Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-04-15

Picture to yourselves, and conceive
the opinion this Mikado must have
formed of our King under these cir.
cumstances; King whose subjects
barely number $4,000, including his
disbanded veterans and their officers,
the old. lame, blind, and disabled,
who are existing merely by and from
funds left for that purpose by the gen.
erous Lunallo, one of our late famous
and beloved chieftains, whose memory
above all is respected and adored.
This Mikado must have a strange
opinion Of our rulers and people, who
at great expense have sent ships to
Japan to convey here a class of half
naked, ignorant paupers, presumably
with, amongst other ideas, that of re.
cuperating the Hawaiian race and
establishing higher standard of mo.
rality amongst the nations, in order to
retard and check the continuing state
of retrogression. The result is al
ready known; $40 "Japs" have ar,
rived, Others are on their way, and
several thousands more are expected
by our Government now busy repudi-
ating the currency by them but re-
Gently created. This class of immi-
grants, as viewed whilst in the gov
ernment "pen," showed no respect of
or for their persons under the rules of
common decency. The Government
organ states that we may expect 1900
more next May, with a proportionate
number Of women, whose practical
RIGHTEOUSNESS is too forcible to dilate
on. These will, with those now here
according to the lights of our immi-
grafton SYSTEM, hereafter add wealth,
comfort and strength 10 the Hawaiian
Cove rnment, and retrieve the lost
prestige of the present reigning
dynasty, fulfilling the well-known re.
marks "Hooulu lahue," used by Kala.
kaua at the commencement of his
reign, intending to increase and add
to the number Of his people without
taking into consideration the welfare
of his native subjects). When it is
taken into consideration that nearly
$4,000 of this class of immigrants have
been added to the population of this
kingdom by our present King, in order
that he may secure the goodwill OF
the sugar planter and replenish his
private treasury, is it but natural that
travellers and foreign tourists visiting
these shores should come to the con-
clusion that the keynote of Hawaiian
policy sounded at the commencement
of his reign has been the cause of
superseding his subjects of kin and
blood by race of human beings
whose posterity in future, for aught
we know, may be sought after by an
thropologists for inspection, and per-
haps exhibition, in civilized countries,
in order to sustain the Darwinian
theory that primeval man was of the
very lowest order of mammals ? II
anthropologists, after experimenting
on few specimens taken from the
lower order of these Hawaiian pro.
cured coolies, should come to the con.
clusion that they were closely ALI, d to
or descendants from the lower animal
creation, then King Kalakaua ma,
honorably claim his right Of being the
propagation, and in all probability he
would thus, in the future, excel in
fame the learned and erudite Darwin
If such should prove to be correct
the Kings poor bones in due time
would be immortalized, and his tomb
consecratcd and viewed with awe and
reverence by the most learned and
scientific sagcs Of the age, throwing al
Others - American, European anc
Asiatic-into the shade
Yours, etc.,
Il. y. SlUIREs,
American House, Maunakea street