The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-12
PRESIDENT HAS NOTHING FOR
DAVIS.
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ceived the signature of the President.
1t first appeared in the House and SEN
ator Foraker pressed it at his end of
the Capitol. Otherwise it would not
have become a law The bill passed
without debate in either House.
HAYWOOD IMPROVING.
Mr.. William Haywood, representing
the Hawaiian Chamber of Commerce
here, has been very i'll with pneumonia.
His condition at one time was extreme
" critical but he is now convalescing.
Mr. E. P Dole, former attorney gem
eral of Hawaii, is still guest at the
Riggs House. He stated last evening
that he did not expect to return to Ha-
waii for several weeks yet.
A House Committee of five IS investi-
eating the general question of immigra-
ton this summer and another committee,
both being subcommittee of the House
Committee on immigration, IS studying
the advisability of a bill introduced by
Representative Adamson to restrict inn
migration from any one country to 3d.
600 people a year. 1t is doubtful If
the work of either of these committees
affects Hawaiian interests IN lInm1gra-
ton, except in a remote way. l he leg
islation on the General Deficiency Ap-
preparation BILL to remove any doubt as
to the efficiency of the general Chinese
Exclusion law, removes that statute
from the realm of further dispute.
The language of the Notifications law,
as signed by the President, in providing
appropriations for Hawaii is as follows,
under the heading Notifications in In
sular. Possessions:
For procurement of land needed as
sites for the defenses of tie Hawaiian
islands, $2oo,ooo.
KUHIO DEFENDS ISLANDS.
Delegate Kalanianaole has written a
letter to the Evening Star of this city
IN response to a letter published in that
paper recently from its correspondent
in Honolulu. The statements of that
correspondent with reference to native
Hawaiians formed the subject of the
delegates letter, which was as follows ::
| 20 the Editor of The Evening Star
Under date of April 20, you publish
ed letter from Hawaii, which think
does injustice to the territory which |
have the honor to represent and to the
race to which belong. For more than
twenty years, elementary education has
been general in the Hawaiian Islands.
| For sixty-four years it has been CONF
pulsory and the law is strictly enforced.
The percentage of EIawaiians who can
not read and write is almost exactly the
same as that of the American born citi-
ZEN of the state of Massachusetts, and
| far smaller than In almost any other of
| the United States. Until annexation, it
was the general custom in the city of
| Honolulu and elsewhere throughout the
islands to leave the doors unlocked at
all times. 1t is orlv since annexation
/ that the thief has been abroad IN the land
! and he is rarely of the Hawaiian race.
Judge Lynch has never held court IN
| Hawaii and at any time within the past
| 100 years. woman, white or native,
could travel anywhere in the islands I'M
| attended and without danger. Professor
/ B1ackmer of Yale College, in his phiio-
| sophie book. The Making OF Hawaii, y
1 ranks Kafnehameha T. as the greatest
| dark skin barbarian who ever sat upon
a throne kamehanena III voluntarily
gave his people constitution, guaran-
| teeing them substantially the civil and
| religious liberty which we enjoy under
our state and national constitution (this
| was in 1900, there has been constitli-
| tionai government for sixty-feur years
and life and property have been safe for
i more than 100 years.
The monarchs of the Hawaiian race
whatever mistakes they may have made
lave been innocent OF b1oodshed and
| -rueIty for the past 100 years. to an
-xtent airaest unparalleled in history
They have also given property worth