Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1893-09-23


should contrary to the will of the
peepse. annex Hawaii we should
presumably, no doubt, see Amerr>
cans in Central America getting up
annexation movements there. esDec-
iaI,y If Mr.. Stevens could be made
Minister 10 Central America and use
American troops and ships TO set
up provisional. down there.
The real question is whether it
would benefit the people of the
United States To take in, as part
of US, group of islands more than
two thousand miles distant from
our shores; Inhabited largely by a
mongrel population OF Chinese, Jap
anese aud illiter4te Portuguese;
with no land fit for the settlement
of our own people, with every call
ing filled by Asiatics; with so great
disparity of sexes that of 1870
Chinese there are about 675 ''fe-
males" ever fifteen years of age;
with So little chance of honorable
employment for our own people
that even the provisional rulers
have not dared to encourage immI-
grafton If American farmers or
mechanics, but they have continu-
ed to import japanese bv the thou
sand nave discussed only the pos
sible importation Of negroes from
our Southern States.
A private letter from a friend in
the East tells me that | have in
his opinion erred in opposing the
self STYLED missionary children"
who, as owners in sug4rp plantations,
got up the revolution and the pro-
visional governme t. 1t is true in
a letter from Honolulu dated June
/, wrote something of these mis-
sionary children" Remember, it
is title they give themselves. |
then spoke, as | felt and feel, most
atfectionately of the fathers and
grandfathers of those people many
of whom l Formerly knew. They
were in the main an admir- ,ble set
of men and women and their con
duct was as different as daylight
from dark from the conduct of their
descendent.
The early missionaries were true
to the natives aud sought only to
influence these for good. They
helped to establish the State which
their descendants now seek TO de-
stroy. They cared for the morals
of the community which their sons
and grandsons. turned sugar plan
tiers and grew avaricious of wealth,
have by importation of Asiatic lab
or deliberately debauched. They,
the fathers, stood by the natives
against all foreign agrees on. The
elder Judd, very abe man, gave
time. ability and bis own means
tn the restoration of the Hawaiian
independence when it was attacked
BY an English admiral; his degen-
crate son, the present chief justice.
Was part of the conspiracy which
upset the government be had sworn
to support aud, himself native of
Hawaii, is active in the movement
to destroy the State which his ia
ther gave long life to establish,
defend and maintain.
| CONTRAST IN DEALING WITH LABOR.
Take only one. but very i'm
portant, contrsst between the mis-
slonary fathers and their degener
ate descendents-the way in which
the question of labor was dealt
with by them. 1t WAS not until
some tine in the sixties that sugar
planting became so large an inter-
est that the question of plantation
orcontract IL Dor became prominent.
In 1868 the planters got the Legis-
lature and the King to authorize
the introduction of outside or ior-
eign laborers. True to the people
| and to sound morals, the mission
airy fathers secured clause in this
act, which was signed by the King.
that employers shall receive as
many women as men aud suitable
provision shall be made for the
sunpor, of such women.n
There you have the missionary
fathers. Look now at the s.mis-
sionary children" turned sugar
planters and owners in sugar cor
poratlons. Did they care, like
their fathers. for the morals of the
island community. They cared
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