval of the
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
regardless of party, and we insist that
IL Hawaii is not wanted in the great !
sisterhood Of states, that we be al
lowed to continue a government hon.
estly administered, and we feel that we
have a right to vigorously protest
against the establishment of cor
rupt monarchy on these islands. Hav-
ing confidence in tine great iiberty-loving
citizenship of the United States, we
invite the fullest and freest
Investigation, confident that an
unprecedented investigation will result
in finding that the revolution of JAN
uary last was not only juStifiable,
but absolutely necessary to maintain
our rights and guard the best inter-
ests Of our native population as
we'll. many of the most intelligent of
whom are active supporters of the pro-
visional government and opposed to the
establishment of the monarchy"
The address is dated Dec. 4.