The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-19
|DR. ENGLISH
ON HAWAII
Queens Physician In
Denver.
HE GIVES HIS OPINIONS
Says,the Next Legislature viii PEN
sion LiIiuokaIani and Talks
Of Honolulu.

DENVER. Col, Sept 24.-The Republi-
can says:
DIR. Charles Hamilton English, who has
been for the last three years private ply
stefan to former Queen Liliuokalani of
Hawaii, declared yesterday afternoon
that unless a man was friend of 1.-The
missionary element in Hawaii he might
as well keep out of the islands.
1T is familiarly known as the mission
airy element because all it's members are
descendants of missionaries who went to
the islands from the United States, said
the doctor at the Windsor Hotel
However. its day is passing. The three
political parties in the islands are the Re.
publicans, Democrats and Independents.
The Independents represent the natives
an6 will undoubtedly control both
branches of the Legislature after the fall
election. More than three-fourths of the
voters registered are natives. The ma
tiyes, too of course, are largely in the
majority. The last Congress gave equal
ST. ffrage to all.
The natives have not forgotten the
abe minable labor contract law by which
native was bound out for term of
years to a planter. If he broke his con-
tract he was arrested and sent to prison.
there to stay until he decided to return
to his master. The cost of keeping him
in prison was taken out of his wage and
the time he spent in prison was added to
the term of his original contract. Con-
gress knocked this out, but the natives
remember the law. There were others
equally obnoxious. The natives will pass
such legislation as will make the islands
mere a place for common people.
Before the present judges went into
office, justice in the islands was a traves-
ty. Justice Humphreys, when he took
charge, ascertained the condition of af-
fct md ant hn oil
now rules in the islands.
1.-The next Hawaiian Legislature will
undoubtedly pension the former Queen.
This was proposed by Congress- but the
bills did not pass. There is no question
but that the natives will grant the PEN
sion. The feeling for the United States
is loyal in the extreme. The natives are
convinced that the United States has
IT, cir interests in mind and this has been
shown by the very liberal laws which
We're embraced in the Hawaiian bill. The
former queen does not feel in the least
bitter toward the United States, but on
the other hand, feels great love for the
American nation. She knows that an
nexation was the best thing for the coun-
try.
There has been great deal of inter :
marriage between the natives and the
white people. This has made a race intel
lectually bright and progressive and has
StdiWdIl men anu IIldHy women
of remarkable beauty. The important
families educate their children in the
United States and among the upper class
of natives you meet men and women who
are splendidly educated"
DIR. English, in speaking of the manner
in which "the missionary element" deals
with the United States, said:
THE United States wanted to secure
control of Pearl Harbor. 1t was planned
to spend about 100000 in improvements
and make it the naval base for the Unit
ed States. Land was assessed at from SO
to $40 an acre, but as soon as the Ameri-
can naval officer looked into the land and
1t was known what was proposed, the
price jumped to 81 200 an acre. The Unit
ed States simply ignored the land. The
clement stood in its own light
and prevented the Government from car
rying out its plans"
DR.. English is on his way to his old
home in Washington, d. c. He was the
physician to the former queen for three
years and accompanied her to Honolulu
last May. Said he:
THE health of the former queen is
now very good. There was no real ne
cessity for me to remain in Hawaii any
longer to attend her and I have, there
fore, resigned and am going home, I shall
not return to Honolulu for
year"