The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-29
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WASHINGTON, Aug 16. - Consul
General James H. Mulligan, at Apia,
Samoa, has made voluminous report
to the State Department upon the con-
| dition of the islands. A portion of the
report is devoted to a review of the
Government of the islands by the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and Germany,
| under the Berlin treaty This treaty,
Mr.. Mulligan concludes, was a mistake.
He says:
THE present status is an injustice
to the people of the United States and
grave wrong to those of Samoa. If it
be said that the treaty, so far as it con-
Germs Samoa, has made matters no
worse, it can be claimed with equal
truth that it has failed to make them
better in any particular The admission
of either postulate is to confess fail
ure.''
AS to the present Government of Sa-
moa, he says:
ga recognized and reigning King is
dependent for his support upon the vol
untary contributions-the charity, in
fact-of that portion of his family or
tribe which adhers to him, while for
eign officers of his government enjoy
salaries from his revenue far in excess
of the value of the services performed. |
When a pittance of his salary long in |
arrears, is doled out to him, it comes |
through the hands of a foreign official |
who exercises his pleasure to pay or |
withhold. His lawful wife is in no sense |
Queen, nor more entitled to considera-
ton than the half clad women who file |
back and forth along the beaches. A
village within and q part of |
the Kingdom levies import and export
duties on every dollars worth of mer-
chandise brought into or shipped out
of the Kingdom, lending out of it's rev.
enues to the Kingdom barely enough
to pay the most meagre expenses and
the salaries of foreign officials.
"All the machinery of the Govern
ment-perhapS it is not too much to say
Of several Governments-is in active
operation within the precincts of this
little town. The guns of great men-of-
war year in and year out frOWn omin-
)usly upon the shores in support of the
and the law which does
not exist within the limit of their eff
'ective ranges; and yet an offender
within half a dozen miles of the seat
# so many authorities defies the process
If the court and rebuffs the power of
he invalidated Government. In the I
midst of all, white-clad messengers of
he crown and consul fit to and fro
along the blazing beach, the bearers
If imposing envelopes, in which are j
covered the stately communications
which round out the measures of time
n this kindergarten of diplomacy.
I'm the mean time no clearing made,
10 plantation is extended. The country,
which at best under it's many disadvan-
ages needs all the stimulus of peace,
Ill the security that Government can
assure, visibly languishes. There is
10 immigration, influx of capital or
uggestion of enterprise. All wait for
hat underlined something, that change
which is to come; wait to see, as they
lave waited for thirty years; wait for
he abrogation of the treaty, as they
nd their fathers waited for it's COM |
ng"
Only a few of the islands, he says,
re under the control of the Govern (
nent. Back from the shore and in the
own the people do as they please. The I
he treaty made by three Governments
or the government of a third IS not a
rnment sought to be brought together |