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'12 The Hawaiian Repahtie (r8y4-98)
<br /> thousand r4 the Queen's adherents passed a resolution refusing to
<br /> swear to sucli an obligation as was implied in the oath;furthermore,
<br /> thev resolved that the Provisional Government was deliberately
<br /> trying to disfranchise tite natives, because the prescribed oath
<br /> would prevent them from remaining"loyal to the total of goverl-
<br /> ishent here existing from time inuncun>rial."°0 This attitude of the
<br /> hanakas was in part to be explained by the hope that the United
<br /> Stares Congress would in some way help them. Said Charles T.
<br /> Wider to fla,tings: "",'flat are the chances for time Morgan Re-
<br /> port to be acted upon, the adoption of that report by the senate
<br /> would heap our side wonderfully, as it is the natives are holding
<br /> off from registering,still claiming that restoration will take place,
<br /> pointing to the vote of the House to back tip their argument.""'
<br /> About 1,500 persons registered in Honolulu a,very few were
<br /> natives, however, because the K_anakas were told, as Admiral
<br /> Walker heard, that if the Queen ever won restoration,they would
<br /> be proscribed for taking all oath to the Provisional Government-
<br /> "Foreign influence has undoubtedly encouraged this belief and
<br /> apprehension,."Walker pointed out,on the other hand,that loyalty
<br /> to flit, monarchy was largely a matter of self-interest,and that if
<br /> the United States would come out openly in a clear-cut statement
<br /> against intervention in Hawaiian politics,trouble world soon cease.
<br /> ]lr,pe Fur a resmration was becoming less marked every day;and
<br /> besides, the natives lacked leadersbip."
<br /> It spun became evident that the franchise question would he the
<br /> �Enciosure in Willis to Gresham, Nn_ 51, April 14, 1894, Despatdw,;
<br /> p,imcd in Srn Es, Du, 9, (53 C.ong.2 Scss.), The Ad—ii.rzr, Apnt 1[),
<br /> 1894, willed the melting a i-le.
<br /> "f1'ildcr to flasiogs, April 18, 1894, M&E.
<br /> "file Itouolulu rcgioration was 1,507, or 1,243 fewer than in the last
<br /> election for Representatives. TI-e were 185 natives and half-castes; 101
<br /> foreigners horn in )Iawaii; 390 Americans; 195 from Great Britain and its
<br /> c.d onie+; 130 i,c naos; 418 Yortuguese; and 98 others.The Bu!lztin, April
<br /> 23,1894,mauhta,n 1 that these figures proved the existence of a large amount
<br /> of t,ppogm,r, among the natives and Yortuguese.
<br /> Wailer ru Seucta,y c the Navy, April 28, 1894, No. 49704, Bureau of
<br /> Nav ation.Walker,wl,o had must arrived,said iu the sanm dest+at,h that the
<br /> ill leelinq which had c ml,d he,erofine 1,ad died down. "I have tune in
<br /> coetact with ail classes of society and if Um recent events have lelt pnsnna(
<br /> animosities till are not rei,iily perceptible. Royalists and suppuhters or the
<br /> Provlsioual Government appear to be an pleasant personal terms."
<br /> Fstabtishing the Republic q
<br /> most difficult problem the constitutional Convention had lit fay<
<br /> There were three phases to it: (I) the Aneiican, whereby n.,
<br /> tionals of the United States refused to endanger their citizenship,
<br /> (2) the native, whereby great numbers of Kanakae wuuhl o,r
<br /> swear away their changes of regaining monarchical government
<br /> and (3) the Uriemtal, whereby the large Japanese section ill il,,
<br /> population demanded the vote The last was the must disnnbing
<br /> This fact was well explained by Admiral V'yeller, who, m
<br /> his first important despatch to Herbert, reported that, situ:c t,h--
<br /> arrival on April 12,he had talked with many persums m oide, i •
<br /> reach some couclusions on the political situation. lie cite u, is,,.
<br /> chief ones; that the Provisional Government was frstly estai,
<br /> lishrd because it was forcing the observulce of law alit] orde,
<br /> and that there was considerable concern regarding the wisdirm r,l
<br /> disfranchising the Japanese "Many persons here both in and 'rho
<br /> of the government think the japanese a possible source of futri,
<br /> danger.",
<br /> Art earlier droi—d of Japan that itc people in Hawaii be grairn_-i
<br /> political rights was discussed towatd rte end of Chapter IV ,n
<br /> The Hawaiian Revolution (r8g;-p:l j. Thereafter the subject ar,n
<br /> frequently, Fur example,`I-hurstun lied alt audience with ritesh.a
<br /> on January 25, 1894, to tell about the japanese nseuac1. 111"
<br /> were, he. said, asking sntflage acct is% to the equal-righ,
<br /> glause of the japanese lillwaiian treat._ If refused, no non•
<br /> Japanese would be permitted to go to Hawaii and those ahe.,,l�
<br /> there would be rrcailed.That eventuality,he declared,could be ua
<br /> fortunate Lot the sugar planters be,.ame their labor supphy r,
<br /> be entlangercd.When he said he was not uppusmg the grauGnt
<br /> the vote to the natives, Gresham, eve, the lawyer, interlKhsr,;
<br /> remind Thurston that his ideas had changed;for in a ftnnhr.
<br /> terview Thuratorr asserted he waoterl uo ignorant vote whalevri
<br /> Fhe Hawaiian Monster replied that he would allow iguoraw
<br /> natives to vote only for members of the lower house. "We v
<br /> need a house of Lords,"he averred. Gresham, who just then v:
<br /> not in a good humor abort things N.awaifan, asked testily wt
<br /> Thurston was telling him about the trouble, Thulstmn thtntlbr
<br /> Gresham could do souhethmg. Gresham asked whether llaw.n,
<br /> "[bid.
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