The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-10-26

westward has taken possession of America,
and is monarch of all he surveys" from
Cape Horn to Behring's Strait. He has
stepped across the Pacific Ocean, leaving
the imprint of his enterprising foot upon
the various islands of the sea; he has
taken possession of Australia and India,
with their countless thousands: he has
gone to Africa, and this time to stay, you
bet-thls time, it will not be a Mongo
Park, Livingstone, Baker, or Stan
ley, as a travelor or explorer The com
ing OF the white man to Africa means
government, enterprise, agriculture, com
merce, churches, schools, law and order
1t will be better for the colored man to
have the white man rule 1t is better for
the colored man of India and Australia
that the white man rules, and it is better
here that the white man should rule, not
that he should hold the offices and be
King, but he must do large share to-
wards making the laws and then seeing
that they are obeyed by the King and
people.
Moral benefits.-Years ago, when the
first missionaries landed upon these isl
ands, they found the people truly "child-
ren of nature innocent, hospitable, un-
schooled and untaught, living in the rudest
way, laboring but little even to secure
comforts, with no commerce and little
agriculture, and with crude ideas about
property. But the native was taught how
to increase his comfort by labor, which he
has done to some extent, but he does not
like it. He has learned that civilized
governments require officers. The offices
he ikes-most men do when the salaries
are large he has learned that it is an
easy way to get living. He has also
learned that to support civilized govern
ment and pay its officers requires money,
which is taken from the people by law in
the way OF tax. These things he has
learned, but he has not learned yet of the
sacredness OF money taken from the peo-
pie by process of law, and the personal
and moral obligation of every officer to
restore to the people full value of every
dollar taken from them by process of law,
and that the people will hold him strictly
accountable for it. This he has not vet
learned, and he must be taught it by the
white man, and you, gentlemen, must
teach him. All the native seems to com
prehend now is, first to get into office, and
If his salary is not large enough to sup
port his fancied dignity, he must raise it;
and II the money is not in the Treasury to
pay his checks, he is to take it from those
that have it by process of law, as he has
been taught. So, almost without discus
sion, without consultation with the parties
most affected, IN hasty and undignifed
manner, and by, as it were, wave of the
hand, 335 per cent. is added to the tax
roll of the Kingdom This, [ saw. the
native has been taught by the white man,
but he does not yet realize that to all this
power there are necessarily some bounds
and limits fixed, as we'll as the moral and
personal obligations attending it. And
further, he does not realize the danger
there is in taxing people without their
consent An unwarranted use of this |
power has upset the authority of powerful
nations and caused the shedding of much |
blood. The white man has organized for
The native Government, placed the bal
otln his hands, and set him up as law
maker and ruler; but the placing of
lhese powers in his hands before he knows
low to use them is like placing sharp
Knives, pointed instruments and danger
)us tools in the hands of infants. They
10 not yet realize the effects of their own
lets even upon themselves: hence they
want teaching. You must teach them: do
lot take these powers from them but
each them how to use them, so as not to
njure themselves and u.s. 1t is now pain
ully evident that our last Legislature and
he preceding one were handling edged
ools, and in manner dangerous to this
Kingdom, injurious to the people and to
he health of the natives. | need only
efer you to the two laws upon opium and
um to make most of this apparent, while
he Governments ~Genealogy Board.
rmies and other follies clinch the argu
lent.
The danger to the natives lurking in
he ''Indulgences" laws above referred to.
eing in their nature death dealing, will
estroy many natives to one Chinaman,
nd hundreds of natives to one white
ian, so that the natives will waste away
Mess they are saved by the white man
you, gentlemen, and the white people
utslde of these walls. You must, under
rod. save their bodies as the missionaries 7
lied to save their souls. Where there is
will there is way, and the white man,
elonging as he does to the dominant
ace of the earth at the present time, and |
assessing as he also does goodly share s
intelligence, always finds way to carry S
ut his projects, whether they be laying I
lbles, running railroads, exploring the I
eavens, or governing among the nations. {
-ence, [ take it, you have right under 4
our charter and bylaws to save this Gov
'nment and people and to protect their I
lterests whether and by whatever means
0u think best, and whether these inter
its be financial, political, moral or legal 5
nd it is the duty of this organization to
rotect their own interests, whether they
, assailed by taxation, or by immoral or