Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-06-09
CHARITY IN HAWAII

knowledge OF events at Honolulu.
and how Is their opinion on Hs-
waiian questions formedl First.
tie press dispatches from hence;
ali or nearly ali, OF which are
prepared under the supervision
Of the party in power Second,
from the San Francisco press,
this being from local and selfish
reasons a unit in favor Of the an
nexrtionists. Third, from private
letters, all of which. going to the
United States from the same
party. but speaking as individuals.
confirm the testimony OF the more
public utterances. Clearly, there
fore, whether the provisionalists
be right or wrong. the American
people have had little opportunity
to form their opinions save on
the evidence Of those who caused
the revolt.
The fact above stated consti-
tutes the excuse Of citizens of the
United States that they have not
more generally resented the per-
sistent assumption on that part of
the revolutionists that it is Amer
lean capital which demands our
protection, American Interests
and property now in jeopardy
here. 1t is Hawaiian property,
wrung from Hawaiian land which
has heen leased a. merely nomi
nal rental by the favor of the
Hawaiian Government, cultivated
10y cheap labor imported by the
privileges of Hawaiian law; the
immense accumulations. the enor-
nous dividends, result from the
favorinG conditions given by the
Hawaiian Government to the
sugar planters. notably the reel
procity treaty. a measure inaugu-
ated under the brother of Liliu-
okalani. There lies before me
an official statement of the ten
most prosperous plantations; by
this 1t is clear that an investment
of 81 655 900 in sugar produced
last year an average dividend of
22.6 per cent, the highest per
centage being forty, and the low
est thi. teen per cent. Is not the
above sufficient evidence that
their mercantile prosperity has
been enormous. and that they
were not oppressed very grievous-
~ IN their incorporated estates!
They will be heppy. indeed, if
for the twenty years to come !
their confederated wisdom shall |
succeed in giving to them such |
substantial returns as those |
which have flowed into their
pockets under the reigns of those
soyereigns of whom they cannot
speak charitably today.
Why. then, did they rebell
Why. indeedi 1t was another IL
Iustration of the old fable of the
goose who laid the golden eggl
1t was the old story. and the
government might have
quoted TO them their own Bible
where it says. Il have nourished
,nd brought mp children and they
nave rebelled against me. 1t
vas the arrogance of richest and
lot the turning of poor worm
lnder the heel of the oppressor.
L was the love of power; it was
he greed of gain. il
Let us grant that such power
would have been wisely used for
he benefit of the Hawaiian. If
'ou will; let us never insinuate
hat the gain would have been or /
) that of the pirate or flibuster;
one the less is ii true that love 5
( power and two cents pound j
dditional profit caused the revolt
lore than any other secret spring c
action. When men move to- Q
ether. or when the individual I
cts. it is from fixed motives; t
lere may have been those in the
rovisionalist ranks in whose "
reasts patriotism (ss they I'M A
'rstood it. which means here G
svotion TO the land of their an I.
'stors. not TO the land ON which o
ey were born). aroused them a
action. but the master motive q
the movement proceeded from A
e arrogance Of capital. asaociat- v
capital which brooks no oppo d