New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-17

,.kekc and the atkulele in accompani-
ment-althougb really the hula
ought to be an evening entertain
ment, Sought it not?"-the moHhini
reflects!
A Picture
OF the Past
The picture is pau. 1t is no more.
1t was merely the dream of a main
land noli]tini whose education has
been completed in the lurid white
night schools along Broadway.
There are still some real grass
skirts in the Bishop Museum, and a
grass hut, too! The ukulele was I'M
ported from the Azores, together
with number Of peasants. Both
have multiplied rapidly. There are
palm trees at Waikiki. But to sec
the real Hawaii, as pictured in song
and story, one must go to Coney
Island.
At one end of "Little Wall
Street" is the Bank of Hawaii, with
deposits of over s10,0OO,0OO. At
the other end is the Bishop Trust
Company, with S11,OoO,O0O. These
banks occupy modern stone build
ings comparing favorably with
those in mainland cities of even
greater size. Indeed, Honolulu
and all Hawaii-is too up-to-date to
suit many confirmed old mourners
for the departed past. These say
that the progeny of the intrepid
missionaries who came to teach
Christ have turned into Grass mod
ernists; have joined the mad race
for mere money; have imposed the
cultural traditions and habits of a
temperate climate upon the sub
tropical and soft Hawaiians, and
have in that way killed them off
until but about twenty-three thou
sand remain, compared with over
four hundred thousand when the
first white man came to Hawaii. 1t
is very sad; but tho best aboriginc
of Tasmania died recently; the
stalwart Maoris of New Zealand,
one Of the most "cultured"
primitive races on earth, are bound
to go; the Fijians do we'll to hold
their own; the softer Samoans and
Tahitians will surely go the way of
the others if their living conditions
continue to be changed gradually
by the all-pervading white trader.
In fact, nowhere, except in the East
Indies, have found that the natives
have increased and improved
through Caucasian aid. There the
cultural SYSTEM" so savagely as
sailed by those to whom "trade
first" is a sacred cause, while not
perfect, has served to keep the ma
tive in possession of his land and
his racial habits, and to increase and
thrive wonderfully.
/ But what has all this to do with
'The Little Wall Street of Hawaii?
The passing of few more "once
savage" races matters little to us
who are set upon cultivating the
world and making it better for the
iittest survivors. One amateur phi
losopher here in Hawaii has theory
that God really made the earth for
white men, but that more intrepid
early Polynesian navigators grabbed
a goodly part of the favored ISL
ands, while yellow men overlooked
vast areas of the richest mainland.
Therefore, through his conquests.
the Caucasian is at this late day
but coming into his rightful heri-
tage. 1t is pleasant theory, and
must serve to ease ones conscience.
Facilities for
Watering
On the Honolulu Stock and Bond
Exchange as of December 81 there
were about sixty-five issues quoted
the total representing a paid up"
capital of about Sill, 100000, of
which over $80,000,00O stands for
the bonds and shares of sugar
plantations and mills Tn paeS;po. r