The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-23
Executive Mansion. Jan. p, 1894.
HAWAIIAN PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
Claims Made by Eight Thousand LIE.
gal Voters.
of the United States,
Honolulu, H. L, Jan. 6

Willis to Gresham.
Legation of the United States,
Honolulu, H. L, Jan. 6.
Sir-I send herewith a petition Of
the Hui Alhoa Alma Qdawaiian Pa
triotic League, an association which
claims to represent over 5000 legal
voters. The petition was brought here
last night by Hon. ]. a Cummins,
honorary president of the association,
and A. Marques, a member of its es
ecutive council, who stated they were
made a committee for that purpose.
With high regard, etc,
ALBERT S. WILLIS.
The memorial of the Hawaiian Pa
triotic League says:
Last January, a political crime was
committed, not only against the legiti-
mate sovereign of the Hawaiian king
dom, but also against the whole Ha-
Wallan nation, a nation who, for the
past sixty years. has enjoyed a free
and happy constitutional self-govern-
ment. This was done by a coup de
main Of United States Minister Stew
ems, in collision with Cabal conspir-
ators. mainly the faithless sons Of mis-
SlonarieS and local politicians angered
by continuous political defeat, who, as
a revenge for being in hopeless mi
nority in the country, resolved to rule
or ruin through foreign help"
Commenting on the landing of the
United States troops, the memorial
continues:
THE queen and her government,
realizing the situation, but unwilling
to make war with the United States
forces and to occasion useless blood
shed Of innocent Hawaiians, yielded
under protest to superior force and
the moral power of the United States
xrrf7 fir7er f1,or e
with full confidence in the American
honor, the queen requested all loyal
subjects to remain absolutely quiet
and passive and submit with
patience to all the insults
that have been since heaped upon both
the government. The necessity of this
attitude Of absolute inactivity on the
part of the Hawaiian people was fur
Their endorsed and emphasized by Com
missioner Blount, SO that if the Ha-
WaiianS have held their peace in a
manner that will vindicate their char
acter as la.w-abiding citizens, vet 1t can
not and must not be construed as an
evidence that they are apathetic or in
different or ready to acquiesce in a
wrong and bow to the usurpers. Had
1t not been for the request of our SOW
ereign there would have doubtless been
a tremendous uprising throughout the
would have been a sad tale of blood
and destruction which from the first
we sought to avoid. if possible. The
advent Of Blount as special commits
sioner was hailed with satisfaction by
both the contending factions His
course in Hawaii was marked by digni-
ty, courtesy and discretion, highly
creaitabie to the country, and gained
for rim the respect and confidence of
all classes. His report to the president
has been characterized by great i'm
partially and an absolute respect for
truth, so that this patriotic league
have fully endorsed it. and can sol
EMMY testify to its veracity and relia-
bility."
The memorialists claim their case is
a question Of right and equity and that
the objection to the republic restoring
monarchy is not we'll founded.
The paper closes as follows:
Therefore the Hawaiians, as a ma
ton appeal for justice and redress to
the inpartality of the American ma
ton, in whose honor. integrity and love
of fair play, we have so long and so
patiently trusted. AS peaceful and
law-abiding citizens, ever ready to
submit to the constitutional rule of
the majority, we ask that, in place of
the present temporary uSurperS, who
are hostile to the native race, our own
government, in the person of Queen
Liliouk ami, be restored TO us, with a
new constitution more equitable to US
than the one wreSted from the late
king kalakaua in 1887 through the
force of arms"
The Irwin papers have been given
TO the press heretofore.
Under date of January 6, Willis noti-
f1es Gresham the changes in the pro-
visional government already made
public