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A protest against the treaty was handed to the President, and considered
by the Senate before the treaty was ratified.
The Senators did not regard the protest as worthy of much consideration,
as it was signed by but fifteen persons, all of whom were friends of the
ex-queen. They therefore regarded it as a political scheme arranged by
those royalists who still have hopes of restoring the monarchy.
It is said that Liliuokalani has a new plan for the throne of Hawaii.
She has come to the conclusion that the people of the Sandwich Islands
want neither her nor her rule any longer. She did so many bad things
while she was queen that the people who would like to see the monarchy
restored would not be willing that she should be queen again.
Liliuokalani has therefore decided to resign the throne in favor of her
niece, the Princess Kaiulani.
This young lady is a charming and well-educated person, and the old
Queen is wise enough to know that none of the objections which people
have to her could apply to Kaiulani.
If the plan is successful, the young Queen is to make ample provision
for Liliuokalani.
Meanwhile Japan has agreed to arbitrate the immigration question, but
refuses to consider the matter from the Hawaiian point of view.
The complaint which was made against Japan in the first instance was
that she evaded the law which provided that every immigrant must have a
contract for labor and fifty dollars in cash in his pocket, by giving
false contracts and lending the required fifty dollars, which immigrants
gave back as soon as they were safely landed.
The Japanese refuse to enter into the question whether this fifty
dollars was fraudulently supplied. They say that so long as each man
had fifty dollars in his possession, it was nobody's business where or
how he got it. They persistently refuse to arbitrate this point, which
seems to be the most important of all the questions involved.
The Japanese are continuing to send large numbers of emigrants to
Honolulu, and the Hawaiians have become very much alarmed about it.
They insist that the new colonists are Japanese soldiers disguised as
laborers, and that the Mikado is sending them over to be in readiness to
fight for the possession of the country in case the United States
decides to annex it.
* * * * *
The strike in Hazleton is now over, but the settlement has not been made
without a good deal of trouble and anxiety.
When the state troops ordered out by the Governor arrived in the town,
some of the men decided to go to work under the protection of the
troops. The spirit of the strikers had been broken by the firing of the
Sheriff and his posse, and many of the men who were peaceably inclined
thought the best thing to do was to go back to work.
The women did not agree with them. The wives and mothers of the
unfortunate men who had been killed declared that their dear ones should
not have been sacrificed for nothing; and as the men refused to continue
the strike, the women decided to go on with it for them.
A strike is of no use unless all the men stand together and hold out for
their point. The women understood this perfectly, and they determined
that the men should stand together.
Arming themselves with sticks, they set out in a body for the mines that
were being worked, and under the very noses of the soldiers raided the
works and drove the men out.
The next morning the men, still determined to go to work, started out in
a body for the mines. On their way they were met by a body of women, who
drove them back with threats and scoldings to their homes again.
The general in command of the state troops then decided that it was time
for him to interfere, and on the third day, when the women attempted to
stop the men, the troops were ordered to disperse them.
To frighten the women the officers ordered their men to fix their
bayonets and advance on the women as if they meant to charge them.
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