Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 3, 9 November 1901 — PEDIGREE A LA ADVERTISER [ARTICLE]

PEDIGREE A LA ADVERTISER

11l its issue of November Btli our respccted elder brother, the Advertiser, tells John Smith and everybody else that he and theyi are descended from "king's, princes, dukes, earls, marquises, baronets, counts, knights, chiefs and squires," and so everyone must t?ke 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. I'OCo tm c\dvCs I/ .% i- .kH'Jv v- •: V ijij. 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 peoole on the foreigners as a woman of high birth? Search the Islands from 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 lier being the daughter of a man who had been sent to Micronesia by the I lawaiian Evangelical Board to preach the Ciospel, That in itself is admitto be something to be proud of, that olio's father should have been a willing servant of the Master, to take the knowledge of TTis Gospel to poor, ignorant humanity. But it takes more than that to constitute a claim to Hawaiian chiefly lineage. There are lawful descendants of wellknown chiefs and aliis of higlier 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, I.iliuokalani, who is the lawful grandchild of Aikanaka and daughter of Kapaakea, (wo very Jiigh chiefs known to every foreigner, as well as the Ilawaiians who ever went near the courts of Kamehameha Ihe Third, Fourth or . Fifth. She knows nothing of any claims whatever that

Kmma DeFries may have to any kind of chiefly blood, however petty. The high clnefess Elizabeth Kekaaviau Pz-att never before this year heard of any chiefly blood or pretensions of Mrs. De Fries to descent from even the pettiest Icind 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 Kamehame'has, the Fourth and Fifth, styled Hakus to them. Tlie . is the PTigh 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

herself oil as the descendant of the chiefs that she a* well as many others of the-high-est rank and station looked up to as theif 1 iakus.

1 here are the Beckleys, whose mother ami grandmother, Kahinu-o-ka-lani, the lawful granddaughter of Kanu-eiamoku, one of the famous twin uncles,and foster parents of Kamehaineha the Conqueror, by his wile (walniie lioao )the high chiefess Kahikoloa, granddaughter of the King of Kau. L hey had never, up to this year, ever or Kimua Kanoa as even having the slightest pretension to aristocratic descent. V^ n , contr ary, Mrs. Emma Kanoa De rries' own unclc, own brother to the father through whom she claims such high descent, a hack driver, always called F. W. Kahapula Beckley, late Governor of Kauai, father of Representative Beckley and brother of George C. Beckley, his Alii and I-laku (Chief and Lord). Kaaua died only a few years ago and his widow, Naai, a year or two ago. During their lifetimes this new Hawaiian copy of the famous English Tichborn claimant never so much as dared to whisper that she was of royal lineage. Mrs. Harriet Townsend, if we mistake not, is her own cousin, and being a proper, modest lady of retiring manners and good', respectable birth, must be very much distressed at the unenviable notoriety her erratic cousin has given the'whole family. There are many other undoubted lawful descendants of chiefs and what constitute the Hawaiian aristocracy who never heard of this newly created chiefess, but who all recognize and admit each other's rank and birth, such as the Hoapili and Makainais of Kona, including Representative Makainai, Kaelehiwa of Kona. The Piianaias, of w !l om our worthy townsman, St. Chad 1 iianaia, is a member. The Hinaus, Mrs. Stella Keomaelani Cockett, Mrs. Peleuli Amalu, the great grandaughter of Kalaimamaliu, brother of Kamehameha the First on one side and of Kameeiamoku with the Beckley on the other side, and her cousins, the Misses "Wray T aylor, and many others, who whenever they meet give to each other their due of chiefly courtesies. Bui they know not Itmma DeFries as such.