Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1897, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH _2%, 1897-24 PAGES. Our Rapidly Growing Taterests in the Pa- cific--Some His- tory Interest- ingly Told. ex-Secretary in no uncer- exation of Hawaii | confronting the American ch an opinion eral Foster car- and his hearers fs a plain duty ‘The expression of s HAWAII AND THE UNITED STATES Ex-Secretary Foster Declares Annexa- tion the Plain Duty of Our Country. An Address Before the Na- tional Geographic Society: rapid inerease of the Japanese navy and mercantile marine, nex and disturbing elements are recognized in these waters. General Grant, writing from Peking in 1 spoke of the wonderful skrewdne: industry and commercial spirit of the C! nese, foresaw the influences which would eventually overcome their conservatism, and made the prediction that “in less than a half century Europe will be complaining of the too rapid advance of China.” ‘The remaining factor to be noticed in the changed condition of the Pacific is the not- able development of the Russian posses- ons on the North Asiatic coasi. With an open-water port and fortified naval station on Chinese territory, and a trans-Asiatic railway reaching back to a military popula- tion of 100,000,000, we must reckon with another important element in the political c. In and commercial concerns of the Pacii view of these events, so briefly note may well admire the foresight of Mr. § ard, who, a half century ago, uttered these prophetic words: “The Pacific ocean, its its islands and the vast regions be- will become the chief theater of events in the world’s great hereafter.” If the prophecy of this great statesman is to be fully realized, there may be those in my hearing who will live to see the present predominating interests of our Atlantic seaboard sink into insignificance before the great and far-reaching commerce of cur Pacific coast. The Hawaiian Islands. In 1823 he made a visit to England, where he died in 1824, and his voung son was de- clared his sucessor, as Kamehameha III, with Kaahumanu as regent during his minority. About this time she became a convert to Christianity, and to her death lived an exemplary life. During her regency and under the influence of the missionaries the laws were revised, and new ones issued against murder, theft, gamoling and drunk- enness, regulating marriage and recogniz- ing the Sabbath. She died in 1831, and her rule is remembered as a period of progress and prosperity. She was succeded in the regency by Kinau, the daughter of Kame- hameha I, likewise a woman of great abili- ty and consistent Christian ilfe. In 1833 the king declared his minority at an end, but he retained Kinau as vice king. The early part of the reign of Kamehamena III was marked by dissolute conduct on his part and association with profligate friends; the laws against drunkenness and ‘mmoral- ity were not enforced, heathen practices and drunken revels were flagrant, 2nd a reaction against Christianity and morelity set in. But the later years of his reign brought political troubles «vith France and England, and these, with his stucdy pa- triotism, steadied his habits. Under the in- fluence of Kinau, he selected advisers from among the missicnaries, and in 1840 he promulgated a constitution, in which a legislative body was proviied, and the rights of the common people in their prop- erty and pursuits were fully recognized. This act of grace was followed by another equally generous, by which the people were given fee simple titles to the lands which they had in cultivation, and efforts were made to encourage the natives in habits of thrift and industry. His reign, although full of political troubles and anxiety, was ene of general progress, and, though dis- solute in his habits, he possessed some ex- cellent qualities, and had the xood terse to keep himself surrounded by wise foreign advisers. On the death of Kamehameha III, in 1855, he was suceeded by his cousin, the son of Kinau, under the title of Kamehameha IV, at the age of twenty-one. He had been well educated under Christian influence, had visited America and Europe, was posseesed of talents and winning manners, and en- tered upon his reign with great promise of usefulness. But these high hopes were des- tined to early disappointment. Under evil precaution to procure the license before paying the morfey.: Whereupon Aki,’ find- ing he had lost both théJiicense and his money, made the whole transaction public. This exposure was the culmination of the king’s evil conduct, and the residents from the United States, England; and.Germany protested to their diplombtic representa- tives that “the condition of affairs was in- tolerable,” and a mass meting of citizens of all nationalities unanimously declared that the government “had ceased, through incompetency and corruption, to perform the functions and to aes | ed protection for which governmentdfexist,”” and a committee was appointed to wait upon the king to demand the dismissal of Gibson, the adoption of a liberal constitution, and the election of a new legislature. Kalakaua accepted all these conditions: Gibson was banished, a legislature overwhelmingly on the side of reform was eleetéd, and for the remainder of his life a better state of af- fairs existed, though it was marked by a conspiracy to dethrone Kalakaua and place his sister, Liliuokalani, on the throne, with a view to restore autocratic rule. While on a visit to San Francisco on account of his failing health, Kalakaua died, in 1891. He possessed the amiable