New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
By Theodore M. knappen

1T WAS said of the Pilgrim
Fathers that on arriving in
n New England they first fell
on their knees and then on
the Indians. The Gospel propa-
eating descendants of those same
Puritan ancients figuratively if not
actually fell on their knees when
they landed in the Hawaiian Islands
one hundred years ago this year,
and they never in any violent sense
fell on the kanakas, who within
few years they conquered with the
weapons of prayer and The gospel
of brotherly love and education.
Nevertheless, for some weeks be-
fore adjournment delegation of
Hawaiians, headed by Governor
Charles j. Mccarthy, had been in
Washington pleading with Congress
to enact legislation that shall pro-
vide the voluntary victims Of the
missionary conquest of hundred
years ago with some remnants of
their ancient domain that they NAV
call their own and thereon make
stand to save their comely and stall
wart race from extinction.
Rushed to Christianity
1t was on March 80, 1920, that a
band Of Congregational missionaries,
headed by the Rev. Hiram Bingham
and the Rev. Asa Thurston, both or
dained for this particular mission,
after voyage of more than four
| months from Boston first set eyes
on the islands that were so quickly
to fall under their sway as proselyt-
ers for Christianity. From the king
down to the humblest serf the whole
population soon thereafter literally
broke into Christianity and educa-
ton.
Ten years later there were $1,000
students in the mission schools. The
, white men were welcomed as the
brlngers of better religion and
higher civilization. Generally speak
ing, there was no armed conflict at
any time between whites and ma
tives and the latter remained sover-
elgn and their island kingdom indie
pendent until the revolution of
1890, followed by annexation to the
United States in 1900
Yet after hundred years Of the
higher life and the better civiliza-
ton the descendants of the handful
of New England missionaries and of
those who came in their train, or
their assigns, own practically every
thing in the islands, real and per-
sonal, and the 10000 Hawaiians
and part Hawaiians who remain in
the land Of their fathers, 100000
strong when the New England mis-
slonaries came, are suing before
the seats of the mighty at Washing
ton for the restitution of a part of
their ancient patrimony, that they
may find some place to lay their
heads and refresh Themselves from
their losing struggle with the fittest
When Kamehameha !, conqueror
and consolidator Of the Hawaiian
Islands into one kingdom, departed
this life May 8, 1919. he little
dreamed that the missionaries for
whose coming he had Hospitality pre-
pared before he was summoned to
his fathers would inaugurate such a
change that hundred years later
that prince of the royal line, j.
kuhio kalanianaole, who would have
reigned as king had the monarchy
continued, would, as Delegate from
the Territory of Hawaii Of the Unit
ed States Of America to the Congress
thereof, be introducing bill to pro-
! vide the posterity of the great kings
loyal subjects with some small par
GELS Of the land that once was all his
or his peoples. That is what has
come TO pass. And to help him in
his plea came {. J. Mccarthy, the
American Governor Of the islands,
of all white ancestry, and Territorial
Senator John H. Wise and Terri
torial Representative Henry J. Ly-
man. Of native blood, and also
Harry Irwin. Attorney, General OF