Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-12-13

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Armed revolt of 1883, for the overthrow OF
the constitutional government. Incapable
Of ruiine. seif-r He'd 70 extreme ohainzcy,
she soon fell into the hands Of the IN
worthy, openly dsfyins public and private
morals
Scorning the opinions and advice Of all
the best men Of the islands, both OF hsf
own race and the whites, she finally united
her political fortunes with the opium Fins
and those Who were iesgued 70 carry
through the Legislature sweeping lottery
charter of the Louisiana type, which, II It's
originstors could have been successful IN
their plans, would have given the palace
adsentarers. the opium ring, and the ioi
terry gang. complete control Of the Hs-
wsiian government, and made Honolulu
not only q secure opium depot, bu. strong
fortress from which the lottery men could
play on the American, Canadian, and Aus
tralisn people. Deep in the conspiracy to
remove the WileE l. ZONES ministry, whom
ali the best men of the islands wished TO
continue, she signed the lottery and opian
bills, appointed 10 her cabinet the men who
hsd been the chief parties in bribing the
lottery bill through the Legislature, and
followed this with an attempted comp d efdt,
calling worthless mob of retalners 10 her
assistance. trying TO proclaim a CONSTITUTE N
giving herself arbitrary power, overturning
an incorruprble supreme court, aud giving
to herself the appointment of new Judges.
This was Saturday, January IA, 1893
From that hour the Hawaiian monarchy
"a. dead, and no restoration is possible, eI-
cept by the exercise of some outside AMI
q xtt. Ia. 80 hos do rai
Liiinokal gni was without the ~ mpathy an
aid of the best of the native Hawsiishs ana
Of aexrly all the respectable and respon-
.isle white residents of the islands
Anil TIE exciting events in Honolulu
follow log the revolutionary attempts OF
Liiiuokalani to proclaim a despotse constl-
tn ion. by which she lung away her crown,
small force of marines and sailors
was landed from the [ nited States ship
Boston" as q precautionary step for the
protection of American life and property
and as SAT- guard against night ineendiar-
ism stimuli ,fed by the hope of plumber,
greatly feared by many of the best citizens.
This was doing precisely what had been re-
peatediy done in previous exciting days in
Honolulu, during a period running back
many years. The men of the Bottom
came on shore nearly fifty hours aftsr the
fall of the Queen. in whose defence M Ell
fe tive aid was offered by those who had
surrounded her in her carnival of immorali-
~ and official corruption. The naval COM
msnder and the nited States minister ear
nestly sought to faithfully carry out the
prior rules of the legation, especially those
contained in the last Instructions issued 10
the United States minister and naval COM
msuder, by Secretary Bayard, July II,
1887. Neither by force, threats, or intimi-
dation, did the United States officials OPP
pose the fallen Queen or aid the provisional
governme the latter being supported by
the same men, with now increased numbers,
who found it imperatively necessary to
take despotic pcwer from King kaiskaua
in 1857, by the adoption of the reformed
and who crushed out the
Wilcox rebellion in 1889. All asser-
tons TO the contrary as to the action Of the
| nited States officials and marines are ABB
solutely untrue and certain to be swept
aside by time and history, however plsnsi-
by stated ard however strongly these asser-
tons may be supported by the periured tes-
timony of persons deeply compromised by
the vices and unlawful actions of which
they had Leen guilty before Liliukaldni / st
her throne.
The Hawaiian monart ny being thus ex-
tinrt. and the Hawaiian islands being not
81 ticient to constitute an Independent
nation, all who really understand their tit
uaiion know that good government is now
the first and imperative need. Such being
the fact. they apply for admission TO the
American L MON as territory. Their best
and now controlling citizens do not wish TO
be admitted =. n state. By property inter
ests, commercial association, by school and
political education. by the general preva-
lenee o. American laws, legal decisions,
social and religious ideas, these islands
have become thoroughly Amerieanized. Go
ia.o tn chamber of commerce, into the
principal churches, into the courts, into the
schools of Honolulu, Hilo, and other chi
towns in the islands, and YOU would think
yourself in New England or western New
York American idess and interests are all
dominant. For sixty years the islands have
hsd the Amer can school SYST m. American
and tearhers have had the
chief management of these schools IN all
these years and English is now the chief Ian
guag taught in them. At the head of the
Protestant college at Honolulu is an Ameri-
can president. and tn. principal professors
are Americans. In the Catholic college the
the professors are chiefly from the United
States and are strongly American in senti-
mpnt The kamehameha Industrial school,
To establish which an American and his ma
tive ife, a woman of intelligence and ex-
cellpnt character, now deceased, have aiven
nearly seven hundred thousand dollars,
W bis h has been 10 successful operation fo-
years. where the native boys obtain an il
tell. ctual training and learn the various me-
chsnical trades has an entire corps of tmer-
lean teachers. The city high school, AL
Teacher at its head The two prncip, Al
daily newspapers are edited, owntd. M
published by Americans. The prie' ipai
lawyers at the bar aad on the bench are
Americans. born on the islands of Anseri'an
parentage OF in the United States, and eiu-
Gated in American colleges More
than SO per cent of the trade. amounting To
more than twenty million dollars par year.
is with the United States. American news
papers, magazines, and books are in as
familiar use in the ilsnt- rs in the nited
States. striking proof of the deeply
rooted American feeling and opinions is
pyinced by the celebrate of the fourt1 of
July, which is done with an enthusiasm
similar to what was shown among US on our
great national day fifty years sgo.
In presenting themselves FOR admission
into the American Union the islands come
under more American aspects than any of
nur previously anne xed states or territories.
A recent writer in an American magazine,
A man of European birth and education,
and If more or less sympathy vih his
fatherl.nd. objects to the annexation of the
islands for the reason that there were, in
1890, but 1928 Americans Ii ing upon them.
H. i. evide, thy uu3cqnairte with the real
facts, else he csrelessiy alloss hi. Lar gasx4
10 $ ate truth in way to utter ~ npt nth
II ia true that, according to the censrs Of
1890, there were the n bat sb3ut 20D per-
IONS residing in Hawaii who we're horn in
the United States. Bnt in addition 10 these
| large proportion OF the 1900 born on the
slani. of foreign percentage, and pu down as
Hawaiisns. are of Americ an pare ssgs, snd
hey form an Important part of the American
COLONY. They were educated in American
IDEAS and sentiments, their leading men be-
M graduates of American colleges. SEINE
IF these .erved in the Union army. Suffered
N southern prisons. be,- on their persons
Gears, or sic, p in graves reiolent
If Amer al patriotism have sean some
II these men on Decoration cay march
hrough the streets of Honolulu. from their
;r4nd Army Post TO tn. b 'au,iful cemetery
= hsrs "a goodly nunbsr Of their comrades
Ire buried ,amri tokens of pablic respect not
,urpassed in any of our American cities.
Dne of the dc al heroes. born in Honolulu,
If an American father and mother. who did
org and nohl' service to rascue the islands
rom barbsrism and to save them from hos
lie Eurcp an domination, vss General Arm
,trong who fer rsry wears served this