The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-03
NoRDHoFF vs.. NoRDHoFF.
what the Herald" Man Formerly said
About the Hawaiian Islands.

what the HERALD Man Formerly said
About the Hawaiian Islands.
A correspondent of the San
Francisco BnliehR prints the fol-
lowing
Editoy Bulletin: In considering
the fact that the Sandwich Islands
have been offered to our Govern
ment and as bearing on the ques-
ton as to the right OF those making
the offer thus to dispose of them,
allow me to quote the testimony of
Charles Nordhoff i'll regard to the
missionaries and their descendants,
as we'll as other American resi-
dents there. The quotation is from
Mr.. Nordhoff's book upon the
Sandwich Islands, written
number or years ago, after visit
to them, during which he made
careful study of their condition
and the influence which had served
to bring them forward from heath
enism to civilization. He says:
"In these Islands a State, a
society has been created within a
quarter of a century, and it has
been very ably done. | am glad it
has been done mainly by Ameri-
cans. They were the organizers
who supplemented the labors of the
missionaries, and, fortunately for
the native people, they were men of
honor, of self-restraint, of goodness
Of heart. What they have done
would have given them fame had
it not been done 1000 miles from
the nearest continent and at least
5000 from any place where reputa-
tons are made.
what there is happy about the
natives life he owes to the fine
climate and the missionaries.
Our political predominence on
the Islands is as complete as the
commercial. In the present Cab
met all the Ministers except one
are Americans. This was true
also of the Cabinet of the late King.
Of the Supreme Court two of the
Judges are American and one is
German. Almost all the executive
and administrative offices are in
the hands of Americans or Hawaii
ans.
Nor can any foreign power
rightly find fault with this state of
things.
what the Islands are they are
because of American effort, Amer
lean enterprise, American capital.
American missionaries civilized
them Americans gave them laws
wisely adapted to the customs and
habits of their people American
enterprise aud Boston capital estab-
lished the sugar culture and other
important industries
This, for Mr.. Nordhoff, | con-
slider pretty good, and he has my
hearty thanks for it, most certainly
Passing over the geographical
position of the Islands and their re-
sources and capabilities generally,
let me call attention especially to
Hawaii, the largest of them all,
with its extent of yet uncultivated
land suitable for sugar and coffee
plantations, as we'll as for other pro
ducts, and the fine harbor at Hilo,
five times as large, by actual meas
urement, as that of Honolulu, with
depth of water varying from forty
to hundred feet, and said to be
200 miles nearer San Francisco
than Honolulu.
Let annexation become an &C
complished fact and American
population, American capital and
American enterprise will flow to
this island as we'll as to others Of
the group so that in a compare
, lively short time the revolution in
their material prosperity will be as
marked as in the political revolution
that has so recently taken place.
Let us then accept the rich prize
that is offered to US, and secure il
before it is too late. ]. w.