The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-09
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to seize this opportunity is to secure a
fortune. What folly, then, to delay
when simply for the taking we may pos
sess these priceless gems Of the Pacific
seas, these matchless emerads in a
coral setting These Jewels which tie
old world monarChs are Covetng are
worth more than all the patronage our
President has to dispense. Why spend
ones time in hunting ducks and lad,ing
out political pap, when it is time west
ward to let the old eagle fly? O for
one hour of a vigorous foreign policy
90 for the touch OF a vanished hand
in our weak diplomacy.
II. In the dark days of our nations
peril the American community on the
Hawaiian Islands lavished of its treas
ures hundreds of thousands OF dollars,
and gave the best and bravest of its
young men that our flag might not be
trailed in the dust. Colby to repel
them when they seek an alliance with
their fatherland and lay the richest
treasures at their feet is but poorly to
repay them for their patriotism.
AT the strategic point where we
pass from the limits of Occidental civil
izaton to the borders of the semi-bar-
barous Orient" continued the speaker,
"there is a clashing Of forces in which
American and Asiatic ideas are con
tending for the mastery. Can Christian
America be Indifferent to the issue ?
The restorali N of a rotten royalty and
ggotinfested monarchy that fairly
smells to heaven, if not in the other
direction, with its political putresCence
is a calamity to be resisted by every
liberty-loving Hawaiian, though it
should involve the expenditure of the
last dollar Of his money and the last
drop Of his blood. There come occa-
sions when forcibIe resistance to tyrants
is the first of Christian duties, and this
is one of them.
The Lptey-OcedH makes editorial
comment on the above as follows
THE PRESIDENT AND THE PREACHERS.
Among the more manifest reasons
for the annexation Of the Hawaiian
Islands to the United States" yesterday
assigned by the Rev Dr. Corwin before
the meeting of the Congregatonalist
ministers Of Chicago, and approved by
them, are those of kindred, of morals,
and of justice.
1t has been mainly by American
missionaries, and by the American
traders and planters that the condition
of the natives of Hawaii has been raised
from that of serfs to that of freemen
The monarchy of Hawaii prior to 1926
was absolute, despotic, savage and ty
rannous. Neither life nor property was
safe from the anger or the greed of the
native kings, Between 1920 and 1856
the natives had been reclaimed from
barbarism, imbued with ideas of free
dom, taught the meanings of wages
and of contracts, and induced into the
philosophy and practice Of civilized
trade and civilized agriculture, and this
almost wholly by American influence.
Most of the Germans, British, anC
other foreigners who have become resi-
dents of the islands since 1850 have
acted in concert with the Americans
and with the more enlightened natives
toward further limitations of the power
Of the native monarChs and further eX
tensions of the commercial, politiCa
and religious liberties of the people
Butthere has been and still is a coteris
of foreign residents, mainly Of British
origin, who are hostile to all polltiCa
and moral progress, and specially hos
tile to progress in the direction of re
publcansm. These have sought tc
strengthen the powers of the native
monarchs, to encourage the native
population in its old-time habits Of vice
and 10 obstruCt alike the evangelical
work OF the churches and the political
work of the party of progress. These
British residents sought to enlist the
Hawaiian monarchy in aid of the Con.
federacy during the time of our civil
@ar They now are rejoicing in the
aid that President Creveland's my REP.
Yesentatipe' is giving to the party OF
reaction and of hatred to Anerlcanism.
So much for the morality of the stu
alton. Kinship also pleads. Most OF
the men who conduct the business OIL
Hawaii and make it a place fit fol-
civilized people to dwell in are o.
American descent They have con
verted lands that but a few decades age
were as valueless as those of Ashantee
and Dahomey into Aourishing planta
tons, or into populous villages or cities
While enriching themselves they have
enriched the natives. They have beer
benefactors of the race.
Return to the rule of the native
monarchs means depreciation of the
property of our kinsmen in Hawaii,
abridgement of their liberties; perhaps
loss of all that they now possess. The
monarchs of Hawaii have been swayed
by all the vices of monarchy.
Always vicious, they never have been
intelligent They have been as stupid
as the Bourbons and as treacherous as
the Stuarts. 1t is somewhat strange
80 find President of the Republic OF
the United States of America using his
personal influence in behalf of the per-
petuation OF such a dynasty.