Show I KANAKAS PASSING AWAYP HAWAIIAN RACE IS RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING So Declares President George Q Cannon Can-non of the Mormon Church What Suggests to Preserve tho People Correspondence Associated Press Honolulu Jan 5 via San Francisco Jan 12 President George Q Cannon of the Mormon church in an Interview published here calls attention to the decrease of the Hawaiian population and expresses profound regret at what he terms the passing away of the Kanaka race Mr Cannon was here fifty years ago when he started the Mormon church here and he says that in making Inquiries about the notable old families he found that many of them had died out He thinks the natives na-tives should be separated from the outside out-side world I would favor the natives here being gathered together and separated from the evil Inllucnccs or the outside world sId he They could he taught a higher and better life President Cannon intimates that immorality im-morality is killing off the Hawaiian race and that the mingling with the whites Is responsible for such conditions condi-tions Mortuary statistics of the Islands show that a large Infant death rate rather than a small birth rate is rc Kponslblc for the decreasing population of Hawaiians The proportion of deaths of those under f years of age lo the whole number of deaths In recent months has been very great being S3 out of 310 In five months I is claimed that the Hawaiian children are not properly cared for by their parents |