The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-28
prevented them from being in power to-

DAY.
Joe Carter is the only one of the whole
crowd who has had the courage to expose
his opinion and to hold his ground though
it has been at the expense of his bread and
butter. Notwithstanding his financial
difficulties the Government cannot make
him bulge an inch from the stand he took
at the outset He maintains that the Gov
eminent is based upon fraud, and that it
cannot and must not be permitted to
stand.
The natives are solid for Carter, and if
affairs should ever take shape again they
will rally around him as their leader. The
attempt to bring them into line by taking
the oath to the Government and joining
the Annexation clubs has proved dismal
failure, and this has been a sore disap-
pointment to the Government, which has
been working Sam Parker John Colburn,
Charlie Wilson and other ex-leaders of the
Hawaiians to bring them into line.
In the meantime the Government is
keeping up its military expenditures. 1t
is importing Hotchkiss guns and shiploads
of ammunition, and this is called popular
government.
The Council has been busy the past week
making lot of new laws, among which is
the old dangerous person" act, which is a
the indemnity act, which provides that
nothing the Government did during the
reign of martial law can be made a matter
of damage claims by any foreign citizen
who may have been injured in person or
property during that time.
The Executive Council amended the law
relating to sedition and President Dole has
approved it's action. The press is silenced
by this law. This is the amendment:
If any person is convicted of the offense of
the publication of seditous libel with refer
ence to the publication of words in news
paper of which he is an editor, publisher,
owner or proprietor, the Judge OF Magistrate
trying the case may, in addition to the sem
tence awarded against such person suspend the
further publication of such newspaper for any
peT1oa NOT e. hs ioaF years Esery sqcn
shall extend to and include any newspaper
that may be started in place of such suspended
newspaper, having the person SO convicted of
seditious libel as an editor, publisher owner
or proprietor thereof.
This is the full text of the statement
which the ex-Queen, Liliuokalani, made:
In the year 1893, on the 14th day of January,
at the request of large majority OF the Ha-
waiian people, and by and with the advice and
consent of my Cabinet, proposed to make
certain changes in the constitution of the Ha-
waiian Kingdom which were suggested to me
as being for the advantage and benefit OF the
kingdom and subjects and residents thereof.
These proposed changes did not deprive for
eigners of any rights or privileges enjoyed by
them under the constitution of 1887, promul-
gated by King Kalakaua and his Cabinet,
without the consent of his people or ratified
by their votes.
My Ministers at the last moment changed
their views and requested me to defer all action
in connection with the constitution, and 1
yielded to their advice, as bound to do by the
existing constitution and laws.
Aminority of the foreign population made my
action the pretext for overthrowing the mon
arehy, and aided by the United States naval
forces and representative established new
Government.
/ owed no allegiance to the Provisional Gov
eminent so tablished, nor to any power or to
any one save the will of my people and the
welfare of my country.
The wishes of my people were not consulted
who were in practical rebellion against the
constitutional Government were allowed to
vote upon the question whether the monarchy
should exist or not.
To prevent the shedding of the blood of my
people, natives and foreigners alike opposed
armed interference and quietly yielded to the
armed forces brought against my throne and
submitted to the arbitrament of the Govern
ment of the United States the decision of my
rights and those of the Hawiian people. Since
then, as is well known to all, | have pursued
the path of peace and diplomatic discussion
and not that of internal strife.
The United States, having first interfered in
the interest of those founding the Government
of 1893 upon the basis ofrevolution, concluded
to leave to the Hawaiian people the selection
OF their own form OF government.
This selection was anticipated and prevented
by the Provisional Government, who, being
possessed of the military and police power OF
leges that no free expression of their will was
permitted to the people who were opposed to
them.
By my command and advice the native peo-