The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-02


/ American had something to say to the
/ Tonga. the daughter said it for him. Ii
the Tonga or the people saw they said
naught.
THE CREATION OF A FLAG.
The first thing the American did was
! TO create flag. Out of the ship stores
| II was made. and after a great celebra-
ton the flag flew over the schooner, still
/ idle in the harbor, and it flew over the
/ hut of the Tonga, and it was lifted over
| the house of The Stranger. From that
time Tonga was a nation of the world,
and The Stranger was its guiding genius.
The schooner was kept in good order.
The small crew made merry ashore with
the natives and We're content
In less than a year the runners went
over the island and the canoes scudded
there, and there was the royal ceremony
IN the Tonga house. The American was
no more The Stranger. The ceremonial
made of him Tonga. He had welded
the successor to the throne.
Then the old Tonga, tired with his
years and feeble under the domination of
this white man, gathered the best of the
islanders about him and talked to them.
he would lie down and rest and wait for
the last canoe trip into the Beyond. He
was old. The new Tonga, the American,
was great man and a rich one, and
true Tonga. He would take care of the
people and the new flag. The people said:
A, al. ali' which is their assent. and
the old Tonga laid him down to pig
feasts and orange wines and fish. and the
new Tonga. the white one put on the
grass ''pario" and the head dress of
feathers and pearl shells and went to live
In the big hut and tend his oeoDle.
Not so far away We're the Herveys and
the Cooks, another good sized group
more in the line of sailing travel. The
Cooks are rich in shell and copra. Tonga,
the new, sent his schooner to the Cooks
with the flag up high TO tell them of the
change. The schooner intercepted a
passing vessel going for trade in the
western ha RI
Raratonga she brought a great cargo of
cloth. fish hooks. seines. canned stuff
al !, an that Then big.hut, the largest
in all Raratonga, was built on the beach
and the goods were stored. And after
that the canoes travelled over the group,
giving goods and taking shells and conra.
country rejoiced at him. He sent the
schooner across the seas 20 the Cooks
further away to the Paumutos, even over
TO the Societies, and there in the direct
line of communication with America the
firm of Tonga & Co. (the company be-
ing the kingdom of Raratonga) actually
went into competition with the trading
houses of San Francisco, and the world
heard again of Banks.
DETECTIVES FUTILE VISIT.
The Weils-Fargo defaulter was the
Tonga of the Herveys and the ruler of
the trade of three great island groups,
opulent in the matter of pearls, pearl
shells and copra beyond any dream of his
p01ntment of the old Tonga and the as
sent of the people, and he was king in the
line of succession because husband after
the native manner to Taati, the maiden of
the Tonga line.
The news travelled up to San Francisco
by the first sailing vessel and the old
alton hands. They sent their srlrewdest |
men to the HerveyS in a chartered vessel. |
Banks met them in the regalia of his
Office and invited them ashore. Five thou /,
nd dol he x~f1la no
audience between the king and the de-
tect1ves was short and to the point. With |
his people about him, Banks listened care
leSsly TO the reading of the papers which |
the detectives brought, and then he an |
Swered them just as carelessly:
over this roof is the flag of this coun- |
do not know the United States; we have |
relations with nobody and nothing on |
earth. You may tell the Wells-Fargo |
company I to go to -.
ing The detectives saw the situation, |
saw the unassailable position of the Ton |
ga Banks, and went back to their ship. i
AS the ship slowly sailed away the de- |
tectiVes, down behind the horizon, saw |
back there, at the tip of mighty cocoa i
nut tree, a small flag, the emblem of an
orsan1zed nation OF 900 people; the house
flag of great trading institution and |
private pennent Of Banks.
More than once the corporation tried |
the United States courts. Even the con-
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the absconder, was amenable under 100 |
laws. but Banks. the Tonga king of the
Herveys, was another individual and
without sin.
So Banks lives on his island home and
amasses wealth. Time and time again
the great nations of the earth, in their
grabbing cruises over the seas, have
sighted Raratonga and gone in. Always
there was the king. Always there was
the flag. Always to the overtures Banks
has shaken his head. Marquesas, Society,"
the Cooks, Hawaii have succumbed 10 the
pressure which would never give up, and
nave gone under the flag and direction of
greater powers. But in the Herveys was
Banks ounnipOtent and answering, and
al the diplomacy of the world failed to
move him He must be king to the end.
Should you visit Rara6onga, the Tonga
Will entertain you. He is always glad TO
see Americans. You will be fed like a
King, and you Will drink as good cham
oagne as you drank al home. Good ships
BRING the worlds sweet things 20 the
King, who wears .'pario'' and bares his
egs to the sun. His Hoola-Hoola girls
way in their graceful dances and Groom
heir soft songs for him. He sits in the
shade of his own tree, and is fann-d to