Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-06-19
It is Critically Analysed by Commits
sioner Kinney.
PLOTTING FORAJAPAN PROTECTORATE
Denial by the Chancellor of the
Japanese Legation.
SURPRISE AT YOKOHAMA

last Wednesday morning, like throwing a
stone into a mill pond, has started any
number of colcentric circles. All sorts of
stories are going the rounds. some that
are quite groundless, while others have
more substantial foundation.
One of the most remarkable appeared in
4 Philadelphia paper this morning, and
was TO the effect that special agent of
the treasury had said to an official of the
State Department last evening that he had
reason to believe that ex-Queen Liliuoka-
lani, while residing in this country, is plot
ting to place her claims to sovereignty in
Hawaii under the protectorate of Japan.
The special agent said that he believes he
Will soon be able to demonstrate his con-
clusions. He has been studying the con-
duct of Mrs. Dominis ever since she came
to this country. He said that her formal
protest against the ratification of the pro-
posed treaty of annexation is a part of the
plan IN which she is playing a prominent
part. Her visit to this country last winter
was made because she had received infor-
nation that the treaty of annexation was
in contemplation, and she has resided here
ever since, in order to be on the grouad
ready to make emphatic and formal pro-
test The agent further said that the re-
cent aggressive action of Japan in Ha-
Wallan affairs has been stimulated because
hent participant in the plot to overthrow
the government
Some General DeniaIs.
To Star reporter this morning Mr.. Dur
hs m White Stevens, the counselor of the
japanese legation, said that the story was
an absolute falsehood from beginning to
end. AS for himself, he has never seen The
ex-queen since she has been in Washington
Hofo
seen her private secretary Mr. Julius
A Palmer, or had communica ton with
nrm The same, he said applied to the
Japanese minister, and he was confident
that Liiuokalani did not even know the
present minister or his predecessor by
SIGHT. 1t vas rot difficult he said, to ac-
count for the recent aggressive action of
Jauan In Hawaiian affairs" all that was
necessary being to say that there had been
no aggressive action on the part OF Japan.
Even Nh Thurston, ore of Hawaii's spe-
c'al commissioners. said that he did not
believe there was the slightest ground for
any such story, though there was every
reason to believe that the eX-queen had re-
maiEed in Washington all this time with
the idea that there would in time be Il
treaty OF annexation, and she was natural
l. anxious to be on the ground when it
should appear.
The Hawaiian representatives in this city
are awaiting with great expectancy the ar
rival of the next mail from the islands be-
heving that there may have been all sorts
OF interesting occurrences in and about
Honolulu since the last mail left there
The reXt one is not due in San Francisco
until the 21th instant. 1t is known that
the japanese minister in Hawaii engaged
passage on the steamer leaving for Yoko-
hama on June ), but as the last mail left
Hawaii before that date it is not known
whether or not he took his final departure.
mat the news Of the signing of the
treaty was not well received in Japan
might almost go without saying. 1t can
De SAID, however, on the best of authority
tnat the news created genuine cons: s:erna-
ton In the Japane ese government. 1t has
all along been the general impression that
Japan hoped sooner or later to get pos
session Of the islands in some way or other
ana the rews that a treaty of annexation
United States and Hawaii was a thorough
surprise in Japan, where II would seem
that nothing of the sort had been antic:-
pated The Japanese legation has received
adv!ces from the home government that
the news was received with anything but
good grace in Japan.
Mr.. Kinney ON the Ex-Queen's Protest.
A Star reporter had an Interesting inter-
view this morning with Mr.. VIM A. Kin
ney, one of the special commissioners
from Hawaii with reference to the gen.
eral situation, and especially with refer
cree to the arguments raised by the ex-
queen against the ratification of the treaty
In the course of the conversation Mr. KIN
ney said
1T is charged in the queens protest that
the annexation treaty is AN act of wrong
toward the native and part native peoule
of Hawaii Without attempting to now
reply to her statement as n whole If there
Is anything that the annexatcU treaty is
not, ii is just this that is charged against
it; for annexation is the sole hope OF the
native HawaiiSILs. l speak Of the common
people. Their future is ot.e of two things
to pass under Asiatic or Anglo-Saxor cor
troll. The hope of these people as a nation
was dead twenty years before this queen
ever ascended the throne. II Asiatics DOM
mate. the native must become a coolie, for
certainly he cannot expect to be better off
than the rank and file Of the dominant
race. If America takes Hawaii, the native
becomes an American citizen. and the
American scale of wages, and the nonor-
able position occupied by Labor in America
will prevail in Hawaii, and every native
will have the benefit Of 1t. 1t is choice be-
tween the status of q whiteAmerican laborer
and thst of an Asiatic coolie laborer. The
white race, if ASiatics absorb Hawaii, can
get out to their own country. The common
native has no such choice. He must stay
and meet his fate. Notwithstanding the in
disputable blessing annexation will be to
the sommon native, the queen. playing
upon the inbred devotion Of tle natives to
their chiefs, has, together with the official
class among the Hawaiians, insisted upon
the natives holding out against their own
good, and following with her the will-o'-
the-wisp of restoration of the monarchy,
which will not cure touch the Asiatic
question, but will on the other hand irrcv-
ocably commit Hawaii to Asia rather than
to America.
The Asiatic Tide.
There is no power within Hawaii to
Withstand the Asiatic tide, native or Ha-
waiian, or both combined. 1t needs the
strong arm cf the United States. The pa
triotic thing for the queen to do is to secure
to her people the high and coveted status
Of the average American citizen. Instead
of entertaining any such ideas. however,
she Is evidently bidding for the support of
Japan to scramble back to her throne at
fearful cost to the native people. The
fealty of the native Hawaiian to their
chiefs knows no limit, and often is exer-
cised In a way beyond the pale of reason
or argument and they will probably follow
her lead II they have their own way to the
undoing Of themselves and everybody else
In Haw all, but 1t becomes a perfect carl
cature of the truth for her to protest
against annexation In the name Of the ma
tive people and as a wrong to them. It
is bad enough for her to make them
chopp.rg block for her own selfishness
She certainly should stop there and not
attempt to make q virtue of It, see She
closes her protest by committing her cause