Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 97, 26 ʻApelila 1894 — 'FISH AND POI.' [ARTICLE]

'FISH AND POI.'

A Refntation of P. Gr. Assui'ance i

It has been the habit acd poli cy of the p. g. boomer8 to derid« the Hawaiians by statirg tbat a< locg os they had poi and /?«/« ; tbe\ didu’t care a snap for the form o gr.Ternment nnder whieh tbej bad to live. Mr. Thnrston, Mr Alexander, little Hastings aue Consnl Wilder, have beeu sing ing tbe same tnne. The natives it is further more said. were simp ly led by a number of unscrnpu lous adventarers from foreigi countries. It mav be well t< disabuse ihe mind of those whe have believed in the.se outragoui accusations aguinst an able, civil ized and intelligent race. W< reproduce a eouple of nrticles that appeared a short while ag( in a pnrely native paper,the Maha nana. They fully express th« true feelings of the Hawaiiana and they also show the interes the aborigines take in pulitics And nobody ean nccuse tb« AIukaaintna of being inliueneee by white “trnsh” like tho othei native papers. FOR A REPCBLICAN OOVERN3IEKT Yes, such is the form of Gov ernmeut that our usorp«ra and missiou3ries desire to hoist or this countr3’. For what puri>ose So that they roay gain their de sire to proudly trample on this country and crush the flborigines to the wall, and thus they will heeomo strangers in their o\vu land. That is not all, but that they mny continue enslaving the laborers on the sngar p!antations, and so coutinue to rcap the benefits derived from the sweat of others’ brows. lf the annexation eeheme had beon consuramated, tbey wonld have been nowhene and the Iaborers bound under contracts would have boeu free from the choking grasp of tbe law; whereas. their dirtv bnit to the Govornment of the l'nited Slates has been rejectcd cf «t tempting to give Hawaii without any semblance of rightful elaim and without the consent of the «borigines, and now comes this attempt in another way. in order probably that they may receive some period of ease (?) in their last feeble gasps cf approaching deatb. What is a repubiican form of Government? that is a question that we shall ask. We heie answex that it is a form of Government couducted by the whole naiion through its rcpresent&tives duly elected by the whole people. And how are we tod«y? Is such tbe mode ihe usurpers now eon duct it in? No, not at all! They bave cast the people aside, and only their own insignificant minority is now arbitrarily ruling over us. In ordor to show their hope!ess minority. it will be seen by the census of 1890, that 89,900 was tbo total population, divided as fol!ows: Hawaiians, 40,622; foreigners born in Hawaii, 7,495; Japanfse, 12,360; Cbinese. 15,301; Portuguese. 8,602; otber nat*onalities, 5,610: in tbis last total is included 1,928 Americans, 1,344 British, 1,034 Germans, 227 Norwegians. 70 Frencb, 558 Polynesians and 419 of otber ,nationalities. Therefore, 13,105 ia the gr*nd total * of foreigners in oppe#ition to tbe &QQiher of /4 aborigin*Q, tha* i». UAm Md «M kā&

b!oods. Bat ceverthe’ess. they pn u<lly l«>rd it or« r ea, knowii g fulUwel! th«t »♦* sr<* ;n the maj -r ity at ihe balkt Uox. lH-canse. il »s of rccord io tbe Grw»t Begister that tbere are 8 777 native Hawaiian vuters. 777 baifcastes and 116 of fi>reigners l»orn here, makmg a Uib»l vf 9,70> aga;ost 2 091 Porlugr.ese :md 1 802 of otber r;>tional.tie«'! s 1ol-«l 3,983. It o>«st ba also cous «Wr ed that &li lfae (■ reigners bolh those Hawaiian boru aiul thr>se fn m other laiola ;«re not in with these peop’.e »ho«re ever ready to gouge out oar eyes. Moreover, it cert.«in!y c«nnot be ngsin snid that such ;s n<<t lheir inces--aut desire. Doleto!d one of proprietors, who is a correspondent of the Tinies newspaperof Cfaic.«go, s;milar to what has been heard from Amer c « frnm the co!nr:ns of that pij er, that everything is ready f r an iudepeiident Eepuhliean G"vern raent. «nd they or;!y aw.iii tohear what the United St.«tos li:ss to rep’y on t:ie Hawaii.-in qnestion. There is nnthing l<*ft nmlone; a!i the detuils «ro ready, «nd they are c< gitatir.g on the promulgation of a new conatitntion. lt <s quite eeiiain that we now have no const tnt oti, lecanse in all tlie atlempts to g* t an «diuission of : such a f .ct. even before tlie | courts, whieh inclndes t!ie Snpreme Conrt, no c.indid adm ssion eau 1>e g< t, bnt, they have attempted tu dodge the qaestiou in their usu*l deceitf 1 \vav so • • well known to us And if tiie ■ United Stutes were tod cide that j tbey ure absolnteIy a bastavd form of government (illeg«l). I then they wonld atteinpt to e •rry | out this other desiie of t!ieirs, : aml it s<icms tliat tlie fi;ig>*r 1 marks of Thurston ean ba detected in it. It ;s rei ortcd that it w«s Thi:rstou in person who urg ed thera to do it. becacso he knows that the.r cause is weak at I Wushingtcn. Aml suc!i seems t<> belhecase. Bnt, fur the nborigines, wo must stand alu«>f. bcc«use the\* would g<in by our joii ing tiie.m. O.ie reason that thev fuiled in • •* their nefarioas scbeme \vas the disreg rd and failure cf the peo i le to snst:«in them,aud snei« U>en vev3* mueh talked of before the divisions of the Ameiie.m Congress «t W.<shiugton. And if we do not assist tliem, it is quite certain thnt their Eepnhlieuii Governmeut will not be rec< <i nized, providiug they do promni gate it w th aeeompaniuieiil «>f kicking aml spiting at Am *rica. becanse, thcy liave utterlv fai!ed to gain the peop!e’s appioval. that is. not tli it of that msigni ficant minonl}-, but of the majurity.”