The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-07-15
Views of the Islands by a late Govern
ment Official.
From the S. F. .4rgonaut, June 24fh.)

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intricate political problems. Our country can
not become Indifferent to this island nelghbOr IN
our western sea. It Is the postern door OF our
continent. II Is the natural outpost. II = mill
tary sense, of the western side OF our country,
necessary for our protection and defense. and
necessary as an adjunct 10 our commercial inter
course with all the people beyond US. The Uni
ted States has had no colonial polcy, further
than the general resolve that the country need
ed no dependencies OF her main land. Hence
all attempts looking towards the acquisition Of
Cuba or Santo Domingo have met with but little
favor. Cuba belongs to Spain, and, so lar as We
are concerned, is substantially well governed.
The Hawaiian archipelago presents different con-
ditions in all respects. 1t is sui generis among
nations. Its original people are rapidly passing
away, destroyed by disease. Worn out with at
triton with other people, the native population
Is wasting. and now numbers, all told, about
forty-four thousand people, native population
about equaling that of Alameda county, and yet
persisting in the parody OF q royal government.
1t supports a Kanaka king, with a crown costing
ten thousand dollars, with thirty thousand dol
lars to be added for q coronation frolc; a palace
costing as much as a wealthy g~entleman's coun-
try seat; an army not as large as a clty's police
force; a navy not equal to a yacht club; q house
Of mobiles and a legislative assembly OF half-civil-
lied pagans, who own no appreciable part Of the
country's property, and pay no percentage Of
the nations taxes; orders of nobility with deco
tons of honor; all the pomp, ceremony, and
small nonsense of a court: all the trappings,
l1t&AA y = bANA 80 wv $1,000 ~~SE
show. The king has just returned from a trip
around the world, where he has been received as
a monarch. Only think of Victoria Regina, EN-
press of India and Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland. giving a reception to this black mon
arch of a country not half so large as her crown
lands, but who draws from his taxed people a
royal salary nearly twice as large as the Repub-
lie of the United States, with its fifty millions of
people, pays to its chief magistrate. In this
age, when the people are asserting the majesty
of their power: in this generation, which has ac-
complished the unifcation Of Germany into a
great empire, and Italy into a consolidated king
dom; that has taken civil authority from the
Pope; that in France has destroyed the dynasty
of Napoleon, and on its bloody ruins laid broad
and deep the foundations of a republic, this lit
tie Kanaka sugar-patchs seems the very travesty
of government. 1t may live, and for a time en-
dure. It's very feebleness and insignificance
may preserve it.
But it seems strange, whom Nihilism shakes
the foundation of the rule of the Romanoffs,
when agrarian Ireland sets at defiance the power
of the British law, and socialism colors the
legislation of the German Empire, that this
black-cork exhibition, with a king In the centre,
a native bones at one end of the cabinet, and a
Mormon adventurer at the other, can endure.
1t cannot endure, for it Is even now, with all its
seeming propriety, but a bubble dancing in the
wind. Its population is composed of twelve
thousand adult half-leperized Kanakas, fifteen
thousand adult Chinese, who have invaded its
valleys, purchased its lands, and debauched and
stolen its native women, and less than five thou
sand adult foreigners of all nationalities, who
monopolise the larger part of the property, the
larger part of the business, and all the enter
prise of the country. Yet the legislation of the
nation is under the control of the native popula-
ton. In the Legislative Assembly are only two
white men. In the House of Mobiles less than
half are of pure white blood. Offices are held,
taxes levied, and money expended by this ma
tive Government. The revenues of this King
dom are ample, its business men are pros
porous, and real estate demands good prices.
The Reciprocity Treaty gives to the sugar
planters an annual bonus of some millions, and
there is q great temporary prosperity to the ma
jority of persons doing business at the Sand
witch Islands. AS it is more than doubtful
whether the Government of the United States
will continue this treaty unless it obtains some
guarantee of their political control, it is well that
the men who own the property and do the bust
ness of the Islands should look forward to a
changed condition of affairs in event of certain
contingencies To permit the natives of the
Hawaiian Islands to have the sole political con-
troll of them, under the rule of a vain, unintel-
~lectual, and capricious king, who delights in
palaces, crowns, armies, navies, and other royal
toys, is sure to ultimate in financial bankruptcy.
To permit an unrestricted immigration of Chi
nese is sure to result in making these Islands a
Chinese colony. Whether the population is in
creased by intermarriage with native women, or
by the importation of Chinese wives, or, as at
present, by the invasion of Chinese males, only
one result can follow, and that is the complete
Asiaticizing of the entire group of islands.
If there be any business men, planters, or good
housewives who think the Chinese are to be
treated as n temporary convenience, to be re-
moved at will, let them consider the history of
Chinese invasions of other lands, whose Go
vernments are far stronger than that of Hawaii.
and whose people could present against them a
much stouter resistance. The Chinese adults
to-day nearly equal in number the adults of the
native-born and Europeans combined. In a
conflict, the Chinese combined would drive
Europeans aud Kanakas into the sea, for it
would be China against Europe, with the ma
tives standing by to cry . Pull friar, pull devil"
'Go it, husband, go 1t, bear, y indifferent as to
which race should obtain mastery of their hills
and valleys. In the meantime, as we learn
from many sources, the Americans, the English,
the GermanS and the Portuguese are divided into
cliques, rings, and small Earring factions, each
nationality DESTROYS that its government should,
when the final wreck of this empire comes about,
obtain some advantage over the other nations.
To us at this distance, who look upon the whole
thing as a sort of child's play at national house
keeping, this seems very absurd. The future of
these Islands belongs to the intelligent AmerI-
cans and Europeans. cen the Americans
and Europeans, those who have gone there, iden-
titled their interests with the islands, made their
homes, and taken their future with them, there
should be a community OF feeling. Between the
Englishman and the American there shonld be
a sentiment of common brotherhood. Whatever
the English-Hawaiian may think of the Amerl-
can-Hawaiian citizen, the fact is that they are
both of the same family, the same religion, the
same language, the same traditions, and the same
everything that Will in time make their children,
as native Hawaiians, one in sympathy and one
in interest. Out of these Europeans there should
in time come to the Hawaiian Islands a Hawaii
an nationality as distinctive as the Americans
to America. From all parts of Europe, and all
its people, we in America have produced a new
race. 1t is not Saxon, Celt. or Teuton; it IS
American. Because the Americans originally
occupied the andwich Islands, and through
their missionaries took possession Of them; and
because of their physical geography. their near
ness to our coast, and the Indispensable necessi-
ty that our government should have political
control over them, all European residents of the
islands should favor the friendly political pro-
tectorate of the United States. Our Government
asks no favors of the islands; it only asks that it
may do them favors; that it may encourage there
the establishment of a civilized Government Of
Christian, white, and progressive people. If
these islands stood in the sane relation, COM
mercially, politically, and locally to England,
France, Germany, or indeed ID any of the strong
governments of Europe, We would be in favor OF
either of those Governments extending TO them a
political protectorate. That is all that our gov
eminent desires. But it will not submit to Eng
Itch Eran.h n Garv,on aDptro1 II will NOT