The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-09

This move on the part of Judge Hum
phreys to have the Islands tackled on
to the State of California comes with
special i'll grace from him. He has
posed as the friend and adviser of the
Hawaiian against the wicked Doleites.
the so-called missionaries. He has
taken an active part in the Home Rule
movement though he posed as a Re-
publican. Report after report by Leg
islative committees came either from
his pen or from his dictation. All were
for the advancement of the Hawaiian,
but at the same time he was scheming
and plotting to stab the Hawaiian in
the back.
The object of the scheme is plain. 1t
was a development of the idea which
once possessed his brain that he would
leave the Islands, start as politician in
San Francisco, and get elected as con-
gresham from California. That scheme
being thrown aside, the scheme to GUST
Dole and get the governorship was
tried and failed. The scheme to be
municipal bill never materialized.
Then came this brilliant idea. Annex
the Islands as a county of California
and have them return one congress-
man. Who should be that congress-
man but Judge Abram Humphreys.
From Representative to Senator will
be a step that will be natural and then
there will be only one step further
and the inordinate ambition will be
satisfied. But like Shakespeare vault
ing ambition that o'erleaps ITSELF" the
Judge has fallen on the other side.
Were he to succeed in his scheme,
which there is no likelihood of, he
would never get his foot on the first
rising of the ladder, for as a popular
leader amono Hawaiians Judge Hum
phreys is a dead cock in the pit
But California will have none of his
scheme. Here is what'one of the Coast
papers has to say on the subject:
zone of the developments of the bit
ter personal and political quarrel now
raging in Honolulu is the movement to
annex the islands to California. An
neXation seems to be the fashion these
later years. but we would advise Cali
fOrnia to leave it to Uncle Sam. Upon
his capacious bosom let both mission
airy and Kanaka weep. Uncle Sam has
so many race troubles in various parts
of his dominiOns that this little one
surely can not worry him much. But
mixed with Californias politics, Ha-
waits troubles would burn like a
plaster. This is a small COM
munity. and that is a still smaller one.
We in California had trouble in settling
the Chinese question, and now the
Eastern States are trying to unsettle
it again. If we annex Hawaii we
would have our Chinese question, their
Chinese question, their Kanaka ques-
ton, their missionary question, their
Portuguese question, their Porto Rico
question, and their leper question. CAL
ifornia has troubles of her own. Among
others, she has her newspapers.
In a small way, the experience of
California with Hawaii would be like
that of Uncle Sam with his new island
possessions. During the last three
years, practically the entire time of the
President of the United States. of Con-
gress, and of most of the departments
of the United States Government has
been taken up with these mongrel ISL
ands. Leaving aside the question of
what they cost us, they have taken up
so much executive and legislative time
that our own rivers and harbOrs, reve-
nue. laws, postoffice routes, rural deli
veries. postoffice buildings, CUSTOM
house buildings-in short, all manner
of things that we need-have been neg
lected Were we to annex Hawaii. this
interestin~ group of volcanic pustuleS
would take up the entire time of our
Legislature, to the exclusion of our own
affairs. 1t would give us one more
congressional district, it is true, but in
asmuch as the seven congressman we
now possess fail utterly to get a fair
amount of federal money back in do
nestle improvements in return for the
good money that California pays into
the federal treasury for improving
Pearl Harbor, Oahu. and dredging Ma
Mia Bay, p. I-considering all these
facts we think California had better
struggle along without the additional
congressional district and without Ha-
yraii