The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-06-04
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I feelings uf tht atufinlUal NHirfs fU
Whom Do committed The drsiInIss ~
Ifhraa islands ii Is hot enc fault " iht
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InrWfpHufta which represent thc Wilcox
lpnftt Hrr forever running uvrf With
contempt fDt anYthirE American " Va
hut 90 frW months sinoo tho leading
Home uulo organ W Enrlph print said
THAT the sympathins ~ the llpvni'nps
we're with spain iu The war NJ is1s
and yesterday the Independent sprHk
Ing NJ sentiment " honor i1 the
stars and Strlpcs expressed boy ~"
Memorial nay orator snid
Mr. Fitch 10 newcomer and be does
not know the country yet n he I'D he
would see what American citizenship has
meant tu the liawalinna ana he would
understand why the liawallans can never
say Aloha nui to nag placed above
them against their will boy men who wan
tonly Insult the name Of liberty aud JUS
tlcc Of which they boast TO be defenders,
to rob a country OF It's independence, a
peaceful nation Of It's Nag and name.
what have they got since the stars
and stripes were hostcd here? We have
seen the country overrun by men OF the
worst type and by laborcrs Of the lowest
class We hay, been forced to buy new
locks for our doors which for years re
manned unlocked We have found our
living expenses Increased at an alarming
rate and We have been given a lesson Ia
Americanism by the breach between Bar
and Bench and a clash between conflict
ing political parties.
No, Mr.. Fitch, we fail to see that the
American citizenship which We have
4 in my IA
gross outrage can ever repay from the
happy conditions OF the peaceful days
which We have lost for good through the
base treachery of selfish scoundrels mas
querading as missionaries.
Mr. Fitch naturally feels proud at his
flag and tribute to the Stars and Stripes
is natural 1--WE presume he halls from
Ireland, but the Stars and Stripes
should only be revercd where that glo-
rious flag floats in honor, and it does not
wave here in that manner.
Add all this to the offer made by
Delegate Wilcox of his alleged sword
to AGuinaldo, and we have condition
of things which Congress ought to have
anticipated when 1t organized the Ter
ritory--a condition which, we think, Is
bound to last, and which Will long
stand in the way of the Americaniza-
ton of the group. Yet by singular
irony of fate. the carpet baggers among
us talk about using the aboriginal vote
to make us all so rabidly American that
we will be only too pleased to turn in
and elect them to office,
There is nothing more difficult than
the task of changing the political char
acter of an alien people. The creoles
of Louisiana are not assimilated yet;
the Alsatian is still a Frenchman, the
Pole is still Pole, the anti-British
spirit of the Irishman is still at white
heat. Give any of these races com
plete home rule and their national
characteristics become even more pro-
We venture to say, as things
are running now, that the great mass
of Hawaians are farther away from
than they were in 1898.
How great is the damage done to the
and commercial interests of
Hawaii by having the Legislature In
such hands cannot be computed In dol
lars and cents; but so long as the defin-
ition of the suffrage In our Organic
law is distinctively un-American there
can be no relief.