THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
TUESDAY. MAY 19. 1003.
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I THE ISLANDS
Traditions, Facts and Charms of the Lovely
Group, as Set Forth By Mrs. Cyrus E. Pal
mer, of Portland, for These Columns
(Continued from Sunday.)
Liliuokalani did not complete her
second year as sovereign. Through
her own stubborn opposition to the
rights of her people, her selfishness
bigotry and immorality, she brought
about such a feeling that her govern
ment was overthrown.
A republic was declared in 1894 and
annexation to the United States
ought After a delay of four years
a treaty of annexation was passed by
Congress and the Hawaiian Islands
became a part .of the United States.
It is hard for the American to be
lieve the fervor and enthusiasm with
which the Hawaiians received the an
nouncement of the passage of the
annexation bill by Congress. There
was no ocean cable and the news had
to be brought by the mail steamer
from San Francisco. The Oceanic S.
S. Moana brought the information
and when she arrived in the bay at
Honolulu June 22, 1899, she was met
at the wharf by practically the whole
populace. The Moana had painted
and carried a big placard reading:
"House passed annexation by vote of
109 to 91." The people went wild
over the announcement and from that
moment everything American was
viewed with affectionate regard.
As a race the Hawaiian people are
of tawny complexion with-dark hair
and large dark eyes, somewhat flat
tened noses and full sensuous lips.
Some of the women are very beauti
ful and the men are well made. They
are demonstrative in their manners
and notd for gentleness and hospital
Hy. Hawaiians love nature the woods,
the flowers, the rolling surf and the
music of their mountain streams. This
intense devotion to nature was prac
tically their religion previous to their
conversion to Christianity and it is
hard to believe that any people who
thus worshipped the Creator through
the symbols of his benevolence, could
have been otherwise than gentle in
heart and pure in life. It was their
custom while in a state of paganism
to surrender their grass huts and even
their wives and daughters to the full
gratification of strangers who visited
them.
This boundless hospitality be it
said to the shame of our higher civi
lization was frequently abused and
outraged, and bloody encounters took
place as a natural result. It is said
that the death of Captain Cook was
due to such a violation of hospitality.
The native Hawaiian or Kanaka is
constitutionally opposed to laboring
in any manner, and in their natural
state depended on fishing and the
productions of the earth. But now
they cultivate the soil and manufac
ture sugar, molasses, salt, arrow root,
poe from the taro rot and are skilful
workers in iron and other metals.
They are fond of music and dancing,
are fine swimmers and very expert in
the management of their canoes.
Their national dance the "hula-hula"
fs peculiar to these tribes nothing
similar to it having been found among
other races. It is the dance of love
and ha a running accompaniment of
song and clanging gourds.
Their language is expressive and
musical. Owing to remarkable health
fulness and mildness of climate the
Hawaiian language has no word to
express the general idea of weather.
Their disposition is so gentle that
they have no words to express the
emotion of anger and it is impossible
fo
the native Hawaiian to be oro-
fane, because there are no explletives
in his vocabulary. It is also true
that their loose morals have l.eft their
impress on the language. Its rela
tion to other Polynesian dialects is
shown in the fact that every word and
syllable must end in a vowel. The
ratio of vowel to consonantal sound
is nearly twice as great as in the
Italian, the softest of all European
tongues a fact that renders the sound
of conversation among a company of
native Hawaiians sweet as gentle
music.
Although the Hawaiian Islands are
now supposed to have been discov
ered by the Spaniards two or three
centuries ago, the first white man
known to have visited this group was
Captain Cook in 1778. Thinking the
Gods had come to earth, these simple
people received him with befitting
honors and lavished princely gifts on
him, but the man who might have
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OF HAWAII!
been a messenger of peace and love
conducted himself in such a fashion
as to eventually come to his death at
their hands.
Seven years later Capt. Metcalf (an
American) visited the islands, but the
visit ended in bloodshed and hostility,
leaving two white men (Isaac Davis
and John Young) prisoners on the
islands, but who were destined to
wield a great influence with the isl
and people as they became counselors
of King Kamehameha and cast their
influence on the side of law, justice
and order.
Three times during 1792-94 the isl
ands were visited by the, great explor
er Vancouver, who did much to undo
the evil wrought by the visit of Cap
tain Cook. He set ashore the first
sheep and cattle, discouraged the in
cessant wars, told them of a better
religion and afterwards requested that
England send Christian teachers to
them. The first missionaries came to
the islands from America however, in
1820, and the people quickly yielded
to the influences of Christianity. Two
years after the landing of the mis
sionaries the native language had been
reduced to writing and the arrival of
a party of English missionaries gave
new impetus to the work. The Ca
tholic religion followed the Protestant
m io, a rrencn v,atnouc mission
being established in Honolulu that
year. In 1829 the Hawaiian govern
ment required the Catholics to close
their chapels and some of the priests
were confined in irons, while others
were not permitted to land; but
France sent a frigate to Honolulu
and compelled Kamehameha III to
declare the Catholic regilion free to
all.
