The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-09-15
THE HAWAIIN INVASION
,1kuee and HuIa-Hua Have Captured the Country
by FREDERICK j. HASKIN

great beauty of skin and feature. al
though their ideals of feminine beau
ty dlverged somewhat from ours in
that they considered an enlarged ab-
domen an essential to physical per-
lection. The ruling class were vast
ly superior to all of the other people.
both physically and mentally, and
this was the natural result of GEN.
turles Of the most absolute rule in
the world. The power of the Hawai-
ian monarch was absolute, and his
person was the most sacred thing
known to his subjects. He was court,
legislature and executive. Incidentl-
ly 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 terribly heavy taxes upon his
people. If some family had carefully
fattened a pig and the fragrance of
its roasting reached the royal nostrils,
it was not uncommon for the royal
chef to come and appropriate the lux
TRY for the royal table. A member
of the Hawaiian chiefly class is an
emperor literally as soon as born.
Stewart tells of seeing young prince,
about three years old strolling
through the streets of Honolulu clad
in nothing but a pair of green mo-
rocco slippers and followed by a re-
tinue of twenty-five servants carrying
fans, rugs, umbrellas, spittoons and
other royal paraphernalia.
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 it was the only use made by
the Hawaiians of the bow and arrow.
In war, they used clubs, spears and
iavelins.
When the White Man Came.
The first important step in the de-
velopment of the Hawaiian people oc-
Cured in 1886, when the monarch
Kamehameha l was born. He was
only a minor chieftain, but a man of
really great gifts with a talent for
organization that would have made
him a force in any community. He
soon abandoned the hectoring warfare
between the various islands, and set
out out with tremendous determina-
ton and patience to weld them into
an empire. He conquered one is
land after another until in 1895 he
was in control of the entire archipel-
ago. He did for Hawaii what MAJ
zini did for Italy and Bismarck for
Germany. Under his rule, Hawaii
was a unified and independent mon
archy, and if left to themselves the
Hawaiian people might have attained
a high degree Of social and political
development.
But in 1778 Captain Cook came to
the islands, had a fight with the ma
tives and loosed his sailors among
the people with the result that they
were debauched and infected with dis
ease. From that time on the his
tory of the islands is that of long
slow struggle between the ancient
traditions and ways of life and the
forces of the invading civilization. AS
the number of white men in the is
lands increased, there was a growing
demand for constitutional rights. Re-
peatedly these were granted by the
monarchs only to be later violated
again by them. Hawaii became re-
public for brief space and then was
made monarchy again under the ia
nous Queen Liluokalani, who was the
last of the sovereigns. During her
reign a steady agitation was started
for annexation to the United States.
This was refused at first by our Con-
gress on the ground that the agita-
ton was carried on by few Ameri-
cans whose interests were at stake
Queen Liliuokalani also passionately
protested against the change, in
which she saw the end of the old
Hawaii. Nevertheless, in 1898 a
Joint resolution providing for annexa-