The morning call., 1893-12-15
OPPOSED To RESTORATION.
Revolution an Honest Effort at
Good Government.
DOLE CAN MAINTAIN HIMSELF
If They Cannot Be Annexed the
hawaiians Ask Only to Be
Let Alone.

SEATTLE, Dec. IA. Feek, a Seattle
= contractor, arrived home tonight from
Honolulu, where be has secured the
contract for constructing ffty-four miles
of railroad around the island of Oahu.
He was made the bearer of an address to
the people of the United States from the
American League of Honolulu. The ad-
dress says:
I'VE. like you, believe in good govern
ment, and having. in cooperation with
others, freed ourselves from a reign of
corrupt rule ard having established a
Government of the best classes of society,
we protest most emphatically against the
reported assumption of President Cleve-
land that the Provisional Government 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 present Government
of hawaii has the same right to exist that
the United States had after the successful
revolution of 1776. in fact the corruption
and mismanRgement that brought about
The revolution of January last were so
fagrant as to be unbearable, and the late
Queen had planned not only to continue
her corrupt rule. but to set aside the con-
stifution of the kingdom, and had at
: tempted to illegally prOmulgate a new one
thus disfranchising many of the most in
telligent citizens, land by her high-handed
outTages destroyed the last hope of i'm
sprovement over the corrupt and Illegal ag-
p gression of executive power, so that no
alternative was left but to depose her and
establish an honest and capable Govern
ment
This has been successfully done, not by
citizens Of the United States, but the
movement was carried to a successful issue
by people born and raised on the islands,
and by others who had resided here for
many years and were citizens of the
country and loyal to its best interests
land only organized for the overthrow of
the old system after all hope OF redress for
IN aPgT wrongs done by the late Queen and
sber partisans had ceased to exist.
. 1--WE are ready TO acknowledge that we,
loving liberty and good government, hon.
.estly administered, as every American
.cIdzen should. approved of the deposition
of the late Queen and the organization of
the Provisional Government, and we give
10 the said Provisional Government
.:ouT hearty support. because we know
that it represents the best and most
advanced religious, moral, social and
business interests of the islands, and we
assert that these several interests are so
united as to make the Government strong
enough to stand and maintain itself against
all in ternal upriSings or instructions, and
that the we'll known character of those at
the head of affairs gives positive assurance
that the Government will be honestly ad-
ministered and that the rights of all will
be honestly protected.
sit has been asserted by adherents of
the late Queen that the President of the
United States would forcibly, If neces-
cary. re-enthrone the late Queen and re-
establish her authority. We cannot be-
.lieve that President Cleveland has been 30
i'll advised, but should he so decide we
appeal TO Congress and the people of the
United States to prevent so great a crime
against liberty and good government.
''The right of revolution has been the
wer established method of deciding great
wrongs and checking enrroachments 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 that people.
tice on our side, we feel that we shall
!: have a candid consideration of our claims
to 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 if Hawaii Is not wanted in the great
sisterhood of States we be allowed to
continue Government honestly admins
tered, and we feel that we have the right
to vigorously protest against the re-estab-
hshment of corrupt monarchy on these
islands.
Having confidence In the great liberty
loving citizenship of the United States, we
invite the fullest and freest investigation.
confident that an unprejujiced invrstiga-
ton will result in finding that the revclu-
ton of January last was not only justifi-
able. but absolutely necessary to maintain
our rights and guard the interests of our
native population as we'll, many of the
most intelligent of whom are active sup
eorters of the Provisional Government,
and are opposed TO the re-establishment of
the monarchy"
The address is dated December f.