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mere were many wonaertul con
versions in those early days but best
of all is the story of Kapiolani, a high
chieftess who lived 75 years ago, in
temperate and dissolute in youth but
an example of virtue to her country
women in later life. Up to her time
it had been "taboo" for any woman
to ascend to the volcano, or to pick
the ohelo berries, sacred to Pele. Af
ter her conversion to Christianity, Ka
piolani determined to break the spell
of faith in Pele. She made a journey
of 130 miles mostly on foot and on
approaching the volcano, she met the
Priestess of Pele, who warned her
not to go near the crater, and predict
ed her death if she violated the taboo
of the Goddess.
Kapiolani quoted passages from the
Schiptures until the Priestess was sil
enced. Then with a company of 80
persons, she descended over 500 feet
to the Black Ledge and, in full view
of the terrific action of the inner
crater, she ate the consecrated ber
ries and threw stones into the burn
ing lake, saying, "Jehovah is My
God." This has been called one of
his papers a poem in honor of this
same heroine:
Carlyle compares her act to that
of Elijah, at Carmel, and after Tenny
son's death there was found among
pers a poem in honor of this same
heorine:
"Xohle the Saxon who hurled at his
idol
A valorous weapon in olden England;
reat, and greater, and greatest of
women,
Island heroine, Kapiolani,
Uumo the mountain and Hun!? thr
berries,
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And dared the Goddess, and freed the
people of Hawaii."
Education has diffused itself among
them to an extent unexampled in the
experience of any other aboriginal
race. Free schools and churches
flourish over the islands and there is
scarcely a Hawaiian of proper age,
who cannot read and write in his own
language and usually also in English.
These conditions are due to the ef
forts of the missionaries who united
education with the gospel.
The people now maintain their
churches by voluntary contributions
and are extremely liberal in their
support of all religious and charitable
movements. There is a tendency
however, to retain their old supersti
tions and to adopt those of other
races that come among them.
A few of the missionaries who have
labored in this field with such won
derful results are Titus Coan who
spent nearly 50 years' among this
race, Hiram Bingham, William Rich
ards, William Armstrong and Peter
Gulick one of the pioneer missionaries
whose life work covered a period of
52 years.
Early in its history the native
church in Hawaii began to send the
gospel to other groups of the island
world, so that for 50 years they have
maintained their representatives in
Micronesia.
The ruling and influential class in
Hawaii is of course American and it
will remain so. While the population
of the entire group is only about
150,000 it is composed of five distinct
elements. The American-European
element numbers about 14,000 and it
has practically had the management
of the islands in its hands for many
years.
Largest in number is the native
Hawaiian clement estimated at 75,01X1
and apparently diminishing. The Jap
anese number 25.000, Chinese 15,0110
and Portuguese 9000.
In the beginning of Asiatic immi
gration into the islands, laborers were
imported by the sugar growers under
three-year labor contracts. Prior to
1892 the Chinaman whose terra of em
ployment had expired, might con
tinue to work on the planation as a
free laborer, he might leave to seek
other employment, or he might re
turn to China. The greater portion
chose the first course, many accepted
their freedom and sought other em
ployment, and a few struck out for
themselves as growers of rice, vege
tables, taro, etc. But since 1892 they
have to choose between deportation
and a new term of contract. Many of
the wealthy Chinese merchants now
in the islands came as contracted
laborers. They rarely buy a piece
of ground, always giving preference
to the lease system, probably owing
to a dread of the tax gatherer.
Much of the land cultivated by the
Chinese is owned by the native
Hawaiians, who prefer to live with
out labor. Often a Chinaman leases
ground owned by a Hawaiian woman
and finally marries her to save the
lease money.
The Japanese are much superior as
a race to the Chinese. They possess
the same industrious and frugal hab
its, but are more conscientious in the
performance of their contracts, clean
er and more intelligent. There is an
irrepressible conflict between the two
races. The Japanese were not
brought to the islands in large num
bers until within the last few years.
Now they make up the greater por
tion of contract laborers on the'sugar
plantations. There are a considera
ble number of Chinese employed, but
the majority are free laborers. Each
nationality is housed separately. Just
as the independent Chinaman has
made the swamps and lowlands
fruitful, so the free Japanese has
changed the mountain sides into
wealth producing coffee and sugar
lands. So too, in the same way that
the Chinese have taken over the
natives' taro lands and the making of
their poe, the Japanese have monop
olized the sea fishing.
Domestic labor has been performed
by Chinamen, who make ideal ser
vants, but during the past few years
this field has been invaded by the
Japanese, the women being especi
ally in demand as nurses for child
ren.
This stream of life flowing between
Hawaii and Asia opens a wonderful
opportunity to the Christian Church
to influence the life and thought of
these distant nations of the Orient
May the opportunity not be neg
lected which lies open before us.
Kidney complaint kills more people
than any other disease. This is due to
the disease being so insidious that it
gets a good hold on the system before
it is recognized. Foley's Kidney Cure
will prevent the development of fatal
disease if taken in time.
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