The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-26

The condition and future of the ma
tives of Hawaii occupy considerable
space In Governor Dole's report for 1900
20 the Secretary of the Interior The
executive predicts much that is bright
for the people of these islands and says
that their condition viii steadily inn
prove. This section OF his report reads
AT the last census In 1896. there
Were In the Hawaiian Islands 80 jW
HaWaiians and part HaWaiians. or
these 81 ,0l9 made up of 1889 males and
1920 females, We're pure Hawaiian. and
S.4S5, made up of 4.2ig males and 4 .236
females We're part Hawaiian.
There has been some anxiety on the
part of the friends of the Hawaians,
and probably among the HaWaiians
themselves, as to the effect of anneXa-
ton upon their national character and
upon their individual prospects as Wen.
1t is clear that the decrease Of the Ha-
waiian race has been steadily growing
less rapid for the past several decades.
and the decrease IN the number of fe-
males has been checked to greater
extent than that Of the males. The
per cent of decrease among the pure
HaWaiians from 1884 to 1890 was U13q
! per cent; from 1890 to 1896 it was Og9
! per cent. on the other hand. part Ha-
Waiians increased from 1890 to 1896 O.37l
per cent, and the decrease of the ag-
gregate Of Hawaians and part Hawai-
ians for the same time was only OO27
! per cent.
When we take into consideration the
! fact that the increase Of part Hawai-
ians tends to keep down the number
/ OF pure HaWaiians, inasmuCh as a large
proportion of the mothers Of part Ha-
Waiians are themselves pure Hawaians
we find that part at least of the de-
| crease of pure Hawaiians is not due to
/ any abnormal cause.
The census of 1890 shows the per-
| centage Of pure Hawaiian women who
have borne children, to the whole num-
Der, to have been 0.5432; the percentage
| shown I'm 1896 was 0.5936. Among part
! Hawaiians the percentage i'm 1890 was
! O.5234; in 1896 it was the same
THE census of 1890 reports the ave
rage number of children to each pure
Hawaiian mother to have been 4 20
/ This average increased in the census
of 1896 to Asp. These averages were
| only exceeded in the census of 1890 by
! the Portuguese average, and i'm the CEN
sus Of 1896 by the French and Portu-
/ guese averages. The average for part
! Hawaiian mothers reported in 1890 was
4.02, and in 1896 was AS
while these figures show race pro-
/ gress, the census reports as TO SurViV-
ing children are discOuraging. The CEN
sus of 1890 gives 0547 per cent Of sur
vivors of pure Hawaiian children. In
/ 1896 the percentage Of survivors of pure
! Hawaiian children was 0595 and Of part
Hawaiian children O7512. In both years
the pure Hawaiian percentage Of sur
VlVors was the lowest of all nation
alities represented in the Hawaiian ISL
ands, yet there is comfort in the fact
/ that there was a substantial increase
in his percentage from 1890. due. with
out doubt, to a growing intelligence in
the care of children.
An encouraging outlook for the Ha-
{ exists M al
6.3% owners of real estate in 1896.
1895 We're pure Hawaiians and 40 part
Hawaiians. This is an increase of 724
landowners among the pure Hawaians
between 1890 and 1896 and of 327 among
part Hawaiians in the same period
The majority of these holdings are
small but the Importance of these fig
ures is, ! think, in the fact of owner
ship in real estate by so large a num-
Der of Hawaiians and in the evident
tendency in this race to acquire home
steads. out of a population of 100 O3O
the Hawaians numbering 80 per cent
of the whole furnish AN landowners
out of a total Of G.327 landowners foI
the whole group, or 0745 per cent.
The Hawaiians are Industrious as q
rule and eager for education I'm the
English language, but exhibit to a less
degree than other races occupying tn,
Hawaiian Islands, except Polynesians
the qualities of enterprise, thrift anC
persistence. They are, however, i'm
proving in all these particulars.
There is reason to expect that an
nexation, through the changed condi
tions which it will effect, is going to in
fluence Hawaiian character very favor
ably Their old dependence on theil
chiefs having ceased they are forced I,
rely more upon themselves The in
creased intercourse they will have IN
the future with white men on an equa
footing with its rivalry in labor bust
ness enterprise. and land settlement
can not fail to have a beneficial in
fluence upon them. The political priv
ileges they enjoy i'm common with othe
American citizens will tend to educate
;. them in public affairs.
There will be, doubtless. some in
fluences i'm the new state of things which
will be unfaVorabe. Where com
munity is made up of two races differ
ing i'm education, experience and here
ditary force there is inevitably som,
prejudice to both. socially, If not il
other directions; but it is to be hope,
that the Hawaiians have profited suhi
GENTLY by the civilizing influences the!
have enjoyed for at least two genera
, tions to enable them to escape i'm
large measure from the unfortunate
experiences of other like races similar
} ly situated"