The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-01

pr;.;sb Government either did not APP
nreeiata it's value or was unwilling TO
take advantage of the unprecedented
crao+ness of the cession on the part
IF barbarous people In after years
a british consul did try to take ad-
vantage of this unaceepted cession but
was withstood by the king, son OF
Kamehameha the Great, in 1926.
FRENCH OCCUPATION.
Notwithstanding a convention in
1s43 entered into between England and
France never to take possession and to
consider the islands as al Independent
state q French Admiral came along
ann took possession of the fort and
cusfom house. etc, and held them for
ten days in 1879, but fearing the Amer
leans he sailed away with $4,000 and
the kings Yacht Kamehameha Ill.,
after inficting many indignities which
were never forgiven by the Hawailans
The cash was afterward returned IN
the original packages, showing that the
government of France did not abet the
actions of it's naval captain, but to
this day it has failed to return the
yacht.
FREEDOM OF MARINE OFFICERS.
On more imam one OCCdSion
of merchant and whaling vessels have
seen fit to override little Hawaii and
it's laws, but having no leaders were
content to let it go at that. Generally
the actions of naval officers, some of
whom went so far as to assert that
solemn treaties were void, have been
condemned by their governments.
The king recognizing that he was
possessed Of jewel which the great
nations looked at with hungry eyes,
hut finding it so difficult to keep, ten
dered it to the United States in 1854.
hut like her great rival, Great Britain,
she refused to accept it. She, however,
let the hungry ones know that should
any nation attempt to grasp 1t she
would consider it an unfriendly act to
the Eagle.
In course of time new Pharaoh,
who did not know Joseph, arose, and
his name was Japan, and he cast long
ing eyes on the kohinoor. He must
have heard that Hawaii was under the
nominal protection of Uncle Sam, but
he had got his hand under the jewel
and the closing of the fingers was all
that was necessary to complete the
grasp. Then again a naval captain
stepped in and wrapped the jewel up
in the Stars and Stripes. His action
was silently aequiesced in by his gov
eminent and thus the prize was definite
~ removed and the cupidity of the
wolves tlwarted.
Many more things / told the Mis-
sourian, but he admitted that he could
see the application of Civilizations Re
Hawaii and considered she was for
tunate in getting under cover.
CONCLUSIONS OF THE SAGE
AS he has lived some months in Ha-
waii-nei and witnessed the working of
the Federal laws he remarked that
$ from the history of the country and
it's acquisition more latitude should be
given the local government. That where
the general laws were inapplicable land
their execution initiated against the
development of the country, as in the
shipping and immigration laws, they
should be suspended -
He also thought the citizens of Ha-
wall were not asking too much when
they sought a return of rs per cent of
the duties collected in Honolulu to be
expended here by the local government
IN the erection of necessary public
schools and other improvements, for the
reason that Hawaii was like a Guide
sac and could not be compared with
other territories in that whatever duties
were collected here were On goods for
local consumption, whereas collections
IN the ports on the mainland We're on
goods for general consumption through
out the Union.