The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-06-24

consistently favored it's autonomous welfare
with the exclusion of all foreign influence save
our own, to the extent of holding eventual
annexation as the necessary outcome of thas
policy. Mr.. Mckinley says the union is tbs
inevitable consequence of the relation stead
Easily maintained with the mid Pacific domais
for three-quarters of century. It's accom-
plishmeut has been merely question of time
The delay Of four years after the failure in
1893 has abundansly sufficed to establish the
right and the ability of the Republic of Hawaii
to enter sovereign contractans npon q con-
ventonal union with the United States. thus
realizing purpose held by the Hawaiian people.
and proclaimed by successive Hawaiian Gov
ernments through some 20 years of their virtual
dependence upon the benevolent protection of
the United States. The organic and admins
trative details of incorporation are necessarily
left to the wisdom of Congress; "and,7 con-
eludes the President, 81 cannot doubt, when
the function of the constitutional treaty max
ing power shall have been accomplished, the
duty of the National Legislature in the ease
will be performed with The largest regard for
the interests of this rich insular domain and
for the welfare of the inhabitants thereof"
LILIUoKALANI's PROTEST
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani who has been in
Washington for several months, as was expect-
ed, filed protest with the Secretary of State
against the annexation project, claiming that
the treaty is can act of wrong toward the ma
tive and par-native people of Hawaii, an iuva-
sion OF the rights of the ruling chiefs. in viola
| ton of international rights both toward my
r.
! they have made treaties, the perpetuation Of
| the fraud whereby the Constitutional Govern
| ment was overthrown, and, finally, an act Of
gross injustice to me-"
The ex-Queen, in support of her action speaks
! of the protest made by her JAM II, 1897, to the
| Provisional Government, the declaration in il
! that she yielded her authority to avoid blood
shed, and because she recognized the fatility oil
| conflict, aud the Cleveland Administrations
| report that her Government was unlawfully
| coerced by the United States forces, aud that
she was the constitutional ruler of her people,
and the calling for the resignation of President
| Sanford b. Dole by Minister Albert S. Willis.
! She asserts that neither the Hawaiian Com
| mission nor the Government which sent it ever
received proper authority from the registered
! voters of Hawaii but derived its assumed pow
| ers from the ''so-called Committee of Safety"
composed largely of persons claiming American
/, citizenship, and not one single Hawaiian being
| a member or partcip ating in the demonstration
| leading to its existence. Liliuokalani says her
{ people, 40 900 in number. have not been con-
| suited by the 5000 who claim the right to de-
! stroy the Independence of Hawaii.
| The treaty. she says proposes to confscate
! property known as the crown lands those le-
| galy entitled thereto receiving no considera-
| always indisputed and is Iegitmately in her
name now. The treaty, she claims, ignores all
| professions of perpetual amity and good faith
made by the United States in treaties made
|; with Hawaiian soyereigns and those made with
! other powers The Government of the United
States receives the territory from the hands OF
| those whom its own magistrates pronounced
| fraudulently in power and unconstitutionaly
| ruling Hawaii. Liiiuokalani calls OH the Presi.
| dent to withdraw the treaty and the Senate ia
| decline to ratify it.
| Her protest will have no weight
The Minister from Japan, Toru Hosbi on
| June g. filed his country's protest in the State
| Department. against the Hawaiian treaty.
| With the Islands annexed Japan holds that
| treaties between Hawaii and Japan, made IN
perpetuty, would be- nullifed. and mneh in
4 jury done to the Japanese. Natives of Japan
| who had become Hawaiian citizens under the
| treaty would be left without country. An
answer will be given to Japan to the effect that
her interests will not suffer by Hawaii coming
under the Jurisdiction of the United States.