The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-28

Stevens recognized this provisional
-1'erum5 l-. although she had az tle
cine -t5 armed men under her COM
.n-Hd. ,la- she also had Two or three
t-a.,.-U 1r Calling suns. aEr chat she
simply Surrendered professionally ua-
20. --e question could ue submitted o.
Us.
VIVA, did we loe They put ur oar
flag over che buildings. ana f1. -.1..
days the S-ar- ald Stripes G1d.eI over
tLe public buildings OF Hawaii I.r-
tl- tIl- time these thirteen men AIMED
their followers. gathered together q
considerable force. hired ll.a-lll.af
men, no matter OF what nationality.
passing through thar port on tlu.. way
90 Australia o. elsewhere. and gather
cd together a force OF 400 armed men.
In the meantime. wl-n oar dag LlI-ll-
they searched every house ia tle Isle
anls, CJnhsc1-ed every sun thlt ,hty
could fad, d.sarmei everybody. passed
a law by wu.gh they made d. "a Cl.mi-
nal ofense 90 imV0r; a gun OF aly SORT.
and thoroughly lOL-J.l llttd taei. pow
er. With these 900 armed men. when
our aas was taken down. they were
aole LO maintain themselves a-lils.
The inhabitants OF that country
They ran along for q year. o. two 0r
three years. and hually these men de-
cldled ,L-t tAey would adopt c1lstl-
tuition. They never had adopted any.
There never had been any government
except the se.t-cJus .i.u-eI glyerumeu.
OF these thirteen men. by the way
they had added 10 their number until
there were nineteen OF them. There
were those, however. who had agreed
TO meet in the first instance. as Lcrrin
ThurstOn. for example the most elO-
quent fellow among them all. the man
who wanted 20 aid other people 10 ov-
erturn the monarchy. He was not seen
whenever there was any meeting that
might class him as 4 traitor. SO they
Increased their number by voluntary
acquisitions until they had nineteen.
These nineteen men constituted the
government, and they ran II along for
over a year, for year and a half. and
they organized the Republic OF Hawaii
This Is the way they adopted the con-
stitution. They said that the people OF
Hawaii might elect eighteen delegates
I 20 a constitutional convention to sit
with these nineteen self-constituted
and self-elected and self-appOinted men
who had been running the government.
So the people, those whom they
/ would allow TO vote. elected eighteen
/ delegates. and those eighteen dele
gates sat with those nineteen men who
/ had made themselves the government.
and were not elected by anybody.
these conspiratoTs. and they formed a
constitution; but after they had form
ed il they gave IL a high-sOunding title.
/ the Republic OF Hawaii, and they de-
clared for religious liberty and against
= nwnRgnnph n IN
slaves from Asia and Europe for their
sugar plantations. This constitution
was never submitted 10 "A vote OF the
people and never voted upon by the
people OF Hawaii. il was never voted
uTOn by anybody. only the nineteen
men VINO constituted IL and the eight
cen men who were allowed TO be elect
ed by some sort of popular suffrage
but II was simply promulgated, and
that Is the government which existed
in these islands up 10 the time We took
possession.
We refused TO take possession for
several years. and so matters ran on
until the Spanish war broke out. Then
We passed a joint resolution by which
We annexed those islands TO the United
States. We made a treaty, however
previous TO that time with those nine.
/ Teen Mitus anu that AERSLN DIONlle0
that the islands should be annexed 70
the United States. We could not rati-
, fy the treaty because a two-thirds vote
could not be obtained In this body "a
ratify IT, After trying for weeks they
finally succeeded IN passing through
both Houses a joint resolution of an
nexatiOn. / do not know whether tina,
was ever agreed TO by the people o. the
islands or not. IL makes no difference
IL may have been agreed 10 by those
nineteen men; IL never was agreed "a
by the people OF Hawaii: and If a vote
had ever been taken OF the legal and
lawful voters OF that country any res
olution to annex the islands to the
=. United States would have been defeated
5 to1.
Now. what was the purpose OF all
this? Not to advance the Interests OF
the people of the United States. But
We had made a treaty in 1875 by which
We agreed to admit sugar from thOss
islands free OF duty. We were charg-
ing cents a pound upon all the sugai
that came from every other country il
the world. and cents a pound was
2 equivalent 20 $40 a ton bounty OF
= sugar. II came in free from Hawai-
| and they could raise IL with slave
labor at So OF 81 a month and boar,
themselves. and 81 paid an enormOut
] profit. So they came here and rail
. roaded through this reciprocity trea
~. as they called 70. in 1875. Tn,
sugar interests flOurished. New plan
: tatiOns we're opened up. The remitte
: duties amounted 20 millions OF dOllars
. In 1890 We passed a law admittin
sugar free OF duty from everywhere
= and, therefore. they had to sell thei
= sugar in this country OF wherever the
could in the markets OF the world with
Z" out the advantage OF the duty whic
T. We had Heretofore imposed on suga
2 from every other country Their bOnu
s was gone. But We had enacted a Lar
o by which we paid 2 cents a p1un
bounty on sugar, maple sugar. be-
F? sugar, and sugar from Louisiana. an
J, therefore the sugar planters. VII
O found their industry waning and the
! ] vg~nH~.a eff~s~.aH f.vrafrrHrH Il