Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-03-22

dressed q letter to our minister, asking
him to land the marines and troops to
protect life and property, and the fixed
the hour at 5 O'Clock in the afternoon.
The minister ordered the landing Of
the troops, a hundred and eighty Of
them. marched not to any point in the
city where they could protect life and
property, not to the American oonsul's
Office or the resident minister's office,
not to the heart of the business section
of the city Of Honolulu, but to Arlon
Hall, little building 75 yards from
the government building because our
minister had agreed that if they would
90 and get possession of the government
building and read their proclamation
declaring the government overthrown,
he would recognize them.
The next day these thirteen mt n
marched up to the government building
in two squads, 80 as not to attract at
tention, up two different streets, and
having come to the government build.
Ing, where there was no armed force. no
revolutionists, nobody but the Janitor
and the clerk inside, they proceeded to
read their proclamation declaring the
government Of Queen Lilluokalanl over.
thrown. The marines in the meantime
b ad been drawn up IN line with their
gatling guns within Is yards.
The Queen abdicated because she
b ad been told that If she surrendered
to superior force" she would have her
rights protected by the U. s. govern
ment. She did so protesting against
it until she should be reinstated. She
was kept in confinement for months and
not allowed to visit her home. She was
induced to surrender by the men who
owned tho sugar plantations. Years be-.
fore an English admiral had sailed into
the bay Of Honolulu and with his armed
forces had overturned the king and de-
throned him and taken charge of the
government. The king had surrend.
cred under protest similar to THE one
and submitted the question to the Eng
llsh Government; and to the honor and
credit of the English Government, they
restored the king and repudisted the
acts OF their admiral. No wonder the
queen then believed that this great Re-
public, that had been in the habit Of do
ing right, would be moro sure to do
what was right than the kingdom Of
Great Britain.
For 60 days the U. s. flag fosted
over the government buildings in Hs-
wsli. During that time these thirteen
men armed their followers, gathered TO-
gether considerable force, hired able
bodied men, no matter of what nation.
ality, passing through that port on their
way to Australia or elsewhere, and gath.
cred together force OF 400 armed men
In the meantime, with our flag floating,
they searched every house in the islands,
con tiscated every gun they could find,
disarmed every body, passed law by
which they made it criminal offence to
import a gun Of any sort, and
thoroughly consolidated their power.
With these 40O armed men, when our
flag was taken down, they we're able to
maintain themselves against the inhabi-
tan ts Of the country.
The l3 leaders we're increased to 19,
who constituted the. government.
About year afterwards they adopted a
constitution and allowed IS delegates
from the islands to sit IN consti-
tutional convention, with these 10 SELF
elected, constituted, self-eppointed
men. They gave the constitution a
high sounding title, the Republic Of
Hawaii, and they declared for religious
liberty and against slavery, and then
proceeded to import slaves from Asia
and Europe to work on their sugar plan.
tatlons. This constitution was never
submitted to vote of the people and
never .oted upon by the people of Ha-
wa,i; it was never voted upon by any
body, only the nineteen men who con-
stltuted it and the eighteen men who
we're allowed to be elected by some sort
of popular sufferage, but 1t was simply
promulgated, and that is the govern
nent which existed in these islands up
to the time we took possession.
For long time the United States re-
fused to rstify treaty made with the
10 men, but lately, under the pressure
OF the administration the scheme was
worked through and the press Of tie
party has approved the proceedings as q
great and glorious example Of expan-
sion-in the real interests OF tho sugar
trust.
The object OF the trust IN getting
Hawaii part OF the U s. was to take
advantage of tho sugar bounties OF this
government. Sugar has been admitted
free from the islands since 1875 but up
to 1890 g pound tax was on sugar