The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-07
THE NATIVE PRooRA AM.

In greeting the delegates of the old
Royalist Societies yesterday, the former
Queen made a statement which her per-
sonal organ, the Independent, quotes as
follows:
When our flag went down it went down
for good. What we see with our own
eyes we cannot deny. All we can do now
Is to become American citizens.
This is wise counsel, but how is 1t
being taken? By the creation of a ma
tive political party opposed to white
American citizens, both Repub leans
and Democrats, and having the avon ed
object Of controlling al Hawaiian elect
i've Offices for spoils and for revenge.
Verify whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad.
1t may seem an easy thing for the ma
tives, with their numbers, to control the
politics of Hawaii and revive the ad-
ninistrative scandals of the monarchy;
but it will be so difficult, so impossible
a policy to follow out, that the men who
advise it may be set down as lacking
ways. and as having a singular taste
for political suicide.
The elective suffrage was given to the
natives with the idea that IL would ed
ucate them in American patriotism. If
Congress had believed that the Hawaii
ans would oppose Americanism, going
| off by themselves to draw the color line
against the whites, it would undoubted-
ly have retained the property qualifica-
| ton in the Cullom-Knox bill, and thus
| excluded the vast majority of the ma
| tives from the ballot box. Should 1t find
it's confidence misplaced it will be likely
| to amend the law. Congress gave;
| Congress can take away" and we warn
the natives that the further they go
from the American political parties the
nearer they will come to virtual ex-
clusion from the voting privilege.
| We know they do not believe this.
They treat the truth now as they did
, that which foretold the deposition of
| the Queen and the failure OF every at
| tempt to restore her. AS usual they
| smut their eyes to the writing on the
wall Wilcox has told-them that If a
native-meaning himseIf-fs elected to
lation. Nothing can be further from the
| fact. If he went from an anti-Ameri-
| can, anti-haole native party he would
| not have friend on the floor of either
/ House or in the Executive mansion He
could not appeal to Republicans or
Democrats. Having no vote he could
| offer them no help in exchange for ia
nd hal
can party, he could not catch the eye
OF the Speaker and get chance to be
heard on the floor. Men have been in
congress for years without convincing
the chair that they ought to raise their
voices in debate, and they had a hun
dred chances where such a Delegate as
the ola Roya.lst. societies propose to
eject would have one. Nor could an
ant1-haole Hawaiian get influence in
the matter of patronage or appropria
lions. He would not be asked for his
OPINION on Island affairs; instead the
PRESIDENT and the Legislators would
either consult the National Committee
| men Of their party, or write directly &c
| Mckinley late.y did, to Governor Dole
Republicans and Democrats of these
| Islands would be suited; not natives
VINO reject the American parties ae
having no claims upon them If hostil.
legislation were proposed, the natives
without the help Of Republicans q,
Democrats or both, could do nothing r.
counterfeit it.
DO we overstate the case? Every
American knows that we do not AL
ready the leaders of the Southern De-
hocracy, the strongest men of that mar.
~ are moving to put the native Hawaii
ans and Porto Ricans on a plana with
'he hoh-Voting negroes. Senator Till
man declares that the educational quail
| iiication lately engrafted upon the suf-
trase laws of South Carolina has do
| piiVeo over 100000 colored men of tbe,r
'o'es' and he argues that the Same
| measures should be taken against uo.
Wallans. We venture tn cav Tho. c.
'oi N'orsan and all other Southern
statesmen agree with him. The Demo-
0id'io party Is ripe to take the votes
away from the natives
what folly, what hideous fo,,,, 8. -
Tor the natives to risk their birtbr;a,,.
Tor mess OF pottage. 1t is bur ,in,itaa
power which they can get in excbanea
for earning the disfavor of the orc. ;
parties Suppose they control the I,ep-
isiature, what then? They cannot bv
mat unseat Mr.. Dole, Mr.. Cooper and
Mr.. Dole's appointees. They cannot
touch the Postoffice, the Custom House
the internal Revenue office or the Fed
eral Court, which are under American
jurisdiction. Not single law that they
pass can go into effect without the as
sent of Congress, and Congress will not
ratffy any measure which the Republi-