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1058 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Upper House of the Legislature and to substitute in place thereof an
appointive one, to be appointed by the Sovereign.' Americans who are
now shouting, 'home rule for Hawaiians' and demanding that the
Provisional Government should be approved by a popular vote will do
well to remember that the native Hawaiians are not by any means a
majority of the population, and that the Queen sought to take the
ballot from the hands of white men and confer it solely to her Kanaka
brethren.
"NOT OF ROYAL BLOOD.
" It would be well for those to reflect who are now deploring the loss
of the deposed Queen's rights to ascertain just what those rights are.
She has not a drop of royal blood in her veins, and therefore does not
get any of her pretended royal rights by descent. When Kamehameha
V expired, December 11, 1872, the royal family became extinct. Then
the system of election was resorted to to fill the throne. Lunaiilo, one
of the high chief class, was elected by a vote of the nobles and representatives.
He died in 1874, and then a new election of the sovereign
was held by the nobles and representatives. The general supposition
was that Queen Emma, the widow of Kamehameha IV, would be
elected, but when the election came off Kalakaua captured the Legislature
and secured a majority, it was charged at the time, by unfair
methods. Riots against Kalakaua followed, and he was only kept on
the throne ultimately by the landing of an American force.
"When Kalakaua died, in 1891, he had no heir, and by his will he
selected his sister, Liliuokalni, as his successor. Thus the right to the
throne by inheritance or by an election was abandoned, and the Queen
who was deposed last winter seemed to owe her elevation to the will of
her brother, which mode of selection seems to have been acquiesced in
at the time. Whether there was any law or change of constitution
which authorized a childless sovereign to will away the throne to a relative
or not, I do not know. Similarly, however, the deposed Queen has
designated as her successor Kaiulani, the daughter of her sister, now
18 years of age, the daughter of Mr. Cleghorn, an Englishman who
married one of Kalakaua's sisters and who held office under that King.
Kaiulani is now being brought up in England, under the tutelage of
Theophilus C. Davies, formerly English consul at Honolulu, and now in
business there, and whose son is said to be engaged to marry Kaulani.
She visited Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland last winter in company with Davies,
and Mrs. Cleveland gave the incipient Queen distinguished consideration.
Davies has lately had interviews with Cleveland and Grresham
and has returned to Honolulu, proclaiming that Lil will be restored,
and here's where ' the English of i t ' comes in.
" Perhaps one reason why women seem to be the favorite sex for sovereigns,
in violation of the Salic law, is because the descent of property
in Hawaii is through the female and not the male line. Kalakaua and
his sister Lil were of what is known as the high chief class. Their
blood was not, therefore, ' royal,' but, so far as inherited, of a very bad
kind, for it is a historical fact that their grandfather was the first person
ever executed in Hawaii for the murder of his wife.
"A DYING RACE.
" It seems absurd that an American statesman should be willing to
commit the future destinies of Hawaii to the rule of the monarchy of a
race rapidly dying out, rather than to the vigorous and progress! ve
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 1059
auspices of the American Republic. The native population of Hawaii
fell off from 1866 from 57,125 to 31,446 in 1890—a loss of 22,679 in
twenty-five years. At that rate of loss the whole native population of
Hawaii will be wiped out completely early in the second quarter of the
next century, so that the child may now be born who will live to see
the entire extinction of the Hawaiian race. This is a startling fact.
Yet it seems to be true that in a little more than a century since the
discovery of the Hawaiian group by Capt. Cook the population has
dwindled from 400,000 to less than one-eleventh of that number. I have
not space to give the reasons for this decay of the race, one of the principal
of which seems to lie in the fact that the native women generally
lack the motherly instinct for the proper care of their children.
"A common custom among Hawaiian mothers is to give away their
children at birth, some promising to give them away even before they
are born. The mother, for this loss of her offspring, solaces herself
often by adopting the child of some other woman as a household pet,
after the manner of many American women who prefer pugs to progeny.
It is certain that a newer and more virile race is shortly to entirely
supersede the aboriginals on these islands. The evolution is now going
on witli startling rapidity.
