Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 6, 23 September 1893 Edition 02 — Exposing the Hawaiian Humbug. [ARTICLE]

Exposing the Hawaiian Humbug.

NWIVES 0PP05E THE SCHEMLS. i — Figares Showmg that the M?jority ol Hawaiiaus Waat Their Own Goveniment. MISSIONARY CHILDREN’S P0L1CY OFGREEO OISASTROUSTO THE ISLANDS. | [8PECIAL COBBESPOKDENT OF THE HEP.ALO.] Cokonado, Cal. , Aiti. 21,1893. To the Editor of the Hebald:— The Eastern innil» were h alowlo arrive elown herelast week, ! and I have only now had t!ie | pleasnre to reail a āroll article m tlie New York Sun lor Aagust 11. heaileel ‘‘Hawaiian Notes. The Sun says iu this article:— A i*c. whieh hf»s u«»t bt-en lis e t>fo-e 1 i.iwn, jierlui{>s, is that Mr. No'lh 3 s •< >u is iu the euiploy of Mr. Sprcc_t.'s • j Sdn Frr.arisco. Thīs argnment for annexing Huwaii. strong as it inay appear to that prig’s mind, is at least weakened, 1 snppose, by thefact that. like so uiauy other of the prig’s arguinents. it lacks the basis of truth. I have uo son. nor nny other relutive. ‘‘in the employ of Mr. Spreckels in San Francisco” or elsewliero. If any oue, thevefore, has been converted to annexation by this BO-called -‘f.ict uot beretofoie known” of the Sun, he is now clearly at liberty to ‘ full from grace. ’ The Sun fnrther gives au aeeount of certain “delegate of the Hawaiien Patriotic Leagne,” whieh may or may notbe correet. I will leuve tkem to answer foi themselves, as L know very slight lv oulv two of them. The Sun is, perhaps, uo better infonued about them than it is about me. Bnt it says; — Mr. Ni<rdbcff i» >08’rg h : » wita, for nnder noother tiroatDsiances would he hare appealed to aneh wen ai spo us ,rs for his charooter. Hore. nnfortnnately, is it out again. I did not a)>peal to them nor to any ono “as sp<insors for my character,” and Hawaii need not be annexed on that ground. I don’t raind telling the Sun tbat these “testiraonial8’’ w-re » greit an corap!ete surprise to me, and for this reason: —Wheu it heeame known that I w«s soon to leuvHonolulu for tbe Uuited States l was privately informed by a friend that tho nitive pe.>ple \vere plMnning lo their gratefnl thanks t<> the Her\i.d f>r taking |heir p»rt againsl annexation by h great open air demonslration, with ai>eoches and a teast, or luan, in th** n<live fH$hion. and with g>f's for Mr. Bennett and to me as hi? corre«pondent. Now 1 know that Mr. KēnneU is not fond of dcmonstrati<>ns. und I amofhismind in th<tamter. I th ir-f >re numediate|y culled to me two native men inflnential among ttie.r |ie>>pie. «nd de?ired them to l > ut onee and make it known that they must not make any deroonstr<uon; tnat it wou!d be disugreeable to Mr. Bennett and touie a!so, a >d 1 rrquired these gentlemen vo re|>ort to m« that the pr>iject was given up. This they did, saying that it waa a great disappoinlment to their people, but they would ohserve ray wishes. I supposed tnerefore that thiswas the end. but the allemoou before 1 tailed two native !.adies, on hehai; of the Woman’s Patriolic League, called on me at my houae and surprised me by handing mt the addre?a whieh you bave prmted. It was very quieily doae and I cou$d no» then refuae w.thout gtving needle?s pain to food women.

