The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-03-07

waiian Islands sought annexation vol
UNFAIRLY. They had for years been
preparing for that event, and for years
had been hoping for it.
Let anyone consider what has been
the trend of our education for the past
fifteen or twenty years. 1t has been
distinctly Americanzing. The books
introduced have been American books,
and the bulk of the foreign teachers
employed have been American, or men
and women who were at one with the
American movement. The effect of this
has been to put American ideals before
the growing generation, and its results
can be seen. without actually making
a set study of it, Republicanism has
been acquired by the youth and it is
Republican, not monarChial ideals
which the mass think about
Preparation, and thoughtful prepara-
ton has been made, for the entry of
the Islands into the United States as
a territory. This is no country where
the speech differs from the mainland.
English is the language which has the
hold, more so than in some sections of
the United States. The school house
and the schoolma'am are already
here. Five years have made the peo-
pie familiar with Republican rule,
which they understand and appreciate.
We have the same forms of religion
as in the United States. We have va
rious forms of the Protestant denomi-
nations, and we have a Roman Catholic
community conducted not on illiberal
lines, as in Spain. South America and
the Philippines, but on as liberal lines
as will be found in the United States
and Great Britain, where a mans re-
ligious belief does not bar him from
polite al or civil preferment.
We are thus prepared for territorial
government, and the justice of Con-
gress must feel that we are worthy of
this boon. In every way that it has
been possible we have shown ourselves
DESTROYS of attaining this position.
we prayed for the aegis of Columbia to
be thrown over us, when on the 18th of
July, 1898, the Newlands resolution
was passed, and when on August 18th
the stars and stripes were officially
raised over the Islands, the United
than those of territorial methods, by
which such a place as Hawaii should
be governed.
That countries like Porto Rico and
the Philippines will require a different
kind of government, will perchance
need a colonial administration, may be
perfectly true. But their case is not
the same as ours. To them the school
house and the school ma'am on the
American plan are unknown. To them
Professionalism is an abomination, and
it is only the very kind-hearted that
have an inward hope, that perhaps a
few worthy ones may escape eternal
damnation. To them the Republican
ideals of the American race are un-
known. To most of them Republican
| ism means license to do away with
the restraints of law. They need pro-
| DdllOll. lIty lttl 6uuCdllOIl vi IlOI'
ern lines. But we have been educated
and we are prepared. And above al
things we demonstrated our loyalty and
! faith in the Republic when many peo-
pie in the world had not learned what
! her power was.
This is what our friends in Wash.
! ington must keep before Congress. Ir
the rush of great events it must never
be lost sight of. We prepared ourselves
to enter the Republic, we showed oul
faith in the Republic, and we now be-
lieve that the law givers of the Repub.
lie will give us such organic law as we
have every reason to think is justly oul
due. Aesop's lion was very kind to the
mouse, and for lion, in this instance, We
| can readily read Eagle.