"Now that the public lands are about exhausted in America and
Hawaii lies contiguous to our own shores, shall the dominant race to be
planted there be American or English, or shall the structure of the
future be built on the basis of a race, as Cleveland proposes, who will
sink out of sight among the 'lost tribes' early in the next century?
Statesmen who are statesmen worthy of the name do not build the
nation for a day, but for all time. In view of the fact that our Pacific
coast will in the near future have a population of 10,000,000 of people,
with a vast commerce over the Pacific Ocean, and that this commerce
will require protection over that great sea, the reasons for annexation,
now that the opportunity offers, are too obvious to need to be recounted
here.
"A SETTLED POLICY.
" The students of American history know that in the United States
annexation has been the settled policy always. The original American
colonies numbered only eleven, including the three counties of Delaware,
which were really a part of Pennsylvania, and the number of
States remained at eleven for two or three years after the adoption of
the Federal Constitution in 1787. The number was swelled to thirteen
in 1789 and 1790, when North Carolina and Ehode Island reluctantly
came into the Union. The original colonies contained no more than
1,000,000 square miles of territory, a narrow strip of land stretching
from the Atlantic coast to the Alleghanies in the West, to the Floridas
and Louisiana in the south, and to the northward to Nova Scotia and
Canada. All during our earlier history it was a struggle to annex new
territory or to protect what we had. The real bottom bone of contention
in the war with Great Britain in 1812 was as to which nation should
hold the navigation arid mouth of the Mississippi River. In the present
century we have made by purchase the following annexations, namely:
In 1803, Louisiana cost $15,000,000
In 1819, Florida 5,000,000
In 1848, California and New Mexico 15,000,000
In 1853, Arizona 10,000,000
In 1867, Alaska 7,200,000
Total cost of territory purchased 52,200,000

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 namely:
 {{2cr|In 1803, Louisiana cost|$15,000,000}}
 {{2cr|In 1819, Florida|5,000,000}}
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 {{2cr|Total cost of territory purchased|52,200,000}}

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 {{p|1058}}
 Upper House of the Legislature and to substitute in
 place thereof an
-appointive one, to be appointed by the Sovereign.
+appointive one, to be appointed by the Sovereign.'
 Americans who are now
 shouting, 'home rule for Hawaiians'  and demanding
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 confer it solely to her Kanaka brethren.
-"NOT OF ROYAL BLOOD.
+==="NOT OF ROYAL BLOOD.===
 "It would be well for those to reflect who are
 now deploring the loss
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 and his sister Lil were of what is known as the high
 chief class.  Their
-blood was not, therefore, ' royal,' but, so far as
+blood was not, therefore, 'royal,' but, so far as
 inherited, of a very bad
 kind, for it is a historical fact that their
@@ Line 95: / Line 93: @@
 wife.
-"A DYING RACE.
+==="A DYING RACE.===
 "It seems absurd that an American statesman
 should be willing to
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 {{p|1059}}
 auspices of the American Republic.   The native
 population of Hawaii fell
-off from 1866 from 57,125 to 31,446 in 1890---- a loss of
+off from 1866 from 57,125 to 31,446 in 1890-a loss of
 ,679 in twenty-five
 years.   At that rate of loss the whole native
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 too obvious to need to be recounted here.
-"A SETTLED POLICY.
+==="A SETTLED POLICY.===
 "The students of American history know that in
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 namely:
-**** Jere fix table
+{{2cr|In 1803, Louisiana cost|$15,000,000}}
+{{2cr|In 1819, Florida|5,000,000}}
-In 1803, Louisiana cost.....................
+{{2cr|In 1848, California and New Mexico|15,000,000}}
-$15,000,000
+{{2cr|In 1853, Arizona|10,000,000}}
-In 1819, Florida..............................
+{{2cr|In 1867, Alaska|7,200,000}}
-,000,000
+{{2cr| |----}}
-In 1848, California and New Mexico
+{{2cr|Total cost of territory purchased|52,200,000}}