The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-01-09

possession of great corporations. Thi
has been fatal to the natives. so far q.
their agricultural progress IS concerned
Their chance is lost forever. Even a!
la5orers on plantations, they are a fail
ure. Their unreliable services have no
: been wanted by the planters Asiatict
have supplanted them because of theii
negligence. As the Chinese have dis
placed them in the Industries, so have
the Chinese and japanese taken thei,
places in agricultural pursuits. In lSG
there We're 1923 Fawaiians, 25.6A Jana.
= nrse ard 1873 Chinese At work on the
! plantations.
\ race like this, whose aboriginal sol
is held by others. cannot have strong am
persistent national aspirations. The JUS.
tice or injustice of this possession by the
whiteSNnay be an open question. but the
fact remains that capacity and condi
tons for citizenship, as Americans un-
derstaud it, do not exist among the ma
tive Hawaiians of today. The hope OF
the race As regards true citizenship ex-
lists if anywhere. at the present time in
the few thousands of half natives (S,fS4
census of 1880. who inherit what Is LEI.
OF the ancestral stamina reinforced by
foreign stock.
This does not imply that there are no
examples among the l-blooded natives
OF a higher grade of qualities than their
heather ancestors possessed. 1t does not
imply that some Hawaiians have not
I given evidence of the good qualities of
the best original specimens of their race
/ II does mean, however, that the average
native. in the midst of a civilization of
the best modern type, is not taking the
position which might properly be expect
ed OF him Whatever the causes he has
not advanced proportionately with his
[ environment. On the other hand, he has
deteriorated during the last half CEN
] nm. pnI1 a ri wifi hA
of the white people among whom he has
lived
| Perhaps degeneracy is too strong a
word for the situation. The Hawaiian
of today is far in advance, in many re-
spects. of his pagan ancestry. In a de-
! gree he is a civilized man. In many
ways he is an attractive specimen. He
is clothed; he attends church in consid-
cradle numbers; he generally lives in a
frame house; he enjoys, to a certain eX
tent. the diet and some of the amenities
of modern life: he reads. writes and has
a pleasing address. But he is not at all
what he might be with his advantages.
He knows far less than he might know
by the aid of schools, open to him for
more than two generations. He is APP
parenty Indifferent to the larger educa-
tional privileges offered to him. There
is much to encourage effort to raise In
diViduals to a higher level, but very little
. nope OF &EOGSlilS the race TO accept ana
act upon n new view of life, with It's So
cfal and civil responsibilities
The work among the children of this
generation is along the lines of generaI
and industrial training. but the large
expenditure of money and labor in edu-
cational work must look for its main re-
turns to other than the pupils of pure
Hawaiian parentage. Mrs. Bernice "a
uahi Bishop, Il cultivated. Christian
woman, the last of the kamehameha
line, bequeathed more than a million dol
lars to educate the offspring of her race,
yet from this large sum the increasing
half-caste children will reap the richest
harvest. OF the 1890 youths enrolled in
the 1S9 public and private schools. only
5.Oi3 are Hawaiians and 2.721 part Hawa-
iians. and it is stated that the most
interesting and successful students IN
the 1t5 public schools are the children or
Chinese and Hawaiian parents"
In all conditions of citizenship, there
fore it must be conceded that in no re-
spect are the native Hawaiians holding
their own or making progress. The ka-
naka is coutcuted with the arrest of his
phys,c mental and moral development.
The queen, in 1898. could not arouse Sutii-
Gent zeal in her own behalf to make her
cause a probable success. To be sure.
she was personally unpopular with the
mass Of her own race. but the majority
were Indifferent and ignorant In govern
uhehtei matters eH .lio''s.,' IN - 1tt.I
wall for the haWaAans' ma" so...ss t1l,
that followed. in 1895. the natives Joined
only in small numbers. ana some o! NC
were coerced, or stimulated by drink 20
take part IN the 1ee'le ho$'i'e u1Iio'i-
STATIONS. 800.
1t required an unusual amount u us
ing TO bring out the native vote IN favor
Of the native and hali-Wh,Ie catdloilFS
in the recent election OF 1901 a4thoGSh
the dernagoSucs VINO haranSued the hA-
nakas took every ADVANTAGE OF the NJ
tive repugnance TO the missionary pa
ty," and promised Impossible rewards
suited 10 the ignorance Of the average
voter
Add. then. to these religious. lntsi-
lectua' and political conditions OF the ma
tive the Continued numerical decrease OF
that class of the population, and to what
can We look for his Improvement: 30
patriotic spirit. even when enlightened