The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-08
TO Be SHATTERED In STRIFE.
Such Will Be the Fate of the Republic
Of Hawaii.

An interview with DR.. Soul e of the
steamship Australia was published in THE
CALL yesterday, and the substance of his
utterances is the belief of majority of the
intelligent people of the islands.
Among the non-combatants of the Ha-
waiian Islands the idea has obtained that
from the peculiar condition of things exist
ing there the new order of affairs is far
from resting on a firm foundation. Ele-
ments utterly homogeneous, and where
unity is a physical impossibilty, are
heaved together, and, preserving their
original principles undecomposed, the
compounding of a new element for base
upon which the new political state must
rest, if perpetuity is to be, become an i'm
possibility. Hence the disintegration must
of necessity result.
In an interview with CALL reporter
J. NJ. Sprague, gentleman recently from
Honolulu and who has lived in the islands
for some time, expressed the opinion that
the new republic, however based it might
be upon the desire of its leaders to give to
the erstwhile kingdom a good and equit-
able Government, was existing in doubtful
tenure.
''The people are far from united said
he, ''and never will be. The overthrow of
monarchy was not the simultaneous act of
its subjects. The edict of the reyolutionists
was a minority report, and that minority,
only such numerically, toppled the dull,
unseeing ruler from her throne in mo-
ment. Had that Government possessed
any mental characteristics except its nat
ural Unborn stupidity there would have
been no republic for the Hawaiian archi-
pelago.
''Let me speak of the Kanakas-the last
and least, yet not unimportant factor of
the islands. They are diminishing, pass
ing away-physically, mentally and NOR
ally. They have never had any political
entity since their so-called civilization.
Sad to contemplate, isn't it? A nation
civilized to decay. They welcomed the
white ADVENTURE over their coral reefs, let
his Christian teachings go in at one ear
and out at the other, then adopted all his
vices, which, added to their own, emf
nently fitted them to perish as nation,
as they are doing.
"Yet this weak and helpless Kanaka, the
rightful heir to all the goodness and great
ness that should come to the country,
standing back while aliens fight over his
inheritance, is strong moral menace to
the new order of political things. Any
kind of government there will, of course,
be run without him, but he will crop up to
be used as something to rally around by
one or other of the factions that will always
struggle for supremacy in the islands. Pat
riotism is the only tie that can bind peo-
pie. Patriotism is love of country, and the
native is the only person who has country
there, and his hold upon it is only in the
abstract.
mind you, l am not arraigning the
white people of the country as wicked op-
pressors, neither am l sinking all the Ka-
nakas into imbecility. Even if the major
part of the population are mentally weak,
some there will be of the latter, who will
rise Intellectually above their brothers and
they will be the sullen opposers of all ex-
listing orders not native.
''Then again, the dominant party-aliens
all-win never be in complete unity. Even
now the new Government is worrying over
itself. Dole is tied up and can't move as per-
haps the best judgment would lead him.
The friends of the republic are as rapacious
as they are enthusiastic and as selfish as
they are patriotic.
SIS it any wonder that cross-purposes
exist everywhere? Now they have the con-
spirators under their hands. The ultra
Republicans call for extreme measures in
the settlement of their cases, and the
Government hesitates. It knows they
are all rebels against a rebellion,
and moral question as well as a
political question is at stake. 1 don't be-
lieye that Wilcox and his fellows will suffer
the death penalty, and believe the new
republic will be shattered in strife with
itself over the ultimate disposal of that
question. Yes, it is the opinion among all
fair minds in the islands that the republic
is not lasting" -.