The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-18
AS QUEEN OF HAWAII
LILIUOKALANI PROTESTS AGAINST
 ANNEXATION TREATY.

Declares it to be Wrong Toward the
 Natives and Part Native of the Islands
 A Long List of Objections-Secretary
 Sherman Accepts the Document.
 Washington, June 17.-About o'clock this afternoon ex-Queen Liliuokalani filed the following protest with the sec retary of state. MT. Sherman treated the bearers of the protest most cour- teously, but gave no indications of his action on the matter:
 q, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, by the will of God named heir apparent on the tenth day of April, A. D. 1877, and by the grace of God queen of the Hawaiian islands on the 17th day of January, A. D. 1893, do hereby protest against the ratification of certain treaty, which, so l am informed, has been signed at Washington by Messrs. Hatch, Thurs ton and Kinney, purporting to cede the said islands to the territory and do minion of the United States. I declare such treaty to be an act of wrong to- wards the natives and part native peo- pie of Hawaii an invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs, in violation of in- ternational rights, both toward my people and toward friendly nations with whom they have made treaties, the perpetuation of the fraud whereby the constitutional government was over thrown and finally an act of gross in justice to me.
 Because the official protest made by me on the 17th day of January, 1893, to the so-called provisional government was signed by me and received by said government with the assurance that the case was referred to the United States of, America for arbitration.
 Because that protest and my com munications to the United States gov- ernment immediately thereafter eX- pressly declared that I yielded my au- thority to the forces of the United States in order to avoid bloodshed, and because I recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a power.
 Because the president of the United States, the secretary of state and an envoy commissioned by them reported in official documents that my govern ment was unlawfully coerced by the | forces, diplomatic and naval, of the United States, and that I was at the | date of their investigations the consti- | tutional ruler of my people,
 | Because such decision of the recog- nized magistrates of the United States was officially communicated to me and l to Sanford B. Dole, and Dole's resig- nation was requested by Albert s. Will l Y,,iy, ,ts,to l of the government of the United | States.
 Because neither the above named commission nor the government which sends 1t has ever received such author 1 ity from the registered vote of Hawaii | but derives it's assumed powers from l the so-called commissioners of public safety, organized on or about January I, 1893, said commission being composed largely of persons claiming American citizenship and not one single Ha- waiian was a member thereof or in any way participated in the demonstration leading to it's existence.
 Because my people, about 40,0C0 in number, have in no way been consult ed by those, 5000 in number, who claim the right to destroy the independence of Hawaii. My people constitute four fifths of the legally qualified voters of Hawaii, and excluding those impored for the demands of labor, about the sarie proportion of the inhabitants.
 Because said treaty ignores not only 1 the civic rights of my people, but, fur ther, the hereditary property of their chiefs. Of the four million acres com- posing the territory said treaty offers to annex one million of the 915,00 acres which has in no way been heretofore recognized as other than the private property of the constitutional monarch subject to control in no way differing from other items of private estate.
 Because it is proposed by said treaty to confiscate said property, technically called the crown lands, those legally entitled thereto either now or in suc- cession, receiving no consideration whatever, for estates, their title tc which has always been undisputed and which is legitimately in my name al this date.
 Because said treaty ignores not only all professions of perpetual amity and good faith made by the United States in former treaties with the soy ereigns representing the Hawaiian peo. pie, but all treaties made by those sov- ereigns with other and friendly powers and 1t is thereby violation of interna- tional law.
 Because by treating with the parties claiming at this time the right to cede said territory of Hawaii, the govern. ment of the United States receives sucI territory from the hands of those whom it's own magistrates legally elected by the people of the United States and il office in 1S93) pronounced fraudulentlJ in power and unconstitutionally ruling l Hawaii.
 Therefore l. Lilluokalani of Hawaii do hereby call upon the president oi that nation to whom I yielded my property and my authority to withdraw said treaty (ceding said lands), iron further consideration, I ask the honor. able senate of the United States to de cline to ratify said treaty.
 'I implore the people of this great and good nation, from whom my ances- tors learned the Christian religion, tC sustain their representatives in such acts of justice and equity as may be ir 1 accordance with the principles of theil fathers and to the Almighty ruler ot the universe, to him, who judgeth right eously, commit my cause.
 Done at Washington, District oi Columbia. United States of America this 17th day of June. in the veal 1 aiubtean hundred and ninetv-SeVen