The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-03-26

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attempt to govern these islands we
| haye created a lot of complications
| which hamper the people whom we
| have set up as governors without APP
! parently doing the natives any good
Perhaps here is an instance where we
shall eventually demonstrate that sc
would have been better for us, 10 adopt
Governor Tafts expression with res
! peCt to the Philippines, if we had never
/ gone there
When the revolution was accomplish
| ed Mr. Dole and his friends, as is we'll
| known, strongly desired annexation to
the United States. They expected
great benefit from connection with the
! Union. Among their brightest hopes
was that Of Hawaii erected into a state
! when they would not only have the
! benefit Of the laws of the great republic
but help make them and administer
| them. If they had foreseen all that has
| happened, they would not have been SO
earnestly in favor of annexation, but
/ would have accepted the decision of
/ Grover Cleveland as the one best for
| their own interests. They would have
| gladly seen the flag hauled down and
| disappear from the islands, and would
| have undertaken for themselves the
| government Of the people among whom
| they had been born and whom they
| knew thoroughly we'll The sons of the
| missionaries, as they have been SnCer-
| ingly called, if left to themselves. would
! be able to maintain their power over the
| natives, as they were able to win it,
! and would give the islands the best
| government that they could have 1t is
| doubtless the fact that Mr. Dole and
| his associates understood this when
| they offered themselves and their pos
| sessions to the United States just as
well as they understand it now.
They took the government away from
N4.I. 1 1t
| the best administrators of the islands
and their people. But they felt that
| they needed protection from the assault
of powers that would some day desire
to annex the islands, and therefore they
! turned to the United States, which was
| and is the only power to which they
! cared to belong. They expected when
! the annexation took place that their
capacity and their character would be
recognized by the president in making
appointments to the island offices, and
| that the native Kanaka would remain
without the right to vote and the conse-
| quent right to turn the whites out of
| office and practically to restore the rule
| of the royalist party, which fell with
| the reinforcement of the queen.
But MIR. Dole. who is known in this
! country well and who is a man of large
! ability and high character was almost
I at once disappointed. He learned inn
mediately that Hawaii was to be
! pocket borough of California, and that
! the Pacific coast politicians were to
| have the patronage Of the islands. A
! letter received from him soon after an
neXation expressed the utmost despon-
dency over the outlook, for it was then
| rumOred that the governor of the new
! colony would be a local politician from
| the Pacific Coast. This rumOr turned
| out to be false, but there followed
| general raid on the judicial offices,
! which resulted in the appointment of
number Of loose characters to the bench
| These. men succeeded some excellent
| judges, mostly American, who now find
| 1t extremely disagTeeable to practice
! as lawyers before their former courts.
! Some of them have even left the islands
| and have come to this country, and
| there is now beginning to be heard an
urgent request for their return, i'm or
der that they may save the islands and
! their people from the dangers of cor
ruptiOn and misrule, which now threa-
ten them.
The law governing Hawaii requires
| that the governor, the secretary and the
judges of the supreme court and the cir
cult court shall be citizens of the terri
tory, citizenship being gained by
years residence if the applicants are
| already citizens of the United States.
There are three judges Of the supreme
court and six of the circuit court. Estea,
OF CdulOIuld, was appointed JuuBt OF
the federal court; Baird, of Wyoming,
was appointed United States district at
torney and after his decease was sue
ceeded by BreckOns of Wyoming. Ray,
formerly secretary of Senator CullOm,
who was the author of the government
bill, was appointed United States mar
shall A son-in-law of Representative
Hepburn Of Iowa has succeeded Mr..
Haywood as commissioner of internal
revenue Four of the six circuit judges,
Galbraith, Humphreys, Gear and Little,
We're not residents of Hawaii when the
revolution broke out and all of them
were opposed to the party which de-
thTOned the queen and worked for an
nexauOn. All four with Judge Estee,
have ranged themselves actively against
Mr.. Dole and his friends, and have tried
to make the president believe that the
American residents who had gone
through all the critical years prior to
annexation were un-AmeriCan, hostile
to American institutions and the Ha-
waiian race Humphreys Gear and
ttle'have been especially bitter show
ering abuse upon Mr.. Dole and his
friends, and these two are doing all
they can to get Mr.. Dole removed.
These officials, most of them men of
not much character are the cOntribu- /
lions of the executive to the Hawaiian .
problem. The contribution of Congress /
was a system of government which |
made the legislative branch necessarily /
hostile to the governor, for universal /
suffrage brought into the Legislature a .
majority of persons attached to the /.
rOyalist cause. If annexation hadn't |
taken place, Dole and his friends as I /
have said. could easily have maintained .
themselves in power, and would have .
ruled the island i'm their own way,
doubtless TO the advantage of the ma /
tiVes and to the increase of the pros /
Of ff1f
and the first step which we undertook I
was to hamper and discredit those
whose lives and training had fitted .
them as experts to the government of .
Hawaii The principal charge against
Governor Dole is that he does not get
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