AS0T3£R SI RPR1SE. T -e f»l!<>w <ig d <v. h.ilf ;tn fc<>ur ‘ f r- th» •»t*-;m*-r ;-d, I w-s c<l!**d d <wn ><>t<> the r<b n nnd • ; r a-rt-d w.th th- '<i lr—- f th- ir<-n's Pa»rmt<c l-*-<2 ie. wh ; ch i ,< * v wth ih- - t : c r an en:;r < d <h-i .iuie S'>riir;?<* t<> a.e. T ie tr ilh s. x? I h ve in my 1 lett-r« rej<e<fediy r-p<'rl>d i > v< u, ;!nH i>? x b!e pr ; ' t-d bv the Snn f pow curions!y co<ifirms the Hawaii’n people are ?tr»"g y and i -i ‘ ".io?! n ,.ttiimo'isly <>pp.«ied to »nnex«tion. and they w re and are deejdy gnt-fui t > the 1er%i.P and t» Mr. Bennett. wh» fr >ra the heginnmg nppos<-d annex»tion, and made knowo the truth of HawaiiI an >*ffair?. The Sun gives in a table wh<t it i oll? “ > Li 11 st»tement < f the m rn- ! I b*r?hij> of the Annexxlion Ciub,” j o<i wh»SH ro!ls are the nanaes of a!l th- v <ters who sh»uld b<* persuad<d r.r c >-rceiJ t > s : e'i t»r annext- i t> > a's >. ī h >ve b-H*n t >!<1 <<f a i number of young people not of age t > >i'. N >\. th>- Sun giv-f the ■ Hawaiian” m 'mb-rshi|> for >11 the islands at 1 075. But th<* totai ii<irob:*r ef native and h ilf caste .<r ‘'Hawaiian” v»ters by the last i;-ns'is ie 9.5Ō4. Of these I :»llbwed in my nf M v, 29,777 as in f»v»r uf anj u“xat!»n. Tne Sun makes it ooly 29S n» re, and admits thus »n its 'wn sh»wiiig th<t»f the t»tal »1 9.5»4 “Hiwaiian” v»ters only a trifle u <>r« than one-ninth lavor I annexation. s mk pkbtixenT*information. But the Sun ought to kno-.v that the Annex ition Club is n»t cirefh! whether itssign«t»ries are all vnters. S >me of them are pers>ns !>el»w age—boys. not voters. Nor is that all. The Sun ought to kuow what I know by numer»us c ises—that a large number of b»lh whites and natives, being in the e nol»v of annexationists,havebeen compelled by their employers, !i»der thre»t of dismissal and loss »f bread f»r tlieir fimilies, to sign the annexati<m rolls. I know hy m> r«»n«l cnnversation at least fifty such cases —half of them, however, whites. it nas b*en foolishly asserted that l reporled without reas»n that ilmost all the natives and ha!f cast<-s were npposed to annexation. But the Sun* figures support my report, and the Sun gives, I supthe annex itionisi figures. You may be sure that by this time ••very Ha waiiun voter who could be reached or _c»>«rced has heen f <rcea to sign ihe Annexathm Club :isti. f»r the annexationists w»re warned m April by their jingo inemls m the L r nited States that unless they eoukl get a native maj >rity their j g was up, and they have been putting a sev'ere prefsure on the poor natives ever einee. Tne uative ntwspapers, however, have constmt!y asked the pn>visi <>na< g»vern ment to take a vote on annexation, and it is easy to see on ttie Sun's figures why the provi9ionals have refused Accordiug to the iS«n’s table the Annexati»>n Club nurabers a total of 5,132, and this includes m>n-voter3, voters c»>ercetl »'r intimidated intosigning, «nd of tbe 1,005 “Americans” a large proi>ortion who have no right to v»>te, not being Hawaiian citizens. But bundle thena all in uiid ihe Sun’g total is 5,432. Now, the totaI numl»er of voters bv the iast census is 13,593, and t»king the Svn's figures \vithout dednction there remain 8.131 votea agaiti?t annexation —a Iarge majority. WII.L VOTE AOATNST A\NEXATION. I ought to add tbat the Austr&lian voting system prevails in Hawaii; the ball»t is sccret,and whenever the v0le is takea it wiil. I believe, be found lhat a considerabe proportion of the coerced white and native voters will swell the anti-annexation vote. But. after all. the real qnestion is not what some people m Hawaii want, but what is forthebest interests of the people of the United SUtes? If, as one jiugo seems to hold, we are to aunex every eountry wheresoroe part of the residents waui aunexation. in tbat case we should very soon have all the Central American _ States, Peru and possibly the greater part of '

