The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-08-23
I'M NATIVE FOsITiON,


ione sompthlnI ia relieve the
'stralned relatienS" at present eXv
sting between the native and for
eign races suggests the itlea that be-
fore we can know what to do, we
must first he able to appreciate the
state of mind the natives are in.
Up to the 30th OF June, they had
exclusive political control of the
country, as the foreigners had eX-
elusive industrial control and. us
is pretty sure tn he the case when
persons have things too much their
own way, both have abused their
privileges-which one the most it is
hard to say. Those in control
among the natives got to treating
the Government as means of sup
plying an easy living to the leading
natives at the expense OF foreigners
and for that matter Of the common
natives as well while those in con-
troll among the whites, in haste to
get rich, ran in and turned loose,
without check or restraint, 10000
coolies on the country, thus expos
ing an untried race in a transition
state to fire moral and industrial
that even a civilized race could not
stand.
We reformed the native and his
political shortcomings on the 3Oth
of JuAe-lhe reformation Of eur
selves and our industrial short
comings is now in order, but it evil
IDENTITY is case where it is easier to
administer medicine TO our neighbour
than it is to take it ourselves. How.
ever this may be, it is certain that
the native is in bad way, impover-
ished, demoralized and still singing
himself to death by such proceed
ings as the 3Oth of July last. The
whole trend Of his ideas and cduca-
ton for generations past has been
towards office and official prefer
ment and against any industrial or
commercial pursuit, for though
the latter was freely and ur-
gently open 10 him it was
open in common and in com
petition with others, while the road
to political preferment was open
practically to his own race alone.
Thus premium has been put upon
pursuit of political preferment and
u discount upon all industrial occu-
pations with disastrous hut natural
results. The younger natives have
been brought up with the idea that
something better than labor was in
store for them-something that
would dispense with the necessity
of manual labor, and their parents
have constantly bred and encouraged
this idea in them. Often have we
seen an industrious native woman
shaving for an idle son, whom she
herself had taught to be SO under
the fond belief that he was 're-
served for better things" Thus it
has come TO pass that the elder
natives are more industrious than
their children, and we are too prone
to blame the children for this with
out stopping to consider that under
similar conditions the children would
have been as Industrious as their
parents.
With increasing reliance upon
political preferment and patronage
for support, the natives so far from
attempting to increase thei" share in
industrial pursuits have apparently
without regret relinqulshed to other
hands large part Of that which
they once exclusively enjoyed, such
as the fishing and taro industries,
though they brought them in more
healthy money than comes from all
the government offices put together,
and now that the natives begin to
see that the 30th of June has shat
tered this last stronghold of their race
and in looking around for what now
to do they find that the occupations
they gave up AID TO which they
must turn again have meanwhile
been filled up by q race the most
cunning, persistent and combining
the world ever saw, who can blame
them, if standing dazed between
their lost political power and their
lost industrial pursuits not knowing
what to do, they do they know not
what? We must not hope for much
from them at present We can
not SKATER hope, an idea which
however idle has been in the
natives mind for a generation
| past, and expect them to pull
themselves together all at once, but
with no hope of having much more
Government patronage than they
now enjoy and the prospect of hav-
ing less, with much of their land al.
ready sold and much more of il
heavily encountered, and the husl
times Of the first years of the treaty
gone for good, the native must soon
begin to reconstruct his ideas an(
turn in earnest TO labor for relief
lie will have no other choice al
| ready the turn of the tide has beCuI