Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-16


many electors, how many voters.
there are?
Mr.. Mcclellan. There are approx
imately 1900.
Senator Fletcher. And about how
many Of those are natives? What
is the proportion? -r..
| Mr.. Mcclellan. Approximately |
three-ffths.
Delegate Kalanianaole. Yes.
Mr.. Mcclellan. Now, Mr.. Chair
man, want to come to this question
of the Implication that the Hawaii
ian must be treated the same as the |
Indian. l want to call your atten- |
ton to the fact, gentlemen, that the |
Indian has always been the ward OF
this Government; that the Indian in
lino case has ever had any such thing
as q form of civilized government
under a constitution, or a govern
ment in the civilized sense at all.
The Hawaiians, on the contrary.
had their own government, and they
carried II on in such way that
when the Organic Act was under
consideration and the debate was on,
Senator CuIlom, Senator Morgan.
and Mr.. Hit, OF the commission who
went out there to frame that law.
spoke again and again Of the high
character Of the government Of the
: Republic Of Hawaii. They spoke Of.
the fact again and again that few
: changes were necessary In the laws
of Hawaii because of the highly sat-
isfactory operation Of the govern
ment then existing. Those are the
facts with reference to the situa.
ton at that time. But Mr.. Woolley
has sought to give the impression
here that since the annexation, or
rather since the coming into power
OF Kalakaua, and his allowing the
sale OF liquor to the Hawaiians, that
that has been the cause OF the death
7 and decadence Of the Hawaiian race.
That ID the general statement that
l has been made, but what are the
facts? The statement Of Captain
Cook, when he discovered the Ha-
waiian Islands, was that there were
: 100000 natives at that time. Mark
:, you. the sale Of liquor to the mass
I OF the Hawaiians was never legal
r Iced until the reign Of Kalakaua.
!. say In 1880. Up to that time the
: number OF Hawaiians had decreased
. from 100000
Senator Piles. Will you state
that again, please?
Mr.. Mcclellan. There were 4OO,-
1000 natives at the time Captain Cook
:. discovered the Hawaiian islands. or
!. were said to bsj Z ~ tt..
= The Chairman. think. II yor
n will excuse me for a moment. Mr.
!, Mcclellan, that that census, Of Cap
= tain Cooks Is very much doubted b,
\ subsequent investigators.
n Mr.. Mcclellan. 1t Is.
"a The Chairman. And they thinl
70 that It should be about 100000 q
= Mr.. Mcclellan. think II
- agreed that there were at leas
= 100000. think the historians o
!, Hawaii agree on that point. 81.
In The Chairman. have recent
n been reading up a good deal on Ha
10 wall, and ! have noticed that som
A. authorities think that about 100. 00I
A. was the actual number at that time
n while some 90 as high as 200, 200
,e have not found any who place
We as high as 100000, but thsy all stat
d. that Captain Cook had no mean
~ whatever OF determining the mum
ut Der. nor was he competent to max
ey the enumeration. t....
&c Mr.. Dinwiddie. It seems to g
In | with the name. (Laushter.)
n. Mr.. Mcclellan. The fact remain
ch that when the law was passed whic
at permitted the native Hawaiians !. I
,ls purchase liquor, the main decreas
and defamation In the Hawaiia
de population had already occurred, an
that from that time, beginning 1
,r- 1880, down to the present tim,
d. and since annexation, there has bee
ia no marked decrease in the populs
o, ton Of the Hawaiian race. There
e. q slight gradual decrease. but l b
lieve that any candid student OF III
e. Hawaiian race will reach the concl
es sion arrived at, after the most carefv
la. study. by Professor Blackman. OF va!
which is that the decrease and fai
I'm ure OF the Hawaiian race has bee
as largely due to changed habits Of III
which have made them subject to sue
az. diseases as pneumonia, tuberculosi
and diseases Of that character; an
he that those diseases have been tn
ma cause Of the decrease In the Hawai-
te. an people, and not the consumption ,
liquor. Certain It is that the actu,
percentage OF decrease In the Hawai-
ar an people has been less their d
n crease has been slower. during IN
time since liquor has been sold I
N. them than 1t was before. not becaus
:, OF that fact. but the fact is that oths
~ conditions have been operating. an
NJ. any decrease that there is in the HI
: waiian population can not be fairly a
% tributed in sweeping way to II
~. evils OF liquor.