S ;t : America on our >huu!d?rs • t b* īt thing f »r Ooiik 1 tiMi< or C »sī •- H c.t t>> be anntxe<i l'i tfie L*f. t* d 8t»tes, ar. i :f w ehouki wntwrv to ihe wiil of ihe •nncx Hawaii we ehou'd prtsHOQ;‘b’jr, nodo:ibt, see A:nei>v ctns īn C r.trat Aaieric» 2“tiing up annextt»on movetnents tbere.esoec- | ial y if Mr. St-vens cotiid be made Mioist»-r toCeutr»l Ameiiea and ns»> i A:i.er;c<tn troope >tnd $hit ? lo $.1 up "‘pr>v!$i«»mti,. down there. Tne n-a 1 questiao is wiiether it » wi>uld benetit the people of the ( l ! nited St-ites to t-ike in, as a pirt i of us, a gr«»opof i$i:ind$ more t?ian j two thuusmd miies d’stHiit from our sbores; i«»bab!ted I»rgeiy by a moiigrei p<*pulatioo of Chiuese,Jap< nese and illiier.tte Portugiuse; wilh no 1 md iit for the settiement of our own jieople, with every eall- j iug ii led by Asiatics; with so gre <t a disparity of s.-xes that of 15,310 ! Chiuese there ;<ro ab iut G75 * fe- j inrtles’ : c »*er fiflee i years of age; . w.lh S’> little ch tr.ce <>f h‘iiii<raL>ie j einpl.>yment f« r our own jieople . that tven liie provisional rulers | h ive m>t «l.ired toenc iur <ge imm - 1 gration <f Ameneaa f<raiers or ) m chani( but tiiey have eoiilinu- j , ed t > iiu{. >rt Japanese bv the thou- ; 3tii«i have discu.~5rd only the jx»s- j 1 sibie imp rtati<m < f iieg<oes from [ | our S «i:thern States. A private iett* r fr >m a fneud in i the East lei!s me that 1 have in his opiniou erred iu oppcsing the ( self stvieu “missionary chi!dren,” \vho,asov. uers in sug;r plantations, j g<>t ’ii th p revolutiou and the proI vislonal governme 1. It is true in a Ietter from Huiolulu dated June I, 1 wrote s )<uelb;ng of tiiese *‘inission3ry children,” Iiemetnber, it isatitlethey give themselves. 1 i then spoke, as I felt and feel, rnost affectionately of the fuhers and gi.tii)lfathers of those peopie mmy of whoui I formerly kuew. They w rein the main an adiuinble set of men and women aud their eon duct was as ditferent as daylight fr«»m dark from theconductof their descendent. Tne variy piissionarie8 were true to ihe natives and sought only to inlluenee lhese f«»r g«>od. They helped lo estiblish the State whieh tbeir desceudants n«»w seek t«> destr«iy. They cared for the nior.»ls of Ihe community whieh tbeir sons and grandsoiis. turneu sngir plantersandgrew avarici«msof weallh, h»ve by iuip »rtation of Asiatic labor dehberHteiy debauched. They, the fithers, stoud by the natives against ail foreign aggress on. The elder Judd, a very abie mau, give t:me, abi)ity and his own means t«» Ihe restor.ition of the Hawaiian independence when it wa$ altacked by an Englisb admiral; his degenerate «on, th« present ch'ef joslice. was pari of tbe conspiracv wh;ch upsel thegovernn>ent he h«d sworn l«> support and, faimself a native of Hawaii, is active in the movement lo desiroy tne State whieh hie father gave a long life to ealahlieh, defend aud mainlaiu. CONTRA£T IN D£ALIXG WiTH LABOR. Tafee only one, but a very imporlant, contrsst between the misstnmiry fiithers and tbeir degencr ate desceadeuts—the way in whieh the question of labor was dealt with by them. It w.-»s nnt unlii s«.me iime in the sixiies that sugar p!anting became so large an interest that the question of plantation orcontr;ict !abor heeame prominent. in 1868 ihe planters got the Legislaturo and the King to authorize the imroduction nf oulside or ioreign laborers. Troe to the people and to sound mor»is, the missionary fathers secured a clause in this aot. whieh was signed by the King. that “employern shall receive as many women as men and suitab!e provieion shall be made for the euppon, of such women.” There you bave the missionary fathers. Look now at the ‘*miisionary children” turned sugar planters and owners in sugar corporation«. Did they care, like their fathers, for the morals of the island community. They cared on!y for money, lor great profits—forty, a»ity, eigbty aad in some cases one nundmi per cent. per annaw on their corporations investmenta. Therefore they brougbt in ignorant Portugoese, Ghinese j and Japsnese by the tboosands. j Tbey stuffed tbe islands'witb wife- » lese Asiatics, so that, as the Iast

ee >s >s sti*Jws, ■ f 15,310 Caiu-s- <»n j ly 77k fe-ii:i!»«». c<><inting in fe maie eh: '<lr»r», a id »»f 17 863 J»i>»n j «-*n’y 3 7-6 »re h-mnlee. Tr»-y . brou2 : it ;n ■» s-» •!!it*-r «te P«>rt ig iese. But th-«- P »r'.ngu>-s * insisted on brir.ging their wivrs and cbiid-r-n with them. snd they so>n ce-is-ed to be f:ivor e» with the mie- ‘ sion-irv childr»-n. In the report of the Bureau of : lmmigration for 1886, I fiud it st.ite»l that “over teu thousand ' Portug.ieso huve been broaght ! fcere as laboiers. The men are j | all that ean be desired. bnt a i i g»eat draw-b»ick to tbeir popular > iiy imong pl.intera i* Ine j<ict o/. their comin;f here vi'h ivives c,x>i cJi 'l<lren, xrh 'ch plcnten nalu. ai’if con iūer it a hanl&ūp io 8upporL ’ ’ Again, the census rej»ort for | 1800, dtscuss;ng the causes of | i loss of population in eeilain dis- \ tricts, rem»rks: *‘The heaviest j | losj, both re ativelv and absoi iuieh*, is in Kau. Tbis is due | ; partly to a cons<»lidation of : pl.