qualities of his race, a kind and generous nature and courtly manners, but his habits were no better than those of his predecessors, and his in- fluence was even more corrupting and vicious. Liliuokalant. By the constitution Liliuokalani was recognized as the successor to the throne, and, though her accession was unattended by exciting events, it was not without mis- givings on the part of those who knew her views of government. It was understood that she reproached her brother, the late king, for yielding to the demands of the citizens for a liberal constitution in 188% and that she was cognizant of, if not a participant in, the conspiracy of 1889 for Its overthrow. She very soon came under the influence of a foreign half-caste ad- venturer, and was governed by his advice rather than by her cabinet. The legisla- ture of 1802 was controlled by corrupt in- fluences, and passed lottery and opium license bills, through the active support of the queen's intimates and to the great scandal of the community. These were fol- dren of legal age, including those of the Chinese and Japanese population, are brovght in, and all the instruction fs given ‘in English. In adilition, there are in Hon- clulu quite a number of free kinderga-tens, excellent industrial schools for boys and girls, and Protestant and Catholic colleges. In the capital are also found a lerge pub- lic library, well-equipped hospitals and other institutions. which testify to the culture and humane sentiment of tie people. In scarcely any other city of the world can there be fcund a community more fully imbued ‘vith the spirit of enterprise, edu- cation and intellectual culture. The present repubiican government,which camé into power on the overthrow of the monarchy, has been in existenze for four years, and has been marked by great abil- ity, careful attention to the interests of the people, and by thorough integrity. There seems to be a consensus of opinion on the islands thai the monarchy can never be restored. The wretched history of its ruiers and the ircapacity of the na- tive race to govern, however weil educated, their instability of character and suscepti- Liilty te temptation, forbid such a step. The farrilies of the old chiefs nave become extinct, and there is nothing out of which to found a dynasty. Had there existed a iingering hcpe of restoration, the ex-queen would not have made her volut sworn allegiance to the republic. But the government of President Dole does uot re- pure, gard itself as permanent, for by its con- stitution it declares its purpose to zo out of existence as socn as the shall see fit to annex tne islands. In the changed relations existing in the Pacific ccean, it is plain to the observant states- man that Hawail cannot much ionger maintain itself as an independent nation. Aside from the temptation which it offers to the nations contending for supremacy Cleveland's is the strongest of all pure cream of tartar baking powders, yet its great merit is not its strength, but the fact ry and .j + absolute renunciation of the crown ard that it is tea ‘States wholesome sure. the little can of Cleveland’s bak- ing powder to the big barrel of flour. in the Pacific, it possesses within itself the | 48ain, that they form the center of a large | ocean mits. I think we should develop elements which threaten the loss of its in. | Circle whose radius 1s approximately, and | within our own dom dependence. The amiable and peaceable | Very closely, Hawaiian and the thrifty Portuguese, | to San than half the male inhabitants, and the | have @ Japanese have doubled their number in the | $'T® past six years, and they continue to come | ™°? in increasing numbers. The Asiatic Invasion. the distance from Honolulu | speaking nation, * * From San Fran- | ples marked out for us whose fatherland is so far away, cause no | CISCO to Honolulu, 2.100 miles, easy steam- . fear to the present rulers. But the Asiat- | !7& distance, 1s substantially the same as ics, whose countries are so near, are a | {rom Honolulu to source of great anxiety. ‘The Chinese an] | Samoan, Soclety ae Sapaues = i ese ant | nearest Inhabitated is atthe population: and “re alveals’ more | Topean control, except Samoa, In which we | offered of securing this outpost of our e much edie cannot be laid * * * upon the tm- | all time ou dvantages to us of any maritime enemy having a coaling station well within 2,500 miles of every point of our c Marshall, 2 dil a great English- by the princi- the fathers of But it is precisely because I a great and powerful nation —much greater and more powerful than the groups (the | Gne we now have—developed on this con- js), all under Eu-|tinent that I hail the opportunity now ontier, and thus protecting for future mighty commerce and rapidly growing interests on that coast rom the encroachments of the great por vrs striving for asccndancy in that quarter of the glo from Puget sound to Mexico. Were the The supporters of the present government | Many others available we might find It dif- would put a stop to this immigration bu: | Scult to exclude from ail. There is, how” for tha powerfal influencelot the! augar | vue th eterno ae oe cal hems, en planters, and they look to annexation to y is thrown back for supplies of fuel the United States as the only wa: Sof 2.500 or 4,000 miles—or be- this end. These Asiatic elements | tWee? 7,00) and 8,000, going and coming— Sieecinnine (oaceeet an emacivee: | 22 papeaimientetp ined maritime of Y 1891 transmitted to the r erations well nigh prol: it is re retary of State a report of a meeting in ly that