The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-27

president and his cabinet advice and
assistance.
In the matter OF suffrage there is
me greatest difference between the
hawaiian methods and our own.
letters of deniZation'' may be OBJ
IaIneo by foreigners residing in Ha-
wall, which give them all the rights
Oh CITIZENSHIP, without requiring them
70 renounce allegiance to their home
governments. All male citizens,
twenty years of age, 'twho can flu
emily speak, read, and write the
hngllsh or Hawaiian language, are
emitted TO vote for represent atives."
voters for senators must in addition
70 this educational qualification, have
money income of $500, or possess
real estate in Hawaii worth $500, or
personal property worth $1,000. The
PROVISIONS regarding naturalization
are very stringent, and will prevent
the citizenship of any large number
OF Orientals. The rights of voters are
admirably guarded, and a fair cleo
tlon and an honest count are guaran-
teed.
Pre- eminent among those that bore
honorable part in laying the founda-
lions OF this latest and most unique of
republics is Sanford 3. Dole, native
OF hawaii, whose parents were hon.
0red missionaries. AS he was a
christian gentleman, against whose
integrity no word has ever been
spoken, an eminent lawyer, an associ-
ate justice Of the supreme court,
when the monarchy fell, by common
consent of the people placed the desti-
MES OF the nation in Mr.. Dole's strong
hands. He has nobly INDICATED their
confidence. AS president of the pro-
vls1onal government Mr.. Dole has
shown craftsmanship OF high order.
The new constitution provides that
Mr.. Dole shall be the first president of
the republic, his term expiring at the
end OF the year 1900.
Next to President Dole, perhaps the
man who has had the most influence
in shaping the destinies of the little
republic is Hon. LOrrin Thurston, Ha-
waiian by birth, and grandson of the
pioneer missionary of that name. Mr..
ThurstOn was a leader in the revoIu-
ton of 1887, helped frame the consti-
tuition that LiliuOkaiani tried TO abro-
gate, and was premier in the reform
cabinet during the last years OF Kala-
kaua's reign. He is an able lawyer,
and as Hawaiian minister resident at
Washington since the overthrow of
the monarchy has shown rare ability
as a diplomat. In President DOle's
cabinet are two more sons of mission
aries, Hon. Samuel NJ. Damon, min
lister of finance, and Hon. w. o.
Smith, attorney general, both born in
Hawaii. Both are men of marked
ability and earnest, Jealous Chris
tians. Mr.. Smith was president
of the first Christian Endeavor
society organized outside of Amer
lea. Hon. F. M. Hatch, minister OF
foreign affairs, is an American, and
Hon. J. A. King, minister of the in
terror, is an Englishman.
At the head of the judiciary is Chief
Justice Judd, son of the celebrated
missionary physician, DIR. Ct. p. Judd,
whose influence was so powerful in
changing the Kamehameha autOcracy
into constitutional government.
Chief Justice Judd was born in Homo
lulu and educated at Yale, which IN
stitution gave him the degree of LII.
D. He is president of the Hawaiian
Board of Missions, and his son Albert
is president OF the Y. p. s. G. f.. of
the Union (foreign) church, Homo
lulu.
Other leading men of the Republic
are Hon. II. p. Baldwin, manager of
four great sugar plantations, and the
leading Christian worker Oh the ISL
and of Maui, and Hon. William r.
Castle, Christian lawyer, who for
years has been self denying worker
in the Kawaiahao (native) church,
Honolulu. Hon. w. N. Armstrong,
brother of General Armstrong, who
gave his life to the Hampton school, is
editor of the leading newspaper in the
Republic. All of these are sons of
missionaries and born in Hawaii.
Hon. Charles l.. Carter, who lost his
life in the recent attempt to restore
the monarchy, was grandson of a
missionary, and formerly president of
the Union Church Y. p. s. G. E., Ho-
nOlulu.
1t is such men as these, Hawaiians
by birth, but inheriting love of lib
erty from sturdy New England mis-
sioDary ancestors, who have laid the
foundations of the Republic of Ha-
wall. During the past two years these
brave men and their work have been
tried "as by fire." But they have
stood the test. 1t is SUCH men as
these, also, that n certain class of
American newspapers has delighted
in stigmatlzing as subscriptions alien
adventures"