Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-04-28
THE INFAMOUS CAMPAIGN.

ADEopOS VI tlt campaign iho"Se'"s
ed by the official organ to turn the poll
tics of Hawaii into the channels of a
race war, 1t is timely to draw atten-
ton to the statements published dur
ing the annexation campaign by L. A.
Thurston who now controls the morn
ing organ.
The leading feature of Mr.. Thurs
tons pamphlet is, Twenty Objections
to Annexation and Replies thereto"
The fourth objection reads, Whether
the annexation of a Heterogeneous
people is constitutional or not. the
population of Hawaii is unfit for lncor-
poration into, and will be dangerous
to the American political system"
In making answer to this objection
Mr.. Thurston takes the different
nationalities up in detail" First the
Native Hawaiians are dealt with Rs
follows:
"The Native Hawaiians, only BE- 900
in number, are conservative, peace
full and generous people. They have
had during the last twenty years 10
struggle against the retrogressive ten
denotes Of the reigping family; but in
spite of that, very large proportion
Of them have stood out against such
tendencies, and are supporters OF the
Republic and of annexation. The ma
Jority of the present House Of Repre-
sentatives, the first under the nepub-
lie, consists of pure-blooded Native
Hawaiians, and the Speaker of the
House is Native Hawaiian.
Tine Hawaiians are not Africans
but Polynesians. They are brown not
black. There is not, and never has
been any color line i'm Hawaii as
against the native Hawaiians, and they
participate fully and on an equality
with the white people in affairs poll
teal, social. religious and charitable.
The two races freely intermarry one
with the other, the results being shown
in present population of some coo Of
mixed blood. They are race which
will in the future, as they have in the
past, easily and rapidly assimilate with
and adopt American ways and meth
ods.'
In 1897, Mr.. Thurston published
abroad over his own signature that the
Native Hawaiians are a conservative
peaceful and generous people," that
"a very large proportion of thcm
are supporters of the Republic
and of annexation" that there is not
and never has been any color line in
Hawaii" Replying to the tenth Oh
lection" that "a large portion of Ia
waiian voters have been disfranchis-
ed" the answer reads, The reply to
the objection is that no Hawaiian vot-
ers have been DISTINGUISHED
Thus we find Mr.. Thurston claiming
for the Hawaiians that strength and
breadth of character, the conservative
political acumen which justilies their
admission to the full rights and privi-
leges Of American citizenship.
Since this pamphlet was issued the
annexation OF Hawaii to the United
States has been consummated, Mr..
Thurston has assumed control Ct TIE
paper accepted as the mouthpiece of
the ruling official circle, and the Unit
ed States Congress has passed bill
which gives citizens of Hawaii an
equal voice in the local affairs of the
territorial administration. Suffrage
has been limited only by an educational
qualification in spite of the efforts Of
our local government representatives
and their arguments presented through
the columns of the official organ, to
enforce upon the people a Limitation of
privileges gagged by property values.
AS Hawaii is about to enter upon its
American career, with the die cast so
far as the question of suffrage is con-
cerned. the official organ starts out on
q campaign which is an insult to every
citizen OF Hawaii of native Hawaiian
ancestry. The American statesmen who
granted the Native Hawaiian full
American rights. as they must neces-
sarily grant "a conservative, peaceful
and generous people who easily and
rapidly assimilate with ana adopt
American ways and methods"
worshipping the false god Of "Ameri-
oanism," The organ also has a night
mare Of a bitter campaign against the