The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-08-19

as true HawaiIans as be, perhaps |
better Hawaiians. They are sons
of the soil. Many of them are more
at home in the native tongue than
in that which their fathers brought
with them across the sea- The
younger among them have no other
country-owe obedience to no other
laws, have no political rights out
side of Hawaii, can look for protec-
ton to no other government but
hers when in foreign lands. This
is their home, their birthplace, the
country of their nativity. They
have all the instructive sentiments
of patriotism, as the Hawaiians
| themselves have. 1t is absurd, it
is unjust, to speak OF them as
strangers"
A few years ago the natives
generally felt and recognized this.
The better among them still do.
They look on the children of the
old residents as kamaainas and as
true friends of our Hawaii here.
The Hawaiians are people en-
dowed with a thousand excellent
qualities. They are generous, frank,
hospitable, simple hearted, believ
ing-full of laughter-slow to take
offence, quick to forgive. No one
can grow up among them0without
feeling a hearty aloha for them,
without feeling of fellowship and
of brotherhood with them. 1t is
tragic that they are passing away.
They are in many things so fit to
live, and yet Death seems to have
set his seal upon the race and
marked it for his own.
1t is true, as the Hon. Mr.. Kalua
has said, that the Hawaiians still
have something to say in this
country, and we rejoice that it is
so. It is true also that a cloud has
come upon the friendship which
once existed between the natives
and the decent foreigners" and we
deplore this as heartily as Mr.
Kalua can. But Mr.. Kalua is moi
taking the right way to restore
this friendship, to retain this power
and to preserve it from the gulf O.
extinction towards which it is hur
rying. The course which he ii
taking can only be disastrous fol
his people. The white man is here
with civilization behind him, ant
civilization is almighty. Th
world does not go backward, blu
eternally and lrresistibly forward
: and it brushes the people who stan'
in the way. The march of event
is to Democracy-to government
by the people, in Europe, i
Ameriea-and here. We have
!. free government here now-an
we are not going back. The pre-
,, gress of society, the logic of events
are stronger than Mr.. Kalua.
he will fall in with them he wi
prosper. but if he resists them h
will perish. 1t IS of no use t
:, strive after reactionary Const
tuition and to seek to resto1
arbitrary power to the Kins
' Such an endeavor may succee
for the moment, but its success
will be short, and it will surel
y bring about the fall of the II;
waiian Power forever. There
" but one way to save the Havana
y monarchy and to rescue the III;
waiian race, and that is, not to see
a return to the past, but to pre-:
. eagerly forward into the futur
The past is dead. Ally yourse
with the best foreign clement
- not fight it. Join hands with civil
- zation. Educate the Hawaiian
, civilize them, make them free, pr
y pare them to exercise the duties
citizenship. Do that and the pro,
- erty qualification will drop avs
- of itself. Do that and you WI
} have Hawaiians in the Cabinet
, who are worthy to be there. [
'o that and Hawaii for the H
~ waIians will become a fact al
- not a dream.
. This is the path that the Ho
Mr.. Kalua should follow if he is
10 disinterested lover of his race. T
.. is one of the most capable of FL
u walians and we cannot avoid e
9 pressing the ardent wish that
- might yet devote himself serious
az to the task of saving them, inste:
of, as now helping to push the
u down hill.