Evening star., 1898-03-04
In the Midst Of Charming Days at
Honolulu.
CLIMATE WELL ADAPTED 10 WHITES
Could Labor in the Fields through
out the Year.
THEOPILUs DAVIES PLAN:
respondence Of The Evening Star.

HONOLULU, February Is, 1898.
We are now in the midst Of the most
charming days of our island winter. The
mercury ranges quite uniformly from day
to day-from 81 degrees to 62 degrees at
daylight, and from Y degrees to IS degrees
In the afternoon. We wear werm clothing
all day. The skies are brilliant: the air dry.
Some rain comes for few hours at a time.
For two months the rainfall has been
abundant. and the hills are. smiling with
green: Even PunchbowFs arid -buttresses
are ~verdant, with a. tfnge of orange from
the thick flowers Of the ubiquitous lantana.
Now and then comes day or two of south
western or ''Kona" storm. with dank, warm
wetness from the south seas and their
tropic heats. But our cold Oregon current
soon overcomes the torrid invader and re-
stores our wonted coolness.
Once 10 a while there is a noisy war be-
tween the contending elements of northern
cold and southern warmth. Four nights
ago came one of our rare experiences, after
day Of "Kona" gathering heavy and dark,
a couple OF hours Of rattling thunder with
incessant lightning with downpour Of rain.
No damage was done, save one annoying
disaster. The switchboard of our telephone
system, was burned, so that for a few days
that Indispensable convenience Is suspended.
The chatter of our 200 telephones is sud-
denly silenced. ~
Fer this season our winter rains just here
In. the city are averaging seven inches
month, with a quite uniform distribution.
This Is not -ar from the average winter
rainfall. During the summer half of the
year Honolulu gets not over two inches
month-about forty inches a year. Other
parts of this island get some far less, others
much more The long northeastern side
averages eight inches Of rain q month dur
ing the winter half Of the year and four
inches during the summer half. Conse>
quently. unlike this dry lee of the mountain
ridge, that side is perpetually verdant. That
fruitful back country has hitherto been cut
Off from the city by difficult precipice:
fine wagon road of easy grade has just
been completed down to the Nuuanu preci-
pice of 800 feet, so that the city and har-
Dor are now connected with that side OF
the island and many residents will estaB-
lish country seats there, giving q great
change Of climate.
I am specifying some of these particulars
in order to keep in front the essential fact
but one suited to white men. 1t is a coun-
try where white men can labor in the
field throughout the year as comfortably
as they can in June and September In
Chic and New York. We know nothing OF
your summer heats and never hear OF
sunstroke. 1t needs to be fully understood
that climate makes Hawaii a true
white mans country, rot tropical one
: Ills SnOulu 90 away Will That obJSCtlOh
to cur admission to the Union which is
perhaps the most strongly felt of any, that
Hawaii can never have other than an ul-
desirable population, unfit for republican
ir stitutions. The truth is that white mep
all find this delightful home. There is
not on the globe such a paradise for. the
white man. Let annexation take place, and
rapid immigration will follow from the
United States. In dozen or twenty years
there will be here a population, Of from
one to two hundred thousand Americans
and in twenty more half million Utt-
mateIy there will be in Hawaii, one NIB
gent. as tarpy as any other million in the
Union. . We
Agricultural and Commercial Attrac-
tiOns. -. -,
Besides our delicious climate, the strong
attractions drawing large immigration
of whites will be both agricultural and
commercial. For export, besides our pres
ent great production of sugar, there is
that Of a superb quality of coffee, product
eminently suited to white labor. There
will be also that of bananas pineapples
and citrous fruits. for which an unlimited
market will be afforded by Oregon, Puget
sound and Alaska, to which Hawaii will
be the nearest source of such fruits. The
commercial inducement will be magniff-
cent one. that Of supplying and co-operat-
ing in the enormous trans-Pacif1c traffic
now growing up. With all these resources
one million Of people will be easily main
tanned in Hawaii.
OF their future population the remaining
natives will have shrunk to a very small
percentage The immigration of AsiaticS
will be checked. while the present 4I,OO6
will have no votes under American law.
How, then, can there be any difficulty in
maintaining democratic Institutions here?
The incoming white population will here
breathe that American atmosphere OF SEN
timent and practice which already prevails.
The newcomers will at once be laid hold of
by the molding and elevating influences of
the American schools and American
churches already established here and pos
seSsing the land. No new territory was
ever admitted into the Union with better
propect of growing into a healthy Ameri-
can state, because Hawaii is already Amer
icanized, and because it possesses all the
elements for attracting large American
population.
Advice From Mr.. Davies. -
Mr.. Theophilus Davies came before the
public once more yesterday, after a long
interval, in brief expression of political
sentiments, which seems to be rather of p
tentative nature. He will be remembered
as the guardian of the Princess Kaiulani,
who in 1893 hastened over to Washington
from. England. with his ward, to protest in
her name, as heress to the throne against
annexation. Mr.. Davies has large interests
here, to look after which he visits Honolu-
lu every year. Both he and the young lady
have been here for some time. am some
what credibly informed that the princess
has no expectation of the restoration of the
monarchy. That Mr.. Davies mind Is in the
same attitude would seem to appear from
a remark that in certain conditions he be-
lieves that the Hawaiians would accept
the republic" That language. however. is
not wholly free from ambiguity. He admits
that the government. whatever its defects.
''is now the universally recognized govern
ment of Hawaii"
AS such, it appears to be Mr. Davies de-
sire to treat with the government for some
fundamental changes in the constitution
which will propitiate the native mind, and
induce them cordially to participate in the
government Of the country. He seems very
much to doubt whether the present nego-
tiations at Washington will not fail. In
that case, prudence requires us to consider
what alternative to annexation we shall
need to adopt In his opinion, 1t will be
useless to offer the sovereignty of the isl.
ands to Great Britain or to any other Eu-
ropean power. They would not risk the
probable complications with the United
States. We must govern ourselves; and
the first thing to do is to accept the Wash