The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-11-05
MAN AS
To BURTON
Boston Kamaaina
Talks to the
Point.
KANSAS MAN
WAS TAKEN IN
Some Imnnrtanf Truths About
Some important Truths About
Hawaii Which Visiting States
man Failed to See.
The Boston Transcript says:

The Boston Transcript says:
A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, an
nounces the arrival there Of Unitet
States Senator Burton. who has jus
returned from Hawaii, where he wen
as n of a Senatorial investigator:
committee. Senator Burton is quoted
as saying: 1.-THE Hawaiians are fine
people, but they are in hard lines JUS
at present. Their condition is the re.
suit of the work of Boston's mission
aries. A number of missionaries have
been owe there recently, and have Civ.
en- many of the natives certificates
guaranteed to admit them to heaven in
exchange for their lands. A number
of the more ignorant natives have
been swindled in this way. Those who
have learned their mistake are natur-
ally a trife suspicious of all Ameri-
cans"
This statement on the part of Sen
ator Burton becomes interesting here
because of his reference to Boston
missionaries" Probably no one here
about is closer in touch with the real
condition of affairs in the Hawaiian
Islands than is Hon. Gorham D. Gill
man of this city, long a resident there,
and o many years consul in the
United States for the Islands. He de-
clares regarding this matter: 1.-The
despatch is hardly worth considering,
and it is a matter of amusing surprise
that a Senator of the United States can
utter such patent nonsense without the
least foundation as the language at
tributed to Senator Burton"
Mr.. Gilman then says that there
have been no missionaries sent TO the
Hawaiian Islands from this country
for the last twenty-five years or more.
Moreover, the Hawaiians are not so
gullible as to be easily misled, for ii.
would be difficult to find one hat can
read and write who would take any
stock in such heavenly chances.
oOnoIOl oul tOA VA AduSdS SLdtGS
Mr.. Gilman, twas one of a sub-commit-
tee, the other members of which were
Senator Mitchell and Senator Foster,
appointed for the purpose of visiting
the Hawaiian Islands last summer, to-
gain information 20 be reported to the
United States Senate regarding the
condition ff offoipr - Al, ;-yo-la
Their Investigations covered broad
grounds, and they visited the principal
islands and devoted themselves very
thoroughly to the business of their ma
ton. They gave very generous hear
ing TO all classes who desired to APP
pear before them, and, if one may
judge by reading the ~stenographic re-
ports of the commission, as appearing
in the Honolulu papers, Senator Bur-
ton apparently was the only one of the
committee who seemed to act as an
ex-party advocate for what may be
termed the 'disgruntled element of
Honolulu.
From the reports in the papers. the
late Judge Humphreys, of unenviable
notoriety, who failed to make his own
case good before President Roosevelt, |
as against Governor Dole, seemed TO
be an assistant to Senator Burton in
endeavor to bring out all that was
.dlscreditable in connection with the
administration of the government. 1t
as if Judge Humphreys, during
his brief residence in Hawaii, had his
against every man, and / think
there can be no doubt that it was a
great relief to the better class of the
community, the business men and
those styled missionaries, when he left
bench. The Hawaiian delegate to
Congress from the Territory was
Robert W. Wilcox, a man who has fig
lred very extensively in several revo-
against the government. He
has claimed publicly that the presence
)f Senator Burton on the subcommittee
was due to his influence, and the fact
the apparent friendship between the
.wo men lends some countenance to the
"The land laws of Hawaii are a very
carefully compiled system. embodying
the results of a half a century of ex-
s~eriense, and the most il~literate, even,
Of the Hawaiians knows full well the
money value of whatever land he may
own and he could not be fooled by
such exchange as that proposed in
he above dispatch. Present hard
ines in the islands may be interpret
ed to mean hard times, and these at
are occasioned by the low price
Of sugar., consequent on the bounty
paid sugar of Europe, and also by the
learth of laborers that can be hired at
! remunerativs figure"