Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-04-22

| male white population. excluding Portu-
guese. They probably own less than five
per cent of the Teal estate, and SO can
hardly have had a very large share in rob
brig" the natives of their lands. As a
rule the sons of the missionaries have
been jealous and enthusiastic I'm promot-
ing the well-being of the Hawaiians. true
to the work their fathers left to them.
Next week church for natives costing
$4,000, will be dedicated at Lahaina, built
by the son of the old missionary there.
He exDends more than that sum every
year for native churches and schools
III the surviving natives are now to a
considerable extent without land, II Is at
the same time the fact that they are not
now as dependent as formerly upon own
ership OF the soil, remunerative employ
ment being abundant. To illustrate this,
take the fact that comparatively few ma
yves living within ten miles of Honolulu
now cultivate the tsro patches which they
own. They lease them to Chinese at an
average rate of $50 per acre. The China
man patiently cutivates the taro pounds
IL 10 the luscious poi. and then peddles IL
10 the native consumers at a good price
The supply of poi was never before SO
abundant and steady it has been since
Cinnamon got the monopoly Of the BUSH
ness. Meantime the native no longer
delves i'm mud over his knees He leaves
that to the celestial, while he pulls in the
collars as a mechanic or dock laborer.
Keeping his pants on like a gentleman
Not one-thtrd of the natives i'm these is
lands " oud care to live on the lands of
their fathers If they still owned them.
A Great Land Grabbcr.
Probably the most inveterate and I'M
scrupulous land grabber ever known here
was the late King Kalakaua: 1 once ex-
amined fraudulent alteration awkwardly
made in his Handwriting In the copy of a
land award in a volume in the land office
while he was a young clerk there Many
no hA A..
efforts to avail Himself of that fraud in
dispossessing young female heir of the
valuable property described. Her guardian
A j. Cartwright, showed me all the papers
1 do not believe that Mrs Dominis at ali
resembles her royal brother in that re-
spect. But she should not accuse the mis-
sionaries sons. who have always been most
faithful and efficient friends of the native
Hawaiians.
The ex-oueen's real grievance with these
gentlemen is that after repeatedly rescuing
the decadent monarchy from its justly
disguised white assailants. they finally be-
came hopeless of it, and helped the party
OF liberal government to dethrone her.
Her persistent treachery and willfulness
left them no alternative. 1t il not any
wrong they have done to her poor people"
except in her Imagination. The native Ha-
waifans were never before so free SO pros
perous so educated, so progressive, as
they are today. The greatest blessing that
has lately befallen them was the removal
of that dark and corrupting incubus of the
monarchy which had so long been drag
ging them down through the vices and
superstitions busily cultivated by Kalakaua
and his coUrt-evils that still chung to tina.
court under his more decent but misguided
sister.
The mistaken though quite natural theory
of Liluokalani and the native royalists is
that they and nobody else are the people
OF Hawaii. Up to forty years ago the
PolyEesian natives were practically the
people of these islands. Since then their
race has dwindled to one-half, their chiefs
are dead and other races have come in and
exceed them nearly three-fold. They no
During this period of their becoming a
small minority of the inhabitants the
white race here has increased and become
enormously wealthy and powerful. That
white race now claims TO be the representa-
tive people of Hawaii" because through
its superior character and capacity 1t
necessarily directs all the complex affairs
of government, commerce and manufac-
lures. In dealing with all such affairs the
natives are but as ignorant children. The
whites are by necessity their guardians and
governors, and the natural ruling people
of tie country. The voice of this capable
people as to the destiny Of Hawaii is the
voice to be regarded, and not that of the
comparatively ignorant and incapable ma
tives. This may not sound democratic.
but the strictest democrat would go by the
vote Of the school children.
Shall 1t he Japane
ment of the great majority of our white
population. who are upholding this repub-
lie of Hawaii, that the best interests of the
native Hawaiians. as well as of them
selves, require annexation to the United
States, and not to Japan. which latter is
now the impending alternative and is the
cherished hope of royalists. In a recent
Brooklyn lecture Capt. Julius Palmer, who
represents the ex-queen commended US to
the tender mercies of Japan. just as near
ly four years ago he wrote from here to
the Boston Transcript that the best thing
come a British colony. and have scions OF
British nobility establish themselves here
to lend us tone! He is now evidently voic-
ing the sentiments of his royal mistress.
who is plainly anxious to resume her
throne under the mikado as her suzerain.
Looking solely at the interests of the
pure and mixed Hawaiian population. such
a subordination to INSCRIPTIONS japanese
officials would be fatal to them. crowded
by swarming hordes of Japanese peas
antry. All our white traditions are thor
oughly considerable of the well being of
these natives, and every possible help and
favor Is shown to them by preference to
other races. Especially do they hold the
voting franchise i'm fullest equality with
the whites. The vice president of the SEN
ate and the speaker of the lower house are
pure native Hawaiians. II is true that a
majority of the natives are now debarred
from exercising the voting franchise which
they possess, simply by their refusing to
conform to the condition of taking the
oath to renounce monarchy and support
the republic Not to require such oath
would be to surrender to monarchy-politi-
cal suicide Under American administra-
ton the political equality of the natives
would be confirmed.
William A. Kinney goes to Washington
today, commissioned by President Dole to
render assistance in promoting annexation.
Mr.. Kinney Is highly successful lawyer
Of thirty-nine years, some fourteen years
N a hon
for any sanguine hope of securing early
action in Congress upon the question. We
are on hand, however, to do our part as
opportunity offers.
KAMEHAMEHA.
An Immigration Decision.