Evening star., 1900-10-09

course Mr.. Carter now abandons all that
| fight as dead issue, No doubt he would
| interests of the territory. His election cam
| not be gained without the Independent vote,
| of which he seems to have no prospect.
Attitude of the Natives.
During the existence of,lthe republic Of
Hawaii. for six years, the great majority OF
the natives refused to come to the polls or
to register as voters. They had two lead
ing reasons. One was, a feeling of animosity
toward a government which had overthrown
the political supremacy Of The Hawaians as
exercised through native sovereign. This
they deeply and inexorably resented. The
other reason was that each voter register
ing was required to take oath forever to re-
| nounce monarchy. Only a limited minority
of natives would do this. 1t resulted that
the elections were mainly in the hands OF
the whites. Had the natives been willing
to vote they could have carried the lower
house Overwhelmingly. In the upper house
the requisite property qualification of $500
income would have kept the senate in the
hands Of the whites, although many hun
dreds of the thus qualified natives could
have voted. But now the wisdom of Con-
gresS has consigned the legislation of Ha-
waii wholly to the weak and ignorant ma
tive Hawaiians.
Natives Anxious to Vote.
1t should be borne in mind that power to
vote for senator's under whatever limita-
tions was great enlargement of the fran
chise to the natives. Under the previous
monarchical constitutions of 1S4S and 1868
they had no vote at all for the upper house.
The senators or mobiles were appointed by
the king, who wisely would not trust the
people to choose them. Now that Congress
has removed the wholesome property re-
Strfct1on the natives have been fastening
to register for the election. Active work
has been done to secure their votes, espe
ciaHy by Wilcox and his associates who
have appealed to the people to improve this
great opportunity to put down white rule.
They have even gone far as to promise
them that native legislature will be able
to restore the queen to the throne. Wilcox
himself disavows that expectation. A
very full native vote is sure to be polled.
The old and affectionate friends of the Ha
Waiian people, whc have long and with re-
markable success labored for their eleva-
ton from heather debasement will view
with deep regret any general effort on
thelr part to overthrow the hitherto friendly
and considerate influence of the foreigner.
We solfcitously await their attitude to-
ward the Vaccinations of Wilcox.
Resentment Over the Revolution.
In reviewing the struggle of the past sew
en- years for the permanence of republican
institutions in Hawaii a leading feature to
be discerned is the unrelenting resentment
felt by the natives for the overthrow Of
their own political control as represented
III lHe person Oh tnelr native sovereign.
One cannot blame them for this however
adverse the rule of such monarch was to
the immense and important material and
moral concerns of the country, which the
white man had created and conducted. 1t
Is an inherent and ineradcabe passion of
human nature to prize and cling to ones
own people and chiefs. AS a rule all the
more primitive peoples would rather go on
under a very base king of their own kin
than to live under the most wise and equit-
able government of white men, This antip-
athy Is part of the white mans burden
When their queen was deposed most of
the Hawaiians could only feel that they
We're all deposed with her, and that "Ha-
waii for the Hawaiians'' was no more. 1t
had become the possession of the Haoles.
Really that was the inevitable issue of the
gradual occupation of the land by the high
er and ADLER race for three-quarters of a
century. In the end they naturally dis
placed politically the lower and less COM
petent. 1t was only the jealous and. tactful
care of the missionary fathers that so
nodded and guided the earlier chiefs as to
secure fifty years proIongation of the mon
archy long after native Polynesian rule
had disappeared everywhere else in the Pa
cific. The Hawaiians alone, among all the
dark and weak races of the globe, have en-
joyed the inestimable honor and privilege
of being merged into fellow-citizenship with
a civilized race.
Menace of Native Control
Were it possible for the weaker race to re-
sumo control, as Wilcox Is teaching them
to dream Of doing, it would be fatal to
every great material interest of. the present
grand and prosperous civilization of Ha-
waii. Yet one must compassionately rec
ogniZe the sorrow and abasement with
which the native Hawaiian has seen the
glories of the ancient chieftancy disappear
and all traces of its once proud exaltation
subverted AS l remember those
naughty old Aliis more than sixty years
ago, how mighty and worshiped they were.
And how the people delighted to abase
themselves and to crawl in the dust in
their presence, proud to belong to such no
bic princes, the glories and achievements of
whose lofty ancestry their bards solemnly
chanted- Now all that ancient and majes-
tic glory of the Hawaiians is departed,
frighted away by ocean leviathans, railway
trains electric lights and mammoth mills,
with their broad miles of sugar cane fields
where formerly were arid deserts.
The grasping and resistless white man
possesses the land Is it strange that the
Hawaiian resents it, although himself SO
wonderfully enriched and civilized thereby?
KAMEHAMEHA.
FIELD ARTILLERY DEVELOPMENT.
nHly RAIS