The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-09
Equitable Arrangement.

The property clause in the Culom
bill is intended on the one hand to
give the Republican annexationists a
chance in the Hawaiian Senate. which
will be denied them, by virtue of the
free-for-all Suffrage in the House
The arrangement is thoroughly equita-
bic and expedient, and il ought to COM
mend itself both to the practical and
experienced wisdom of Congress and to
the good sense of the business men Of
the United States. On the other hand,
this clause is designed to aid and foster
the AmericaniZation of this group OF
islands. AS the most intelligent paper
i'm Honolulu expressed IL the other day,
There is no American feeling what
ever among the men, who, by virtue of
an aboriginal vote, would control the
Hawaiian Legislature in case the prop
erty safeguard were dismissed. They
would restore the monarchy If they
could. Their instincts. prejudices, re-
venges, all are wrapped up in the roy
alist tradition. With legislature COM
posed of such men and their dupes. the
lightest word from Liliuokalani would
go farther than the strongest adjura-
tons of the Governor and the moral
pressure of the best part of the body
| polite. 1t may be from one point OF
view that the property test is un-Amer-
| lean. but there will be precious little
Americanism in the Hawaiian Legis-
lature without it,"
II is not intended to deny that some
of the natives have ability and com
mon sense. They are exceedingly kind
peaceful light-hearted, hospitable and
generous, and fond of flowers and music
and merriment. and they have plenty
of good qualities which, If rightly di-
| rected will cause the remnants of q
race which is dying off to merge into q
valuable part of the community in the
| future; but they are much too easily
| influenced at the present time for theil
own or other peoples good.
\ few years ago some of the more in
| telligent among them made and circu.
| lated the discovery and the reason why
the white people were progressing anC
| gaining the good things of the eartf
was because they worked. Before tina
the natives had thought the white peo
pie very foolish 20 toll so continuously
when il was much easier to lie in thu
| shade and sing and battle and have
luaus. and some of them even had {
certain sneaking distrust of the white
peoples God because He made then
work. They voted IL all too much pill
kia." But some of them saw their owl
best interests, and became industrious
and advanced. Among the lower or
ders they make ideal freight handlers
and longshoremen, because the periods
of active. energetic work alternate will
hours when they can loaf and smoke
In higher grades of life they do wei
as lawyers and in subordinate positions
in mercantile life; one Is an excellen
Judge on Maui and another Is the speak
er OF the House. But the native WIFI
Is fitted for office has yet to be found
Work of Demagogues.
The joke of ii all is that the dema
gogues who are working so hard TO
the exclusion of this property qualifica
ton have the widest ideas as to wha
IL would mean to themselves. Speak
ing of these earnest patriots" the othe
day. the paper before referred to said
Would 1t make these islands Ameri
can to transfer the local law-framinj
machinery to the Monarchists? Woul,
1t help to the realization of the dream
, Of the 18th of January, 1898, to turl
over the legislature to the men. who
from that day until the Fourth of July
, 1898. opposed annexation with toot
and nail? What do the earnest pa
!, triots want-a renaissance of royalisr
without the crown? A legislature tina
could be bought up. even by the China
men, at $50 per head? A revival o
the legislative corruption and inefficien
| cy ~ the Doot ,pdar DOlvuaciap auc