so important a factor in the at ‘ tenne Mie oOr eo = dod middle of the Pica Claires GOOCHIncselko protest meainat| Coe ete tee! maent ie are eee EE scme pending le and in the reso- ~is concentrated in a single position, aud | Street. She was evidently hesitating as to n Tone der: ‘ly impera- | Which way to go, but finally crossed to ity Ges Cea the circumstance renders {t doubly impers hich way to go, but finally crossed to the Has os us to secure ii, If wa taghicous- | south track and stood the a lesser degree of con: n and justice Hae pi geese Seta ‘Cross over to the other than residents of other nationalities en- ‘There is no man in the country SE SEE INCONSTANT SEX, «Counts | ‘The Hawatian Islands, the subject of this pal has rep- | Cvenine’s lecture, are situated just within egies 2% “P| the northern tropic (between 18 degrees 54 aoe ee cade | Mates and 22 degrees 15 minutes norch Tans the | Mtitude), and 2,080 miles southwest of San to Hawaii, the | Prancisco (between 14 degrees 50 minutes degrees 30 minutes longitude west to an agree- eenwich). They are substantially the late war be- | ne distance from the other important the two countries are so recent as to | island group in the Pac They thus | occupy an isolated and unique position in ‘ __ | that broad ocean. This, with the other fact sion for this important utterance | that they were out of the track of the early ster deliv- | “e of the sixteenth and seventecuth is the reason why they were so and, of Wrong From the Cleveland 1 As a Cedar moto several extended within the year, and his services as iler approached n avent woman was no- he public mind. side,” roared a he corner. ubect of annexation: “This ts a| < ot a principle, a policy, fruitful | S704» of men or i from him the name of the Admiral Walker, who nd of | He It should net be fergotten t as in slowed | - in being brought to the knowledge of j If during the pendency of the Geary | 9; any rts, to enter \c “Look ov car ed ered at rest of the world. ‘Thay were dis- RL 8 Ci A PSI ao St Ii Giettnlivess Stour pataioall tbe | uss 5 ‘ walk. eer and the big | d by that daring and successtul Eng- had been held in San Francisco demanding | time has now arrived.” This view Th. ok aud ulleries wa: ator, Captain Cook, in 1778, on the treatment of the most favored nation | strongly emphasized Admiral Walker, oes Banged Ms bee ane: none the im-| his third and last voyage into the Pacific, it would Ror ports I have already quoted. woman dodged out of | and rec “ | | Sandwich Islands, in honor of the first lord our navy in those waters in 1894, in official | pearl Harbor offers, strategically and oth- she trostea f the teatler, of the admiralty, under whose auspices his reports, after referring to th and the finest site i re, Where you?” shouted the con- voyages were made. By this name the fs- rapidly increasing number of Ja 2 ation to be found in the who lands were for a long time best known the isiands, sa “They ure eal the woman sad the re of_ the the step. Thea This manifest Times tersely recogai power that holds Pearl river and moors | turbulent body, urope and America, but even m_ these continents it has been supplanted by the stand toget lead speared nd p id PEARL HARBOR. proper title, the Hawalian Islands, derived political am) EB its fleets there po: es the key to the tr d to the from the largest of the group, and after} _ ee ee = a —_ =e tor their free men the ri northern Pacific.” 2 front end of car. she climb which the people take their name. | the conditions wi that right up and came in the front Fee eer that these islands were vis- | companionship he soon fell into dissolute | lowed by an attempt at a coup d'etat on | granted to other fo: ited by the Spaniards at a much earlier | habits, killed his own secretary in a drunke| the part of the queen, having in view the | a brave | pe % pare discovery, and there is | en frenzy, withdrew himself in great weas- | overthrow of the existing eonstitution, un- | and would } i ‘and died prema-|der which she derived her title to the | And he s or. The ec and the tr the newe straightened up Duty of Annexat! If, then, In view of our grea growing interests in the Pac’ igners. * * They a es ith military instinet if aroused to violence ductor snapped the bell, and rapidly | started s it has by t fat man. w e ain that claim; but | ure from public affair: ntly adds that the Uni.ed | if such ee ae existence was | turely in 1863. throne, and the promulgation of one of her there is exceeded by the | Come Political and military necessity th s going to Fairmount street; Pearetalt ici from the rest of the | He was succeeded by his brother as) own making of 4 dictatorial character. 1 Aminen, who is thor. | these islands should not pass into the going to Fairmount street; | or fate that several | Kamehameha V, who made a career hard-| These proceedings brought about the | oughly familier with the ex before these islanls were known | ly less ignoble, distinguished himself sain- | revolution of 18u3 and the overthrow of | tions of the Pacific, in a uropeans their inhabitants were ac-| ly by the arbitrary overthrow of the lib- the queen. The events are so recent and | gressional committee in 1 culch te make voyages of thousands | eral constitution of Kamehameha III and|so well known that it for 3 require a prophet t | eee te mes and other distant in-| the substitution of one of his own making, | me to rehearse them. Nor would you con- | those islands in the near ‘ted islands of Polynesia. In the folk-| as also by his encouragement of neathen-| sider it