The Portland daily press., 1894-01-23
FROM Thu HUIALOHAAINA.
Which Means in English a League
to Support LiliuOkalaui.
TT HEARS OF SUDDEN HOSTILITY
TO CLEvELAND'S POLICY,

cnlVaIflc treatment by American
Newspabers"-W While MonarchicaI Gov
ernment May Be Distasteful ''to the
Radical Democracy of America" the
Huialohaaina Thinks Its Unhappy
Little Country Wants 1t.
Washington, January 22-The Presi-
dent transmitted to Congress today ad-
diIional Hawaiian correspondence Min
lister Willis, under date of January 6, re-
ports the resignation of Vice President
Hatch under necessity of going beyond
the !. limits of the country" and the
election of W. c. Wilder to the vacancy.
Under the same date he says: II send
herewith the petition of the 'Huialohaa-
ina, the Hawaiian Patriotic league, an
association which claims to represent
over 5000 legal voters. The petition was
brought here last night by Hon. j. A.
Cummings, honorary president of the
association, and A. Marques, memb
of it's executive council, who stated that
they were a committee for that purpose. y
The memorial is addressed to President
Cleveland. The following is an extract:
heHawaiian people are moved with the
deepest concern in view of the uncertain
condition of affairs in Hawaii, and also
of the active hostility that seems to have
suddenly developed in the United States
against the policy of Your Execellency
and the American administration regard
ing our unhappy little country and the
just restoration of our national mon
archy." 1t then reproaches the news
papers of America for their unchivalrous
and untruthful abuse of our Queen. 1t
asserts That through Minister Stevens's
conspiracy, the Hawaiian people were
deprived of their political rights; that
the inhabitants of Hawaii are living un-
der an arbitrary rule; that the people
have lost ali confidence in the admins
tration of justice as the Supreme court is
now filled with adventurers that public
funds are squandered for the mainte-
nance OF an unnecessarily large army:
that the committee is composed entirely
OF aliens; that all native and foreign
royalists have been disarmed; that
foreign clubs and leagues, composed
mostly of Germans, Portuguese and
Scandinavians have been called into ex-
lstence for the support of the revolution
airy government and that these clubs
threaten murder, violence and deporta-
tion against those not in sympathy with
them. The memorialists say that though
the principle of monarchical government
may be distasteful to the radical democ-
racy of America, it is the chosen and
preferred form of the Hawaiian people.
The memorial reviews the facts of the
revolution from the royal standpoint and
declares that the Queen and her govern
ment yielded under protest to the superior
force and moral power of the United
States. While waiting for the result of
her appeal to American honor, the Queen
requested all her loyal subjects to sub
nit with patience to all the insults since
heaped upon both the Queen and people
by the usurping government "If the
Hawaiians', continues the memorial,
"have held their peace in ii manner
that will vindicate their character as
law-abiding citizens, it must not be con-
strued as evidence that they are
apathetic or Indifferent or ready to ac-
qu1esce in the wrong and bow to their
usurpers. The traditional virtue of the
aborigines, respect and obedience to their
rulers, has been fully tested in the
present crisis. When the Hawaiian
patriotic league, whose representatives
the present memorialists are, formed en-
thuslastlc branches all over the island,
the first watchword was to maintain a
dignified peace pending the arbitrament
of the United States Had it not been
for this request of our sovereign, there
would doubtless have been tremendous
uprising throughout the islands to crush
the usurpers and there would have been
sad state of blood and destruction
The memorial asserts that any trial at
the ballot box would show that the
native Hawaiians and the rapidly in
creasing class of half whites, both claim
| ing to be equal in intelligence OF any
elector in the United States, are virtual
| ly as a unit "royalists," and opposed
politically to the provisional government
while fully half of the foreign .mer-
chants, capitalists, planters and mechan.
syinpathizers of the monarchy. The memo
rialists declare that unless crushed by
force, the Hawaiian people will never be
conciliated to the present misrule. The
| memorial says the provisional govern
| ment has depended not on the sympathies
| and good order Of the people, but on the
force of alien bayonets and Draconian
| who cling to their i'll gotten power as
freebooters. The memorial further as
serts that only faint outline has been
given of what the Hawaiians have
suffered and are now suffering under the
| regime imposed on them by the alleged
Christians of Mr.. Stevens's following. 1t
states that Mr. Blount's course in Hawaii
creditable to the country and gained for
him the respect and confidence Of all
classes. 1.-THE letter Of Secretary Gres-
ham to the Presi dent and the instruc
tions to Minister Willis to request the
provisional government to relinguish the
power to our legitimate sovereign" says
the memorial "created deep feeling of
gratitude in the minds and hearts of the
Hawaiian people, and still more pro-
found respect for the American govern
ment which now appears to be acting
with the same spirit of justice and
friendship that has always characterized
it's actions in the past toward this little
nation. The policy here outlined has
caused the Hawaiians to honor and re-
spect the President of the United States
as distinguished, firm and just ruler,
worthy of a great people. :"
The memorial asserts that the peOp lie
have suffered even more than the
sovereign. The Queen is simply deprived
of her throne and revenue while, under
pretense of obtaining American liberty
| the people have lost their dearest liberties
and civil rights, and many their liveli-
hood and ali were on the eve of losing
even the nationality of their country
| having been offered, without their
assent, as barter by the tilibusterers who
owe their power to Munster Stevens.
| The memorial denounces the provisional
| government and represents that the