The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-10-26
OWNER THURSTON
REPUDlATES BYSTANDER
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population of these islands He has
made it necessary for the white poo-
pie of Hawaii to say a few plain, un-
vanished words to the Hawaiians
something they have long thought but
never said because heretofore it has
not been absolutely necessary. 1t IS
only the foolish ambition of the dele
gate now which make the necessity
In the first place, it is necessary
that Hawaiians should awaken to the
fact that they are a dependent people
I dependent upon the white men for the
education they receive, the food they
eat, the work for which they are
paid the protection they receive from
the Orientals The Hawaiian has
been able to survive the competition
Of the white man and the competition
Of the Asiatic altogether because OF
the pity that the stronger races from
Europe and America have felt toward
the kindly but weak race that civil
cation found here. A sentimental pity.
induced partly through the hope that
responsibility would develop them,
gave the Hawaiians a freer ballot I'M
der the American government than
was ever given them by any govern
ment Of their own. A feeling that the
Hawaiian must be regarded as more
OF less of a public charge induces the
white taxpayers to put up with ignor-
ance in office and incompetence in
employment and which oyerlooks pet
ty graft and COndones official pecula-
ton The Hawaiian is not regarded
as an adult; he is looked upon as a
child who will never reach years o.
discretion and who is consequently /
not responsible to the ordinary ethics .
that govern the white races. There |
is no antagonism felt by the whites
toward the Hawaiian, and the antag- ,
onism that evidences itself on tho |
part of the Hawaiian toward the white .
is overlooked "IIaole hating" is re- |
garded as the natural outcome of un- /
mentalities and is over
looked as would be the vagaries of a !
simple"
Heretofore the kindly simplicity Of ,
the Hawaiians have saved them from !
brutal truths. 1t has been easier to !
humor them along, granting them the .
toys of office to play with so long as .
they allowed the actual work of gov
eminent to be conducted by others, /
than to speak out plainly and hurt !
their feelings 1t has been more
pleasant to shove them gently along
than to do what would be the natural 4,
thing for white men, brush them aside |
or trample them down in the demand |
for progress. 1t would have been easy |
to eXterminate the Hawaians, as the !
British colonists eXterminated the !
Australian bushmen. 1t would have |
been simple matter to have herded |
them upon reservations, as the Ameri- |
can government has done with the In
dians. 1t was the clemency of those |
whites who had overthrow the ma
tive monarchy that induced the United
States to accept the Hawaiians as
of the white Republic at an
neXation
Now, however, when the Hawaiian
leader who has been sent to Congress
as an evidence of the aloha borne for |
the Hawaiians by the dominant white
men of this Territory, attacks the |
chief executive of the Territory upon
the main issue of the Territorial
homestead system, it is time that the
Hawaiians should be picked up and
set down sharply, facing the right
way. The land situation in Hawaii is
this: There is plenty of public land
for homestead purposes and under
ordinary circumstances it would be
for the benefit of the Territory if it
could be thrown open for settlement
without strings. If it We're, however,
there would be a rush of Hawaiians
for free land and the amount avail
able would be taken up by the Ha.
waiians in short order. Now, it is
perfectly well known that the Ha-
waiian is not a good homesteader.