The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-05-15

exhaust the resources of ethnologica
mathematics to calculate, in the cas-
af any American of English for
bears, the correct proportion of Briton
ancient Roman, Norseman, Dane, Sax
on, Norman, HolIander and Huguenot
French in his hopeless uprnix. Hawai-
drifted into the interracial stream 81
late that the gradual absorption of {
comparatively pure stock is happening
before our very eyes. There is this
added factor, that civilization had had
time to originate some very virulent
diseases and to esta blish in her own
bailiwick a considerable degree of i'm
muneness before she invaded this Para
disc. Hence her first contact with the
non-immune Hawaiian was cruelty ia
tai. But he has practically recovered
the historic trend by blending into the
common human family rather than by
fading out of existence.
He is making good in the process;
that is, he improves with miscegena-
ton. It is not one-sided transaction,
for he gives as well as gets. Marry
a Hawaiian to Chinese and the result
tant Is every way a finer product. The
output gains through the Poiynesian
mother rare social charm, is more cos
mopolitan, more approachable and
courteous than the Celestial father,
while the trick of making ends meet,
industry, frugality and business sense
gratefully testify to the hoary Asian
heredity. This cross is universally
liked and climbs high in positions of
trust.
The white Hawaiian does not derive
quite so much evolutionary stability
from his father, who may have been
4 degenerate. But some of Americas
best blood has been impaired to the
to say nothing of the sturdy
European, who has done his share of
These half whites,'' as
hey are called, are a steadily increas- |
ng factor in racial evolution here. |
They are harder to manage than the I
'ure Hawaiian, but are a distinct adj
ance upon him. A goodly number of
ur most capable people-trusted, sue
essful and in every way an honor to
iawaii-are half whites
When the race shall live only in past
istory it will be seen to have left be-
ind gentleness of disposition, a
ourteous dignity of bearing and an
friendliness sorely needed
. as sterner, more abrupt and selfish
foducts of colder Chimes In losing his
acial life the Hawaiian will sweeten
he cosmopolitan man now in the evo-
tionary alembic. 8
For eigthy-seven years the best of {
occidental civilization has focused IT.
If upon Hawaii. Coincident with that
sst and preceding it for forty-two l.
,ars, the world also turned loose its t
orst In the Islands. The little hand [
L OF missionaries who came to bring :
tristan ideals, reinforced by a few n
ner foreigners of high character, o
ere always far outnumbered by those a
nose evil lives issued a constant ap- >
al to the Hawaiian to remain in saw a
cry. This disparity so strongly af- n
cted that noble Christian naval of o
er, Captain Thomas APP Catesby
mes, of the United States sloop-of- g
IT Peacock, in 1926. that in writing of n
e famous trial of the missionaries. k
the house of Chief Boki, he said: L
own I trembled for the cause of :,
ristianity and for the poor benighted a,
ander, when I saw, on the one hand. ii
British Consul, backed by the most p
althy and hitherto influential resi- :,
nts and shipmasters, IN formidable OF
ray and prepared, as I supposed. to es
fifty against some half a dozen meek
q humble servants of the Lord, calm .;
seated on the other, ready and anx- til
IS to be tried by their bitterest enc G.
es, who on this occasion occupied the VI
adrupie station of judge. jury, wit II
5 and prosecutor. In all the dis SC
;sions as to the capacity of the Ha- T
ian for civilization it should never ne
forgotten that from 1920 until today -,
mas consistently, as a people, made ps
nee or the better, when confronted tie
Z with Christianity and his own de- !"
ing superstitions; second. with uni ~
sal education and continuance in to
orance; third, with constitutions, ge
'ernment and absolute monarchy. ur
rth, with acquiescence in annexa- "a
promising the Islands peaceful de-
opment and reactionary race hatred. w,
|, hnally, with lofty ideals of citizen pc
p and the spirit of graft. This he II
done in the face of sinister coun- ~
always ably presented by represen- tio
yes of superior civilization. be
D must for general historic state tn
IT, How is 1t with the Hawaiian ,ae
Today IN his approach to twentieth me-
fury motives? We Americans are no
n for testing the sfav;no ,o,r,o~ 20 Sill