The Dolores star., 1923-11-16

the body removed to the old throne room of
where he had knelt boy when he was created
royal prince of the realm. At high the
Following day he was removed to the mausoleum
of the Kalakauas
No death in all the annals of Hawaiis touching
and pathetic history caused more profound sorrow
or called forth more expressions of deep and
genuine regret than did that of Prince Kalana-
naole The entire population without regard to
creed color or nationality united in doing honor
to the memory of n brave and manly man who
unselfshly consecrated his life to the upbuildng
of his beloved and devoted people,
The army furnished a military escort appropri-
ate to a general and the navy furnished an escort
similar 10 that at the burial of an admiral. Guns
were fired from Punchbowl at intervals of one
minute during the time that the body was being
transferred from the palace to the cemetery
Every member Of the government territorial
county and municipal, executive, legislative and
judicial, voiced his grief by taking an active per
sonal part in the ceremonies.
1t Is the last funeral of the kind that Hawaii
will see.
1t was estimated that at the time Captain Cook
discovered the Hawaiian islands, then known as
the Sandwich islands. there were 400 900 pure
booded Hawaians on the eight islands, The most
vicious habits of civilization then introduced
to the good-natured. friendly. tropical natives In
toxicating liquors and diseases were introduced
with deadly effect upon healthy race who had
little power of resistance. Civilization made them
wear conventional clothing. 1t made them live In
board houses Civilization is a disease to the far.
flung Islands of the Pacific.
This vanishing of Hawaiians is an attrac-
tive race, and they were great people
When Napoleon laundering across the CONT.
nent of Europe knmehameha l. the first king of
the Hawaiians, soldier and a statesman was or
ganiZing the kingdom of Hawaii. He united all
the islands of that splendid group and crented n
monarchy that was known and recognized through
out the world and had representatives in and
diplomatic representatives from the governments
of the world. The Hawaiians were n greot peo.
pie, great in statesmanship, great in war and
great in their social life. They love music and
beauty. They live in a land of unusual beauty
and of incompatible climate
But the native Hawaiian has one fault that
units him for an age of greed-he gives while he
has anything to give. The desire to possess any.
thing that belongs to a Hawaiian is command
to the Hawaiian that he give 1t, and he does so
1t is In this way that they have given I'D their
lands, that they have given up their territory that
they have given up that which was theirs.
The Hawaiian, tall, athletic, handsome gentle
esthetic. toll hard OCCASION but nature md
his environment have untitled him for sustained
labor and dIudgery.
Because of this, when American planters about
fifty years ago began growing sugar on large es
F. tates in the island. they had to send abroad for
laborers. Spaniards and Portuguese. then Swedes
Norwegans Dutchmen and Germans were import.
ed. Then Mexico and the Orient were turned to
as recruiting grounds. Today. as a result of the
labor policies of the sugar planters, there is
most extraordinarily mixed population on the
islands
The Asiatic population do large part of the
agricultural work. They supply the labor gangs
to the great sugar plantations, which occupy the
best lands In the islands, The native Hawatians
forced to live in poverty in the large towns or
gain poor living on the arid or waste lands left
available to them.