Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 3, 9 November 1901 — Page 1
Home Rule Republican
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
VOLUME I NO . 3 HONOLULU , T. H., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1901 PER COPY 5 CENTS
PEDIGREE A LA ADVERTISER
In its issue of November 8th our respected elder brother, the Advertiser, tells John Smith and everybody else that he and they are descended from "kings, princes, dukes, earls, marquises, baronets, counts, knights, chiefs and squires," and so everyone must take heart and feel happy.
Following the same mode of reasoning, the writer of the article in question may well claim a descent from a Hottentot king and an Australian aboriginal princess. We are all supposed to be descendants from Adam and Eve, but it is safe to wager that nine-tenths of the white people, especially the ladies, dear ones, do not admit that at any time, however remote, a Congo negress or an Australian king was ever amongst her connections by birth.
That very-liberal and expansive view of genealogy comes well from a paper which, for a purpose of its own not hard to guess, has been trying to foist a newly discovered chiefess, and a whole tribe of them at that, on the innocent public.
Does the Advertiser believe that the people that knew Emma Kanoa, now Mrs. Emma DeFries, in her childhood, and all her family, are all dead, that it deliberately attempts to foist a well known woman of the common people on the foreigners as a woman of high birth?
Search the Islands from Hawaii to Niihau and you will not find one single reputable Hawaiian who was known to the court of the Kamahamehas, Lunalilo and Kalakaua, as people of aristocratic birth, or the descendants of such, who will say that they had ever known or heard of Emma DeFries or Kanoa and her husband as people of any standing whatever by birth, other than from the fact of her being the daughter of a man who had been sent to Micronesia by the Hawaiian Evangelical Board to preach the Gospel. That in itself is admitted to be something to be proud of, that one's father should have been a willing servant of the Master, to take the knowledge of His Gospel to poor, ignorant humanity.
But it takes more than that to constitute a claim to Hawaiian chiefly lineage.
There are lawful descendants of well-known chiefs and aliis of higher or lesser degree of the times of the Third Kamehameha, when most of the written history of the Islands was made, up to our own times, now living, who could affirm the pretentions of high birth made by this Hawaiian Tichborn claimant, if they had ever heard of it.
To commence with our Queen, Liliuokalani, who is the lawful grandchild of Aikanaka and daughter of Kapaakea, two very high chiefs known to every foreigner, as well as the Hawaiians who ever went near the courts of Kamehameha the Third, Fourth or Fifth. She knows nothing of any claims whatever that Emma DeFries may have to any kind of chiefly blood, however petty.
The high chiefess Elizabeth Kekaaniau Pratt never before this year heard of any chiefly blood or pretensions of Mrs. DeFries to descent from even the pettiest kind of a chief. On the contrary, Mrs. Pratt claims that heretofore Mrs. De Fries has always called her Haku. Now she blossoms out as being descended from the sacred kings of Maui and Hawaii, whom even the last Kamehamehas, the Fourth and Fifth styled Hakus to them.
There is the High Chiefess Lucy Peabody, the granddaughter of Kahaanapilo and Heueu, well known chiefs of Kawaihae and Waimea.
There are hundreds of natives living who still acknowledge her their Alii, notwithstanding the leveling tendencies of our modern life. She is properly indignant at the barefaced attempt of this nobody to pass
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TRAMWAYS TIME TABLE
KING STREET LINE.
Cars leave Waikiki for Town at 5:45, 6:15, 6:45 a. m., and every 15 minutes thereafter till 10:45, 11:15 and 11:45 p. m. from Waikiki go to the Punahou Stables.
Cars leave Rifle Range or Pawaa switch for Town at 5:58 a. m. and every 15 minutes thereafter till 11:08 p. m.
Cars leave Fort and King streets corner for Palama at 6:10 a. m. and every 15 minutes thereafter till 11:25 p. m.
Cars leave for Palama only at 5 and 5:30 a. m.
Cars leave Palama for Waikiki at 5:45 a. m. and every 15 minutes till 9:45 p. m., then at 10:15 and 10:45 p. m. The 11:15 p. m. from Palama for Punahou only goes to Waikiki on Saturdays.
Cars leave Fort and King streets corner for Rifle Range at 5:20 and 5:50 a. m.
Cars leave Fort and King streets corner for Waikiki at 6:05 a. m. and every 15 minutes till 10:05 p. m., then at 10:35 and 11:05 p. m. The 11:35 goes to Waikiki on Saturdays only.
Beretania St. and Nuuanu Valley.
Cars leave Punahou Stable for Town at 5:30, and for Town and Valley at 5:40, 5:50, 6:10, 6:20, 6:40, 7:00 and 7:20 a. m.
Cars leave Oahu College for Town and Valley at 6:30, 6:50 and 7:10 a. m., and every fifteen minutes till 10:10 p. m., except the even hour and half hour cars which run from the Stable.
Cars leave Nuuanu Valley at 6:10, 6:30, 6:50 a. m., and every 10 minutes thereafter till 10:50 p. m.
Cars leave Fort and Queen streets for Punahou College at 6:05, 6:25, 6:45 a. m., and every 10 minutes after till 9:45 a. m. After that the cars run to the Stable up to 11:05 p. m., which is the last car from Town, reaching the Stable at 11:30 p. m.
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