The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-17

OIlICIsti SA0lSiCCSI ny dlliAiIS bAAG IStlSI
r TO her name, and the tenor of the
paper indicates that it was, in fact,
the act OF her ministers, 10 which she
had not given her royal assent and
pledge. This paper in itself contains
undeniaDle evidence that the Queen
had Instituted 9 coup az et0t on Satur-
day by the PRONUNCIATION of "a new
constitution" as far, at least, as she
could bind herself by such an act, and
that she offered the excuse for this
revolt against the existing constitu-
ton which she had sworn to support,
that she acted ''unGer stress of her
native subjects"
Passing by the fact that the exist
ence of this "stress" is not established
by any satisfactory evidence, the ref
erence to it in this proclamation dis
closes her willing connection with the
purpose to disfranchise her foreign
born subjects, that being the effect of
the provisions of the "new cOnstitu-
ton" that she in fact promulgated, so
far as she could, but hesitated TO
swear to for the want of suffi-
cient support from cher native
that future efforts "to change
Quoted only in the method therein
prescribed, was no assurance that her
foreign born subjects should be pro-
tected in their vital liberties. To the
reverse, 1t was q continuing threat
that they should be DISTINGUISHED and
placed at the mercy of racial aggres-
sion. backed by the power of the
crown The declarations of the Queen
made in person to Minister Willis, on
three occasions, and at long intervals
of time after the lapse of nine months
rat Oh hnt IL,
assurance, given in fact by her min
listers, was only thin disguise of her
real purpose to drive out the white
population and confiscate their prop
erty, and, if need be, to destroy their
lives. The people made no mistake
as to her animosity toward them, and
proceeded in the same orderly manner,
for which the ministers gave them
thanks in this proclamation, to desig-
nate an executive head of the Govern
ment in place of the abdicated Queen,
the abdicatiOn being completed and
by the only authentic eX-
preston of the popular will, and by
the recognition of the Supreme Court
of Hawaii.
Another fact of importance con-
nected with the situation at that time
is that committee of law and order,
consisting of supporters of the Queen,
had on Monday morning posted in
public places in Honolulu the follow
ing call for a public meeting and eX
PLANTATION OF the purposes of the
Queen in abrogating the constitution
of 1887 and in substituting one which
she desired and attempted to promul-
gate by their authority as the organic
law of the land. This proclamation
was printed in the Hawaiian lam
guage, and translation of it is ap-
pended to this report. 1t was printed |
in an extra edition of a newspaper
called the Ka Leo 0 Ke Lahui, pub |
lished in Honolulu in the Hawaiian |
language. "The stress of her native |
which is mentioned by the |
Queen in the proclamation which was
posted in English on the morning of |
January Is, is evidently expressed in
the terms OF this announcement and |
upon racial distinction and prejudice |
entirely, and indicates the feeling of |
and controversy which, if |
carried into effect as the Queen pro- |
posed to carry it into effect under the !
which she intended to |
proclaim, would have resulted in the |
destruction of the rights of property !
and lives of those persons who were |
styled missionaries" and their pos
terity, from whom Hawaii had derived |
her enlightened civilization, Chris
tianity, constitution, laws, progress, |
wealth and position amongst the |
nations of the earth. This was a |
threat of dangerous significance, and |
it shows the spirit of the controversy |
that was then pervading the minds of !
the people of Honolulu, and illustrates |
how easy it was to foment strife that |
would result in the worst of evils, in q |
com munity thus divided and thus |
excited. The abuse of the missionaries !
and missionary party in this call
shows that the Queen and her i'm
their efforts upon the disfranchise-
ment of all white people in Hawaii,
and the return of the Government to
that condition of debasement from
which these very people and their
fathers had relieved it.
The second paragraph in this call is
rs follows:
1.-THE VOICE OF THE CHIEF.
"On the afternoon of Saturday last
the voice of the Sacred Chief of Ha-
wall, Liliuokalani, the tabued one,
speaking as follows:
80, we people who love the Chief, I
hereby say to you, L am now ready to
proclaim the new constitution for my
thinking that it would be
but behold obstacles have
arisen! Therefore l say unto you,
loving people, so with good hope and
do not be disturbed or troubled in
your minds. Because, within the
next few days now coming, l will
proclaim the new constitution.
"'The executive officers of the law
the cabinet) knew the errors in this
new constitution. but they said moth
ing.
"'Therefore l hope that the thing
which you, my people, so much want
will be accomplished; it also is my
strong DESIRE"
Here is a direct accusation by the
Queen against her cabinet, all of whom
with one exception, were white men,
that they had misled her as to the
effect of the constitution, and had
tailed to point out errors in it which,
AZ a nretaXt led tO IFS rejection bV /