The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-03-11
ABOUT THE GROWN LANDS.
DON CELSO CAESAR MORENO HAS
AN INNING.
Makes a General Speech Before the
House Committee on Territories and
Incidentally Advises Mckinley.

Don Celso Caesar Moreno has had
his finger in the crown lands pie and
made a statement or address before
representative w. S. Knox and the
committee on territories of the house
of representatives.
The don is pretty virulent in all di-
rections and his especial friends the
missionaries" come in for a great SEQ
ring. However he does not confine him
self to Hawaiian missionaries, but to
those in China, Japan, Korea, Burmah,
Philippines and the Malay Archipela-
go. Wherever they CO." says the don,
poor, with two carpet bags, one filled
with Bibles and the other with mort
gage blanks-and they sooner dispose
of the second than the first" The
missionaries sons in Hawaii are very
i'll bred rabble; they are all prone to
delinquency and are all modern Tor
quemadas for the Hawaiians l posi-
lively know it. because with my mouth
closed and my eyes and my ears open,
1 keenly observed and studied on the
spot"
What the diatribe against the mis-
sionaries had to do with the eX-Queen
Liliuokalani's rights to the crown lands
is not clear, but having got off his
steam the don was ready to come to
THE crown lands in Hawaii do not
belong to the public domain, but they
belong to the private estate of the de-
funct King Kamehameha III, and the
only surviving heirs are the Princess
Elizabeth Kekaaniau and her niece,
Princess Teresa Owana Kaohelelani,
wife of the Hon. Robert Wilcox, the
foremost gentleman, scholar and pat
riot in the Hawaiian Islands. The
claim of Princess Kakaaniau and Prin-
cess Kaohelelani to the crown lands
is based upon the statement substan-
tiated by geneologists, that they, the
two princesses, are the only living
members of the royal family of the
Kamehamehas of Hawaii.
LAS long as there was a throne
in Honolulu the descendants of the
Kamehamehas made no efforts to Sc
cure possession of the lands, which
they now claim for the reason that they
recognized that the income of the lands
was to be devoted to the support of
the dignity of the throne, stipulated by
King Kamehameha III himself. 1t is
only now, when the revenue of the
lands cannot be devoted to such pur-
pose, from the fact that the throne has
ceased to exist, that they come for
ward and assert their claim.
The eX-Queen Liliuokalani has no
claim Whatever to these crown lands
for the reason that she has no rela-
tionship or kinship of any kind to the
royal family of the Kamehamehas."
The don then makes some statements
which would bring him into a libel
suit. or any one who printed them here.
After settling the question of the
crown lands to his own satisfaction he
proceeded to give advice to the eXecu-
tive upon the way to manage Hawaii
and the Philippines. A SPECIMEN is ap-
pended:
"The Hawaiian and the Philippine
questions are pregnant with obstacles
now and with grave consequences here
after, If practical men of the world
who know the secret, which is never to
be fallacious in dealing with those
primitive races, with their traditions,
pecuHarities, customs and proclivities,
viz, to rub the cat from head to tail,
and not vice versa, are not without de-
lay sent to persuade them.
THE first impression, good or
bad, which those primitive races con-
ceive in regard to a foreign individual
| or a foregn nation is the one that in
their minds lasts forever. England,
France, Spain, Holland, Portugal and
Italy have failed on that cardinal point
! and had to suffer terrible; therefore,
America should act differently-good
and humane manners with primitive
| races are more persuasive than pounds
| sterling. The Hawaiians and the Fill
pinos have the blood of the ancients
| in their veins and the spirit of the
moderns in their brains; they are all
brave men and conscious of their
rights; they are patriotic and love
their fatherland with ardent and poeti-
cal love, and they are able to discrlm-
| mate between the right and the wrong
| and these very words l have on differ
ent occasions, since the year 1896, told
and repeated to the illustrious Senator
! Cushman X. Davis, chairman of the
| committee on foreign relations of the
| senate. 1t appears to be my destiny
| to be a prophet, and, also to be the
| source of disappointment to the great
men, who fail to appreciate adequate
| ly my prophetical suggestions.
81 am for expansion because l be-
! lieVe in the laws of nature, that ma
! tions like trees need expansion sed mo-
| dus in rebus in the execution Of such
! an expansion.
The don is certainly a wonderful
man for his years. He concludes his
i grafton with the words "Resplce
| finem." look out for the end, the clas-
sic jokers used to add "Respice fu-
nem," look out for the ropes end.