The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-04-01

credentials Fancy my surprise anC
pleasure when President Cleveland
came forward. cordially Offering hi:
hand and cordially shaking mine witt
hearty goood will. Beginning to tall
about mutual friends, naming william
@ Whitney. Mr. Cleveland detained me
for some minutes, and l left his pres
ence assured that whatever may have
been his feeling, toward Hawaii in the
past. friendliness was then dominant
When | presented my letter of recall tC
the President my reception was cor
dial as before. AS for the State depart
-nent. nothing could have exceeded Mr.
Olney's courtesy at all times. He is an
able man, and 1 believe sees Hawaii
in true light"
New Missionaries Needed.
All that 1 have quoted about the Pres
ident and Secretary of State was not
said publicly, the more confidential part
being related TO me after lecture that
bore such good fruit as to make me
wonder why more American annexa-
tionists who speak Hawaiian do not go
among the natives and talk good gov
eminent to them. The only mission
aries Kanakas know anything about are
zuen and women who want to save their
souls. If a new order of things sets in
and the salvation of bodies Including
the body politic) were the text, L be-
Iieve the best of all revolutions could
be brought about-a revolution in the
hearts of the people in favor Of repubh-
can institutions At present, though,
the natives accept whatever is, and viii
never again carry gun to defend mon
hnI -urhi
poison their credulous minds with all
manner of stories injurious to the Re-
public For this reason the late insult
to this Government by the United
States, England, France and Japan is
the more to be deplored, as it gives
these haIf-white leaders food for fur
Their falsehoods calculated to induce I'M
rest. The people are made to believe
that sooner or later England will inter
fere and restore the Queen, and the late
war scare was hailed with delight on
the faith that Great Britain's first act
would be to seize these islands. The
senselessness of the hypothesis makes
the story none the less fact, and shows
how useless it is to teach people to read
and write without teaching them to
think, and whom to trust.
When passing through Chicago, en-
route to Washington, last August, Mr..
Casle talked so intelligently TO the press
about the ACCESSIBILITY of a new sort of
immigration for Hawaii. to consist of
small farmers, as to have created de-
mand for further information on this
subject. Inundated by letters from
Iowa. Nebraska, the Dakotas, Illinois.
and especially from Kansas, Mr.. Cas-
tie was obliged to prepare a circular,
giving a very moderate statement of
facts.
IF | erred in this circular" says Mr..
Castle, lit was in being too conSerya-
tive. but I'd much rather underesti-
mate than overeStimate the poSSibili-
ties of these islands. Many replies to
these circulars showed renewed inter-
est in tb" writer's, some of whom limited
at their intention to send out agents for
investigation. l believe several agents
have already arrived. The outlook for
coffee is so good that l am more than
ever persuaded that the day of the
small farmer is not far off.
Such a contamination is devOutly to
be wished Unless the character of i'm
migration is radically changed, these
islands will soon swarm with Japanese.
White men will be driven out, natives
will be stamped out, and the United
States will have themselves to thank
for the dangerous advance of an ag
gressive people, whose cheap labor de-
fies competition. Annexation alone can
rescue Hawaii from Japan.
KaIakaua's Good Points.
have CHANGED upon little book on
these islands, written by a French
man of letters, who. under the nom de
plums of &c. Sauvin,'' gives several pic
lures of native scenes with the touch
and appreciation of an artist Most in
teresting is an interview with Kala-
kaua, that shows the late King in bet
ter light than usual. AS this interview
is an acquisition to history, | have
translated it freely for the benefit of
impartial readers. ''Sauvin," who lived
here officially for three years, and whose
book was published in 1898, says that
in private Kalakaua was, above all,
amiable, DESTROYS of pleasing all who
approached him; knowing, without los
ing an iota of dignity, how to be graci-
Gus to strangers and subjects. Outside
of his official residence. the Palace, he
had many domicileS, one at Kailua, on
Hawaii, the faVorite retreat of Kane
hameha l.; another on the sea, near
Honolulu. In the harbor was a chalet
constructed on piles, where Kalakaua
had a club for his friends. Then, in a
retired corner of the town, was a house
almost always occupied by the Queen
where a privileged few saw Kalakaua
at his best. At the bottom of neg
lected garden where tropical fora ran
riot. stood several wooden chalets, in
one of which was a great room with a
little forge and instruments of all sorts.
where the King worked at his inyen-
TONS He thought he had found the way
to perfect the electric light; he made
geographical relief, and undertook a
hundred things that he never finished
laughingly saying that he was born to
conceive rather than to execute. "On
the first story, under a large veranda,
enveloped in virgin vines in favorite
corner where he passed the warmest
hours of the day, lying in the shade of