The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-18
QUEEN lii PROTESTS.
Objects to the Proposed Annexation
Of Hawaii.
PAPER FILED WITH SECRETARY
SHERMAN FULL OF BECAUSES.


Goes Over the Ground of the Capture of
the Island by Provisional Government
and Fact That Natives Outnumber the
Americans.
Washington, June 17.-About O'Clock
this afternoon, ,ex- Queen Liluokalani filed
the following protest in the office of the
S Secretary of State. 1t was delivered into
the hands of Secretary Sherman, by Mr..
Joseph Helehue, representing the native
Hawaiians, duly commissioned by two
of their patriotic leagues. Mr.. Helehue
was accompanied by Capt. julius A. Pal
mer, the American secretary of the ex-
Queen. Mr.. Sherman treated the bearers
most courteously, but gave no indications
of his action in the matter.
"I, Liluokalani of Hawaii, ty the will
of God named heir apparent on the 10th
of April, A. D., 1877, and by the grace
of God, Queen of the Hawaiian Island,
on the 18th day of January, A. D., 1898,
VIZ iASiObJ PiOUOoO dS5dlASU UllS IdUluCdUlOu
of certain treaty, which, SO I am in
formed, has been signed at Washington
by Messrs. Hatch, Thurston and Kinney,
purporting to cede the said islands to the
territory and dominion of the United
States. 1 declare such treaty to be an
act of wrong doing towards the natives
and part native people of Hawaii. an
invasion of the rights of the ruling chiefs,
IN violation of international 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 overthrown and finally an act of
gross injustice to me.
Because, the official protests made by
me on the 18th 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 commu-
nications to the United States govern
ment Immediately thereafter expressly de-
clared that / yielded my authority to the
forces of the United States in order to
avoid bloodshed and because I recognized
the futility of a conflict with SO formida-
BILE 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 unlawfu1ly coerced by the
forces, diplomatic and naval, of the Unit
ed States, and that was at the date of
their Investigations the constitutional
ruler Of my people.
Because such decision of the recognized
magistrates of the United States was
officially communicated to me and to
Sanford B. Dole, and Dole's resignation
requested by Albert S. Willis, the recog-
nized agent and minister of the govern
ment of the United States.
Because neither the above named COM
mission nor the government which sends
1t, never received such authority from the
registered voters of Hawaii, but derives
its assumed powers from the so-called
committee of public safety, organized on
or about the 7th day of January, 1898,
said committee being composed largely
and not one single Hawaiian was a mem
Der thereof or in any way participated
in the demonstration leading to it's exis.
tence.
Because my people, about 40, 600 in num-
ber, have in no way been consulted 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 four million acres COM
posing the territory said treaty offers to
annex, one million or 200 acres have
in no way been heretofore recognized as
other than the private property of the
constitutional monarch, subject to con-
troll in no way differing from others of
private estate.
Because it is proposed by said treaty to
confiscate said property technically
titled thereto, either now or in success
sion, receiving no consideration whatever
for estates, their title to which has been
always undisputed and which is legiti-
mately 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
senting the Hawaiian people, but all
treaties made by those sovereigns with
other and friendly powers and it is there
by violation of international law
Because, by treating with the parties
claiming at this time the right to cede
said territory of Hawaii. the government
of the United States receives such terri
tory from the hands of those whom It's
own magistrates illegally elected by the
people of the United States and in Office
in 1889, pronounced fraudulently in DOW.
er and unconstitutionally ruling Ha-
wall.
Therefore, I, Lilioukalani of Hawaii.
do hereby call upon the President of
that nation, to whom yielded my proper