Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-10

all the great powers Of the world. Can
did witnesses of foreign and native
birth agree that it is the best govern
ment they have ever known on the is
lands If it could be maintained indef-
initely, there would be no necessity for
seeking any other. The eX-queen herself
has formally declared that the governs
ment of the republic of Hawaii is the
lawful government of the Hawaiian Is
lands, and has renowned for herself
and her heirs and successors all claims
to the late monarchy.
All natives and naturalized citizens
VINO can read and write Hawaiian or
English, pay their taxes and take the
oath of allegiance, are entitled to vote
FOR members of the lower house. There
Is property qualification added for
those who elect senators. Massachu-
sets has the same educational test, and
Rhode Island imposes a property quail
fication on her voters Asiatics are eX-
Guided from voting for the same rea-
sons which keep them out of American
politics. While we should welcome the
day when men of all nations would be
eligible to American citizenship, we
could not safely antedate that period;
nor should we expect of Hawaii politi-
cal hospitality which we do not practice
ourselves. A plebscite of her present
population, which includes $4,000 Chinese
and japanese, would swamp the $1,000
full-blooded Hawaiians and deliver their
country to Asiatic control.
The only stable and competent gov
eminent they have ever known has been
that which was formed for them and
administered with them by American
Missionaries ard their fellow-laborers.
Those were picked men-tne BrighamS,
Armstrong; Judds AleXanders, Thurs
tons, Lymans, Coans, Doles and others
--seed-corn out Of the best granary of
character this world has ever seen; and
their kind is in their sons. President
Dole is nothing, if not honest. He left
the bench of Hawaii to accept the peril
GUS post Of president, and he did it for
the sake of that justice to which he
was pledged and which he had admins
tered faithfully. He and many of his
associates were taught from their youth
to regard the Hawaiian people as their
wards, to whose welfare they We're con-
seerated. They are Hawaiian-born
themselves, and none are more loyal
than they to the good of their land.
At a critical hour they rescued that
land from a government which was
opening the national doors to rum,
opium and the lottery--three evils that
would have destroyed the liberty, the
fortunes and the manhood of the COM
mon people, and which had abrogated
the constitution it had sworn to sup
port.
We do not see how any friend of
Hawaii or of republican government
can desire return of the outgrown and
disqualified Hawaiian monarchy An
unlimited republic would soon perish by
the consent of the governed" The
present limited republic cannot live for
ever. A JOINT protectorate of European
powers has been tried elsewhere, and
succeeded nowhere. 1t succeeds no bet
ter when America becomes a partner in
the triumvirate. Witness Samoa. Pos
session by some great power capable of
defending it from the misuse of others,
and willing to hold it for their legtti-
mate uses, seems to be the only solution
of the Hawaiian question