gallant on my part to.discuss the an or Jepancs ‘St the Hawaiians are found many | ish rites, the lascivious dances and the sor- | personal traits of the late queen with the a ae Se Ss | songs. and narratives of these daring | cerers. After a brief reign of nine years freedom of my reference to those of her | years ago to make a caretul s world. trol of any other nation, and if it is mani- ‘am,” replied the conductor; “its i the other way.” ; £ just thought it ried the ut you all yelled at me, se that I don't want to co on this them, it | the United States to annex them to its ter- And in a matter which involves the | $ and destiny of a great nation of | of people no mere technical au off at the next t e redecessors. T ay = f procedure d be d to em- | Stopping and a abx Gabneant Mr. Johan W. Foster. Son nd ge apnarentiy in large canocs | he. likewise came to a premature end in | male predecessors. ‘To complete this rea! | islands, reported in INT that Ey RS Sealine wept eect pedecss racing age her yer dgeas panscnanss built up of planks and decked over, with a | 1872. With his death the Kamehameha review it is only necessary to note the | not, and never can have, the power to | mont of Hawaii is as fully'a de facto and | side of ¢ waiting for an eastward. ered to hear him. | capacity for carrying a considerable crew, | became extinct. her | SUH whieh as ated her since the | maintain their own neutra Sa go [ous eS a Ae facto and | side of th ting for an eastward- nmber of the Mem-| with stores and live stock sufficient for| No successor having been named either | dethronement. Mr. lis, the American | their necessities foree them to seek al- | Se as Ree, Eapparted dy the inbabltants. z ate mber of the mem | with stores, and live tonic intercourse | by the late king or by law, It became neces. | minister, to whose memory it is due to Say | ance to some nation which can ceizove | artily Sup S —ser — But, during ow st history, in our ac- ¥ quisition of territory, we have manifested The Small Boy Problem. no sensitive disposition to inquire into the | Mrs. M. L. Rayne in Cufeago Times Herald. : 2 : siature se one from | that under m 1 in the speaker's | seems to have ceased some time before the | sary for the legislature to choose one at uni i i h a subject as | visit of Europea: but even then the in- | among the ae posed fey chit fey ene Cat embarrassing: duties pan who intimately acq! By, ine | Rabitantal were! aac ines mers, and trips | the choice fel! upon iam C. Lunalilo, | great discretion—Mr. 8 reported to | situation, expressed to Congress d Te asin nr Gaaen the @OKe gave no] were made, with only un’ and stars | the son of, the steplaugnter, of Kameha, | Secretary Gresham November 16, 1803, that | the following opinion: “In ‘itv rlightfulness of the tithe wy ion acckeed | “I can suggest a reform that is needed in t on the sub-| as guides, in their large canoes on the | meha I. js select . vee : - e would be an armed { from this time there will be such 2 pre- | Kower. We acquired ie 2 the home education “ Tee ie tity Was | SS Buide. teen the two extreme ns-| by @ vote of the people, and his univer- | attempt to restore the monareay. and that | ponderance of the foreign element (re pope. We so Pe ee 3 pespalicihe cla treme heed Ad st trying eircumstances he | their embarrassment 4 at : ,, a traits of char-| this “would mean the overthrow of con- | ri § territory by purchase from a monarch who | the curfew bell.” said Snagsby, recoverin plaud every time @ distance of over three hundred | sal popularity, his amiable trai a erthrow of con-| ring to the labor immigration) that the | jo -stionable. ri v. ne to the destrabilit : acter and his liberal views won for him | stitutional and limited government and the | islands will maturally fall into the hands see tr puts a nestionahls Sanat See himself from a fit of retrospection. ty for the anr mee wativeiboodtatlon the sympathy of all classes, both uative | absolute dominion of the queen.” Mr. Wil-| of some other power, unless deur Rarer eas : “Let us have it,” we put a é ; ives ee I replied; “now is the Giiaiting asprdve | cance in tse cenipecciiy Geely to preved | ove Se ee ; in the case of Florida our title came to us | ime when it is needed. from a sovereign who was ruling in defi-| “It is mother's slipper sole. I would never ance of the constitution and against the | be the correct fellow I am now" —here will of the people, and who was kept on ae a paicitage hig throne by the influence of foreign pow- | S"ae®ey inflated his chest—“at it bad mot a ee ined California and all that | Been for the frequent use of that benign vast region from Mexico through a treaty | instrument of home rule. 5 and foreign. But he possessed the weak- | lis’ prediction was realiz | capt. Cook's estimate of the population. | ness of his predecessors, and though he | conspiracy of January, 1895, and he report- | it.” | 400,000, in his day, may have been exagger- | called to his cabinet good advisers, bis | ed to the Secretary of State that he had Upon this weight ated, but the first census, taken in 1832, | elevation to power brought around him | been shown the program of the conspira- | treaty was appro ible plagues and ravages of dis- | boon companions and his excesses hastened | tors, which had been approved by the lead- after terrible plagues aves the work of disease which terminated his | ing loyaiists and doubtless by the queen, | ease, showed a population of 130,000. In| reign within thirteen months from the| and he states “it is not encouraging to the rs the