-tntat : oas, Lui chierf>i to ti<e fw(i\cyof the planters ia si b'lilutinq j JofXinese wiih ainall or no fami- ! lies «i ell /<»• Por<uguese wilh j icives on<l man</ chil<lren. ’’ j Now, the j»lanters tvho i«re thus j reporled of, are Jargely t!ie peo- | ple who e ill * theraselves “missionarv children. ’ stockholders in sugar corporaiions, wheie they weLe then iuaking h!1 tho way Lom 25 to 85 per cent. on their investiueuts Nor is tl«is ail. Under their «dvice and bv their contrivance, the native legis!aturesye r after veur appropriated puhlie money to bring in this degr.tding Jabo:; aud tbe missionary planters thus speut over a million of dollars of publ'c inoney for their own private advant tge. For years beforo the sugir treaty was made with tho Uuittd Siates the whiie laborers of Honoiulu protested in public meetings »gainst the introductiun of Chiuesa and ollier Asiatic labor, bat tbey prutested iu vain, for the missionary chiidren were bent on cnoney making and wonki not be denied. Tbe result is that to-day the Chiuese, Japanese and Por tagaese monopolize every callmg on the island. They are clothing makers end sellers, housepainters, carpenters. shoem »kers, general contractors; they do raost of tbe retail business, they make furmtnre and aregardeners and servaut, «tc An Araerica»i tuerchauic s«id to me, : ‘They leave mighty poor picking for a white merch«nic or trader.” What is the net result of the policy and greed of tbese missionar) r childreo? The hideous and āegradmg vice of polyaudry is established as a system on the island. Jt takes m«»re than one or two men to snpport that woman you see there,” said one of the missionary children working about his plant»tion to a friend. 8econd, there i» no employment left for American mercbanics or workingmen—un- j less, iudeed. they will enter as 1 contract fciborers. There are over fifteen thous in»l Chiuese « n j on the is!ands, but the census rejiorts that only 303 of tbem are contract l.-«bores; the great m»ss . of thera fill the various trades . and avocations and leave no ! room for white Americans. Tbird | the censns states that in six years, from 1885 to 1890 iuclusive the exports from the is!ands have been in round nnml»era $67,750.000, and the imports j i $30,500.000. Ieaving a halanee m , | f«vor of the islands of over $37.000,000, whieh has gone large’y into the hands of the missionary children, and out of their hands, in some conspicoons cases. into tbe bands of Wall street and C»lifornia street brokers and sbarpers. If the Sun wookl get tbe names of tho mmionary chīldreu who bave dropped from $5,000 to $50,000 of their great sugar profits in “the streef' during the sngar boom, it would h «ve an interesting and instructive Iist. ltmigbt ask the Provisional Attorney General, W. O. Smitfa, to give it names for this list of Hawaii&n missionaxy iambs.

I snppose tLe t**,. i tO m.ike mi>ny is as str> > on g tbe missioiutry ehiidre:. • <Wiiii as it is e sewbere. .iiōy were, I tbink. bouaJ t iyul and f.titbfu> to tbe Hmw [Kō* ple, to wbt»iu they .» ’.lieiī fatbers owed a gre.it de HAI' XO CAPITAL For it ongiit not to b gotteu tbat tbe euly m;> .ne^ e&mo to Hnwaii wilhont >ital or property of anv kind i’how were mo.st bospit <bly ve.l and enter. liueii; tbey ihlo when tbey had onee gi.:.> i tho eoaddeuoe of tbe uative i rs tO acquire as gifts or at \> tovf prioes well selectedtmcts i aul, and tbeselands, madoext <1 nariiy valuable by the sug ,r i: ity, have eniiened many of t <• uissiouary children. Ido not mean to say i : 1 i agaiust tli>s. It istbe w \ t tho wurld. But it soems t ■ e uel fair or rejmtable tbat th« m - oaary ehi dr> n sbould u< w \;pseS tbe long establ shed g \< euS —estab!islied >«nd zeaU us •: aiatained by tlie;r f 'thers— . i w ith« out consu!t ng tiio wish< - ho native people. the origina. iers of tbe land. attempt t> .roy their indo| endence, whu li tlicy value so highly that eveu . tho figures given by tlie .s' <>. aml after niontbs of tbe co< ro u an«l intimidation. ooly oao in .o ol tbe Hawaiiaijs has beeu g >t to sign tbe anaexatiou roils Chas. Nor.r>if kp. The 8tei'uers Hawaii K .ala &nd MokoKi, are up t > leave for their respective ports on M lay. A tmttinrg race between Hoir.er’» L‘>t S!» eum, and Hollinp- - Gereter, will take plaee at Kapiolaai P.irk,thi9 allemoon at 2 p m.