The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-23
THE HAWAIIAN FUTURE.

published in last Sundays Advertiser
of the tour of queen Emma twenty
nine wears ago around the Island OF
oahu. under the leadership OF john A.
Cumrnins, is a graphic and accurate
piece of writing. It describes a sue
cession of pageants that. as Mr.. Cum
minis says, can never be reproduced
The grand procession from point 10
point. with it's rich and rare decora-
lions. the leis, in which the brightest
colors were artistically grouped, the
prancing horses, gorgeously caprisoned
the bonfires in the mountains, the
luaus. in which all native deheacles
were included and with which foreign
contributions We're combined, the dar-
ling surf-riding and bold and graceful
water exercises, the hulas, that drove
away lethargy and sleep, and, pervad-
ing all. the lavish hospitality and per-
sonal loyalty with which the island ana
the people literally glowed-all these
formed a picture that could only have
been rivaIled in it's attractive features.
during the Middle Ages, and yet was
impressed with Hawaiian individuality.
Civilization eliminates these scenes,
which are only feebly initiated, even
at international expositions. While
they should be remembered and are of
historical interest, particularly to the
few who actually participated in them,
would the world, or even the Hawaiian
Islands themselves, be benefited If
they could be revived? 1t is easy to
understand the blended pleasure and
regret, the solicitous melancholy not
ably among women, that the narrative
would inspire in a native people in the
rude process of transformation into
modern and Americanized community.
1t is not without a subtle appeal to the
imagination and the sentiment of the
Ang1o-Saxon. The picture. however, is
not merely exceptional but incomplete.
It realizes only one unique and unfre- |
quent Hawaiian possibility. 1t does
not represent Hawaiian conditions. 1t
fails to expose the sacrifices that pow
erty made to loyalty and display. 1t is |
which, in undeveIoped and paternalized |
commemorative, are the substitutes for
internal training and individual re-
sources. 1t presents only the blaze, the |
perfumes, the consciousness, that are
the occasional alternates to a hard
struggle for existence, under the ex-
hausting demands of abselutism
Now the natives of Hawaii have be-
fore them a future, replete with endur-
ing possibilities of comfort and happi- |
ness. They are in the throes of a
transitional period, and they will either |
become extinct or they will emerge into |
the full and scarcely Swallowed light of |
American citizenship. Thrown chiefly |
upon their own developing power, but |
aided by free institutions and by the |
conscious possession of rights that are |
common to all and unassailable they
have before them the opportunity for
independence and for the application of
hood that need no artificial stimulants |
or accessories. They live under a plan
of education that originated in strug-
gle and industry and that recognizes
vidual merit. They are surrounded |
and penetrated by conveniences and |
opportunities that could not exist IN
der local autocracy. In the COM
equals among equals, and, while uni
formity of progress is as undesirable as
it is impossible, they can steadily APP
proach an average standard that has
nent far beyond the middle class, even
of the last century. They are within
the scope of high religious and moral
training. They are compassed by a
prise, refined pleasures and honorable
achievements derive their inspiration
from the heart and the brain, and not
from the philanthropy of monarch or
chief.
This is the result of missionary labor
and endurance, but in the broader field
of politics and government. The time
may soon come when the most dissatis-
fed and unappreciative native of 1904
will realize and adopt the deep senti-
ment of Tennyson.
Better fifty years of Europe
Than cycle of Cathay."
SMALL FARMING.