ce marked a decrease | day he ascended the throne. If the mat- audience a foregone conclu: ntroduced last eve Hubbard, the pre: Geographic Soe: with an exp! f the Hawaiian advice the reciprocity by Congress, and a s inserted granting to the States the use of Pearl harbor as a naval and coaling station, and stipulating friends of good government or of Ameri-| that.no similar privilege or franchise x ad i ” de with authorities who had only a few What is the matter with father's own by a £ | ; in 1850 the inhabitants had Kalnkaua’s Reign. cain teestss et should be granted to any other power; but | M&de wih Auiner ed the government. by | Strap?” I asked, slangi ee af fhe Speaker's stand | giminished to $1,000; in 1853 to 73,000; In| yumalilo had likewise failed to ex2rcise) shows jasty sketch of the Hawallan rulers | this privilege and stipulation are enly ¢o- | means of @ pronunciamento, and in a litte | “Oh, fathers are 100 severe. ‘They handle f the lectu . c eae i existent w > treaty which > ea an Soece aKa a boy as if he was of their o' e Ciews of “eenery | 1860 to 68,000, and in 1872 to 56,900. Soon | nig right to name a successsor, and the| and moral character to administer the gov- | terminated upon @ twelve months eile a ee ee Ne eee Te tee Ahinioe Seite FLEE Ane o heeee RE ee Gas after this latter date the government, | country was again thrown Into a fever of | ernment, and what a wretched failure they | The treaty, with its attendant prosperi Hut, in addition to the fact that the reg-| time. Now, mothers don’t hurt much. It Sak Ecolenk ahecer condition of | yiarly constituted government of Hawali] is the humiliation of being whipped by a uction, began the Importation ot e 3 % fe the courtry also shows that for the past zoe tone ea Ai ported aoe tor The rival candidates were the oe "en | sixty years the administration of affali pase = azn ulsepalation rapidly increased, bat the na-| Dowager Emme end David) Kalakaus, @| hes been virtually. in the han _A few months ago It '2ive race continued to steadily decrease, | descendant of one of the chiefs of Kame. | crs, mainly the missfonarie: to make a visit to the | ana in 1800 it was reduced to 34,000 pare | hameha I, through a somewhat clouded | scendants, and that wher and the which | Hawalians and 6,000 half castes. The cen-| lineage. Kalakaua was chosen by the leg- of the latter has been di. arded it has | and supported as they will be by their gov , the tates has not pet been published Ia | islature, but’ not without a riot, which | brought embarrassment and disgrace upon | ernment tn thelr claim to equal consi‘ but it shows a total of 109,020 and | was only quelled by the active interposi- | the country. ticn, they would then become the dominant i It thus appears that the | tion of marines landed from American 1 element in the islands. This things which was feared. The né fer inereased labor has brought and con- is of foreign- | tinues to bring the Japanese in such num- s and their de- | bers that they are destined in a short time er the advi to constitute a majority of the population, is seeking annexation to the United Statcs, ; Woman that hurts, but it never leaves any have a strong equitable claim to the rankling spirit of an injustice done, and is The people of the United States | as salutary as a dose of physic.” i millions of dollars to bring the | “What has become of the slipy ants out of «a wretched state of | tem? barbarism and servituc and to cure “Gone out with mother’s doughnuts and them a place among the cf lized peoples of | mince pies. It no longer a factor in the the earth. Americans gave them a written education of bo: The modern mother organized their schools, hing about the old soft- Mr. Foster's Lecture. | on of a under the stimulus of the increased sugar | ¢xcitement over the election of a king. made of their opportunities. The history of | is bringing about the r sys- Industrial Development. ight | doesn't know a : eee por. a 2 : language t 3 native race has fallen to 24 per cent of | and British men-of-war in the harbor. s ‘i : . ation can most surely, if not only, ee organizedncipies of government, | soled slipper that whacked goodness into the population of 18%, and only represents | The low ebb which the people had reached A sketch of the industrial and economic vented by annexation to the SF eae he half a century wove the reai | the Johns and Wil Soyo ig 4 peeeeat of the total population of the | in keeping the constantly vacated throne | development of the country will throw s, which would apply the pro’ : administrators of public affairs, and until | Oxford uld never the rulers demonstrated their utter Inca- | be as educational. I tell you that dear old Mands. With the contiaued rapid increase | filled was strikingly f{lustrated in the | some light upon the problems which are of of imported labor and the steady decline of | cholce of Kalakaua. His reputed «t@2¢- | the tive issues of today in the islands, At | Sands. It ques- | pacity were the firmest supporters of native | slipper was an active home missionary, the native race, It may readily be seen | father had been hanged for poisoning his} 11) tine of their discov ticn of annexation is forcing its-lf upon and Snagsby wiped away a tear over its that, unless checked by some cause not | wife, he had himself become a defaulter scovery they produced | the government and people of the Untted s, by means of the | memory. " wirnerscs. | haw to be anticipated, the early extinction | a8 @ government official, his family was | nothing demanded for exportation. For