Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-09

element in the community.
Altogether the heather Chinee in the char
acter OF The Old Man Of the Sea" seems to
have gained a danger y
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ously tenacious lodg-
| ment on the Hawaiian GXxEEA
shoulders. E\NxSX
The Japanese influx, i'll: \CGN
| though pretty large, is I'm
not looked upon with AygNA
the same apprehension wow
| as that of the Chinese, ~ ~
The mass of the Japan HS
csc are reckoned as II AW&A
temporary population III p T
only, as large percent - FN\)
age are employed I'M n W NY
der labor contracts and lF-El -%S\
return to Japan after ~ WI "
their contracts have ex- M F -
pired.
The japanese that <ske<S~
make their homes in the islands are inoffen
slve, unob1ectlonabe members of the CON-
munlty, quiet, orderly and free from the bru.
taiities and corrupting habits of the Chinese.
THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS
IN the islands, as shown by the last census
QSS4), are: Protestants, 29,6S5; Roman Catho-
lie, 2O072. and unreported 3O,S21. or the lat
ter II, 639 are Chinese. There are about s, 600
Mormons in the islands, but they do not prac-
tice polygamy.
ARMY ON THE AMERICAN PATTERN.
The Hawaiians have followed the American
ideas in a good many things, and notably in
the small size Of its military force. The stand
ing army of the kingdom numbers eighty five
men, which it is proposed to raise to 100 in view
of possible political disturbances The mill
tary strength of the kingdom is, however in
creased by five companies of volunteers, made
up largely of young business men of Honolulu.
The native police are tine-looking well-be-
haved set of men, but are said to maintain
rather too strict impartiality between the con-
testants when an Instruction or a riot is 60
ing on.
AN ADMIRABLE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM
forms one of the features of the national or
ganizati on, an organization creditable to the
missionaries who planned it and the natives who
adopted it. Mr.. Charles Nordhof in his excel
lent book on the Sandwich Islands declares
the natives to be the most generally educated
people in the world.
READING PEOPLE.
Hawaii is not only the best educated country
in the world, but it has the most reading peo-
pie, and supports more newspapers to its popu-
lation than any other. In Honolulu. city Of
1000 people, there are four daily papers, two
English and two native; eight weekly papers
Zone English, four native, two Portuguese and
one Chinese) and four monthly publications.
The natives are great readers and the white
or foreign" element is made up Of an I'M
usually intelligent and cultivated class The
Honolulu press has number Of capable news
paper men, including Hon. Mr. Whitney, the
veteran editor, publisher and historian (and
who Is now preparing much needed guide
book to the islands, and Messrs. Taylor Mac.
farlane, Bush and others Of the corps of bright
alert young men, who make politics lively in
the islands by their sharp sparring.
THE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE
The Hawaiian alphabet proper contains but
| twelve letters, five vowels and seven conso-
nants, namely: A, E. I, o, U, H, K, L, NJ, N
P,W. The vowels have the continental pro-
nunciation, A being pronounced as in father;
E as in "they;" as in "marine;'' o as in
''mole," and U as in mute" AU has the
sound Of OW in English. The consonants have
the English accent
Every word and every syllablei Of the Ian
guage ends in q vowel, and no two consonanti
occur without vowel sound between them
the language that softness and liquid melody
that makes it even more the language of music
than the Italian, that makes the native talk aAG
song such liquid sweetness.
UNCLE SAM AND HAWAII.
curious feature of the late political campaign
in the islands was the charge made by the Wilco,
party that the then cabinet was-in connivance
with the United States government-plsnnine
| to break down the independence of the islands
in behalf of an annexation scheme, and thai
the plan of the new commercial treaty which
that cabinet was seeking to negotiate with the
United States was intended to give undue in
fuence to the states over the islands
This charge is grotesquely absurd in view oil
the fact that the United States, with charac
teristic neglect Of opportunities to extend ouI
national influence aud commercial interests
has not even availed itself of the privilege
gained under the reciprocity treaty OF estab-
fishing naval and coaling station in thelsupert
deep water harbor at Pearl river, few miles
from Honolulu, and which by some dredging
could be made one Of the finest land-locked
harbors in the world.
England would give millions for such priv.
lege, and when the reciprocity treaty was under
negotiation, her diplomacy was exerted to the
utmost to prevent the concession. The cry
was raised then that the project was the Trojan
horse that was to introduce American domina-
ton in the islands. But to this day the United
States has not turned a finger over to avail
itself Of this great concession.
1t was Of a piece with the neglect we showed
at Samoa to avail ourselves Of the privilege of
a coaling station, and that we only thought OF
when about to lose all hold on Samoa through
the aggressive action Of Germany. The rec
iprocity treaty with Hawaii will expire before
long and this concession will then lapse. II
now the United States stultifies itself by grant
ing the whole world the admission of free
sugar without our gaining any reciprocal ad
vantages, Hawaii will have no cause for concsd-
ing US the important foothold of this naval and
coaling station, or for continuing the reci-
procity tariff advantages from which we have
reaped such enormous benefits. The islands
now buy S., 43S. 900 Of the products Of our me-
| chanics farmers, manufacturers, &c, growing
from 81, sos, 600 before the treaty, an increase
| of nearly 400 per cent in the short time the
treaty has been in operation. The United
States now sells the islands 70 per cent Of their
whole imports, and does over 80 per cent
of their entire carrying trade.
These are flush times in the islands The
reciprocity treaty has set all the wheels OF
business in motion and put . great deal OF
| money in circulation. But 1t has worked
| equally well for the United States. The
| Hawaiians are not money hoarders. and the
money they have acquired by the business
prosperity brought about by the reciprocity
treaty has been expended in the United States
in the purchase of the necessities, conve-
niences and Injuries Of life.
WHAT RECIPROCITY HAS DONE.
At the same time it has developed our ocean
carrying trade, which had almost become 9
lost industry, to the large extent shown above.
The big freight list of one Of our vessels plying
4 - II NI,,l A.