Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-09-26


tive. incidentally to walk across the
shadow Of his house was punishable
by death, and all OF his subjects lay
PROSTATE in his presence. He owned
everything and levied terrible taxes
upon his people,. If some family had
carefully fattened pig and the fra
GRANGE OF its roasting reached the
royal nostrils, 1t was mot uncommon
for the royal chef to come and appro-
pirate the luxury for the royal table.
A member OF the Hawaiian chiefly
class Is an emperor literally as soon
young prince, about three years old
strolling through the streets of Hon.
olulu clad in nothing but pair of
green morocco slippers and followed
by q retinue of twenty-five servants
! carrying fans, rugs. umbrellas, spit
ICONS and other royal paraphernalia.
When monarch died, there fol-
| lowed a reign of anarchy and crime,
during which time all vices were toll
Grated. This was apparently cele-
; bration to indicate that all power and
law reposed in the monarch and end
ed with his life.
The royal families lived in rich idle.
ness. and had various amusements
which were reserved for them alone.
One of these was shooting mice with
the bow and arrow The mouse was
about the largest wild animal found
in the islands, and the royal sport Of
hunting 1t was the only use made by
the Hawaiians of the bow and arrow.
In war, they used clubs, spears and
javelins.
The first important step in the de,
ve1Opment Of the Hawaiian people &C.
CURED in 1886 when the monarch
Kamehameha was born. He was on.
~ a minor chieftain. but man of
really great gifts with talent for or.
ganization that would have made him
a force In any community He soon
abandoned the. hectoring warfare be-
tween the various islands. and set out
with tremendous determination and
patience to weld them into an empire
He conquered one island after another
until in 1875 he was in control of the
entire archipelago He did for Hawaii
what Mazzini did for Italy and Bismark
for Germany. Under his rule. Hawaii
was unified and Independent mon
archy, and If left to themselves the
Hawaiian people might have attained
a high degree of social and political
development
BIT in 1878 Captain Cock. came to
tie islands. had fight with the natives
and loosed his sailors among the peo-
pie with the result that they we're de.
hauched and infected with disease.
islands Is that of a long, slow struggle
Il >Cty kID fN~%
WAYS OF life and the forces of the in
vading civilization. AS the number OF
white men in the islands increased,
there was a growing demand for con-
stitutional rights. Repeatedly these
were granted by the monarchs only to
be, later violated again by them. Ha-
waii became republic for brief
space and then was made a monarchy
again under the famous Queen Liliuo-
kalani. who was the last OF the SOW
ereigns. Curing her reign steady !
agitation was started for annexation
to the United States This was re-
fused at first by our congress on the |
ground that the agitation was carried
on by few Americans whose inter
ests were at stake. Queen Liliuokal
ami also passionatelv protested against !
the change. In which she saw the end
of old Hawaii Nevertheless, in 1898
a joint resolution providing for an
nexation Of the territory Of Hawaii !
was passed, and the American flag
was raised over the islands to remain |
there. Queen Liliuokalani came to the
United States and wrote an interest
ing history Of herland.
Since that time the islands have be- I
come prosperous and Honolulu great |
and famous city. But they are over ,
run with Chinese and Japanese. Com
peting with the cheap Oriental labor
on one hand. and with occidental en-
terprise and capital on the other, the
native Hawaiian race Is steadily de-
The old Hawaii of abund-
ance and leisure and music has practi-
cally disappeared. -