a | States, and that tt cannot, with safety, he rocity treaty, brougt life and pros-| Apropos of bor vreat empire | of the Hawailans must Inevitably occur, | known to the natives as an idolatrous ove; | few years afterward a considerable trade | Postponed. perity to the islands, and enabled its mer- | of the daily aggre ose] to for ‘As another Indication, It may be noted that | and under the former one Ss be: nae was created in sandal wood, but the supply Our Attitude Toward Hawaii. chants and planters to grow rich at our | against youthful offenders in all large cities se the families of the great chiefs, whom the | been an advocate of absolutism a a was soon exhausted, and the chief industry Fi % ‘ = experse. It is today virtually an American | suggest the inefficiency of present methods (mmon people had been accustomed for | free sale of liquors. His career as king did| for many years was the provisioning of rom the time that California became a ‘The paramount influence is Ameri- | of reform? Locking up a ten-year-old boy yes past to look to as their natural lead- | not belie his antecedents. whaling ships, which made the islands a | Part of the United States our government] can, In no part of the United States is | in a prison pen for a small theft. and in- For a time he retained in his cabinet men | rendezvous. The sudden influx of popula- | and its public men, political, military and| there more intense loyalty shown to our | voking the whole machinery of the law to of ability and integrity, but he soon fell | tion into California caused a brief demand sta srntitll i ; Ponce titi, ie , ; = 2 i < capes naval, up to the last administration, have | country or its institutions. During the civil convict him, is more conducive to a crim- under the influence of designing foreign ad- | for Hawailan products, but that soon ceas- Baa iarenee iota aadticonal tent posi,| War Hawail contributed much more than | inal career than to one of reform and peni- venturers. One of these (Gibson) was @ | ed, and up to 1870 little progress had been stent posi- tence. Then, too, the whole spectacle of renegade Mormon, who had been driven out | made in the development ef the countrs, | HM respecting Hawaii. They have always | (igh fe ies Pe eng of that on ity, ae suring hls: ea It had then been demonstrated that the ] held that our paramount position on the asuraceR medion enth us sm by oe small offender, who feels that he is identi- dence in the islands had skown himsclt to | soil and climate were well adapted to the | Pacific coast of North America made st a| lie meeting in Honolulu. On Decoration | flod_ with the objects of his awe, and ad- Professor Alexander, as a professional lob- OT coma titles wat, Be Produced | not pass into the hands or under the con-| Public repairs to the wemelers 1 Ln ae eo byist, weil known in Washington, who trol of any other foreign nation, and when | Stee, he memory of the Selay is annual | Now for the suggestion of a remedy. We came to Honolulu with some grand scheme, | After more than ten years of pe the subject has been discussed it has been | UUricd there. Thanksgiving ay © ty than | all know of the noble work of the sisters of and by his servile flattery gained such an | effort the government Beccred ne vetnen | held. that whenever the opportune time | 1¥ Observed with sven move eivctns of Ha- | charity—why not have a system of brothers tnbounded influence over the king that | tion by the Consress of the United Guuses | arrived they should be annexed to the| the native land. Ime ic suns of the | of charity—home missionaries, paid by the within a few months he was made prime | of a treaty of commercial reciprocity, in | United States. I should be glad to support | ftherland, and it would be a cruel fate to | city which employs them to look after Minister and was preparing to launch the | 1875, and from that period dates the: ene | this statement by the declarations of Presi- | fatherland. and it would bw a vine foreign | street children, to teach them, if need be, government into projects of unbounded | of prosperity in the ielands, The ‘rapid | dents Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Jotn- | Abandon Wem oo Cn Coe et pitory a ror. | i the market square or on the street cor- +| fclly, when the foreign community, repre- | diminution of the native gace aad tieis | £00, Grant and Harrison, and of Secretaries | Powel, Four times tn fe past Mintel States | mera the way to @ better childilfe? Let senting the property interests of the coun- | indisposition to labor on the plantations, | of State Webster, Calhoun, Buchanan,Clay- | 1/2" Setsn aver tho daantechret ahs was t r r them sing the songs of Eugene Field to the try, raised such a storm of indignation | led to the inauguration of the system of | ton. Marcy, Seward, Fish, Frelinghuys ae Wonkens, Blynkens and Nods of the slums, fn’ and again the French, Any one of | &nd thereby raise a nobler monument to tite powers would gladly assume sover- | the memory of the poet than could be bullt i y of marble or stone, or recite the “Pied eignty again, and to them Is to be added as Piper of Hamelin,’ and, when crowds gathered to listen, pass around the hat for the street mission. To do for the least of r immigration law: 1 thus be seen that th does not a summing up ate of crime recorded has floated over the isl: that the king was forced to dismiss him. | foreign contract laboress, are with forte, | and Blaine, but time’ will not permit it and | #6” then the Frenat. afterward the Brit- But Gibson, the renegade