Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-07-02
LILlU0KALAEPS PROTEST
SHE INSISTS ON THE RECOGNl.
TON OF NATIVE RIanTs.
Claims that the United states Gov
ernmsnt Condemned Her Ds.
thronement ~ Its Forces.

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o'clock this afternoon ex. Queen
Liliuokalani filed protest in the
Office Of the Secretary of State.
1t was delivered into the hands of
Secretary John Sherman by
Joseph Heleluhe, representing the
native Hswaiians, duly commits
stoned by two Of their patriotic
leagues. Mr.. Heleluhe was &C.
companied by Captain Julius A.
Palmer, the American Secretary
OF Liliuokalani.
Mr.. Sherman treated the bear
ers most courteously, but gave no
indication of his action in the
matter. The protest is as fol-
lows:
1, Liliuokalani Of Hawaii, by
the will of God named heir ap-
parent on the 10th day of April,
A. ID. 1877, and by the grace Of
God Queen of the Hawaiian isl
ands on the 18th of January, A.
u. 1898, do hereby protest against
the ratification of q certain treaty,
which, I am 80 informed, has
been signed at Washington by
Messrs. Hatch, Thurston and
Kinney, purporting to cede those
islands to the territory and do
minion of the United States. l
declare such treaty to be an act of
wrong toward the native and part
native people of Hawaii, an in
vasion of the rights of the ruling
chiefs, in violation of interna.
tional rights, both toward my
people and toward friendly ma
tions with whom they have made
treaties, the perpetuation of the
fraud whereby the constitutional
was overthrown and,
finally, an act of gross injustice to
me.
Because the official protest
made by me on the l7th day OF
January, 1898, to the so called
Provisional Government was sign.
ed by me and received by said
Government with the assurance
that the case was referred to the
United States Of America for ar
bitration. Because that the pro-
test and my communications to
the United States Government i'm
mediately thereafter expressly de-
clare that l yielded my authority
to the forces of the United States
in order to avoid bloodshed, and
because | recognized the futility
of conflict with so formidable a
power. Because the President of
the United States, the Secretary
of State and an envoy commits.
stoned by them reported in offici-
al documents that my Government
was unlawfully coerced by the
forces, diplomatic and naval, of
the United States, that l was at
the date of these Investigations
constitutional ruler of my people.
Because such decision of the
recognized magistrates of the
United States was officially COM
municated to me and to Sanford
B. Dole and said Dole's resigna-
ton requested by Albert s. Will
lis, the recognized agent and Min
lister of the Government of the
United States: Neither the above
named commissioners nor the Gov
ernment which sends them has ever
received such authority from the
registered voters of Hawaii, but
derive their assumed powers from
the so-called committee of public
safety, organized on or about said
l7th day of January, 1893, said
committee being composed large
ly of persons claiming American
citizenship, and not one single
Hawaiian was a member thereof
or in any way participated in the
demonstration leading to Its ex-
istence.
Because my people, about 49,
600 in number, have in no way
been consulted by those, 5000 in
number, who claim the right to
destroythe independence ofHawaii.
My people constitute four-fifths OF
the legally qualified voters of Ha-
waii, and excluding those import
ed for the demands of labor, about
the same proportion of the inhab-
itants. Said treaty ignores not
only the civic rights of my people,
but further, the hereditary pro
perty of their chiefs. OF the
100000 acres composing the