Evening star., 1898-12-22
OUT IN HONOLULU
Interest Of the People in the Proposed
Government.
SUFFRAGE SHOULD Be QUALIFIED
A Property Restriction Better Than
an Educational One.
AN IN ANITARY CAMP
AN IN SANITARY CAMP
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
HONOLULU, December o. 1898
A press dispatch of November 81 signed
Coolidge" has given satisfaction here as
being evidently an authentic statement of
what the Hawaiian commission expect to
report as to the form of government need
ed for this territory. Our minds had pre-
viously been somewhat disturbed by what
purported TO reflect the commissioners
views, in a long letter dated October :.S
by correspondent of the Boston Trans
cript. The curious medley of fact and fi,,-
ton in that letter was such as to indicate
actual communication with persons near to
the commissioners. Yet the statements i'm
puted were not compatible with such careful
weighing of eviderce would certainly be
exercised by those gentlemen. There was
especially total absence of the very i'm
portant view known to have impressed
them, as expressed in the Coolidge dispatch
that there is already established there a
prosperous and governing colony of Ameri-
cans, educated in American ideas, and IA
miliar with American methods of govern
ment. They can be depended upon to carry
on a territorial form of government without
friction.
This conspicuous fact as to Hawaii needs
to be kept clearly before the minds of Con-
gress in settling our form of government
that we are already strong, dominant.
governing American colony. This fact
wholly differentiates our condition from
that of Porto Rico. which has yet to be in
the least Americanized. They speak Span
ish only. English is the language of Ha-
wall. Nearly eighty years of most prosper
oU5 American colonization of rHa wai has
happily given to the United States thor
oughly Americanized outpost controlling
the great ocean routes to Asia. 1t is for
Congress to utilize this momentous fact
to the utmost, and not to impair its value
by any Legislation which shall weaken the
controlling power of Americans here.
There should also be clearly borne in
mind at Washington the one great physical
reason of this unique success of American
colonization. Just why it is that an Anglo
Saxon colony has attained perfect rcess
and prosperity in Hawaii. ana never any
where else in the torrd zone? The one rea-
son is that the climate of Hawaii Is not
tropical. Although without frost Hawaii
belongs rather to the temperate zone than
the torrid. by reason of the unique position
of the group within the terminal tanning
out of the cold Alaskan ocean current.
From Alaska and Oregon there sweeps
down upon Hawaii perpetual stream of
cold ocean water, averaging ten degrees
lower temperature than any other ocean
breadth in the same latitude. Hence we
know nothing of dank, torrid heats. Hawaii
has n white mans climate one where the
Anglo Saxon thrives and prospers, instead
of withering he does elsewhere in the
tropics.
A White Mans Climate.
Now, your legislators, in dealing with
Hawaii need to bear this clearly in mind,
that they are not dealing with a tropical
group, but with true white mans coun-
try, which the 5000 resident whites have
already proved to be such, and which one
million more white occupants are yet to re-
joce in as the balmiest and sweetest eli
mate on the face of the earth. Only the
most unintelligent conception can confound
the case of Hawaii with those of Porto
Rico or the Philippines, because near the
So me latitude. There the resemblance en-
tirely stops. Hawaii has become Ameri-
cdnized E-cause of its unique climate. The
PhiIppiI eS can never become American
ized. because their climate is a torrid one.
where Americans can never COlonZe and
multiply. The climate of Porto Rico may,
perhaps, be somewhat mlder.
In arranging our form of territorial gov
eminent, it 'eemS obvious that due pre-