The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-05-10
THE CARPET BAGorR.

pot bnrprr vas m the Islands trying 90
make something out ~ the native pnu.
pie politically but II ls unnecessary to
20 back 10 former generations Tor eN-
ampicH In point not only ~ the pres
en,e of such men and the nature ~
their activities. but % their ultimat"
failure AZ class.
Waiter Murray Gibson Was carpet
bagpcr by Instinct. and sometimes by
vocation. but h. had the grace to nrst
settle here IN the Legitimate pursuits
OF Industry. TO acquire the native Ian
guapc and to d. something FOR the
material up-buildIng ~ the country.
when he became premier he had a de-
fenslblc claim upon the place. The
carpet Dagger weakness In him. how
over. led 10 his downfall at the hands
Of Honolulu conservative citizenship.
and he died IN exile, AN example Of q
naturally great man. pervertlng his
own destiny for the sake Of Office.
4 better type NJ the carpet-bagEer
was to be found in the late Celso Caesar
Moreno. an energetic lobbyist who
came here with cable proposition and
stayed to do politics. Like all the car
pct -baggers before and since he argued
that II he could win the confidence OF the
Hawaiians, and induce them to accept
him as a leader, he could get both
wealth and power. Beginning with the
King, whom he easily flattered. he
worked along until he got a corps OF
native adherents and became Prime
Minister Of Hawaii. In that high place
he lasted three days. the conservative
white party, always slow to arouse it
self but terribly effective when in ac-
ton. bundling him out Of the Ministry
at the end Of that time.
The Ashfords were other and more
recent carpet baggers who played a
prominent part for years. The elder
brother at one time intrigued for the
throne, and might have been Volney l..
King of Hawaii. but for the untoward
circumstances which all Hawaiian car
pet -baggers meet So late as 1895 he
was a possibility in Hawaiian public
life. the Queen, hoping for restoration
at the hands of Wilcox, having made
out commission for him as Chief JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court. The politics
of the Ashfords was precisely that of
Moreno. the same as that of Julian
Hayne in after years, and 1t is now il
Illustrated by Adventures of the Arizona
type. It's alpha and omega is to fool
the Hawaiians into opening the way for
strangers to political honors and
wealth and then to get them safely off
with the plumber
Can the Hawaians be fooled any
more? Have they not by this time
Caught on" to the ways of the self
seeking malihini? Are not years of
sad experience having an educational
value to them? No carpet Dagger they
have ever known came here to do them
good-not one wanted to make money
for them, to elevate them to the high
places, to guide them toward useful
franchises and into the avenues of cor
porate wealth, least of all to build
them up in morals or religion. The
gifts they have had from the carpet
baggers are those of fattery and empty
promise; the gifts they have returned
are money and power. Are the Ha-
waians going to keep up this unequal
distribution? Within a year they have
seen carpet baggers-the veriest, mali
hinis, though their professed friends
struggling for offices which the Hawai-
ians thought belonged tothem. More
strangers have lately been imported to
take other offices that may be created
or may become vacant. Where do the
Hawaiians come in? Are they going
have done nothing for them or for the
islands, and care nothing for either,
may fatten on the spoils of politics?