The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-06-26
STANDARDIZATION AGAIN.

One of the newborn truly loyals'
who has taken up the naturalization
question makes the contention that
surrender of citizenship is not surren-
der of nationality. In the physical sense
of the word this is true, but in no other
The man born in France is always a
Frenchman, he is of French flesh and
blood and must be born again to sur
render his nationality. AS affecting the
legal standing of the Frenchman, how
ever, when he goes to the United
States and surrenders his French citi-
zenship, he surrenders his French ma
tionality. AS a nation his native coun-
try has nothing to demand from him,
he is absolutely and completely dena-
tionalized, and from the time he holds
up his right hand to foreswear his al
legiance, France as nation knows him
no more.
Turning to Hawaii, where rights of
citizenship are granted without natural
ization, it is claimed that no man can
show true fealty to the land of his
adoption without becoming naturalized
This depends entirely upon the man.
One thing, however, is certain, if he is
not loyal to the country under the spe
cial rights of citizenship granted, he
will never be loyal as a duly natural
lied citizen. Providing he has shown
due fealty as special rights citizen, it
might then be asked, why should he
object to take out the regular papers
of naturalization, which is only one
little step further?
At just this point the political con-
ditions of Hawaii step in. The consti-
tuition of the Republic of Hawaii de-
clares for annexation to the United
States. The foundation rock of the Gov
ernmental principles shows on the face
of it that the political conditions of the
country are in a transitory state. The
people of the country, loyal aliens and
native SONS, after continuous strug-
gle, have come to the conclusion that
for the proper protection of personal
and property rights Hawaii must needs
be under the steady hand of one of the
great nations of the world. To bring up
the question of naturalization at this
time, to compare Hawaiian naturaliza-
ton with American, British or French
naturalization at this time is utter and
absolute political rubbish. 1t can only
be regarded as a shabby subterfuge to
curry possible favor in Washington. 1t
would be naturalization as a political
move and not naturalization as dis
play of fealty. The truly loyal" would
find that the political eyes in and about
Washington are not as weak and short
sighted as some of the enthusiastic
denizens of Hawaii give them credit
The so-called aliens of Hawaii are
exercising rights of citizenship given
them by the law of the land. Neither
the Government or any supporter of
the Government has the right to at
tempt to force naturalization or place
the naturalized citizen on higher
plain of loyalty than the aliens granted
special rights of citizenship. Such act
ion on the part of the Government
would be an inexcusable breach of the
law. The advocacy by the individual of
such action simply discloses the hand
of the ward politician, who under the
guise of true loyalty attempts to fool
the people in order to obtain personal
ends.
Until the United States has either ac-
cepted or refused to include this coun-
try within its body polite, the discus
sion of naturalization has no place in
Hawaii