Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-09-27

erican life. Their disappearance could
and ought to be prevented. This can
not be accomplished, however, under
present conditions based upon an i'm.
placable cooperative selfshness.. AS
it is now, the position Of the natives IN
opposition to cooperative monopoly,
with all self-government grated to
them and numerical preponderance at
the ballot box, is untenable and bope-
less.
Temptations Of Natives.
However sympathetic native may
be in his natural surroundings, in his
little village on the sea beach, when
he is fishing, planting taro. picking
cocoanuts, raising pigs, singing. sun
ming, airing. and leading the life of
happy child, he becomes different
individual when driven into the towns
through dispossession OF the little
patch of ground which is needed for
sugar cane. These lands have become
valuable for cane. and the native is too
indolent and careless of the future
not to mortgage or ALLEVIATE at any
time when the opportunity presents it.
self for visiting a friend or relative.
The temptation on both sides, viz:
on the part Of the neighboring sugar
plantation and the native homestead
er, is too strong to be resisted, and the
alienation is going on systematically
and rapidly. Once dispossessed OF his
patch Of ground the native is driven
into the city or town, where he has to
become either a steady laborar or look
for more congenial, easy job. For
steady, patient. muscular work, day
after day and month after month. as
said, he is seldom capable. Manual
trades he is taught only in q few
schools and this but recently, and there
is hardly a trade where he does not
meet a stronger competition from
white men. The education of the ma
tives is most elementary. Intermediate
schools are few and those are design
ed for and filed with the select few.
Schools of high professional education
do not exist. Those abroad are mac
N'soibiN W Nlt All llt HlBHtT
walks Of life are closed to him. What
remains? For the mass OF this class,
prostitution-either OF the body for the
female, or OF the soul of the male
This is the reason why native girls
and women fill the ranks of prosti
tutes in towns. while the most ambi-
tipus, the least scrupulous and per-
haps the brightest males crowd the
ranks of servants, inferior officials. de-
tectives. police court employees, and
politicians. For commerce or any mer-
camille pursuits the natives are hope
lessly incapable. Driven into towns
where nothing is prepared to receive
them and make Of them a Gse:ll class
OF citizens, they are demoralized. no,
only morally but bodily as well. They
quickly become victims of tuberculosis
syphilis and leprosy-the three princi-
pal and immediate factors of speedy
degeneration of the native race.
Dangerous Parts.
The parts of servants, petty lawyers
detectives and politicians and go-be.
tweens OF every description, are slip.
perry and dangerous parts FOR any well.
balanced white men. and infinitely
more dangerous for the unbalanced
uneducated, unprepared native, emery.
ing straight from the age of stone
What wonder that he is speedily de.
moralized to the core. IT, In order &c
hold its own in the struggle for exist
ence, he abandons the virtues of bott
whites and natives and adopts tn,
practice OF the vices OF both? The de-
tiny OF this class OF people is very sac
indeed already from a purely humani
tartan point, but 1t becomes a socia
danger when they assume the leader
ship Of the voting majority and al
such are called to make laws for tn,
country, and that is exactly what take
place, owing to their knowledge Of tn,
native language, of native psychology
OF native prejudices. owing to the un
scrupulousness and turpitude, to tn,
lack OF any moral, social or politica
principles. peculiar to the above emu
merated trades and occupations every
where, to the versatility of characte
and the glib tone, owing to the ignor
ance and the corresponding self-con
ceit and impudence, they easily asser
themselves as leaders OF their childish
credulous, over-confdent people.
To vietors Belong Spells.
Racial jealousy, however bad. is tn
best OF all the motives that animat
them in their opposition to the govern
ment OF the corporate monopoly, an,
this only as long as not appeased b,
personal favors and considerations
Without blushing they openly appeal +
the principle that ITO the victors be
long the spoils," thinking 1t is al
ethical maxim generally recognize
and adopted all the world over. A
little as the sugar planters do the
realize the natural consequences OF an
nexation and the unavoidable neces
sity OF reforms on American lines, 4
, their own interest. No social or poll
teal principles or ideals in regard I
the welfare of the whole country I'm
derlie their opposition. If they coul
: but succeed in placing a native in ever
oiiice In the Territory, and through
partake of the crumbs falling fror
the tables of the sugar planters, the
would be ready to leave things just o
they are. The only political measur