Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-17
THE STRANGE SITUATION OF AFFAIRS
IN HAwAII-PoLITICs.
Hawaii for the Hawaiians-A New PARTY
It Threatens Return to
Semi barbarIsm.
Correspondence OF the REcoaD-Usros.l

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valor. He married the Kings sister in
days when the youthful David was yet an
artist tonsorial. Little Legislation has been
accomplished as yet. An amendment to
the Constitution has been adopted doubling
the compensation of representatives, but
another to prevent the election of
IDIOTS OR FOOLS,
And increasing their property qualifca-
tions from $500 to $1,000, was indefinitely
postponed. Petitions for $1,000, 900 and
$4,000. 900 loans to the Government have
been entered. The Assembly is composed
of four Cabinet Ministers, twenty mobiles
and thirty representatives. One of the
Ministers, II. A. P. Carter, is in Portugal
on diplomatic mission pertaining to i'm
migration thence. Three of the repre-
seutatives, eleven mobiles and all the Cabi-
net are foreigners. From the first day a
strong antagonism against the Cabinet dis.
closed itself. An entire change was made
in Assembly officers, and every opportunity
was taken to strike at the Ministers, es-
pecially Mr.. Armstrong, Attorney. General
and Minister of Interior, against whom
and Mr.. Carter, who held both offices dur
ing Mr.. Armstrong; tour of the world
with Kalakaua, the feeling is bitter. The
political situation is complicated one,
there being no well-defned party lines,
owing to the cosmopolitan and unassimi.
lating nature of our population. One of our
wealthiest and most influential citizens is q
Chinaman, but we are as free from Hiber.
nian statesmen as we are from snakes A
division which readily suggests itself from
the frequency with which the term mis-
sionaryis applied to Congregational Church.
goers and their friends, is that of mission.
ary and anti-missionary, but of late years
the missionaries have lost ground, till now
they form little more than clique, while
the nti.missionaries are body disin-
tegrated by factions, entertaining race and
national antipathies only equaled by their
repugnance to missionaries.
THE MISSIONARY PARTY
Was natural outgrowth of the evangelical
labors of that class who over fifty years ago
came here from New England. In those
days the spiritual and temporal govern
ment of the people was substantially the
same thing. Subsequently people of other
nationalities, with different and sordid mo-
tives, arrived, and of course proved thorn
in the side of the missionaries by leading
their proteges into by and forbidden paths,
and even menacing their national indepen-
dence, at which critical periods the mis-.
sionaries came to their rescue, and take no
small credit to themselves for their sue.
cessful efforts in preserving Hawaiian au-
tonomy But nowadays the scepter is
slipping from their hands. While the King
was an autocrat, and they the keepers Of
his conscience, but little was to be feared
from any political or politico-religiors fac.
tion. On the whole their rule was wise
and vastly beneficial, though perhaps a
trifie narrow and in some instances short.
sighted. During those semi-feudal days
native thinks it should be 80 still. He
does not understand constitutional form
of government, and as he finds his King
shorn of all authority he despises him, es.
pecially when on praying that his leper
brother, sister or child may not be sent to
the leper settlement on Mohokai, and the
King confesses his inability to help him,
though maybe very willing to do so. The
missionaries who were chiefly instrumental
in bringing Kalakaua to the throne, in op.
position to popular will, now thoroughly
despise him, because of his vices and i'm
morality, and the natives at large regard
him as a usurper, while entertaining ro-
mantle loyalty to the pretender, Queen
Dowager Emma, half caste of some char
acter and ability, traits deplorably lacking
in Kalakaua The missionaries show an
inclination to amalgamate with other
Americans, and tendency to thus form
AN AMERICAN PARTY
Is growing, watched, however, with jeal.
GUS eye by other foreign nationalities,
by the English, whose notions
of government being more congenial to
Germans and French, attract them. The
Anglican Church is the nucleus of this
body, with which also the Romish Church,
though uncomfortable, more readily assimi.
lates. Queen Emma is q member of the
Anglican Church, and almost a devotee in
zeal. She seldom appears in public.
Though the royal family were brought up
as Congregationalists they attend the
same church, where unquestionably their
sympathies lie. AS Americans equal in
number the united forces of England, Ger
own but for the loss of native supporters,
as already intimated. Several reasons may
be advanced for this loss, chief of which
has been the greater diplomacy of Great
Britain. Former Hawaiian Kings were in.
vited there, and profound impression
made upon their adolescent intellects by
dazzling splendors of court and castle /;
great men-of- wars were ordered to call at
Honolulu, and belch their laundering salu-
tations amid clouds of flying bunting gen.
tlemen of good breeding and fine presence
were commissioned to permanently repre-
sent the British lion, and the result is all
that could be desired ed-England is idealized
by the native. How does the case stand
with the United States? Poor mission
aries came here and won the affections OF
the people, it is true, but they were fol-
lowed by Americans of different stamp,
while American Ministers and Consuls
sent to represent. the nation have been
only temporary visitors, and often very in.
different characters, impressing the people
with contempt for them and their coun-
try that will be difficult, perhaps impossi.
ble. to eradicate. A happier selection
than that of the present Minister, how
ever, could hardly be made. He has done
much to retrieve lost ground not only
among the natives but Europeans also.
The Consul is new man, and labors
under that disadvantage. Such men
should be the best, and sent to stay. AL
though an overwhelming force OF natives
has been shown to lean toward England as
against the United States, another and
comparatively new factor is to be consid.
cred. which materially modifes the stu.
alton, but only to complicate affairs,
though temporarily at least, looking to-
ward union of those nationalities, as well
as Germans and French.
IT IS FACTION
Composed OF younger natives and half
castes, whose leaders have smattering of
elementary English branches with enough
of law to get their friends and plantation
hands into trouble, and the native an.
tipathy to WORK. Their shibboleth ia
Hawaii for the Hawaiians." These were
the children over whom the missionaries
watched SO tenderly, teaching them all
they know and guiding their youthful foot
steps toward the gates of glory. Had men
of the world never entered here, Hawaii
would have been a paradise, and transla-
tion hence the simple gliding from one
blissful realm to another. But as the ma
tive had proved an apt scholar in religious
FORMS so he readily fell into ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain," the lat
ter proving more congenial. Forgetting
his debt Of gratitude to his teachers and
friends, he demands that they, including