The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-05-18

the Hawaiian Islands Hawaiian ma
tionaIity as distinctive as the Ameri-
cans to America. From all parts of Eu
rope, and all its people, we in America
have produced a new race. 1t is not
| Saxon. Celt, or Teuton; il is Ameri-
can. Because the Americans originally
occupied the Sandwich Islands, and
through their missionaries took pos
| session OF them; and because of their
physical geography, their nearness to
our coast. and the indispensable ne
cessity that our Government should
| have political control over them, all
European residents of the Islands;
ii only asks that it may do them IA
vors: that it may encourage there the
establishment of a civilized govern
ment of Christian, white and progress
sive people. If these Islands stood in
the same relation, commercially, polit
ically and locally to England, France,
Germany. or indeed to any of the
strong Governments of Europe, we
would be in favor of either of those
Governments extending to them a po-
litical protectorate. That is all our
Government utSllc DuI II VIII iiOb
submit TO English, French or German
control. 1t will not submit if all the
Hawaiians Kings and all the Hawaiian
dead should come from their graves,
and all the Hawaiians living-Kings.
mobiles and taro-patch proprietors
should favor it. The United States
Government will not permit any other
Government on earth to put its paws
upon this island realm. Our own Gov
eminent is its heir-at-law and its re-
eiduary legatee, and will contest any
will OF testament made by one of the
Kamehameha dynasty to divert it from
its rightful heir-at-law. Our Govern
ment will plead undue influence in the
making of any devise that will ever
nut Queen, Kaiser, or French PreSi-
dent in the attitude of guardian ad
Item to the Hawaiian people; and be-
fore We will submit to any humbug in
this direction we will settle it in the
probate of war. Let the Hawaiian
Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, and
Portuguese put this in their pipes and
smoke il. Whenever the Government
of the Hawaiian Islands passes out
from under the control of those who
live upon them they will come under
the control of the Congress of the
United States of America. Whether ii
be by annexation, military protector
ate. with our guns in the Punchbowl
and our ships of war in the harbor of
Honolulu. by becoming a colony, or in
friendly relation by treaty, they will
be American when they cease to be
Hawaiian They ought to become a re-
native horn white
man on the Islands, and every intelli-
gent white foreigner, ought to unite
in making them a republic, with a
republic, with a property and intelli-
cent voting qualification. And dur
ing the preliminary steps to this ma
+ional reorganization an American
man-of-war should be invited to fling
IT'S hammer TO the breeze in the harbor
Of Honolulu 1t is a land of great
promise, fertile of soil, and genial in
climate II produces sugar and fruits.
It is one of the world sanitariums and
pleasure resorts. This is the age of
steam travel. 1t is on one of the
worlds greatest highways of travel 1t
would make a beautiful little pocket
republic, and if the Americans and Eu-
ropeans have not the sense to see that
their interest lies in unity and coop
Grafton, they deserve TO be supplanted
and driven away by the Chinese and
East Indian coolies.
To permit an unrestricted immigra-
ton of Asiatics is sure to result in
making these Islands an Asiatic col
ony Whether the population is in
creased by intermarriage with native
women, or by the importation Of Ash
attic wives, or, as at present, by the in
vasion of Asiatic males, only one result
can follow, and that is the complete
Asiaticizing of the entire group of ISL
ands. If there be any business men,
planters, or good housewives who
think the Asiatics are to be treated as
a temporary convenience, to be re-
moved at will, let them consider the
history of Asiatic invasions of other
lands. whose Governments are far
stronger than that of Hawaii, and
whose people could present against
them much stouter resistance The
Asiatic adults today nearly equal in
number the adults of the native-born
and Europeans combined.
The future of the Sandwish Islands
is marked out for Americans and Euro
peans Their political control lies with
the Government of the United States.
and none other. Hence, when we adj
wise the men of the white race, and