The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-12-11
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on time when the Kings servants made
any purchases in his name. On his
/. trips to Hilo he would direct me to pay
all his bills for supplies and to draw
on him. | was constantly purchasing
hundreds of dollars worth of feathers
canoes, olona and other articles, and
drawing on him for the money, and dur
ing the seven years that 1 was doing
this I never had a complaint from any
one of my drafts not being cashed on
presentation.
AT one time on short trip to Hilo,
he lodged in native mans small house
at the mouth of the Waiakea stream,
instead of going to Keelikoianis house.
Just before going on board of the
steamer he called for the owner of the
house and gave him twenty dollars in
gold. The man exclaimed, N"What is
this for?" and placed it on the mat.
The King said, II have turned you out
of your house for two days and 1 wish
to give you a little present for your
kindness to me-" The man declined,
saying. you are my King and every
thing belongs to you, and I do not wish
anything" The King replied, 81 am
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of the people. receive my salary so as
to pay for what 1 need. I am not Civ
ing this to you as pay, but as a small
present. he then walked off to the
boat leaving the money there
Kamehameha would not take undue
advantage of others, but at the same
time he would not allow the natives to
hang around the palace without work
ing.
About two weeks after his father
Kekuanaoas funeral, he called his
fathers retainers together and said to
them, You have mourned with me for
my father and now it is time for you
to go to work. Those of you who want
to work for me can have work, and if
you need money to buy clothes with /
will advance it on account, and / will
pay you so many dollars a month for
work" They replied. Your father fed
us all the time, and did not make US
work, and you should do the same"
kamehameha replied II am not King
to teach the Nation to be idle, but it
is my place to teach the people to work
and support their families. I do not
want anybody to work for nothing;
those who want to work for me will
be paid for it, and those who do not
want to work for me must go elsewhere
to live. as after a certain time no food
will be given out to those who are able
to work and will not work. You have
shown great respect for my father, and
now you can not do him or the Nation
any good by sitting in idleness and say
ing We do this out of aloha for your
father The King kept his men at
work, retaining marshes at Waikiki
and planting taro or fishing. and when
at Kaunakakai, on Molokai would set
them building walls or fishing.
Kamehameha always claimed that
children should be educated to work as
well as in their books. That if they
were not taught to work with their
hands while in school, they would not
work after they left school, but the
Young men would think that they must
be lawyers or something of the kind,
and get their living by rascality If
money should not come in fast enough
to suit them.
Kamehameha may have encouraged
the hula in his younger days, but sew
eraI years before he came to the throne
he found that the natives on his lands
on Oahu were travelling thirty miles
day to see the hula dances, and when
at home were sleeping around tnelr
houses in the day time and going 70
dances at night, and neglecting to plant
and cultivate food for their famii1es-
1t reused his indignation, and ne for-s
babe their having any more dances on
his lands, ard turned off the hula dan
GERS. At the next session of the Legls-
Iature he used all his influence to nave
the law passed prohibiting the Hawai-
ian hula unless a license was first oo-
tanned, and forbidding any licenses to
be granted outside of Honolulu. While
ne was Minister Of the Interior he had
the law enforced very strictly, and TO
the day of his death he often said he
found it necessary to stop the hula, as
it demoralized the natives all through
the country, and broke up all work.
When the Kings sister Victoria died,
the natives performed a good many
hulas around the palace grounds before
the funeral Afterwards he told me
that he was sorry he had allowed it,
and that he would have no more of it
there. When his father died, the choirs
were allowed to sing at night, but there