The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-09-09

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Portuguese maintain the family sud
social conditions oi Christian peoples,
which place them ON parity WIN the
host elements 81 western civilization,
aud In this respect they az least compare
favoraldy with their fellow. Europeans
aud Americans of similar circumstances
ia life They have ever been regarded
b, the leading public men Of these isl
ands and contradiction Of this state
ment il deiied-as factor Of the highest
value in building up sound Hawaiian
body politic. Their children are looked
upon as amongst the future hope OF
civilized social order In this country,
after they have received only an ordi-
nary common school grounding in the
rudments of knowledge IN the language
that. now exclusively taught IN our
educational system, IN bound TO become
before long the prevailing speech Of
every relation of lie in this group.
IL is kindred races to the Portuguese
which are fertilizing the tree OF liberty
IN the United States. Perhaps this is
one Of your grounds of antagunism TO
them in these Islands, as you have lately
been insidiously working against closer
relations with the United States, CON
trary to the fundamental policy OF this
Republic. Why have the Portuguese
incurred your bitter rancor AZ displayed
in the instances herein quoted and IN
others Have they not been among the
staunchest supporters of every move
ment that your paper has placed IN the
roll of political reform and progress, in.
GLIDING those of 1887 and 1893 and the
defensive action Of 1895. Point out If
you can. sir, any single treacherous in.
trigue against, or dubious attitude TO-
ward the cause Of free government in
this country which is chargeable to any
considerable section Of the Portuguese.
As to the part of the Portuguese in
developing the resources of the country,
40 to the small farm localities of Ha-
waii and Maui, and the ranching and
dairy tracts of Oahu itself, and you
will find Portuguese among the success
full pioneers. Yes, and in vast ma
iOrity of cases you will find them decent
and well-behaved people, bringing up
bright families in the ways of thrift,
intelligence and religion You will not
discover their names very often in the
criminal records of the judicial dis
tricts Of the country, any more than the
same can be discovered in the city's
police calendar.
What was Mr.. Thurston, one of your
party's most exalted leaders of thought
and action, doing in Portugal lately
/ Have you forgotten his strong pleas for
more Portuguese to DE introduced INTO
these Ialandsf 1t was paraded in your
own paper, as a gratifying token OF his
success, that he had been accorded an
audience with the King of Portugal.
Mr.. Thurston labored hard in that mis-
sion, not merely for the sake of gaining
labor for his friends, the planters, but to
bring more of this European nationality
here to aid in building up the Islands as
a civilized nation. II he thought that
Portuguese men were neither Europeans
nor white people, he could have got
thousands in neighboring lands who
would have been far easier induced to
accert the terms offered than the Por-
tuguese. Tell us from what country a
more peaceable, tractable and teachable
race in masses can be introduced. Ger
tainly no poor people are landed at
Castle Garden by the shipload who do
more credit to their nationality than the
Portuguese laboTers who come to Ha-
waii.
If your desire is to distinguish your
self in chronological erudition, pray state
to what race the Portuguese colonists of
Hawaii belong if they are not European
or Caucasian. In truth we are growing
little tired of so many sneers at the
Portuguese in your boosted organ oil
good government. Especially do we
resent your luminosity on account OF the
position of your new spaper IA an especl-
ally fav, red medium of communication
helween the Government and the pub
lie. That the Cove nment of Hawaii
literally sustains by its patronage q
newspaper that spares no opportunity OF
insulting our people is a fact we cannot
help remaining, when it is known to al
men how particularly friendly to thai
G pvernment the Portuguese yeomanry
have been and how their friendship has
professedly been reciprocated. stu We
prefer to think that the Government
holds your sheet in secret contempt
while using it as dead wall ON which
to display its notices, rather that the able
and honorable men at the head of tfairs
are guilty of the infamy Of hypocritica
professions and base ingratitude OF tried
friends.
Yours. etc,
j. s. ALvEs
a. +. MEDEIRos