Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-27
An Open Letter to His Majesty the
Emperor OF Japan.
WAsllINGroN. d. G., ADl

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May ii please your Imperial Majesty:
Over twenty thousand (20OOO oi Ja-
panese laborers and fully as many Chi
nese and South Sea Islanders are now
in the Hawaiisn Islands disfra chise d
and under nest ferocious, hypocriti-
cll, rapacjous and illegal government,
composed of an oligarey OF iIl-bred,
naf breed missionaries, sons, who, in
the middle Of Of the month Of January,
| 1898, violently with armed foreign as
sistance, and without plau -ible Cause,
dethroned the Legitimate sovereign
of the kingdom OF Queen L.liou
kalani. These japanese, Chinese and
S5uth Sea IS'and lahoiers. like affect
aves, are, without mercy, sent to the
sugar plantations, where, on their ar
rival, they are soon deprived of their
rights and privileges of human beings
except of three rights viz: to work eish-
t 'en hours Of the tweniy-four, o die q
natural death or to be murdered iiy tie
mercicSs overseers. MoSi of th M a e
hoodlums from the barhary coast in
San Francisco. who IRE armed d with a
kinds OF arms like brigands and all Of
them are members OF the m s,ionary
confraterniiy of Honolulu. wuich is for
Hawaiia's calamity worse than leprosy
Or cholera morbus.
All missionary sons in Hawaii are
modern tOrquemadas, vandal1, 1,anarlases
vampires, tyrants, greedy NILE
factors and not honest republicans.
The missionary sons in Hawaii have al
ways been at he bottom of III troubles,
scandals and crimes and their detes!ed
government instead of republic of H.-
wal; should he called missionary an
archv 10 Hawaii.
The late atrocities are without paral-
lei in the worlds history ag.inst the
honest aud generous Queen Llliouka-
lani, and the Hawaiian p4trio's con-
firm nv statement. The New York
World of February 18th, 1895, say:
"Davis was then taken int tho prison
ward where he was shown two ring
bolts in the wall above his head. The
uniformed inquisitors of the govern
ment then gave the captain to un1er-
stand that if complete confession was
not forthcoming he would be strung
UP by the thumbs.
"Davis did not finch bu he deter
mined that if the American Minister
could not come the Consul-General
should be informed that he was an
American citizen and wished 10 see
him. His protest was in vain. His
legs here bound below the knees and
his thumbs were dashed with whip
cord to the bolts. A cord was placed
below him so that the unfortunate
mans toes Just touched the FUND.
"Davies was then stripped to the
waist while Marshal Hitchcock, AtLor-
General Smith and Sure III Coop
er. with a stenoCrapher awaited the
statement which they believed would
be forthcoming. They were mistaken.
Davies did not weaken. Sweat oozaG
from every pore. The strong man, in
his agony, begged for drop of W ter
to cool the thirst that consumed him.
The tendors OF the victims limbs
stood out like strands OF rope; tood
vessels knotted on his arms and legs,
swelling as if ready to burst with con-
gested blood, restrained in its course by
his abnormal position. His torment
ors urged him to implicate all
known 10 he politically opposed to
their methods, without avail. Davies
refused to surrender the secret he had
sworn to keep. At last, when it YVES
apparent by his respiration That Ii
would be impossible to held out longer,
nature succumbed and Davies, curSlng
the fands who were torturing him.
tainted. DIR. Cooper used salts of am
monia 10 revive him. AS soon as that
was done, two negro convicts suspend
cd him again by the thumbs. This ln-
human operation was begun at noon,
and at 6 o'clock in the evening before
Davies. more dead than alive, made
the statement that respited him from
the barbarity of his prosecutions.
Another case of torture was brought to
light in the military inquiry. A young
/ native, who was known to be intimate
with Gail .sWidderman, was hand
cuifed at the wrists. Then, with a re-
finement of cruelty which would shock
Persian satrap, he was placed in a
tank OF ice cold water. He was kept
there until the circulation of the blood
in his extremities had almost ceased,
and DR.. Cooper, who appears in the
unenviable light Of an arch-inquisitor,
declared that the action of the heart
was almost suspended. The Chief OF
Police, Marshal Hitchcock, had the
Young Kanaka taken from the tank
and, after being restored from his con-
dition OF semi consciousness, the tor
ture was again administered. Flesh
and blood could stand such inhumanity
no longer, and the much-peeded con-
fession wac given" :
The above is one of the many acts OF
mau's inbumanity to man perpetrated
by the missionaries in Hawaii.
The best men in the Hawaiian Is
lands with their beloved Queen are now
in Jail and are treated and dressed like
convicts, though guilty only of the
crime of fervent love for their father
land, which was robbed from them by
their present oppressors and culumnia-
tors. the Christian missionaries original
ly from New Bedford, in the State of
Massachusetts.
Honolulu is to-day vast prison, but
the gates of hell should no longer in
Hawaii prevail.
The Hawaiians have all the good
qualities of the primitiv IS races. ALI