The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-07-07
Authority of Present Gov.
ernment Denied.
Document Signed In Washington
and Julius" Witnessed
the Signature.

WASHINGTON, June IT, - About 3
o'clock this afternoon ex-Queen Liliuoka-
lani filed a 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
Hawaiians, duly commissioned by two of
their patriotic leagues. Mr.. Heleluhe
was accompanied by Capt. julius A.
Palmer, the American secretary of Lili-
uokalani
Mr.. Sherman treated the bearers most
courteousIy. but gave no indication of
his action in the matter. The protest is
as follows:
Il, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, by the will
of God named heir apparent on the 10th
day of April, A. d. 1877 and by the grace
of God Queen of the Hawaiian Islands
on the 18th of January, A. d. 1893, do
hereby protest against the ratification of
a certain treaty, which, 1 am so in
formed, has been signed at Washington
by Messrs. Hatch Thurston and Kinney,
purporting to cede those Islands to the
territory and dominion of the United
States, declare such treaty to be an act
of wrong toward the native and part
native people of Hawaii, invasion of
the rights of the ruling chiefs, in viola
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 protests made by
me on the 17th day of January, 1S93 to
the so-caIled 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
the protests and my communications to
the United States Government immedi-
ately thereafter expressly declare that /
yielded my authority to the forces of the
United States in order to avoid bloodshed,
and because 1 recognized the futility of
conflict with SO formidable a power. Be
cause the President of the United States
the Secretary of State and an envoy COM
missioned by them reported in official
documents that my Government was un-
lawfully coerced by the forces, diplomat
ic and naval, of the United States, that /
was at the date of these investigations
constitutional ruler of my people.
Because such decision of the recog-
nized magistrates of the United States
officially communica ted to me and
TO Sanford B. Dole and said Doles resig-
nation requested by Albert S. Willis, the
Government of the United States.
Neither the above-named commissioner
nor the Government which sends him
has ever received such authority from
the registered voters of Hawaii, but de-
rives its assumed powers from the
called committee of public safety, organ
lied on or about said 18th day of January,
1898, said committee being composed
largely of persons claiming American
citizenship, and not one single Hawaiian
was a member thereof or in any way
participated in the demonstration lead
ing to its existence.
Because, my people, about 10000 IN
number, have in no way been consulted
by those, 5000 in number, who claim the
right to destroy the independence of Ha-
waii. My people constitute four-fifthS of
the legally qualified voters of Hawaii,
and excluding those imported for the
demands of labor, about the same pro-
portion of the inhabitants. Said treaty
ignores not only the civic rights of my
people, but further the hereditary prop
erty of their chiefs. OF the 100000 acres
fers to annex 100000 or $4,000 acres,
has in way been heretofore recognized
as other than the private property of the
constitutional monarch, subject to a con-
troll in way differing from other
items of private estate. 1t is proposed
by said treaty to confiscate said property,
technically called the crown lands those
legally entitled thereto either now in
succession receiving no consideration
what for estates, their title to which
has been always undisputed and which is
legally in my name at this date.
Therefore, /, Liliuokalani of Hawaii,
do hereby call upon the President of that
nation to whom alone I yielded my prop
erty and my authority to withdraw said
treaty (ceding said Islands) from further
consideration. I ask the honorable Sen
ate of the United States to decline to
ratify said treaty, and implore the peo-
pie of this great and good nation, from
whom my ancestors learned the Christian
religion to sustain their representatives
IN such acts of justice and equality as
nav be in accord with the principles of
their fathers, and to the Almighty Ruler
of the universe, to him who judgeth
righteously, / commit my cause.
s'Done at Washington, District of Co
lumbia, United States of America, this