The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-01-21

cave taken. | may be permitted 10 speak now.
and - advise YOU uawUIianS ON tie subject Of
loyalty To the Sovereign. desire {" say 10 YOU.
that MT only u il Ia acclriaUce With the sane
tiyL> Ut law. your buunden duty - sustain loyalty
the choice nt your representatives but that II Is
more especIuliy your highest interest TO cultivate
ana cherish = sentiment % love towards the
recognized Head Of your Nation and T. unite As
one man TO guard has perruu aud uphold hls
authority 10y 20 doing YOU will establish a name
for good sense and patriotism which will be a
guarantee Tor tie taghest prosperity because
when YOU respect yOH own laws. and YOUR law
fully chosen Sovereign, you win the res ect Of
powerful nations able 10 assist you, and tire con-
fdence OF men Of capital who will come here to
invest their fortune Athens. The most dlst.n-
guished state Oi ancient times, aud not COM
prIsing within her limit more IeJple than even
poor Hawaii. l. said BY the great thinker Schle-
gel. t. owe ner pre-aninence - the intelligent
and uuauImous Loyalty ut her people IN support
/ Of her lawfully chosen leaders. Aud 80 Hawaii,
united by love and loyalty Will be like an unas-
-aiiable column vi iron. being sustained by the
generous sentiment x the civilized world, but If
divided by lnctiOu- dlslOyalty, she will be but u
rope OF sand, ready Z, any moment To be broken
and destroyed.
You are advised by some people to disregard a
treaty vi reciprocity. negotiated with the Gov
eminent OF the United States OF America. THIS
treaty l. virtually u law OF our land, and only
held ia Arrogance. or withheld from PRONUNCIATION
on account Of having to await q conclusive action
on the part of one Of the contracting powers.
Therefore the advice 10 disregard what your
Legislature has enacted is most foolish and mis-
chievuus.
You Hawaiians will all remember, when 1t
was proposed during the reign Of King Lunalilo
TO cede Pearl Harbor, a. All inducement for the
United States to grant us IL treaty of reciprocity,
that then opposed the contemplated cession, as
not only unpatriotic, but unstatesmaulike |
then cOniended. as | now contend, that America
ought not 10 be offered a bonus 10 induce her TO
Join with us in reciprocal Commercial relations,
Us she regards our little state as ii political iOster
child, and claims this archipelago as situated
within the scope of her continental policy. That
Pearl tlurbor scheme was justly defeated and
abandoned, and u new treaty for reciprocity was
brought forward and ratified by your Legislature.
This treaty proposes an exchange of products
wi IA Il mutual remission If duties without any
concession Of territory, and is without the serious
objections that were urged against the former de-
featc1 treaty.
And were it not for this recognized political
existence of Hawaii, brought about by wise for
eigners. advising your kings, you would be sub
ject to the dictatiOn of any man-of-wa that en-
tered the port of Honolulu. even like Samoa was
recently when her chiefs and people were sum
moned before II Tribunal 10 consider a claim for
damages, which was set up in her port by the
ship of war Portsmouth,, and so be like that
country without the protection of your own
courts of law. This kingdom is indeed helpless
by itself. We could not defend our capital Of
Honolulu. and our small commerce against the
attack OF any small piratical SHIP which should
come against US with only Il squad of men and
hall "a dozen guns. We would be obliged to APP
peal to the first man-of war that came along for
protection.
And now | will consider with you the causes
and tie remedies for your decline. The usual
talk OF the demagogue is that the presence of
the white foreigner is connected with the decay
of the red skinned native. But this statement is
not true and is disproven in many countries
where the red and the white live prosperously
together. 1t Is not true in Java and the Moluc-
cas- from whence your forefathers came. There
the red skins haveaincreased from one million to
many millions since the whites went to live
among them. because the naive people have be-
come as orderly and industrious as the white for
eigners. But 1t Is apparently true, IN part of
America, where the red skin has been a terocious
savage in times past and has continued so to this
day, not caring Tor any industry or law or order.
and only bent upon war and destruction such
IL savage people must cause their OWN destruction,
like the lions of Africa Or the tigers of Asia, if
they will not listen To the 70 CO Of law ard order
which governs the whole world. But you have
listened To wise teachers and legislators. and
therefore you might expect TO prosper and in
crease as the red people do IN Java. the Moluccas,
the PHILIPPINES and in British lndia;-and il you
do not prosper there must be some cause Of de-
cay in your blood ur in youNstuatiOn.
E Perhaps both these Influences affect you. You
: need new blood. You should mingle with other
races kindred to you, and become Il r%einvigor-
ated people. You have been SO long, so many
ages isolated in the great ocean, and have so long
) inter-bred and associated in your narrow isles un-
der the destructive influences of Il polluting
heathenism, that your blood has become corrup,
and weakened, and predisooSed to receive and
succumb to every new disease that comes to de-
solate YOUR beautiful islands. The red people of
Java do not suffer from foreign diseases any more,
? nav, not so much ne the foreigners, because the
rnI rocp1a al u "A "a 20 ~ hpalfby and rs viunr-
Gus IL constitution AZ the foreigners. And their
; vigor and increase is owing to their being Il mixed
people of kindred races, consisting of the uncIeut
= Jaw or Javanese stock Of the Sundese, of MALAY s.
and of HiHdoos;-the latter having founded a
great colony in Java, and constitute the bulk OF
: the population Of the island. which now mum
bcrs over Is 900 900 of red skins like you, and
vet all are now allied Javuuese. And were these
islands to gradually receive 81, 900 llindOos and
: other red races, kindred To the Hawaiian, the
offspring of these new people and of yon native
people would all be HawuIiuns and SO your
} name and race would continue to possess this
, Archipelago, even should you INCREASE to
| 900. 900 Of souls.
Therefore why should you. o Hawaiians &C.
cupy and disturb your minds over questions
about Il loan or IL treaty, or even a succession to
the throne, which you cannot affect or change.
Let your minds dwell upon your sad condition as
a decayIng remnant of Il once numerous people.
Listen not To the lying talk of those who tell you
= that IL IL the presence of the foreigner Wllch
t causes your decline Look 10 your sad dispro
portion Of sex. The last census in 1879 showed
that there are nearly seven thousand more males
than females. Seven thousand men in "a little
community like tins who cannot get wives Look
at Hllo-in "A population 1920, there are about
T one thousand men who must be without natural
p and lawful partners. And notice Koolaupoko on
: this island, where there are 1924 men and
= S04 women How in such Il state of society can
> the men find belpmeats to increase and multiply
| rs God commanded? They do not find them.
= This is Il woCiul condition of your race,-a con-
dition which will not permit any hope OF I'M
? provement in fecundity or morality but it af-
lords this hope. that it is a state of things which
l il properly represented to Christian nations like
Great Britain, having the control of populations
, of u stock suited for your national physical re-
l cuperation, would strongly and efectuaIly appeal
to their enlightened aud philauthropic spirit to
induce them to grant to Hawaii every opportunity
Lnr incrca.e Of manila which The dem3rLlizei and