The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-02-02

| HON. OdnlOru ID. DOle, 10 WuOm We UOT6
letter of introduction from a former
pastor at Honolulu, Rev. j. A. Cruzan,
now of Santa Cruz.
Interview with President Dole.
We were cordially received and discov
cred that the President, though born in
Honolulu, was of good State of Maine
parentage, and Mrs. Dole, a former
Maine school teacher for the Normal
school at Castine, and that we had mu
tual friends and acquaintance. Presi-
dent Dole impresses one most favorably
as a gentleman ard Statesman and we
became more than ever convinced that
America should extend the eagles pro-
tecting wing over this little Republic in
the Sea, and admit her perhaps not as
State, but at least as a permanent Ter
ritory, into the Union. 1t would seem
we could do no less in the interest of
good government and civilization as we'll
as in our own interest. Without criti-
cizing the good intentions of President
Cleveland in the matter. it looks as if in
his very desire to be just and impartial,
! he had even leaned too far over, so as to
become unjust and had acted from
biased and imperfect information of all
the conditions. Hawaii is not a demo-
cratic free and equal Republic, and it is
doubtful if such Republic would be
either possible or desirable at the pres
| rontcoI alap, ontc
with the various degrees of civili-
zation which they have attained, of
which the present population is COM
posed A form and method of govern
ment which might be best for COM
munity of intelligent American farmers,
might not be best for a heterogeneous
conglomeration of all races, languages
and civilizations. And one who has been
accustomed to New England ideas on
this subject is liable to change his mind
to admit that all rules have their excep-
tions, when he views other forms of hu
manity under other conditions. This
does not prevent him from sympathizing
with the theory of government of the
people, by the people, as we'll as for the
people, and to labor to bring about such
conditions as shall make it practicable.
The Hawaiian Government while re-
pressing disorder and attempts at its
overthrow. is dealing Justly and kindly,
and doing all it can do to educate and
elevate it's mixed population, and if the
wishes of the men in power can prevail,
instead of those of few wealthy men
who look upon the country only as
place to make money and whose only in
terest in the population is only as so
much available labor material, in few
years such advancement may take place
as will permit an extension of the fran
chise to larger number of the popula-
tion.
We visited also the College for Girls.
and the Kamehameha Industrial College
for Hawaiian Young Men-noble insti
tutions founded by the wealth and be-
nevolence of the disappearing old royal
families.
Leave Honolulu.
At three o'clock we regretfully re-em-
barked, but not till darkness closed down
upon the scene did the tumbled noun
tains and low lying reaches of marsh and
beach of the island of Ohahu disappear
from sight. Henceforth nothing but the
horizon and the lonesome sea, with now
and then bird or three or four
fiying-fsh darting across the waves not
a sail-for fourteen days, until Christ
mas morning we saw along the horizons
low-lying bank of blue cloud which we
were told was Japan.
Arrive in Japan.
We skirted along the coast passing out
going sailing vessels and steamers, meet
ing fleets of queer looking Japanese
fishing boats. past Cape King with its
white lighthouse tower on our right
past the volcano Oshima, lazily smoking
on our left, past the earth forts and the
entrance to the bay, until we cast anch-
or among fleet of vessels of the chief
nations, about three quarters of mile
off Yokohama. Bro. Cate came off to
m6ol US III 6lodm lduuCAs tooh US
ashore,and to his pleasant home Is miles
distance by rail-at % Tsukiji in Tokyo,
the capital city of Dai Nihom-Great
Japan, where we are now domiciled and
resting and getting ready for the The
illogical School, the next term of which
opens Jan. 10th.
We have seen many strange sights but
shall have to defer speaking of them
now.
p. S.-We learned in Hawaii that the
Hawaiians we're never cannibals as is
generally stated and believed, before the
introduction of Christianity, though
they did sometimes offer human sacri-
fees at the beginning of or during war.
EDGAR LEAvITT.
IS TsUKIJI. TOKYO, JAPAN.
| Jan. 8, 1895.
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