The record-union., 1897-06-18
Objects to the Ratification Of the Hawaiian
Annexation Treaty.
Declares It Wrong Toward the
Native People of the Islands.
Calls Upon President Dole to With
draw the Treaty Ceding the Islands
to This Government, and ASKS the
limited States Senate to Decline to
Ratify the Agreement.

Ratify the Agreement
WASHINGTON, June 17.-About 3
o'clock this afternoon ex-Queen Lil1uo-
kaIani filed a protest in the office OF
the Secretary Of State. 1t was dellV-
cred into the hands of Secretary John
Sherman by Joseph Helaluhe, repre-
senting the native Hawaiians, duly
commissioned by two of their patriotic
leagues. Mr.. Helaluhe was accompan-
led by Captain julius A. Palmer. the
American Secretary of Liliuokalani
Mr.. Sherman treated the bearers moss
oourteously, but gave no indication OF
his action in the matter. The protest
is as follows:
I, 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 Ha-
waiian Islands, 18th day of January
a D. 1898, do hereby protest against
the ratification of a certain treaty,
which. I am so informed, has been
signed at Washington by Messrs. Hatch,
Thurston and Kinney, purportlng 10
oede these islands to the territory and
dominion of the United States. l de-
clare such treaty to be an act OF wrong
toward the native 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 peo-
pie 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 18th day of January, 1875,
to the so-called Provisional Govern
nlent was signed by me and received
by said Government with the assur-
ance that the case was referred to the
United States of America for arbitra-
ton.
Because the protests and my COM
munications to the United States Gov
eminent Immediately thereafter ex-
pressly declare that I yielded my au-
thority to the forces of the United
States. in order to avoid bloOdshed, and
because l recognized the futility of a
conflict with so formidable a Power.
Because the President of the United
States, the Secretary of State and en-
voy commissioned by them in official
documents that my Government was
unlawfully coerced by the forces, dip
lomatic and naval, of the United
States that I was at the date of these
investigations constitutional ruler of
my people.
Because such decision of the recog-
niZed magistrates of the United States
was officially communicated to me and
to Sanford B. Dole. and said Dole's
resignation requested by Albert S. Will
lis. the recognized agent and Minister
of the Government of the United States
Because neither the abOye-named
Commissioner nor the Government
which sends it has ever received such
authority from the registered voters of
Hawaii, but derives its assumed pow
ers from the so-called Committee Of
Public Safety, organized on or about
the said 18th day Of January, 1898,
said committee being composed largely
of persons claiming American citizen
ship. and not one single Hawaiian was
Il member thereof or in any way par
ticipated in the demonstration leading
TO its existence.
Because my people, about 10000 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 imported
for the demands of labor, about the
same proportion of the inhabitants.
Because said treaty ignores not only
the civic rights of my people, but fur
ther the hereditary property of their
chiefs OF the 1000 900 acres compos-
ing the territory, said treaty offers to
annex 100000, or 49, acres, which
has in no way been heretofore recog-
nized as other than the private proper
ty of the constitutional monarch, sub
ject to a control in no way differing
from other items of private estate.
Because it is proposed by said treaty
to confiseate said property, technically
called the crown lands, those legally
entitled thereto, either now in in sue
cession receiving no consideration
whatever for estates, their title to
which has been always undisputed and
which is legally in my name at 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 sovereigns
representing the Hawaiian people, but
all treaties made by those sovereigns
with other and friendly powers, and it
is thereby in violation of international
law
Because by treating with the par
ties claiming at this time the right to
cede said territory of Hawaii, the Gov
ment of the United States receives such
territory from the hands of those whom
its own magistrates Qegally elected by
the people of the United States and in
Office in 1889. pronounced fraudulently
in power and unconstitutionally ruling
Hawaii.
Therefore, I, LiliLokalani of Hawaii
do hereby call upon the President of
that nation, to whom alone l yielded
my property and my authority to with
draw said treaty (cedng said islands)
from further consideration. 1 ask the
honorable Senate of thu United States
to decline to ratify sait treaty. and I
implore the people of his great and
good nation, from whom nv ancestors
learned the Chrinstian religion. to sus-
tain their Representatives in such acts
of justice and equality as may be in
accord with the principles of their