The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-11-16

WE REALLY do not emember reading or hear
ing the statement made that the Hawaiian race
was - deteriOrated stock, '-otherwise n degen-
crate people. An experience of life among them
OF many years has led us to form no such onin-
ION. The Goths and Vandals were not deoen-
crate IN the primitive times before they were
ChrIstlanIzed. The Hawaiians, at the first
discovery OF the Islands by Europeans-doubt-
less by the Spaniards, a century before Cook
were q numerous and a hardy race of neonle
governed by their hereditary chiefs. Then came
the conquest by Kamehameha l.. commonly
called the Great. He undoubtedly was a re-
m~arkably man, and possessed great administra-
tive ability. The line of the Kamehameha fami-
~ has disappeared, Kamehameha v. having
been the last, but 1t is not generally known
that when the first Kamehameha obtained
supremacy by right of conquest, numerous chief
families, originally as of high rank as that of
the conquerer, being purposely ignored by him,
fell into obscurity and poverty, being deprived
OF their ancestral possessions. ONLY such MS
the conquerOr chose to retain about him were
recognized as chiefs during his reign and those
or his successors of the name. These families
OF ignored chiefs have, however, kent up their
traditions of fendal rights to this day, though
never presuming to assert those publicly.
Among most of the older people there will be
found to exist 4 thorough understanding as to
who is an Ghi, 4 Kankau aEi, and a kau1ya-tbat
IS to say, 4 chief, Il relation or retainer of n
chief, Il common servant.
We express the belief that if the Hawaiian !
does die out and disappear, as has been t
often prophesicd it will, its proper epitaph will t
Died of too much liberty" The late 7
W. L. Lee has been ~culogized and made n saint S
Of by some for having induced Kamebameba i
good generous, but weak-minded King j
to grant huleanas to the common people. That 1
was a great mistake. inasmuch as it was a step n
lastly too far in advance of the capacities Of the II
people. 1t sounded grand, to make every man. t.
Who had been before little more than a slave. a O
but it ruined the majority of the A
Suppose that Alfred the Great, of f.
1ngIand' had decrecd that every serf-the COM &C
non people were all serfs in those davs-shouId $
'ecome absolute owner of the bit of land he Gull Is
waited IN the then condition of education in at
nat country, the same cause would produce is
ne same result rs the " kuleana" process has 90
ere. The people, in too many instances, have w
! one way and another, lost possession of their al
Why? it might be asked. Because, M
II one reason, a thing got cheaply is not valued.
he kuieana was 4 gift from the King, and the
did not really understand its value.
ow some of their descendants or relatives are
to do so. LEI
The hOt-bcd system of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Tel
c should say observation-disclosures which the sci
awaiIans have been subjected during the past ""
tv or moro vnorS will - E--l "
ore to do with the decadence of the nation =
an Is generally supposed. Before the solecism ~,
Is placed upon the Hawaiian statue book in -
% that ali men are created free and equal, - 10,
g common man in Hawaii nei was obedient and tina
beet to his hereditary chief, and he could be rea
d was controlled for his own benefit. Now, stal
viewer, unfortunately for the common veal afe
generally disastrously to himself he owns mai
master. lord of himself, that heritage so t
wo,' he very often goes to the bad. In vain seer
. benevolenee provide for him 4 well-appoint- thes
hospital, in case Of sickness, fitted and en- new
we'd equally with any of its proportions in the inst
rid be won't be persuaded to 90 there. and ed
the enjoyment Of his " constitutional rights" ~
can be compelled to go. So, instead of
taxing OF the comforts and sanitary benefits
the benefcent institution maintained bv the -
arnnort ~ L. L...r. chap
:I $3.50 III ut1' mIscIaoty Cove
W" : was not ior the large my
~ 0ON'tUIo""i Aoerty that has been The
towed upon him, we might compel him to 90 tuna
he hospital to be nursed, tended and fed, here
by saving his life prevent the necessity of some
lSlhg new blood into the country. lbs
ut to conclude-Some seem to expect from soap,
IIaWalians, as 4 people, results from fifty cloth
s Of christianity that required centuries to find
q about with the nations of EDrona Thar apes
- here,