The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 5, February 3, 1898 | Page 5

as to answer their ends, and forced Kalakaua to affix thereto his official signature."
In 1891 Kalakaua died and Liliuokalani succeeded him. Not long afterward she determined to try to get back the power for the monarchy that had been taken away.
This soon caused the revolution. Her enemies brought a number of charges against her, and to the chief of these she replies in her book.
Though comparatively few in number, her enemies had so much power that they were able to overturn the Government with little difficulty.
Then they appealed to President Cleveland, asking that the islands be annexed.
As the President gave them no encouragement, they continued to govern Hawaii as a republic.
In 1895 an effort was made to place Liliuokalani again on the throne. It failed, and for a time the ex-Queen was held as a prisoner.
After her release she came to this country to try to secure the aid of our Government.
The Government, however, did not interfere.
Among our legislators and in our newspapers a great deal of sympathy was expressed for the revolutionists and a great deal said in favor of annexation.
At last the republic of Hawaii formally requested that it be made a part of the United States. This brought the matter before Congress, where, as we have said, it is now being carefully considered.
In her book, Liliuokalani makes this strong appeal to the people of the United States not to take sides with those who have driven her from her throne:
"O honest Americans, as Christians, hear me for my downtrodden people! Their form of government is as dear to them as yours is precious to you. Quite as warmly as you love your country, do they love theirs. With all your goodly possessions, covering a territory so immense that there yet remain parts unexplored, possessing islands that, although near at hand, had to be neutral ground in time of war, do not covet the little vineyard of Naboth's, so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day, in that of your children, for 'be not deceived, God is not mocked.' The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble, and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."
In view of all that Liliuokalani has to say, the recent interview with President Dole is particularly interesting.
After explaining that no special powers had been granted him on his present mission by the Hawaiian Senate, the President declared it was the belief of the friends of annexation that if the recent amendment of Senator Bacon, to let the question be decided by a vote of the Hawaiian citizens, had been accepted, the vote would be in favor of the treaty.
President Dole said that, in case of annexation, Hawaii had in view no radical changes in legislation.
"The treaty provides," he said, "for the appointment by the President of the United States of a commission authorized to formulate and recommend to Congress the legislation and forms of government for Hawaii.
"The matter of franchise is now specifically provided for by our laws. For those who elect Senators there is a property and educational qualification; for those who elect Representatives an educational qualification. All electors must take an oath of allegiance to the present Government and renounce allegiance to monarchy.
"There is a strong sentiment on the island against allowing Chinese and Japanese to become citizens. There are cases where these races have acquired the ballot, but they are very few, and the sentiment is adverse to their becoming citizens.
"The natives are all citizens, and would have the right of franchise. Under the regulations now governing the franchise, about 4,000 votes were cast in the election of 1894, and about 3,000 at the more recent election."
President Dole made a glowing picture of the benefits that this country would receive from annexation. It would greatly encourage commerce between the United States and Hawaii by making the trade absolutely free, and it would open up to Americans a great many industries, the chief among them being coffee-growing.
It would also vastly improve the condition of the islands themselves.
In case annexation is rejected by our Government, President Dole says the Hawaiian Government will continue much as it is at present.
Whatever happens, there is slight prospect that Liliuokalani will be restored to her throne.
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At last accounts, Havana was in a state of peace. But it was feared that this peace would not last, and an outbreak against the Americans was expected.
Only the other day Representative Amos Cummings, of New York, made a fierce speech attacking the Spanish authorities and urging