The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-15

interests defended. This broad amer
lean claim To priority aud superiority
mas been equally maintained under
the wings 10y Daniel Webster and
John NJ. Clayton, as secretaries of
state; under the democrats by Presi-
dent Pierce and VIM. l.. Marcy, and
10y President Cleveland and Secretary
Thomas +. Buyard, and under the re-
publican administrations by William
IL. seward, Hamilton Fish aud James
O.. Blaine.
Assuming the responsibilities of the
Minister of the United States at
Honolulu, I'm the hight of these facts,
my duty was plain. The records OF
the Legation for more than half u
century indicated what my country
had the right to expect of me, and
that il | 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, cul-
tivnting the best possible relations
with the then existing authorities, |
carefully set myself to thorough in
vestigation of the moral, political and
commercial state of affairs. This re-
quired many months, for ii was proper
for me To obtain thorough information
In quiet, unobtrusive way. The re-
sun OI my ODScTNdlIOll was dulY ana
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 un-
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 q 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 government revenues,
the low and irresponsible character of
the two last sovereigns, resulted in
palace abuses, and the
to official places of for
eign adventures and unworthy ma
tives, to n 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 il 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
md corruption. The manner in which
h1a II N nv tn re |
md, the circumstance which caused
he landing of the United States naval
orces at Honolulu, January Is, have
Ilready stated in my address at San
which / need not now re-
,eat, L will not occupy your time in
epeating the absurd charge of the
allen queens INSCRIPTIONS lawyer
md the other individuals of the lottery
md opium gang, who corruptly shared
Ter association, the charge that the
United States Minister and the COM
handler of the Boston overturned the
As a matter of curiosity
'earing on this point, which may in I
crest you somewhat, L will read |
opy of the communicates addressed |
o me by the queen signed by herself
nd by the four ministers who had
een closely identified with her in her
evolutionary proceedings:
'The assurance conveyed by royal
by myself and ministers
having been received by
ny native subjects, and by them rati-
ed at Il mass meeting, was received
n a different spirit by the meeting
epresenting the foreign population
nd interests in my kingdom. 1t is
ow my desire to give your eXcellency
S the diplomatic representative of ;
Of a ri OF | y
curt, the solemn assurance that the :
resent constitution will be upheld
Y me and my ministers, and no
hanges will be made except by the =
lethod therein provided. / desire to :
Xpress to your eXcellency this assur- :
nee in the spirit of that friendship :
yhich has ever existed between my :
ingdom and that of the government I
the United States of America, and ,
yhich 1 trust will long continue.
LILIUOKALANI, X. :
AMUEL PARKER, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, {
WILLIAM H. CoRNwELL, Minister of
Finance,
Ohm F. CoLBURN, Minister OF In ,,
terror, !
|. p. PETERSON, AttOrney-General. I
Iolani Palace, Honolulu, January :
!, 1893"
This earnestly-pleading document {
ON the fallen monarch and the !
srror-stricken lottery gang came to t
lie more than twenty hours after the S
len of the Boston had landed. This '
lainIy enough implies that the fallen |
ueen and her confidants then knew,
) they could not have failed to know,
nat we had not taken part in her
verthrow, which had already been {
An hour later the |
lllen ministers came to the Legation :
nd urged on me the inquiry, if | G
1uld not use the United States force t
sustain the queen. My answer was |
hat you can readily suppose it must i
ave been-that the United States f
,ldiers were on shore for a specific t
to protect American life and c
roperty, and could not take sides in Z
id of the fallen monarch, nor with
nose who were then masters Of the s
tuation, and were creating a new
But these facts have /
cen already given you by the public
ress, and / need not dwell upon
lem.
The raising of the United States I
ag over the Government buildings
,ok place two weeks later, and on
lat transaction there is some misap- I
rehension which it is proper for me
Il