The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-01-14

was not. from its foundations native
Government. The racial instinct, work
ing in them. precisely as it does in the
foreigners, leads them to prefer natives
in power or native Monarchy, with
out regard TO its fitness They would,
if permitted, by the dominant party,
soon relapse into their ancient feudal
condition, because their racial instincts
would irrepressibly lead them TO do so.
They think through racial eyes, just as
the people of other nations think
through racial eyes. These racial eyes
have been shaping their vision for a
thousand years. With them, as with the
Anglo-Saxon race, the racial feeling is
never suppressed until clear self in
terest demands it. Even then it often
refuses TO yield. So wise a man as
Benjamin Franklin refused for a long
! time to belieTe in the separation of the
Colonies from Great Britain, owing to
his racial feeling of loyalty to the Brit
ish King That sublime instrument,
the Declaration of independence, was
/ secured by only one vote. The major
ity governed by racial instincts were
against it for many days. The people
said: Eve love our King" And they
changed their views only when the
Kings bayonets were at their breasts.
To expect the natives, with their
Polynesian antecedents, their ignor-
ance of the science of government, and
their natural child-like love for their
old environments, their love for the
old native Monarchy, to submit with
out some sort of protest to the new or
der of things, is to expect them to rise
higher in the scale of reasoning beings
than any white man on these Islands
has yet risen.
If all races did what was the best"
for themselves to do, this world would
be indeed Paradise. The very men
who demand that the natives should do
the best" thing, include the very men.
who refused themselves to do the
best thing in previous years. If
they had, annexation would probably |
have taken place before this time.
In spite of their racial desires the
natives will never recover the status
before '93, because all of the other races
are really against them. There are ST.
900 foreign males to 10000 native
males The native can figure it out for
himself. The natives, like all other
people on earth, must take their chan
ces. They are subject to the law of
Progress, which has driven thousands
of races to the wall. The old Puritan
towns of New England are now largely
in the hands of Roman Catholic Can
and the descendent of the
Puritan goes TO the wall. He takes his
chances. 1t is the law of Progress. The
mile stones on its highway are stained
everywhere with blood, in the blind
conflict of racial instinct. The
blood cloud has never broken here,
but he who looks closely may see it,
only the size of a mans hand, in the
distant sky.
The racial instincts of the native, I'M
invite him to defy this law
Of Progress. He does not know how to
handle the six races, that confront him
and are led by racial instincts much
stronger than his own.
He has been warned a thousand
times of the danger of his situation.
III. told him that unless
he was thrifty, the foreigner would be-
come his master. He even admits it
himself. But his racial feeling, in the
time of his extremity, masters him,
just as it masters stronger races.
We, who are Hawaiian born say
these words, with humiliation, and re-
greet. We were taught in our youth to
believe in a Hawaiian State We loved
it. But we recognize the law of Pro-
gress and saw many years ago, the be-
ginning of the end
We see also, in the future that the
native will be governed by his racial
instinct, which will constantly lead
him into foolish paths. He is not to
be censured for it, but pitied rather.
With or without annexation, he will
always be fooled by his own people,
because the native demagogue can
best strike the racial cord, and next to
him is the white demagogue that will
fool the native, and the native dema-
gogue besides.
GOVERNING WEAKER RACES.