Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-01
SENATOR MORGAN SPEAKS.
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efforts of the chiefs of Hawaii to
F., turn over their sovereignty to
Great Britain. Now will turn
to third chapter, where SINH
lar attempt was made to cede the
country to the United States, on
account of the irritation produced
by the action of France. Senator
Morgan cited the ten conditions
imposed upon Ksm.hameha Ill.
by a French commander, one of
which was that the French ian
guage was to be the medium of
business intercourse. There are
three distinct efforts on the part
of the chiefs to abandon their
sovereignty under foreign aggres.
sion, but each time the United
States notified the governments
concerned not to interfere with
these islands or they might get
the worst If it. While MIR. Mar
cy was Secretary of the United
States-one of the greatest men
we ever had there-the king
agreed with our minister here on
treaty of annexation, and that
treaty came to nothing simply
because Kamehsmeha Ill. died
before he had the opportunity to
sign it. Now after all these
evidences of friendship to the
government and The people of Ha
waii, and the disposition to see
justice done to these islands, how
can any person truthfully say that
the United States has any design
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or desire to
seize these islands ?
When Kalakaua your king de-
sired to visit America for his
health, the United States sent a
ship for him, and no man was
ever better treated, and when he
died his body was brought back
in state. We paid him as high
respect living and dead as you
could have done yourselves. And
after Liliuokalani came into pos
session of the kingdom we
recognised her authority and con
firmed with her that very recipro-
city treaty that has cost us thirty
eight millions and made you a
rich people. After all these
friendly acts, and our services on
behalf of your rights, swhy are we
charged with suspicion that our
motives. are not right? Do you
suppose that l as an American
citizen, and a Senator of the Unit
ed States, would pay you less re.
spect than we paid to your dead
kingP l live in county of the
great State of Alabama-the
county of Suffolk-as large as Ha.
waii and Oahu together, which
has $4,000 of a population, and
out of that $4,000 only 10000 are
white people, the others being
negroes. They vote just as 1 do
and they are respected by the
people among whom they live &C
cording to their merits as in
dividuals, and no man has the
privilege of disturbing them in
the enjoyment of their rights.
The United States has $50 differ.
ent tribes of Indians in condi,
tons running all the way from
little better than wolves in the
mountains up to educated and ex.
cellent people. Some of those
Indians live in States and some
of them in Territories and some
of them from the sale of their
lands are worth not less than
$4,000 for every man, woman
and child in the tribe. If money
was the standard of value in the
! United States each of these In.
dams would be worth thirty times
as much as the man who has only
$1,000. 1t is part of the constitu-
ton of the United States that nc
man can violate, that a mans
right to vote cannot depend upon
his race, his color, or any previous
condition of servitude. A mans
right to vote depends upon
the qualification put upon i
by the State in which ht
lives. In some women can vote
In some voter must be able tC
read and write an article of the
constitution. In some he mus
own a certain amount of property
In the United States, forty five in
number to which we are to ado
some presently, each State is {