People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — TO UPHOLD THE QUEEN [ARTICLE]

TO UPHOLD THE QUEEN

Uncle Sam May Restore Liliuokalanl to the Hawaiian Throne. Washington, Nov. 9.-It is stated upon what is considered excellent authority that Minister Willis, who is supposed to have landed in Hawaii last Sunday, bore instructions to inform the provincial government that the United States regards the dethronement of Queen Liliuokalani as due entirely to the then Minister Stevens and the leading of the troops from, the United States steamer Boston; that but for them the queen would not have been dethroned; that the United States government does not approve of the action of Stevens and therefore does not consider that there has been a revolution. But the United States does consider that the queen, having been unjustly deprived of her throne because of the wrongful action of the United States minister and troops, is entitled to be restored to power and restored she must be. This position which the administration has taken is likely to give rise to . much and severe criticism on the ground that it ill befits this republic to assist in the restoration of a deposed monarch. This criticism is expected. The administration's only explanation is that it matters not whether the deposed authority was a queen or a president The authority was unlawfully overthrown by representatives of the United States and as a mere matter of abstract justice the wrong should be righted.