The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-12
Some Deductions From the Typical
Case of Curtis Iaukea, a
Native Leader.
Qualifications of the Aborsine For selfGovern-
ment Critically Considered By Man Who
Knows the Race---An interesting Essay.

Editor Advertiser: To one whose es-
innate Of C. P Iaukea has been based
on a general knowledge of his broad
experience in prominent positions and
who was disposed to credit his con-
nection with the annexationists and
the Republican party as having been
the result of an intelligent recognition
liberal and progressive IDEAS" his let
ter in the Gazette of July 81 has fur
nished very painful reading.
Evidently sore from disappointment
in some of the results OF annexation
and some OF the methods OF that party.
he appears also to have been incensed
not only by seeing former anti-annex-
4 ationists become prominent in "the
II >r,ncils Of the Republican party" as
y ne AYERS. but in not having been him
self advanced to a prominent position
therein, or to some office OF emolument,
and proposes to retaliate by going over
to the obstructionist party of disrepu-
table record. Surely a sincere man who
has failed OF just recognition of his
merits to the extent at least, of enjoy
ing the confidence OF his party fellows,
is worthy of commiseration, but who is
to be the Judge of this matter? Even
a sincere man may for good reasons be
not acceptable as a leader; 1t is pos
sible that through the undue promi-
nence of undesirable. or even outside
infiuences-as in open primaries-the
truest men may be kept in the back
ground; but a man who has opposed
annexation from honest want of con-
viction OF its being for the best inter-
ests of the country need not necessarily
counsellor. AS to office, is Mr.. Iaukea
willing to contribute in his own person
TO the ever accommodating indications
that true principle is a quality un-
known and incomprehensible to the
mind of the native Hawaiian?
AS one after another has turned upon /
his party to rend it because. forsooth, /
he has failed to get office, or to keep /
one that he has secured. or because OF
some personal grievance in connection /
with the party, has he not furnished
ground for the growing tendency to
question whether there is such thing
as a genuine native Hawaiian Repub-
ncan?
As one after another has proved him
self to be a deceitful snake. a traitor
TO his friends in business affairs for
the sake Of gain, has he not contribut-
ed to this same lack Of principle?
Allow an illustrations; one out of many
similar cases. There resides in town
certain Hawaiian lawyer who is at
heart a Roman Catholic except when a
temporary adoption of Protestantism
served the purpose OF supplying the
adjunct OF fish to his poi. He Is at
heart a Home Ruler and is now con-
spicuously known as such, but stood ,
under the shadow OF the Republican
banner-possibly in the capacity of spy :
until. apparently. the failure to catch
a plum ffled his soul with aversion TO
the point Of casting of his briefly as
sumed Republican cloak. Between
times he was ready to bIackmail those
TO whom he professed TO be friendly. II
only he could do so under the protec-
tiOn of legal technicality, just as
others before him had done. Principle?
Is the native Hawaiian capable Of fol-
lowing no leadership but a bad one? d