Evening star., 1898-08-02

tive Hawaiian, and was the manifest des-
tiny of the islands. and 1 am glad that it
has come'
Charles NJ. Cooke.
c. NJ. Cooke, when met in his office this
afternoon said:
My view is that one of the great benefits
of annexation to the islands will be the
stable government for the future, thereby
advancing the business enterprises that
have already been established, and giving
assurance to foreign capital to start many
other enterprises. When such things are
established they are bound to bring pros
perity to the community as a whole.
while l believe the first effects will be
perhaps In the nature of booming up the
country suddenly. yet 1 believe the growth
will be steady in the future and the whole
commercial interests of the country will
be advanced far more than We now can
anticipate. Therefore, think annexation
is for the best interests of every one upon
the islands, native and foreign"
Judge Wilcox.
Being asked what the feeling was among
the Hawaiians he had met, Judge Wilcox
said:
Right here in Honolulu there is a good
deal of opposition among a certain class,
and that class not the best. These people
express their views in some of the native
daily papers and say that the United
they will impress them as soldiers to go to
Manila, and that they will be treated with
contumey, be called niggers, and have no
proper rights. These men belong to the
class of cheap politicians, who hoped to get
office under a restoration of the monarchy
They adopted exactly the same tactics
when the republic was first established but
dropped them because they found their
predictions did not come true.
But l do find that the native land own
ers in the outer districts, the men who
work with their hands and cultivate their
own little farms, or others who work upon
plantations and are getting regular wages,
don't care very much whether Queen Liliuo-
kalani or President Dole, or President Nc
kinley is at the head of affairs. So long as
their taxes are not too heavy, SO long as
they can go about their business unmolest-
ed and can earn living they are content.
1t is the loafers, the non-workers, who
make any antagonistic talk.
"Of course there is some sentimental
feeling, and do not blame them, nor can
any one else blame them. They feel like
man moving into a new and more modern
house. He has more room, he has more
comforts, but at first he is little lost in
his surroundings. But during the period of
the republic they have gradually become
more and more satisfied with the change
and that the new form of government is
better than the old. They see that the
taxes are spent better for the people. Hun
dreds Of HawaiianS have told me this. They
the opportunity to acquire lands.
"a day or two ago l met old Hawaiian
from the outer districts. He asked me If
the news was true that annexation had
come at last. I replied Yes. What do you
think of it?' He replied: 1T has come and
We will have to accept it. America is not
going to take our land away from us, is
she? She is not going to drive us away?
1 said, Certainly not Then he said, We
are. all right; all we have to do Is to stop
on our land and cultivate it. We used to
pay taxes to our Alii, whom we didn't see
from years end to years end, and 1t does
not matter to whom we pay our taxes.
havc~found that when Hawaiians have
beer in trouble that our haole friends have
helped US out I am satisfied they will not
abandon now.
when the Hawaiians thoroughly under
stand that their property and other rights
are protected and respected they will ac-
cept the situation and fall in line and be-
come thoroughly good citizens of whom
Uncle Sam will be proud