Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27
FACTS ABOUT HAWAII.
A Citizen of Two Countries Tells About tn
Paradise of the Pacific.


Paradise of the Pacific.
From the Chicago Tribune
DR.. A. B. Carter of Honolulu is at the Leland
making visit to the United States.
81 am in the anomalous position of being
citizen Of two countries" he said "Those
who reside in the Hawaiian kingdom and take
the oath to support the constitution and the
throne are allowed to vote The American
minister assured US that We did no. thereby
lose our citizenship in the United States No,
don't think there will be any more political
trouble. The king was under the influence Of
Gibson, the former premier, who was an ex-
tremely peculiar man. He was Mormon, who
came over to make negotiations for the pur-
chase Of a small island for Mormon colony
a Mormon any longer. But don't think he
used his power to amass a fortune. When he
died. after being turned out of Office by the
revolution. he left only about Sl00, 000 He
loved power for powers sake.
There are now two parties in Hawaii-the
native party and the missionary party. The
missionary party is keen for annexation to the
United States and the other party doesn't want
that and doesn't believe there is anything to be
gained by it. After that they want republic.
l belong to the native party. 1don't think that
republic would be so satisfactory in Hawaii as
a constitutional monarchy. Not but the ma
tives are intelligent and capable enough, for
they are. They all dress decently and are ed
ucated. The upper classes speak English as
well as their native tongue and are quite re-
fined. But republic tends to government
by the wealthy. There is no need to go far to
lind an illustration of that. The natives see
that the government would fall into the hands
OF the rich Americans, who would run it for
their own benefit, and there is no need to go
far FOR an illustration of that The native party
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house. They have one chamber there. but two
classes of legislators-the mobiles, elected for
hve years, and the representatives, for two
years.
'When left home we hadn't heard whether
or not the Mckinley bill had been passed. They
were then quite anxious about it, for Hawaiian
sugar had been coming III free OF duty, while
other sugars had been paving cents "a pound.
This was i'll effect paying our people a bounty
OF cents pound from your revenues. Some
OF our people declare that their plantations
cannot stand the cut Everything is sugar out
III the Hawaiian Islands. The yield is exceed
lngly large. Some parts of Claus Spreckles
plantation yield as much eight tons to the
acre. 1t was formerly utterly barren. 1t lay
between two mountains. He introduced irri-
eating bitches and it sprang into enormous fer
tihty. The scientific engineering required in
dltching for sugar plantations is tremendously
expensive. They have lately taken to growing
bananas for the San Francisco market. We are
six Or seven days from there. Some little cof-
fee planting has been tried there. but not
in thorough way at all. wonder that
more has not been done with it, for
the coffee grown is superb, the best
ever tasted. One other thing think they
ought to try. and that is tobacco. l believe
that the equal to Havana tobacco can be grown
there. The natives grow some. but it is strong
and coarse. That's the way they like it,
How about the clinate!'
at is the same year i'll and year out. am
always puzzled to recollect dates. for one sea-
son is inst like another. When first went
there thought had got to heaven. Oh. no
more winter, no more frosts. But tell YOU ii
gets TO be mighty tiresome to know that next
month and the next and the next are all going
to be just exactly like this. Still Hawaii is my
home and the Hawaiians are good people.
married Hawaiian and there is home for me. v