The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-07-18
PROF. Z. CHARLIER'S VIEWS ON HA-
wAH AND CALIFORNIA

around this group. They contain
some well-expressed sentiments on
local affairs, and as the
views of a gentleman Of wide ex-
perience and liberal views,
will be read with interest," Ed
Tori
As l expected before leaving Homo
lulu, your political situation remains
as it was then. President Cleveland
is bound to wait for the re-assembling
of congress, and Mr.. Blount is in no
! hurry to come to a conclusion. All
| that was in the order of human events.
! Unless the United States government
| has lost common sense it is bound to
accept the Hawaiian islands under one
form or another; and in the meantime
| / do not see that you are any worse off
| than you were before: Your only
great industry is sugar, and every
thing connected with it goes on as
usual. 1 do not pity much the plant
ers if they make only 10 per cent. in
stead of % per cent. They will have
time TO consider the labor question
and adjust it to new circumstances.
OF course when profits were enormous
expenses were lavish. and fictitious
boom was created. Everybody felt
rich, and now everybody feels poor,
as the millionaire who loses half his
millions, and declares that he is
ruined. @
Even if the United States does not
accept the Hawaiian islands, the Pro-
visional government is perfectly able
to remain master of the situation. II
pushed to the wall, the eX-queen may
be put on a steamer and sent abroad
with few of her most ardent support
ers. Let the first practical dgitdtor
be tried anG shot, the others will not
move. But I would allow full free
speech and free press. 1t is better
to let people evaporate their ideas
than to confine them in holes. 1t is
better TO know what our adversaries !
are doing than to have to discover |
their plans.
And, finally, if the United States |
refuses absolutely the Hawaiian re- |
public, England is ready to take hold /
of it, and, under its rule, the labor |
question would present no difficulty; |
peace and stability would exist. !
have seen its rule in India, and especi-
ally in Ceylon. with inferior races,
and I consider the English as the
best rulers Of Eastern nations.
So, altogether. / feel little or no
about the future of your Ha-
waiian islands, and, if ! live, may
decide to 20 and END my days under
your glorious climate, in spite of your
south winds and other
BY that time a cable may
have been laid between Hawaii and
the coast, and, if so, it would remove
my greatest objection to living in the
center of the Pacific ocean.
We spent two weeks. in the Yose-
mite valley and its surroundings. 1t
is a long, fatiguing, rough, dusty
journey. The valley itself is geologi-
cally remarkable. a massive granite
was thousands or mill
lions of years ago split by
an earthquake; the result is
hole six miles long, two miles wide,
by rocky walls 5000 feet
high. The MERGED torrent, which in
old times came down from the highest
Mounts Whitney, Lyell,
etc. of the Sierra Nevada, by sue
cession of rapids and small falls, now
tumbles down the valley by two big
falls of 200 and $50 feet Once at the
bottom of the valley it is a peaceful,
stream which receives a
of torrents that tumble down
on all sides and form falls of great
melts, the streams are full and the
more attractive, especially
ut sunset, when the rays of the sun
strike almost horizontally the spray,
and form the finest rainbows which /
have yet seen out of the sky.
The highest or longest of those falls
is the Yosemite Grizzly Bear which
down 1900 feet in its upper
part, $500 feet in all before reaching
the MERGED; but the impression made
on the mind is not great and does not
compare with the grandeur of Ma
CARA
OF course, we bring back many
pleasant memories from that trip.
On the SUBMITS l found the wonder
full snow plant (sarcodes sanguinea)
which comes out of the snow like a
huge red asparagus, and developes a
of small flowers like those of
a hyacinth, surrounded by most deli
cate leaves tinted with white. The
bloody red color of the whole is its
most remarkable feature.
The big trees of Mariposa (sequoia
are another feature of that
region. They are ugly, and, sur
rounded by other very tall trees, do
not surprise the eye by their heights,
as do the cryptomevias of Mikko in
Japan. 1t is necessary to study them,
and we spent many hours amongst
them. The GRIZZLY Bear is 260 feet
high, over 80 feet in circumference.
The "Wawonallr Cbig tree is ~ feet
in diameter. A passage 10 by 10 has
been cut through it for road. The
usually represent il with
a carriage in it. a volume could be
written on those trees, their history,
etc.
a company of United States cavalry
was camping in the Yosemite reserva-
ton TO protect it against camp fires
and destroying humans. On the top
Of Signal Peak fused for surveying
we found two officers trying TO kill
eagles. They were gentlemen, West