Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-17
A SQUABBLE IN HAWAII.

The Honolulu Republican, which we understand
is controlled and to largo extent edited, by Judge A.
S. Humphreys, who has had something more than a
in Arizona is not satisfied with the pres
ent condition of affairs in province of many isles
The Republican of recent date records Governor
Doe refusal to protract the session of the Hawaiian
Legislature, its acts having been altogether in sym
pathy with the natives and not at all to the Cover
ernors taste, The missionaries sons, it, co-opera-
tion with whom Mr. Dole conspired against Queen
Liiuokaani and established oligarchy in the in
terest of annexation to the United States in a
minority in the last Legislature owing to the recent
ly enlarged franchise, and have been unable to lord
it the people they formerly did. The natives
have, accordingly, run things to suit themselves
They voted, fer example, $25, 900 to the ex- Queen
and in this act and otherwise expressed their anti
pathy to the men who betrayed the independence of
Hawaii. The natives call the political Americans
"Outlanders" and affirm that their plotting with the
Harrison administration to get warship sent to sup
port their rebellion differs from the Jameson raid in
South Africa only in having been successful. The
extinction of the independence of the Hawaiian State
against the wish of the majority of its people was
worse, in morals they hold, than the suppression of
the liberties of the Boers because the United States
committed its crime without alleging any provoca-
Dole as Governor of Territory of the United States,
continues to exhibit the same arrogance and meth-
ods of rule" that he exhibited while forcing on an
nexation.
The disposition of the Americans in Hawaii, as
was to be expected because it is national trait is
to get and keep all the Offices This does not suit
the Honolulu Republican, which INDUCES in some
reflections upon the rapacity of the mission
aries sons and their efforts to exclude recent immi-
grants from participation in the spoils 1.-THE early
missionaries to these islands," says our contempor-
ary, "were of the Puritan faith and strain they
God-fearing earnest men, loyal to their convictions
and faithful to their duties, and Hawaii them
much. But they not unmndful of the oppor-
tunltes for gaining wealth and power by which they
were surrounded; and they were never anxious to
share those opportunities with others, and it is not
recorded Of them that they invited ever well
coined white immigrants from the mainland Their
descendants. with less of religious zeal have preserved
the narrow clannsh and dominating spirit of their
fathers. 1t may not be denied that many of the
children and grandchildren of the early settlers are
imbued with mercenary rather than a missionary
spirit and that the noble ambition of love of power
for the public good has degenerated, with some of
them, into ignoble ambition, into lust of Office for
the sake of its emoluments, and into disposition to
sacrifice the growth and prosperity of the commun-
ity to the personal interests of the old-timers The
exhibition of this spirit often causes the newcomer
to feel that there is long, tough tight string at
tached to his aloha But occasionally there has come
among MS some men of tougher FIBER who did not
believe That the sons and grandsons and cousins and
brethren In the Lord and out Of the Lord of the mis-
sonaries of former generation had inherited an in
defeasible right to hold all the Offices and control all
the legislation, and monopolize all the franchises
and possess all the soft snaps in these islands of the
blessed-and then there has been a circus"
The effort at present is to ostracize "the main
lander"-the immigrant from the United States
The "Outander" of the annexation period detests
the later coming ''Outlander" Yet the hope of the
country lies in the latter. There is a note Of trium-
phant anticipation in the Republicans discussion of
this phase of its topic whether the Constitution fol-
lows the flag mo-" it says, 'the keeneyed bright
Drained men of the mainland are following it. Some
of them may have but one lung but they have two
hemispheres to their brains They will within the
next decade double treble the population of these
islands, they will make of Honolulu city OF hun
dred thousand people, enriched by the wealth pro-
duced in the islands and this in spite of all the con-
ceted, selfish, grasping sanderers that ever skulked
behind hypocrite's garb to yelp at the newcomers
to whom all intelligent, patriotic citizens will cry
aloha nui! aloha null"
This is fine. 1t shows that Judge Humphreys
10 In irst-class fighting mood. The children of the
missionaries have set example for avarice and sell
fshness almost unparalleled, and if Judge Humphreys
can do EN- up, he will be performing service for
his adopted islands.