The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-03-29
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Has any one read the county bill
through?
Enquiries made among the members
of the Home Rule party, are always an !
swered in negative. Certainly the most
prominent members have not read it,
or they would never have allowed it to
appear in the form it is. 1t contains
an absolute insult to Hawaiians, an
insult which has been carefully pre-
vented by their Kamaaina friends, and
it has been left to the Home Rule
party, trusting to the venal whites who
have been using the party for their own
interests, to give a slap in the Hawai-
ians face, which the Hawaiian must
resent intensely.
If there is any position which the
Hawaiian resents more than another,
it is being classed as a "nigger." Now
The Star wants to be clearly under
stood upon this point. There may be
an Hawaiian point of view, there may
be and is another point of view. The
Star is not putting up any argument
against negroes. 1t knows by personal
contact and business relation that ne
groes can be and are honorable gentle
men, just as the best of any race may
be.
But this has nothing to do with the
present argument Rightly or wrongly
the Hawaiian resents intensely being
classed with the colored population of
the United States. The Star very
thoroughly agrees with the Hawaiian.
The Hawaiian is not a negro. He is a
Aryan. 1t is unfortunate that the ne
gro has for centuries been regarded as
belonging to a subject race, no matter
who the subjector may be. He has
been European and Asiatic. He might
have been Polynesian and as a fact the
Polynesian Fijian dominated the Me-
lanesian who was of negro stock.
Nigrito is the name the scientists use,
and fail to understand or rather eX
plain how the negro race exists in the
Pacific Islands.
The county bill formed or supposed
to be formed by the Hawaiian Home
Rule party, deliberately sets to work
to insult the Hawaiians. Men who have
lived here the best years of their lives
have used their best effects to show
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Hawaiian and the foreigner who has
settled in the formers midst. The
main aim with those who really deal
with. and strive to help the Hawaiian
has been to show the equality of the
race with any other race.
1t was only little over a year ago
when the question of designating Ha-
waiian as "colored" and thus CHASING
them with the NEGROES of the United
States was considered in regard to the
Census. There happened to be a per-
son at the Census office who pointed
out that to class the Hawaiian with
the negro was unjust and would be
resented as an insult by Hawaiians.
The subject under debate even went to
the extent of a refusal on the ut of
the Census Agent to take the Census
of the Islands, if Hawaiians were to be
classed with negroes, Finally, as every
body now knows, Hawaiians and part
Hawaiians We're enumerated. There
was nothing in our Census questions
asking for "colored," or the many sub
divisions of "quadroon" half caste"
''octoroon" and so forth.
In this there was certainly a consid
Grafton for the Hawaiian which is not
shown by the county act. This BADLY
asks under Chapter XXI, Section 8, as
follows:
THE clerk of each district shall, at
least five days previous to the annual
meeting in May in each year. make a
written report, etc, and said report
shall show.
"FIRST-THE NUMBER OF Chill
DREN, MALE AND FEMALE,
WHITE AND COLORED."
OF course it is evident that the men,
or man who got up this portion of the
bill had no idea of conditions here, of
how the Hawaiian resented being class
ed as a colored man, or how the sus-
capabilities of the part Hawaiians
would be hurt. According to the classi-
fication in the bill, everyone who has
a drop Of Hawaiian blood in his or her
veins would be classed as a colored
person. To this has the Home Rule
party allowed it's own to come. Those
who have lived with and appreciated
the Hawaiian have done their utmost
to establish equality, have done their
make him outclass the negro. The
Home Rule party has decided to re-
duce the Hawaiian to the rank of a
colored man.