The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-03-10

Even now | can hear their wall in
my heart, and it gives me strength
and courage and am strong; strong
in the faith of God, strong in the
knowledge that / am right, strong
in the strength of 70,000,000 people,
who, in this free land, will hear my
cry and will refuse to let their flag
cover or do dishonor to NINE"
STATEMENT BY MR.. DAVIES.
Mr.. Davies made a statement, in
which he related the circumstances
under which the Princess was sent
to England. II was when Mr.. Thurs
ton was in power, and Kaiulani was
Ii years of age. at was felt to be
very importad chat she should be
sent entirely away from thr sur
roundings and influences of Hawai-
ian court life in order That she
might be trained in a quiet home
atmosphere which would enable her
to more fifty take up her future
position as sovereign. Thurston
repeatedly urged that the young
Princess should be sent to England
with this object in view, and in 1889
the plan was carried out, and Prin-
cess Kaiulani was sent to England
in charge of a lady who was about
to spend year in Europe, and who
undertook to place her at suitable
school,"
At the end of the first year the re-
suit was considered so satisfactory
that King Kalakaua was persuaded
to consent to a continuance of the
Princess stay in England. An ar
rangement was made whereby she
was put under the guardianship of
Mr.. and Mrs. Davies. She had been
entirely as one of their children,
spending her holidays with them.
Her one idea and theirs had been to
prepare her for return to her own
land during the present year, when
she attains her majority. Mr.. Davies
told of the appropriation of $1,000
made for the Princess tour home
through the States, and continued:
"When the news reached me by
cable of the revolution in Hawaii l
wrote to the Minister, pointing out
what appeared to me to be grave
difficulties in the way of the carry
ing out by the commissioners of the
proposal for annexation. | stated
in my opinion that no amount of
reasoning and no amount of brides
would ever gain the pure Hawaiian
vote, and without that vote annexa-
tion could be neither completed nor
carried out hereafter.
81 then urged that convention
of all classes of voters should be
called, a carefully revised constitu-
ton presented them, that the Queen
be requested to abdicate, and that
the Princess Kaiulani should be pro-
claimed Queen, with council of re-
gency, of which 1 suggested that
Dole, now the head of the Provi-
sional Government, should be presi-
dent. On February 18th l received
this cablegram from Washington:
Islands transferred; the Princess
has been provided for Whether
this cablegram was to be considered
an official communication | do not
know, but it was the only commune
cation that reached me and abso-
!
Mr.. Davies said they came to
America with no official status and
with no official information, but with
the conviction that the Government
and people of the United States will
not lend their countenance to the
disinheritance, for no fault alleged
against her or her nation, of the
royal lady who has with singular
grace and courage endeavored to fit
herself for her high station and who
has shrunk from neither duty mol
sacrifice in the effort"
He said that the Queen appeared
to have violated her constitutional
oath and to have laid herself oper
to deposition, but that could moi
affect the Constitution itself nor tn,
oaths which the Commissioner
took. There was no pretense tina
the Hawaiian electorate ever knew
of the revolution at the date of tn,
Commissioners departure. MI
Davies concludes regarding the Com
missioners as follows:
| do not for moment believe tina
any of them would be guilty of in
territorial cruelty or even discourtes,
to the Princess, and the unenviabl,
position which their silence towart
her betrayed them into must aris
from the difficulty they find in rec
onciling their present attitude will
the knowledge that their oath t.
sustain the Hawaiian Constitution
binds them to the succession of tn
Princess unless the nation itself re
leases them from that oath.
MR.. WILDER DISCUSSES THE PRINCESS.
, Mr.. w. G. Wilder, one of the Com
missioners, in an interview at Sa
Francisco on his way home, is re
ported to have said: "The Princes.
who will probably arrive in Ne,
York to-day, is, l think, ill-advise
in making any attempt to furthe
her cause by a personal appeal t
, the new President. Her educatio
and bringing up are SO entirely Eng
fish, and her being brought over q
this juncture will SAVIOR SO strongl
, of English influence that it canno
4 surely have any but deterrent Q
!, feet upon the minds of the America
r people, who of all things in tn
| world relish the idea of English il
reference least of all, no matter
what indirect shape it may show i