The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-11-16

the body was removed to the old throne room of
the palace, where 1t lay in state on the very spot
where he had knet boy when he was created
a royal prince of the realm. At high noon on the
following day he was removed to the mausoeum
of the Kaakauas.
No death In all the annals of Hawairs touching
and pathetic history caused more profound sorrow
called forth more expressions of deep and
genuine regret than did that Of Prince Ktlania-
na61e. The entire population without regard to
creed, color, or nationality united in doing honor
to the memory of a brave and manly man who
unselishly consecrated his life to the upbuilding
of his beloved and devoted people. ~
The army furnished n military escort approprl-
ate to a general and the navy furnished an escort
similar to that ut 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
It was estimated that at the time Captain Cook
discovered the Hawaiian Islands, then known as
the Sandwich islands, there We're 100000 pure
booded Hawaiians on the eight islands. The most
vicious habits of civilization were then introduced
to the goodnatured, friendly tropical natives. In
toxcating liquors and diseases were introduced
with deadly effect upon healthy race who had
little power Of resistance Civilization made them
wear conventional clothing. It made them live In
board houses. Civilization is disease to the far
flung islands of the Pacific.
This vanishing race of Hawaiians Is an attrac-
tive race, and they were once great people.
When Napoleon was laundering across the conti-
nent of Europe, Kamehameha ], the first king Of
the Hawaans soldier and statesman, was or
ganizing the kingdom of Hawaii He united all
the islands Of that splendid group and created
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out the world and had representatives In and
diplomatic representatives from the governments
of the world. The Hawaiians were great peo-
pie, great In statesmanship great in war, and
great in their social fe They love music and
beauty. They live In land Of unusual beauty
and of incompatible climate.
But the native Hawaiian has 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 Hawaiian is command
to the Hawaiian that he give II, and he does so.
II is In this way that they have given up their
lands that they have given up their territory. that
they have given up that which theirs
The Hawaiian tall, athletic, handsome, gentle,
esthetc can toll hard on occasion, but nature and
his environment have untitled him for sustained
l,bor and dfudgery. 1870
Because of this, when American planters about
fifty years ago, began growing sugar on large es-
tates In the island they had to send abroad for
laborers Spaniards and Portuguese, then Swedes.
Norwegians, Dutchmen and Germans were import
ed Then Mexico and the Orient were turned to
as recruiting grounds Today, as result Of the
labor policies of the sugar planters, there is
most extraordinarily mixed population on the
islands ~
The Asatic 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 HawaIIans
are forced to live In poverty In the large towns or
gain poor living on the arid or waste lands left
available to thea ~