The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-01-08
(From The Friend)

have not been idle in Hawaii, but my
report is a record, not Of accomplishment
out of opportunity AMI need.
Draw line from San Francisco to Port
Darwin; another from San Diego to Singa-
pore; another from Acapulco to Yokonama;
another from Panama to Hong Kong; au-
other from Valparaiso to Vladivostock; an
other from sitka to wellington.
These lines will cross in the Hawaiian
islands-the Pleiades of the Pacific. Eight
inhabited floating gardens, marvels OF
beauty, salubrity and hospitality Where,
even as here, the liquor trade, the leprosy
of human industry eats off the fingers OF
opportunity; eats away the lips of truth;
eats out the eyes of ambition and the heart
of hope; and pays a rake-off to the revenues,
for the privilege. That is my parish and
my home.
These Islands were discovered by Cap
tain Cook in ITS, just at the time when
King George III was discovering Mr.. George
Washington.
Exactly 100 years later, the Hawaiian Re-
public left itself on the doorstep of the
of Hawaii in line for statehood, and already
beginning to play part of prodigious signi-
flcance in the drama of World politics, for
the New World has moved to Asia, America
fronts west and the Pacific ocean is the
future
Uncle Sam has no niece that can com
pare i'll loneliness with his adopted daugh-
ter. The Hawaiian year has but one month
-365 days of rare North temperate June.
The Hawaiian dictionary contains no word
for weather
But the climatic perfection implies no
monotony of temperature. The ocean cur
rents and the contour Of the land ensure
variety, all the way from perpetual snow
on the top of Mauna Kea to So deg Fahren-
heit in the lea of Punchbowl If one knows
what climate he wishes, he takes a walk
and gets it; that is all. AT a given Point,
the mean annual variation is about 10 deg
and the range from noon to midnight about
the same.
The Hawaiian landscape matches the
climate by contrast The one is as bold as
the other is mild.
From my office window to the right hall
a dozen exquisite valleys OPEN, thick witt
bungalows at first, but later, mounting into
primeval lava-shards and scraps of rain
bow, vocal and fragrant with voices ant
odors of the woods, and in the upper reach
es, damp with frequent rains and capriciou
mountain streams.
In front, the Waianae range of mountain
scrawls its long indenture on the skyline
witnessing to the indefeasable title of If
against the tyranny of force, and evel
death, the trespasser; for, all these quiet
reassuring SUBMITS are old volcanoes thai
in some youthful passion of the world, hiss
ed their hot fury from the ocean bed, an
sIOuted red defiance at the stars. while tn
sea boiled like a kettle. But here they stand
groups of bucolic statuary catching rair
water for miles and miles of sugar cane
The boiling lava was land, in the making
the believing eruption was the love song c
the elements; and the fire was life, or fu1
of life
To the left, 1 spend many an hour watcl
ing the long catapult of the South Pacific
green, jealous, cruel, ramming, wave o
wave, ten thousand miles of sullen Lrotes
against these upstart speclls of change, onl
to fling out flags of surf against the cora
bayonets of the reef, where ships of a
nations ride in utter calm, and brown Hi
waiian boys dispOrt themselves as in pom
1t Is the truce of Reaction to Reform.
The blue haze on the mountains, the gree
interminGbleness of the sea, the gracior
brooding of the soft, sweet sky. the uui,
OF the scene and of the life, induce a spe
almost hypnotic. The spirit of Hawa
seems to say: There, do not hurry. there
plenty of time Work if you will but don
ferment what is left today, will be goo
for tomorrow, or mahope! there will
other days.
If you gather from this, that Hawaii