The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-26

all that you could wish for in any coun-
try. There were any amount and variety
of vegetables in bloom and a great pro-
fusion of flowers. The old man told me
that he raises four crops a year, and the
flowers bloom all the time.
Il was talking; with a Kanaka custom
house officer ono night. and l asked him
when the natives ceased to be cannibals.
He was very indignant at the query, and
assured me that they never We're canni-
balls This Is the way he said that people
came 10 believe them savages. When
Capt Cook, the discoVerer of the Islands,
came here the natives thought him a god.
A great many, especially the women, wor-
SHIPPED him. Capt. Cook took a fancy to
a wife Of one of the chiefs. This chief be-
came jealous, but he feared to touch Capt.
Cook. Finally he began to doubt the
godship of Capt. Cook. He argued thus.
If Cook is a god, then he would not feel
or mind crack on the head with a club,
but he is not then he will yell. So, pro-
curing a club, he hit Cook over the head
Cook yelled. Then the chief Immediately
ran his spear through him. The body
was quartered by the people, who were
mad at being deluded by one who could die
like themselves. The quartered pieces
were hung up on a line TO preserve them
Now 1t was the practice among the people
to hang up pieces Of wild hog In the same
HldiutI preparatory 10 GdIlnk. some OF
the natives installing the third quarter
of the body for a piece of hog, took It
down and ate 1t. And thus 1t was the
people of Sandwich Islands became known
as cannibals. l asked a prominent man
If the story was true. He said II was a
native story, but It's truth was doubtful
He assured me, however that the body Of
Capt Cook was not eaten. but that il was
taken into the interior and buried
EVERY nafiua fa1t !,
Is opposed to every kind of government
but that Of ex-Queen lii. II they could
only get her back they would, but they
say they are powerless before the white
machine that now controls them The
real secret of the white mans control is
the happy go lucky come and govern me
you who can nature of the Hawaiians. The
natives would like a government of their
own, but they are too careless TO exist
themselves
'"rhe wealth Of the Islands lies in their
sugar plantations 1t IS feared that with
annexation the sugar Industry VIII de-
crease and likewise the Importance Of the
Islands. You see, TO make the plantations
pay there has to be cheap labor. Now, 1t
is Cinnamon and japanese who furnish
this want. These people work for from
50 to SIS a month and find everything
themselves. With annexation TO the Unit
ed States Will come the Chinese and Jap
anese exclusion act. and they win not be
able to import any more contract laborers
At present every steamer from China and
Japan is bringing many emigrants in an
ticipation Of annexation. The Chinese and
the japanese are the scourge of these
islands. They lower the price of wages.
Nearly every kind Of common labor is
done by the Ccestials, and the highest
wages for them is 81 a day. Nearly all the
smaller stores and a few Of the larger ones
are owned and run by Japs and China
men. The Kanaka8 do not indulge IN store
keeping at all. II they did they would
soon be crowded out by the cheap wares
Of their Celestial brethren.
1.-THE white people IN business here have
a swell trade, but the prices OF everything
in their stores are from twenty-five 70 fifty
per cent. higher than IN the states. OIL
course the white people working here can
afford 10 pay these prices, as their wages
arc Droportionately higher than the other
inhabitants. Engineers. mechanics and
business men have big chances TO grow
rich here. The plantations pay their en-
gineers $i25 a month: mechanics get from
$50 TO $i25 a month, and a smart business
man with little capital can make money
hand over fist. One man / know came here
four years ago with So. Now he owns
plantation for which he was offered S40,-
000 few days ago."