Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-24


! Hawaiian Church Chronicle, of which
the RI Rev Henry Bond Rcstarick is
editor in chief, published the following
as the leading editorial article of its
February number:
We regret that The Friend takes such
gloomy view of the electorate Of Ha-
vail Because the Hawaiians did not
vote last July as The Friend hoped
they would do. 1t il said, in the January
issue of that paper, that 1T was a big
mistake to give the Hawaiians suffrage
without suitable restrictions"
Further, II IL stated that last July
was a day of judgment for the race
and It deliberately chose humiliation"
This paper avoids political questions
and we are not going to discuss the
merits of the question involved, but
| The Friend should remember that If
| the Hawaiians proved themselves unfit
for suffrage, because they did not vote
for n certain measure in July last, then
as a matter of course the large number
Of white people, who voted as the Ha-
| wailans did on that occasion, are also
unfit to have the suffrage. and these
| would include hundreds of the best and
most intelligent citizens In these Is
| lands. The missionaries tried to teach
the people to think for themselves. The
Friend therefore can not justly COM
| plain II they do not always sec mat
tiers as the Hawaiian Evangelical As
| ISOLATION would wish them to do. There
are certainly two sides to any ques-
ton, and II Is fact that the majority
| vote last July was In agreement with
the expressed opinions Of very large
number of the best citizens of the
4 United States and hosts of the best
Christians in the world. Articles
which have appeared lately In first
class magazines and papers have shown
that the Hawaiians voted against a
method which in the opinion of the
| writer's of said articles, has proved a
demoralizing failure wherever tried.
A Recent Article.
| An. article in Harper's Weekly for
December "a, 1910, entitled "A Few
Facts About Kansas" should be read
by all who seek to know the truth. The
State Penitentiary of Kansas had its
record year in number of inmates of a
gain of 1875 in two years in 1910.
| The various homes for hayward
girls were officially reported as crowd
ed The report says that the rapid
increase OF the delinquent classes pre-
SCENTS a formidable problem"
/ Bishop Lillis of Leavenworth writes
that there were over two thousand di-
vorccs In Kansas last year. The or
phanages and rescue homes were
crowded and the reports of these and Of
prisons echo the disastrous story of
broken homes.
The increase of cocaine and morphine
habits is reported to be little short Of
alarming"
An article on Oklahoma recently
showed even worse conditions.
The Hawaians were told on the one
hand that It. they voted for the pro-
posed measure that vice and crime
would practically cease. on the other
hand they were told that the method
of dealing with the matter as Is done
here at present was a more excellent
way.
If the Hawaiians thought that the
present method of dealing with the
question was better than trying an OK
pertinent why should they be declared
as having voted for their "annihila-
ton? Have they no right to think
Are voters unfit for suffrage who diff
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