The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1901-02-18

ance, and their love of the alii, or
hereditary chieftain, was as profound,
perhaps, when they voted last Novem.
Der as at any previous time. But that
love has taken on q new phase. They
were ardent royalists while they had
a king or queen. Their personal af-
lection for the ruler was as touching
and complete, but in most cases, see
ing the greater good that had come
with absorption into the American
union, and the wider range of personal
power which they enjoy as citizens of
the republic they insist that they are
as good Americans as any son of q
revolutionary granosire.
Legislature is Cosmopolitan.
The upper house of the Hawaiian
Legislature is made up of an exceed,
ingly cosmopolitan membership. There
are native Hawaiians without the
slightest admixture in the blood, Amer.
leans, Englishmen, a Russian, and rep.
resentatives of mixed races where the
Oriental and South Sea blood is joined
with the Caucasian. There are men
representing all the branches which
mark the Islands. From the richest
of sugar planters to the luna, or fore
man, on a plantation; ex-juuges and
ex-clerlls, teachers and capitalists, the
range of occupation is as wide as that
of blood. These men make up the
Senate
David Kalaoukalani, manager of la
Dor on a sugar plantation on the Is
land of Molokai; David Kanuha, an in.
structor in the industrial department
of the Kamehameha Schools, the edu
cational institution founded by prin-
cess of the line and maintained for the
sole benefit of native youth; w. @.
Achi, a lawyer and real estate dealer;
Cecil Brown, president of the First
the kind off the continent, of English
descent; George r. Carter, young de.
scendant of one of the old missionary
families, director in a large corpora,
ton, who recently travelled more than
10000 miles to see the football team
of his old college, Yale, defeat Har.
ward; G. l.. Crabbe, former English.
man, who represents large business
house in it's shipping; ]. D. Paris, a
coffee planter in Kona; John Brown,
contractor in the second city, Hilo; j.
B. Kaohi, former Judge, now a law.
yer; DR.. N. Russell, a Russian of wide
education and experience in many
lands, reputed of anarcnistic tenden-
cies, but in truth good companion
and pleasing speaker, now coffee
planter; n. G. Baldwin, of the sugar
firm of Alexander & Baldwin, one of
the richest individuals in the Terri.
tory, and one of the most acute bust.
ness men as well; S. E. Kaiue civil
engineer and lawyer; Will White, an
attorney at law; Isaac Kahilini
and Luther NaKapaahu, owners Of
large properties which are Incorporate
ed in sugar plantations, who live upon
their incomes and have legal educa.
lions, but are not compelled to prac.
tice
OF this body of men more than one
half have had legislative, experience
in the past, most of them in the same
body to which they are now reelected.
1t is more than probable that the presi-
dency Of the Senate will fall to the
first named, Kalaukalani.
He is one of the strongest, most con.
sentative and admired men of his race.
In the past he has been associated
with the strongest movements for re-
form, and is regarded ny the best men
in the Territory as thoroughly safe
legislator and manager In the middle
eighties he associated himself with
what is known as the missionary party
as against the king, when the question
at issue was the defeat of an opium
ring, and Lorrin Thurston, who was
made prime minister at that time and
afterward came to this country as min
ster attributed much of the reform
to Kalaukalani. The fact
that he is looked upon as the leader
Of the Independent party has done
much to allay fear of revolutionary en-.
actments.