Mormon, was | guese, afterward with Chi y | you are doubtless more or less familiar more successful, and retained fis place es | with Japanese, "The marke ct ike si | with them. It is also well known that on prime minister for some years. He humor- | States being free and open, the production |W, occasions, in 1854 and in 1867, the J €a the King’s passion for display, and ar-| of sugar rapldly increased ‘and has becoine | Minister of the United States to the Ha-| * Menace the rising Power of Japan. ranged and carried out with grand cere-| the great article of export and source of | Wellan Islands was authorized by the No Political Difficulties. monies the coronation of Kalakaua in| wealth. The abundant supply of water by | President to conduct formal negotiations], = these little ones whom Christ blessed ts 1883, nine years after his inauguration. | means of artesian wells has given new life | fr annexation. To my mind annexation presents no Po-| what the Salvation Army has done for He inspired him with great ambition, and | to the industry, and during the past year | The attitude of the political department | ltical or administrative difficulties. During | aquits. led him to assume what his prime minister |,the old plantations have been enlarged in | Of OUr government is strongly supported hy | the discussion four years ago it was sug- termed “the primacy of the Pacific. A | their acreage and new plantations b- | our highest military and navel authorities. | ges! y 7 tlae eat pla estab- 4 gested by certain writers of standing in the granulloquent protest was addressed to the | lished. In 1875, the year the reciprocity | The official visit of General Schofield, the] 1-31 profession that there was no auth : great powers, warning them against fur. | treaty was ratified, the total exports of the | I#te commander of the army, has been re- | lBa! Drofecsion (it ttt vid rad pera If, seeing one poor infant's needs, ther annexation of the islands of the Pa- | islands amounted in value to $1,800,000, und | ferred to. In his report already cited he ity given in the Constitution of the United Our souls grow hard the while. cific, and an imposing embassy was sent to | for the last six years the average annual | 2¥8: “The Hawatian Islands constitute | States to annex territory not contixuous. | Another institution of the past suggests the King of Samoa and the Queen of Tonga, | €xborts have been $10,800,000, ahd for 1896, | the only natural outpost to the defense of | When the purchase of Louisiana was first | itself here as a refuge for children who A treaty of alliance was made with the | $15,500,000. one | the Pacific coast. In the possession of a] Suggested, Mr. Jefferson, a strict construc- | have too few or too many luxuries, and of Samoan king, and the Hawaiian embassy | Under the feudal systemcofvgovernment | foreign naval power they would afford the | tionist. thought it could not be accom- | the two conditions I favor the first. It 1s gave a grand banquet in honor of thy | the lands held by the chlety and people be- | Means of incalculable injury to the United | Plished except by an amendment of ihe | an institution that is essentially English, event, at which Robert Louls Stevenson re- | longed to the crown, but thjs system was a | States. * * * We must secure forever the Constitution, but when the opportune mo- | and not looked upon with favor by Ameri- perts’ “all decency appears to have beoa | reat source of discord avd tn apparent | desired cortrol over those Islands or tet} ™ent arrived he heartily approved the ) can parents, for whose children it is most Torgotten, and the next day found the | Bindrance to the development Bf the coun. | it pass into other hands,” and he adds | ‘reaty, and nothing further was heard of | desirable—I allude to the nursery. It fs a house carpeted with slumbering grandecs.” | tty, and during the reign ‘of Kamehameha | that the financial Interests of the United | the constitutional amendment. The objec- | happy medium between the barrel-ani LOCATION OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. One of the Samoan chiefs remarked to the | Il, after careful consideration, 1t was de- | States are “insignificant: when compared | tion now advanced does not seem to have | purghole system, and that of the unre- Hawalian envoy, “If you caus nese ie | cided that there should be ai allotment, | to the importance of such a military and | hid any welght with the exccutive oF with | strained freedom of American youth. Plain, = —— —— | teach my people’ to drink, I wish you haa | Setting apart for the crown one-third, to the | Raval station to the national security and Congress when Alaska was acquired, nor | wholesome food, such as the children of ers and to regard almost with vencration, | #t#ved away.” chiefs one-third and to the tenants, or | Welfare.” Admiral Porter in a report al- | Will it, with Se eon today. | Queen Victoria ate, and thrived on; plain, have by the Same process of decay aiaccr; | Under the lead of Gibson, the king dia | P°Ple, one-third. In this way the com- | ready cited used this language: “European | The islands should = admitt @. not as | sensible clothing: the long hours of sleep | become entirely extinct, and that the lac | 20t hesitate to resort to unblushing cor-| MO" People came into possession in fee |.commerce, customs, enterprise and ideas of Tpuccastatentis been SEAS ae peed org gree ered | five occupants of the throne have left a, | Tuption and interference in the election of | *!