The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-10-01

atics. the result is the same. You un-
derstand just rs well as I do what is
going on IN Hawaii. but I cannot say
enough.' II this people refuse the OPP
portunitN TO become citizens of the
/ United states, they will simply he GO
/ ing to ruin.
Your country is changing very
I greatly. ! notice in passing through
your valleys the places where once
were taro patches the people are NOV
ing into the city to be nearer bet
| ter form 'of civilization and permit
their children the benefit of an educa-
/ ton in the schools.
"Iou know law, YOU know Christi
anity: the Chinaman does not. He
does not understands; he is very hard
to teach. You have the same oppor-
tunitS as | have had. and | have been
as poor as any man. Your prosperity
depends. as ! have already said. upon
your own merits. Can YOU allow any
man or woman who ever wore a
crown to role over YOU and over your
country? Can YOU not think of some
one of your own race without going
to some other country to find king
or queen to rule over you. Why is
U y Y
man. whom YOU think is by divine
right entitled to rule over YOU? Be
cause you cannot believe that God
made you for any such purpose. He
made you to be free men.
"Fhe difference between a reDubli-
can form of government and any 9th
err is that in the former the power to
rules comes up from the people. just
i ne h.a st. n l,I, =,
from the land. We do not believe that
any one is uy divine right entitled to
rule as in monarchical form of gov
| eminent. We think every man should
take a hand in the management of his
own country. After the destruction of
the idols of your country, the mis-
sionaries came from the United States
and have heard not one word of any
harm having been done by them.
II have here a copy of the treaty as
signed by your Government for ratifi-
cation by that of the United States. I
would advise that you ask your pa
pers to print it. | think you will find
that it is the very best thing that has
ever been produced for the benefit of
the people, not for the Government.
for the people.
THE United States is able to carry
out any contract, and will do so. This
provision will be a continual benefit
to the people of Hawaii If told my
colleagues, all had seen here. the in
telligence, strength and excellence of
the people, they would be as surpris-
ed as ! have been.
you have got. so far as | can see.
as excellent a government as there is
in the world. To say the $4,000 peo-
pie in these Islands would make any
difference, to the 100000 in the Unit
ed States is absurd. If every inhabi-
tant of these Islands were to die to-
night it would not make particle of
difference one way or the other as to
the strength of the United States. Our
regard for your is not on account of
your strength or wealth. but on ac-
count of your progress and earnest en-
deavOr to advance in the true line of
civilization and of that no foreign peo-
pie shall despoil you.
Il shall take much pleasure in in
forming my colleagues in the Senate
of what | have seen here, of the fer
tility of the soil of these Islands. the
intelligence and physique of their in
habitants and also of their evident de-
sire to continue in the march of pro-
gress. and to impress upon them
the joy / shall feel if we can clasp
your hands as brothers of that great
country to which we belong. but it
will break my heart if. after all your
suffering and endeavors, you should,I
drift back to barbarism and obi
WON"