The San Francisco call., 1898-10-01
HAWAIANS
 COMPLAIN OF
 UNFA HARNESS Not Given the Desired
 Hearing. ONE MEMORIAL REFUSED IT APPEALED POINTEDLY TO THE UNITED STATES. Asked That Before Annexation Was Carried Out the Natives Be
 Consulted by
 Plebiscite.
IT APPEALED POINTEDLY TO
 THE UNITED STATES.

To the Editor of the San Francisco | Call: The Hawaiian United States Com missoners have finished their part of the work here, and to-day they are preparing | to leave us for Washington, D. C., by the | steamer Gaelic, via San Francisco. They have hardly been here two months Dur ing all this time they worked behind closed doors, and nobody knows yet what form of government they have decided for us. But they say 1t was all 'cut and dried" in Washington before they came here.
 Senator Cullom and Representative Hit were deceiYed by their Hawaiian col leagues when they first came here. They were told then that during the flying of the stars and stripes all the Hawaiians would submit and come in and ask to be- come United States citizens and abandon the idea Of standing firm for their coun- try. With this idea they all went to the islands of Maui and Hawaii and delivered speeches before the Hawaiians, stating that the United States flag should wave over the Hawaiian Islands forever. All the Hawaiians listened to chem wherever they went, but answered nothing. The HaWaiianS in the meantime called a meeting and elected delegates in all parts of the islands and and and sent , them to r Honolulu | their answers in memorial form, which | surprised the Commissioners. The an swers are united one most important point-the restoration of the independ- ence of their beloved country. The only Hawaiian organization which compiled with the wish of the Commissioners was new association, composed mostly of Gov ernment officials and a few lawyers. The kalaiatna and Aloha Aina societies are for the restoration of monarchy. They claimed that United States Minister Stew ems, with the aid of naval forces, the cruiser Boston, overthrow the monarchy on January r, 1893, and placed the Dole oHgarehy in power. This important fact Is undisputed.
 1lSf fhn Tut Ion I y,f with memorial protesting against the annexation of Hawaii to the United
 aRen ba and be ngsd tsde a e b be fate of Hawaii. But the Commissioners refused to receive or listen to the desire of this society. This Is a gross blunder on the part of the Commissioners, as this society is composed of the flower of the Hawaiian people, and most of them are those who participated in the revolution of January, 1895, against the Dole oli- garchy and to restore the true Hawaiian Government. And they are the favorites
 The following is the memorial which the Commissioners refused to receive from the Hui Kaulana Leahi:
 MEMORIAL
 To the President, the Congress and the People
 of the United States of America
 We organization formed under the title of Hui Kaulana Leahi.' by those who par tIcipated in the revolution of Jaauary ana ', A. D. 1895. whose object was to restore tn. independence of our country, do hereby re- spectfully submit the following memora, through your commissioners, Senator S M. Cullorn, chairman; Senator John T. Morgan, Representative Robert R. Hit, Hon. s. B. Dole and Judge ". s. Frear, to be embodied in your report;
 tional Government of Hawaii was. on the 17th day of January, A. D. 1Sss overthrown by a handful of foreign consprators. started. aided and abetted by the United States Minister Resident Stevens. under the direct and un- lawful protection of the United States naval forces, landed from the United States warship Boston;
 Whareaa the said overthroxv of tha rJauo{ian Government would never have taken place without this criminal armed pressure of this
 Whereas, Our constitutional sovereign only ceded to the force of the United States war hands of the consprators. but unto the United States Government whose equity she fully relied, and to whose honesty she appealed for redress
 Whereas The so-called Hawaiian Republic
 usurpers. which has never been legalized by any appeal to the people at large, but, on the contrary relied solely for its support on paid foreign mercenary soldiers and on the sham and mockery of parliament elected by a fraction only, a minority of 2OOO electors. care fully chosen out of the total of 16,00O men le gally registered and entitled to civil rights and 70 the e, exercise of the political vote. who were brutally and unjusty debarred of their rights acquired after more than fifty years of peaceful exercise;
 : Whereas The Hawaiian Republic never rep resented the real Hawaiian population and has never been recognized by them nor empowered to act or negotiate in their name and behalf; Whereas, The treaty of annexation submitted to the United States Government by the usurpers. who owe their position and power to from the Hawaiian people and never sub
 mitted to their approval through their legal voters or their duly elected representatives, but was passed upon merely by mercenary Par liament elected by the afore mentioned minor ity of arbitrarily chosen voters nearly all for eigners
 Whereas, The Hawaiian people have no wish or desire for annexation to the United States ot America, but do prefer the independence Of their beloved country. under their own legal and constitutional government chosen by the rule of the ballot and by the majority of all the men entitled to vote;
 Whereas The United States Congress has
 been deceived by the misrepresentations and Illegal assumptions of the self-chosen rulers of
 the said misnamed Hawaiian Republic; Whereas The constitution and laws of the
 United States Republic are justly "for the people. by the people, whereby the annexa- made % for fs the peope through the peope and by the people, and not in the interest and at the demand of class or clique. and ought to be submitted to and approved by the whole of the
 Whereas The said annexation under the violation of the constitutions of both countries United States and Hawaiian Republc); Therefore, We, legal citizens and duly quail fled voters of Hawai-, in meeting assembled. on the 18th day of September, A. D. 1sA;
 FiIst-Do ITS, nsrepg proaesa agaist ainaa under false pretenses through the Newlands joint resolution, because this annexation constituted only an act of oppression and piracy. commit ted unwttngly by a great and powerful na- ton over a weak and defenseless one, and is equivalent to receiving stolen goods. whereby an everlasting stain will be thrown on the glory and honor of America.
 Second-We emphatically appeal to the United States Congress and to the United States people at large, for redress against this unjust annexation; we appeal for equity; we appeal as a helpless and friendly nation to the honor the justice, the magnanimity and friend, ship of the Congress and people of the Uniteo States of America, and ask that, before this annexation is definitely consummated, we. all men with civil rights, be consulted py pie t.t ov1I 1pf fnf negative, that we be allowed to select our own legal national constitutional government, under