The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-21

lishment stand aloof from and be in
dependent OF this foreign power on the
coasts OF the Pacific Ocean. in my
judgment. these matters are so worthy
Of consideration that / did not feel at
liberty 20 tear down a system which
has life tenure for supreme court
judges and a tenure Of six years for
circuit court judges and reduce the
tenure and transfer the appointment Of
the judges into. the hands OF a power
which was entirely foreign and entirely
distant TO a great many people IN Ha-
wall.
Suppose the President OF the United
States were TO select a really eminent.
good man, whether he is a native ka-
naka or whether he is a native-bOrn
white man, for there are many OF that
kind in Hawaii who have spent all their
lives on the island. who were born
there, and who feel for that island the
same patriotic zeal that / trust ! feel
for the State OF Alabama and the Gov
eminent OF the United States. Suppose
such a man were appointed by the
President OF the United States and were
10 come before the Senate and hear
tea rabid. vicious, defamatory, horri-
DIE tNDIDHlOuH Vi NAdAl anu utuuntAa-
ton and vengeance and disgust that
have been uttered by Senator's on this
floor in this debate, would We expect
fair consideration from the Senate
under such denunciations OF a man who
belongs 10 that abhorred race or that
abhorred region OF the world? Sir,
should say that a gentleman from Ha-
wall who, after hearing the debates
-
himself TO the jurisdiction OF this body
would be either a very bold or a very
bad man-one of the two. The demon
STATIONS made here are entirely for
eign, entirely antagonistic. and feroci-
ously opposed to any conception that
there can be either morality or law or
| justice in the Hawaiian Islands or that
those people are entitled TO any con-
sideration whatever.
/ said to the Hawaiians, when I first
went there, IF you want justice in the
| Government of the United States, stand
your ground and apply for admission
as a State into the American Union,
where your Senators can come upon
this floor, and in the other House your
| Representatives can come and take care
of your interests; for IL you throw
|
and that foreigner is influenced in his
conduct toward you by prejudice and
/ passion or by the baneful effect of poll
/ teal power bought with money, you
will be in a serious condition hereafter,
and you will live to lament :he fact that
ever you consented to become a part
of the United States of America" Mr..
President, no warning could have pre-
/ IA ha frr,r,, fr,O
here. Those people have as assiduously
and as continuously celebrated the
birthday of American independence for
fifty years as We have. They have never
allowed a Fourth of July occasion 10
pass that they did not bring out the
banners of the United States and hold
their feasts and festivals in honor OF
our independence.
Those missionaries who went there
who seem to have lived to receive the
lopprobrium that is due only TO the
worst class of men that ever existed
infused into those people the first idea
of liberty, the first conception of Chris
tianity. They were their teachers
They translated the Bible into their
language. Theirs was a spoken Ian
guage, consisting of an alphabet oil
thirteen letters, nearly all of then
vowels, and a few consonants. The
missionaries translated the Bible into
their language. formed the grammar
and dictionary OF the language. taught
4 IL in schools, so that the laws were mo-
only written, but printed. in Hawai-
and in the Hawaiian tongue, and bull
lup for them from the foundation ston,
to its splendid majestic attitude tina
wonderful combination of people in Ha
wall which. after all. grew into a re
public. They did not usurp republican
ideas or doctrines or principles an'
force them upon an unwilling multi
tude. but the whole people were in
spired by the love for republican insti
buttons, out of which grew this celebra
. ton annually of our natal day, the At
! day Of July.
A people in that condition have tn
= right to expect at our hands something
besides abuse. Let some man point on
a defect in the government OF Hawaii
some corruption, some mismanage
; ment some abuse of trust or power
+ then | will be prepared TO hear hin
with patience; but when 10 comes TO tn
: mere question as to whether the ia
] waiian government has consented {
} make labor treaties and labor contract
: to get her sugar cane fields establishe-
+ there. and when that question runs OF
into a mock idea of liberty and justic
and right, | am prepared to say that tn
people of Hawaii are misiudged upO
? that question. IL they have bee
. wrong about IL, it is because they hav
= been Overruled by powers that wer
2 outside of Hawaii, most of them i
! California, for the purpose OF enablin
= the sugar planters TO get the labor @
= Japan and China upon their suga
! estates.
E Now as to Japan. a Japanese has a
, much right to make a labor contraC
9 with a man in the United States as
5 German has. They would both have
( full right TO do that but for the prOhibi
e ton of our laws. A man can make Ia
S Dor contract with a subject of Japa
e to go to Germany or England or Franc
e to work, but he can not do it as to IN
e United States, because we prohibit i
That is the only reason for II. Hawai-
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