The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-07-18

front 10 our foreign rivals and an equa
determination to protect the Ameri
can and native Hawaiian interests il
those islands. We have said, in effect
il not in words, to other nations, yol
may, if you will, take possession o
many islands in the Pacific, subdut
and improve them at your will, bu
in these islands standing at our gate.
and fronting our coasts, American
rights and interests are before all for
eign claimants, the natives shall bt
protected and civilized, and American
interests defended. This broad Amer
lean claim to priority and superiority
has been equally maintained under
the wings by Daniel Webster and
John NJ. Clayton, as secretaries Of
state; under the democrats by Presi-
dent Pierce and VIM. l.. Marcy, and
by President Cleveland and Secretary
Thomas F. Bayard, and under the re.
publican administrations by William
II. Seward, Hamilton Fish and James
@. Blaine.
Assuming the responsibilities of the
Minister of the United States at
Honolulu, in the light of these facts,
my duty was plain. The records of
the Legation for more than half a
century indicated what my country
had the right to expect of me, and
that if l permitted American interests
to suffer by my neglect or want of
courage, / would be held responsible.
In no way interfering with the inter-
nal political affairs of the islands, Gull
tivating the best possible relations
with the then existing authorities, ]
carefully set myself to a thorough in
vestigation OF the moral, political and
commercial state of affairs. This re-
quired many months, for it was proper
for me to obtain thorough information
in quiet, unobtrusive way. The re-
suit of my observation was duly and
consecutively communicated only to
the Washington department of state.
Everything bearing upon, or liable to
effect, the interests of his own county,
taking place in the country to which
he is accredited, the minister is bound
to communicate to his government
even some things which may be I'M
savory or seem puerile. The records
of the Legation and my investigation,
during more than the first two years
of my residence on the islands, clearly
indicated that great change had
been going on in the past fifteen
years. To this change had largely
among other causes, the
extinction of the old Kamehameha
race of kings, the election of the Kala-
kaua family to the throne in 1874, and
the prosperity and great profits of
sugar raising under the reciprocity
treaty with the United States. The
large increase of gOveTnmentre revenues,
the low and irresponsible character of
the two last sOvereigns, resulted in
palace abuses, and the
to official places of for
aign adventures and unworthy ma
lives, to Il degree greatly adverse to
public interests and to public and
private morals. In the nature Of
things it was impossible that the Ha-
waiian monarchy could continue. 1t
was allowed to exist by tolerance,
years after its. foundation was gone,
'or it formerly rested on a kind of
'eudal basis of chiefs, that no longer
existed, time and death having re-
moved them forever. The monarchy
lied by its own revolutionary hand
| suicide of blindness, incompetence
ma corruption. The manner in which
he Hawaiian monarchy came to its
end, the circumstance which caused
he landing of the United States naval
orces at Honolulu, January l6, / have
already stated in my address at San
which | need not now re-
peat, will not occupy your time in
the absurd charge of the
allen queens INSCRIPTIONS lawyer
md the other individuals of the lottery
md opium gang, who corruptly shared
ler association, the charge that the
United States Minister and the COM
nander of the Boston overturned the
monarchy. AS a matter of curiosity
bearing on this point, which may in
crest you somewhat, | will read
,opy OF the communication addressed
o me by the queen signed by herself
md by the four ministers who had
,een closely identified with her in her
evolutionary proceedings:
1.-The assurance conveyed by royal
by myself and ministers
.CSlGlddy lSlhlll3 OGSh 1tGClNGd ny
ny native subjects, and by them rati-
led at mass meeting, was received
n a different spirit by the meeting
epresenting the foreign population
nd interests in my kingdom. 1t is
low my desire to give your eXcellency
s the diplomatic representative of
he United States of America at my
curt, the solemn assurance that the
resent constitution will be upheld 4
y me and my ministers, and no
Ranges will be made except by the
nethod therein provided. l desire to
Xpress to your excellency this assur-
nee in the spirit of that friendship
7hich has ever existed between my
ingdOm and that of the government |
f the United States of America, and |
7hich | trust will long continue.
LILIUoKAIANI, r.
AMUEL PARKER, Minister of Foreign |
Affairs,
VILLAIN H. CoRNwELL, Minister of |
Finance,
Ohm F. CoLBURN, Minister of In
terror,
!. p. PETERSON, Attorney-General.
Iolani Palace, Honolulu, January
7, 1895"
This earnestly pleading document
ON the fallen monarch and the
srror-strickeu lottery gang came to
le more than tuanty hours aftar tba