The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-12-05

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DOWNS thos, sorts With ianas. ana m.
o. sstniilnhinr Nsr-ofdfrtd eonalifu.
tlonni government. vlit an able white
| iidlaiafy. Tits resulted. after many
lark refis. in securing the feouHri.
ton ~ Hawaiian indie. 'ndente ~
England. Frame and America Hawaii
pruspofoi fof forty years and became
productive ~ wealth. Then arose ka-
iakaua. n new king of riongrel breed,
who undertook TO substitute arbitrary
autocfacy supported by an order OF
kahuuas, or medicine mon. which he
revived ana Organized. After "a sories
~ outrageous misdolngs the Americans
and other whites arose and inundated
the Ming into ordaining n new constitu-
ton, a chief feature OF which took from
the king the appointment OF senators
and placed that power In the hands OF
body Of electors. holding a moderate
property qualification. This worked
well for Ave years, although Bob"
Wilcox organized futile revolt against
Il. and Kalakaua strove to evade its
provisions.
sister. Liliuokalani. openly discarded
that liberal constitution and undertook
to proclaim an autocratic one OF her
own invention This was in January,
1893. For five months previous she had
labored, with ill-success for the most
part and several changes of ministry,
to enact laws legallzing opium licenses
and creating a public lottery. The auto
cratic constitution came last, and was
solidly met by an instant uprising Of
the whites, and the queens deposition.
The whites conducted all the valuable
and productive business enterprises Of
the islands, which were fatally imperil-
ed by the queens stupid tyranny. The
mallory of the $4,000 gentle. easy-going
natives resented the deposition of the
native queen, but did nothing effective.
Five years and half later came an
nexation, which gave to all Hawaiians
universal suffrage as American citi-
zens.
HOLDINGS OF MISSIONARIES
CHILDREN.
Notable among the contributions to
| the Hawaiian topic at Mohonk was a
highly informed and very judicious
paper by Gorham D. Gilman, who has
long been intimate with Hawaii.
would offer slight criticism of one
statement of his, that Most of the in
vestors who have brought the chief in
dustry (sugaO to the prominence 1t
holds, are the children of the mission
aries and their connections, born on the
islands, and eager for the best inter-
ests of their birthland" Now, this is
ascribing to these good people far too
great share of whatever of good or
of evil sugar-planting involves. The
truth, 1 think, is that they constitute
not more than one-third of such in
vestors and conductors of sugar plan
tations, although they probably exert
a larger proportion of influence there
in.
To arrive at some accuracy on this
point, 1 have made an inspection of
crop records for 1904, and of the agen-
cies handling the crops of the various
plantations. 1 find that there are only
two agencies of missionary connection,
| which handle only 20 per cent. of the
whole product. Two other American
firms control q per cent. One British
| nrm mas per cent, and one German
firm 10 per cent. of the whole. The
balance of II per cent. is divided among
| large number of small agencies. II
is nearly certain that this fairly repre-
sents the respective proportion of in
terest of the different nationalities II
the sugar plantations of Hawaii. Mis-
sionary descendants and connections
undoubtedly hold not over one-third o.
our sugar interests, and other Amer
leans another third, while British anC
Germans hold the remaining third. Oul
missionaries sons and their relatives
have done much toward building W
Hawaii and their own interests, YET
are much in a minority. The majority
of the planters, agents and stockhold'
ers belong to quite different classes II
the community and have always done
so. KAMEHAMEHA.