The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-09
HUMPHREYS HAS ALARMED
AND AL|[NATED
HAWAIIANS,
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of his plan for the annexation of the
territory to California. Annexation to
the United States was one thing, that
brought US upon plane with the great
| est of the States, for a large number of
| them had passed through the Territorial
stage before reaching Statehood, the
| identity of Hawaii was preserved and by
| care and judgment it could itself rise
to Statehood. The annexation of Hawaii
| as county of California is quite another
| thing. 1t is the complete loss of identity
! Hawaii would be lost its very name
| might disappear from the map, and the
| tradition of the past, which Hawaiians
| set SO much store by. would-be swept
aside and forgotten. Hawaii would lose
| its judiciary system, with its laws pc
culiarly adapted to its primitive peo-
| pie 1t would lose its legislative system,
| its Senate and its House of Representa-
/ tiVes, in fact it would lose everything
| that makes Hawaii an entity, an in
dividual-y- Hawaii would cease to be.
| And this beautiful plan. this scheme to
| annihilate Hawaii and the Hawaiian does
| not come from the hated and denounced
| missionary it comes from a man who
| has identified himself with the Home
Rulers, and who has used every means
| in his power to intensity the distrust of
! the Hawaiians for their true friends. 1t
| is plain enough now why advice such
as his was given, why the Legislature
was urged to get into deadlock with
the executive. 1t was to further personal
| aims.
Poor, deluded Legislature, or rather
poor deluded Home Rule party. 1t has
nursed a snake in its bosom and now
| that snake is preparing to deal it
| death blow. 1t was a most insidious
scheme, one must say to drive the ma
| jority to such a course of action as to
| paralyZe its strength, and then to turn
| round and say look at those Hawaiians.
even when they have the means of power
| in their hands they cannot use them
What is the use of leaving them as an
independent territory, annex them to
| California, call the place Pacific Coun y
or Western County. and forget that Ha-
wall ever existed, and wipe out the very
memory of Hawaiians as a race"
| There is certainly a lesson for the Ha-
waiian to learn from this latest political
| development. To be attacked by an open
| enemy is understandable. 1t is but the
fair and square rough and tumble fight.
But TO be knitted by an apparent friend,
| to be caressed and petted and Soothed,
and told how good and great you are,
and then suddenly to feel the cold steel
thrust through the ribs. must make any
| one rage. II Is SuCn ACT VI lISd(ASlSp
and treachery is the very meanest of
| crimes.
There is no use in trying to explain
away the conspiracy. The record of it
| is too clearly written. 1t is not what the
| Chronicle of San Francisco may have
| said, may have reported incorrectly
/ The Judges own organs here have told
| the story and have attempted to start
the campaign. That il will fail, is true
| California no more wants Hawaii as a
county than Hawaii wants to be a county
of California. But that can have no eff
feet upon the estimate which Hawaiians
will have of the man who strove to sell
| the Islands as a bale of goods.
/ 1t is reported that Judge Humphreys
| said there was no need TO get the con-
| sent of the people OF Hawaii for it's
| transfer from a Territory of the United
| States to a county of California. Pleas
ant position for the people of Hawaii.
| There would be need. however, for the
California Legislature to act. Humphreys
regarded Hawaii as pocket borough
| which he could do as he wished with. 1t
mattered not whit to MIN, matters not
a whit to him now what the Hawaiian
thinks So long as things go to SUIT
Humphreys every Hawaiian might rot,
and he would not care or give thought
to him.
But the Judge has overreached him
self. he has played his cards not quite
as well as he ought to have done. above
all he has miscaIculated upon the Ia
waiian. He has led the latter by the nose
so long that he presumed that anything
he said or did would be regarded as
right Upon this point they wild have a
very rude awakening.-The Star.
| COULDN'T BELIEVE II OF HIM.
We agree with the Advertiser on the
question of annexation to California, but
I we see no reason for loading the re-
sponsibility for the scheme upon the
! shoulders of Judge Humphreys. he is al
together too practical a man to vase
breath and gray matter over projects
which are too visionary to have original
ed anywhere except in the theoretical
atmosphere of collegiate political econo-
my Even the devil sometimes overlooks
a trick that might be turned to the dis
advantage of humanity, but the Adyer-
tiser refuses to allow Humphreys a soli-
tary touch of this amiable weakness
Hilo Tribune.
REPUDIATED BY CALIFORNIA.
That Hawaii, after being made a part
of the United States and organized as
a territory. would be somewhat un-
easy. was anticipated, because the ele-
ments needed to produce a domestic
! disturbance exist there in rich abund-
ance; but the reality has surpassed the
expectation Such kicking and roust!ng
about as the last few months have re-
vealed have seldom been known under
the national bedQuilt; by comparison
Alaska, with her political and judicial
| troubles is quiet, and Arizona and New
Mexico, with their Indian and mine anc
land quarrels, are a synonym for repose
Hawaii has had a fight between heI
; LEGISLATURE and her Governor; she has
; seen enough scandals in six months tc
last another Territory for years. AND
now. to cap the climax, there is a move
ment to wipe out the Territorial gov
!, eminent by having the islands annexed
|, to California
There are just two good reasons why
the proposed annexation should be re
fused serious consideration; one is tha
: If would be a bad thing for California
and the other is that it would be a baC
= thing for Hawaii.
This State suffers from a variety o
: political troubles: she has more poll
: ticians than she knows what TO do with
and there is a great lack of statesmen