The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-08-14

sion of arbitrary, illiberal and des--
potic acts, and by the enactment and
enforcement of pretended claws" sub
yersive of the first principles of free
government and utterly at variance
with the traditions, history, habits
and wishes of the Hawaiian people.
That said Provisional Government
has now recently convened, and Is
now holding what it is pleased to
term a Constitutional Convention,
composed of nineteen I'D sell
appointed members, being the Presi-
dent and Executive and Advisory
Councils of said Provisional Govern
ment. and eighteen (1S), delegates
elected by less than ten per cent (.lO),
of the loyal voters of the kingdom,
consisting almost entirely of aliens,
and chiefly of such aliens as nave no
permanent homes or interests IN Ha-
wall, and which said convention Is
now considering draft of cOnstitu-
ton Copy of which is hereto annexed
submitted for its approval by the EX-
ecutive Council of said Provisional
| Government consisting OF the PreSl-
dent Ind Ministers thereof.
That it Is the expressed purpose OF
| the said Provisional Government TO
! promulgate such constitution as snail
! be approved by said convention with
! out submitting it to vote of the PEG
pie, or any of the people, and to
| thereupon proclaim a government I'M
! der such constitution, and under the
name of the Republic of Hawaii.
That the said Provisional Govern
| ment has not assumed a republican or
| other constitutional form, but has re-
! manned q mere executive council, or
| oligarchy, set up without the assent
of the people; that 1t has not sought
| to find permanent basis of popular
| support, and has not given no evidence
! of an intention to do so; that us rep
| resentatives assert that the people OF
| Hawaii are unfit for popular govern
| ment and frankly avOW that they can
/ be best ruled by arbitrary, or despotlc
power, and that the proposed Consul
/ tuition, so submitted by said EXecu-
tive Council of the Provisional Gov
eminent for the approval OF said Con-
! ventiOn does not provide TOR or con-
template free, popular or republican
form of gOVernment-but does con-
template and provide for form OF
government Of arbitrary and oligarch-
zeal powers, concentrated in the hands
of a few individuals irresponsible to
the people, or to the representatives or
the people, and which is opposed to
all modern ideas of free government.
Wherefore, /, the constitutional
Sovereign of the Hawaiian Kingdom,
on behalf of myself and the people of
my said kingdom, do hereby again
most solemnly protest against the acts
aforesaid, and against any and all
other acts done against myself, my
people and the constitutional govern
ment OF the Hawaiian Kingdom, and
/ do hereby earnestly request that the
government represented by you Will
not extend its recognition to any pre-
tended government of the Hawaiian
Kingdom, under whatever name II
NAV apply for such recognition, other
than the constitutional government sc
depOsed as aforesaid-eNcept such gov
eminent shall show its title TO exist
by the will of the people of Hawaii
expressed at an election wherein the
whole people shall have an opp 'rtun-
ity, unembarrassed by force and un-
deferred by fear or fraud, to register
their preferences as to the form OF gov
eminent under which they Will live
With assurances of my esteem,
l am, Sir,
IILIUOkALANl.
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