The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-01-02

% The following communication was written
for the Male Quarterly, but as the Quarterl,
has been discontinued for a time, we chcerfully
give it u place in our columns.
A few Independent Thoughts ON Annexation.
To THE EDIToR Sir AS the laws of debate re.
quire, and your liberal principles allow each side to
be heard, l submit the following lines to the public.
In all speculative propositions, it is necessary to
examine their basis, that a predisposing bias may
not violate truth.
The peril Of the native race, though so obvious on
the face of the question, has really no practical place
in the gratuitous schemes afloat, whose abettors are
satisfied that the race is dying out though about
double the number remains of that Of the Samoan
group, alive with the agency of a large vigorous mis-
sion, unsmitten by the blight of MammOn-while the
practice proposed here, with apparently no opposi-
ton, is to lose the Samaritan in the s~trategist, and
end all native ailments by %summarily sacrificing the
patients 10 the rayenOus NAV of INSCRIPTIONS ambi-
ton! The beginning, progress and end of these
schemes are all foreign, and, honestly viewed, in
direct antagonism with the characteristic, situation
and rants of the native race, whose capabilities are
only suited to the country in which they are found,
and only adapted to increased progress on their oca
basis.
There is no reason why religion, and every real
good should not be attainable in the country and
village life. The city, at the least, an acknowledged
iceR Of society which may be essential to the foreign
er's acquisitiveness, becomes the speedy sepulchre OF
the aborigines. 1t teaches them the vicious lesson,
that money is the primary end and object of life
that nothing is valued where it is not possessed that
it is the fulcrum of every desirable attainment; while
the fact remains, that all the native could ever attain
must quickly change hands, with wiser heads and
the foreign senator's, that those employed on the
plantations are never out of debt-a result, he added,
aimed at by planters.
While the annexation scheme may be appropriate
to foreign interests, forced into being by spectators
out of their right place, what has it to indemnify
this simple and confding race for the loss of their
peaceful and even life among their hills and valies.
but n little trite sentimental favor to an escaped rem
nant-as an isolated rock proposed, and some cod
charity when gathered there
The successive iuuudations of foreigners of every
class and character is rendered a r~eleeming necessity,
to sustain immense speculations which require the
authorities to uphold, which have always. been will
ling to meet the public voice in aiding plans for the
affirmed public good though often rewarded by the
reverse action Of cynical and censorious spirits, who
could never lie satisfied with any concessions short of
absolute ule-me who have not obeye1 the great
Masters command. . to pull the beam out Of their
eye,'' which incapacitates from a right and true judg-
mcnt.
There are probably as many foreigners from all
nations residing here a Americans, or more have
they no claim to be consulted or heard, when they
resist the inHiction Of the enormous American war
tax. barely cndurable 10y the people Of the States: or
i it to be thrust ON this ignorant and weak people,
to reveal itself, like Slmson's shorn hair, when he
found himself bound by the Philistines,
There can bc no question that the position Of these