™Ple of the lands upon which they lived | Z0vernment are making rapid strides all | 7 AL San cpm ae een |e ial aren poe ena ee nge | Hneat hetr. members of the legislatuce, and flooded the | 8&4 Which they cultivated: aid the chiefs | Over that vast ocean (Pacific), a theater on | Tit 4s Congress in its wisdom may deter- | what the nursery give: | Not all our sacramental creeds Can cleanse our hearts from guile, on of a convict in barbarism, thw e 2 oO cone the | had set apart to ; ve nature seem: have inte mine. We have already three forms of ter-| It is singular that an appeal for the chil- saa = oe = : evelo} inde; di ° ed 4 ” i—t 2 th and a ie prerogatives ot of the Rocky | Hawatlan kings, especially as it will throw | fark; Other scandals which marked this | but tt’ taliea, in great Monee OF ate tee: control.” | awallan Islands were occupied | oreanized territories and in Alaska. One of | it does. ‘The cif and blows of respectable 3 sn- | the present governmental status of che ie | ing of the revenue, the Hlivgal teccmed; | pose, as in the process of mg both “ctlefs | by the British or other power, he savs, | 84 ua¥atea, Under whatever. form of | Pov and diminutives of ixury, where lands. ‘The able administration of Kane | the lands and othér disgraceful metnods | 884 people have parted Bee's fands, | ‘they could launch forth thelr ships. of | obe_ instituted. Under, whatever, form of | sweets and diminutive of jucary. where ; ae and they ai rs government, doubtless the native Hawaiians | fne clothes and airs are cultivated more British, | 11, who began hls reign in 1819. Ne ace | heathenism and its laselelgus, weatiioes plore Soe nese thationly 14 per cent | driven from the Pacific. * * * Every con- pete e rilice anh tp ithecanions ee oa ie mittee shee ee ' Z “ P of ti ‘ > | un , - 1 ers responsible, not for their here- to cststerce, ‘and our | youth of heedless and dissolute habits, and | U'der the pretense of cultivating “nationad| of the natives, ‘ands Temained in the hands | sae te moor the United States « mare. | ics would be applied the existing prohibi- after, but for their here—the life that now 1 to dts possessions thou- | his father, apparently anticipating his un- | feeling.” Affairs went from bad to worse | the taxes were paid by them, “© | mount influence there.” Captain Mahan of | tive, laws of the United States as to natur | js, S cole, Austealla has tonsa S10, the | fitness, designated his guardian, Kaahuma- | Until they were finally brought to @ crisis | “The study of the, a rlainem scteristics of jour navy. the recognized authority both in | #ization and immigration, which would eile Mer RS Rees as ual Conta Se ec ese 3 a by roug] g countries. iy products as fo distur the economic condi- | pecullar Hawailan custom had the power | Toya! Corruption and intimidation, “had, Rngb ye Pan reese eee ned isa cae ierath “especially. ia renniaan es (ee the suamestion: 2t\a pxp- the Argonaut Hons of the world. Polynesia has Leen | of veto on the king's acts. ‘Through her in- | against the protest, of the more “decent | Polynesiars, Mongolians and sGhucasiain, derful development of the Pacific rer | Wctorate Ss ble. We cannot as- | "on t made ibe cate: <f colonial competition | fluence idolatry was abolished, and the | members, passed an opium license law. A | under the peacefull Se ee eee: | Onn ty ak anA obeing OF this acific re-| sume it without becoming responsible for] Rather a neat way of stating ‘an awk- oe uropen The Hoots und aries cuttions | Ameriéan missionaries were permitted to | rich Chinese (Aki) was secretly Informed | principles and Se Etec coecnees ohnthiatetromveal temine therreas | te ae er ee cee eee el ee fone 3 s- = e you! 7 at on the ment of , = = not e Tes] a ss ae eee Fave ora enone striking contrast with his fathers diseaaed king’s private Pee he irae Ate referred to the -work of the missionaries, | sons why the control of these islands by ernment ‘unless we can a eee ov; | cant for a pension. applicant hed ‘The spirit which brou; em fo the {s- United States is a military necessit ‘creation management beer, wounded while regi was China. Commodore Perry, with our own the ie cortianree Heaters posi Soe ree Heke informed thats aaeee Tends a ste manifest. "school apes He says in part: “To any one ciewinn ee would Sritus as Santor campers retreat, but he aia Tot say # that way. a a beh rma eS ee of his time in revelry and d Chinese had offered to give the king <5. which they organized bas for years been a| map that shows the full extent of the Pa-| with foreign powers and in domestic af-|Tecelved my wound.” he said, “while e de- squandered the accumuiated id special feature of the ent, and has | cific ocean with its shores on either side, We must either marching rapidiy in front of the enemy.” velopment of that people been not } father, and his evil influanoe aienating tb ay. 915,000" Sore hich bere enter Pee ae eee eae cepa eed Pia eee ee ed or tee ake such other al and and | or leave them free to make such other alli- BREE, Ret aN RIS ats Oe eae tant etnies ace the Ce People were prendeces ane eran cathe ee bere oo Soon er es mone the: whe a eaeice eles Minot he Getermine. Sey Ay a atustion "S @ servant- ‘ i ——— Z 4 heavily ipport their 01 lerw: another Chinese syndi- | thorough and efficient Sree Bohol. emselves, state comparative iso- rule, not believe, onten- ie ee ae _ the affairs. ce war with China and the gance and dissipation. cate paid the king $80,000, and took the: Under its! compuleery laws 4 ‘chil- lation, nit A vase Gincicas oF Pierce: sion of x sey, Seyona our present Secs okp pen al poe Seen =