Show THE KANAKA PROTEST Half of the Signers Women Some Were Foreigners Washington Dec 9 Senator Hoar today presented a monster protest in the senate from native Hawailans against the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States The protest filled several hundred pages of foolscap paper and was forwarded for-warded by Enoch Johnson and Lilia Aholo secretaries respectively of the Hawaiian patriotic league and the Hawaiian Womans Patriotic league who made certificates that the signatures signa-tures were all genuine Of the 21269 signers 10300 were women and 160 were foreIgners The petition was printed both in English and Hawaiian lan cuaces and was verv brief merely Protesting against anexation to the United States in any shape or form I |