Show I ANNEXATION IS DEAD LUiLIUOXALANTS PRIVATE SECBETABY SO SETS FORTE I I Hawaiians Disfranchised Would Not Vote For Annexation if Given the Ballot Two Positions Only Open to the Natives Washington Feb 7Colonel Julius Palmer private secretary of exQueen Liliuokalani in a communication to the Washington Times in which he extols in the highest manner the deposed de-posed ruler refers in the course of his article to the question of the annexation annexa-tion of Hawaii to this country Colonel Palmer says annexation is now dead forever For there is no escape he writes from one of two oositions first the 10600 native voters now disfranchised dis-franchised by a minority that by official of-ficial statistics in 1S03 numbered 637 will be allqwed to resume suffrage In this case they miirht vote for one of their own chiefs as head of their nation but they will certainly vote against annexing annex-ing their country to any other land second the 10000 native voters will be still denied the right of an expression of their will at the ballot box they will he held down by manacle and musket as thev are today I have seen noble specimens of Hawaiian manhood laboring labor-ing on the roads carrying a hal and chain for no other reason than their own loyalty to their queen I this course is pursued the Americans under whatever party will never admit them tc this great and glorious Union simry on the vote of their oppressors because these latter wish 10 be relieved of the consequences of their own rebellion re-bellion and folv belol folv |