Show r f t C y fY J c t LELE LE LE LEsoon fI soon tl Th 0 J 1 u SAP PEAR f I b N Hula-Hula Hula Dancer o of Waikiki Beach and Her Kin Rapidly Being Absorbed t v Pot of Foreign n Races Races' aces s' s in Melting o ores t. t By Y John H. H M McNeely c Neel ee y i bIAN hist history ry throughout the ages Tl n has revealed many attempts to o destroy de destroy de de- stroy individual races of people w without success Wars Vals of extermination have I been waged with relentless bitterness by different nations for the purpose of wiping their enemies from the face of the earth Attila the Hut Hun Hun swept across the mountains of Western Asia with his his his' hordes of barbarians By sword and fire he be tried to annihilate the people living in Eastern Europe Inhabitants of entire villages were massacred and their homes razed to the ground but enough of them survived to perpetuate their race The Roman spire R re in its efforts to conquer the world endeavored to destroy de de- de stroy etroy the warlike tribes known as the living in Northern Europe Caesars Caesar's legions met with fierce resistance resistance resistance resist resist- ance and he finally issued an order to his his' soldiers t to inaugurate a war of extermination extermination ex ex- termination n against the This met with ith failure T Today day the Germans are are the direct descendants of these early tribes Even as late as the last century century IJ the United States was engaged in a deadly conflict of extermination against the American Indian United State fighting on the Western frontier adopted a motto The only good Indian is a dead Indian Yet there are now more than han full-blood full remaining in this country a larger number it i is said than when Columbus first landed on the shores of the American Continent I Modern hist history ry however shows one race of people that is confronted with complete eradication and a peculiar phase is that its members are citizens of the United States recognizing the Stars and Stripes as their national emblem em em- blem The race is the native of the Islands of Hawaii of this one Nations Nation's territorial territorial territorial terri terri- possessions in the Pacific Ocean famous for the hula dance the ukulele and Waikiki Beach There arenow arenow are arenow now about pure-blooded pure Hawaiians on these islands as compared with in the year 1778 when Captain James Cook the famous English navigator navi- navi w Bator g gator tor originally discovered them In Ina a short time it is expected that few of them will be left rHE T almost complete disappearance of the Hawaiian natives is not the re result re- re suIt sult of military conquest nor a wary warr war y r of extermination waged against them Instead it is due to an economic situation situation situa- situa r I tion that developed on the islands overy over half haU halfa a century At j y ago t that time it was found that the tropical climate of I Hawaii and the fertility of or orits its soil f. f were were vere especially adaptable to raising sugar This discovery spelled the doom r of this race of people with their int inborn inborn in- in t born love of music and their instinct for rhythmic dancing Dr Frank 1 P. P rr r Bunker editor at the ithe Carnegie Institute at Washington who recently conducted l a survey of the educational system of the islands also made an investigation a f. f of the Iaci racial l disintegration of this race Here is what he says about it i Be Before ore 1850 the the p population of n- n Hawaii save for a sprinkling of sailors r of many nationalities who had left their V J. J x ships and were living iving among the Vv Hawaiians was wasa a a homogeneous one f- f v About the middle of the century how how- w ever i it became became generally recognized th that t this island group was splendidly F n suited to to- the gr growing wing of sugar cane caner During the next fifty years the sugar industry developed rapidly becoming as as It still is the ranking business ol ot th the islands As the industry required hand labor and as the native Hawaiian didi did i not relish plantation life it became api apparent apparent ap- ap i parent that arrangements had had- to be 1 made for obtaining laborers from outside outside out- out 1 side sources The first step taken was by the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society 2 which in 1852 employed a shipmaster to bring to the islands Chinese coolies on a five y year five ar contract at 3 3 per month in addition to passage housing food clothing and medical attention Within a few months more were brought over over on the same terms This was the beginning of f Chinese immigration which was encouraged for a time only to be restricted later and finally prohibited 1 but not until a population of some 21 had been brought to Hawaii The next race sought was th the e Japanese In the meantime a little e colony of white immigrants from th the e United States was brought in settling g on one of the islands At the same time arrangements were made to n Portuguese from the Azores and Ma Ma- as Pure Hawaiian Stock 0 L' L yu Yr d L t From D fy j x Bl Blends en d s With th rr t Immigrants S il ilM M if f Four Corners o of f t I the Earth Occident 1 1 and Orient j I 4 Intermingled p MK I I A. A l FY I I I 3 4 Paradise Of the Pacific tit b 1 r Y A 0 No ALIEN land in all the world has any deep strong charm Today only pul pure blooded for me but that one no other land Hawaiians remain of the race could so longingly and beseechingly beseech beseech- numbering many thousands a haunt me sleeping and waking wak wak- century and a half ago when in ing through half a lifetime as that the English explorer Captain w one has s do done e. e Other things leave James Cook discovered them 1 t. t me but it abides other things i I change but it remains the samen same n z t For me its balmy airs airs are always flashing e bl blowing wing its summer seas of its su surf surf- rf- rf w. w P rte in the sun the pulsing beat is in my ear I can see its garlanded landed crags eras its leaping cas cos- cascades cascades cades caries its plumy palms drowsing 4 p 1 q v by the shore its remote summits floating like islands above the f cloud rack cloud rack I can feel the spirit of i its woodland solitudes I can hear i s YE the splash of its brooks in m my nostrils still lives hues the b breath ofIn of y s' s 1 f In the Hawa Hawaiian Tian I Islands s h i nd s yo you u now fin find d flowers that p perished twenty years Mark k Twain r h many Japanese anese the latter hauls having been ago f a brow brought ht in m by immigration when the labor problem became such as to demand the 5 S It Sri a. a w s tl f s Y 3 i importation tation of workers from other couns countries countries coun coun- s tl ks tries and the Japanese lending themselves es t easily to blends blending g iti with ith na native ive Hawaiian ii x stock 11 Hula hul girls such as one now finds in many American cabarets may soon be flourished Supreme in its own isolation on our only evidences o of f a stock that once the Pacific isles s' s deira The pioneer company company arrived in 1878 and comprised Portuguese Port tobe to be followed by others a little later By 1889 through immigration activities nearly Portuguese had been im im- ported The experiment was also tried of bringing in Norwegians In 1880 the Board of Immigration agreed to assist in procuring immigrants from Norway offering to pay pay one half the passage of the women and full passage of all children under 12 12 years of age Ab About ut persons were brought over and given employment on the planta planta- Similar assistance was given in procuring laborers from Germany About flOO came to Hawaii in response but they proved to be restless and dis dis- contented Dr Bunker explains ns that rio do no sooner had the inrush of immigrants to supply the plantations been inaugurated than the natives commenced to intermarry with these foreigners It was then that the deterioration of the Hawaiian race began F For r grafted on on the native dative stock i through this promiscuous intermingling of races were scions from almost every people of Asia and of tITe islands of the i South Seas In addition the natives married many representatives of the peoples of the V Western stern World which had the effect of further destroying the pure Hawaiian blood Stating that the mixture mix mix- ture of races in H Hawaii is not found anywhere else in tJi the world Dr Bunker continued IN T ONE school in Hawaii an examination examination examination examina- examina JN tion into the ancestry of ofa a class of two thirty-two girls revealed two thirty different different different dif dif- dif dif- ferent racial combinations ns Hawaiian Filipino Chinese read the card of one girl Another bore the leg legend n Guam Mexican French Portuguese Hawaiian English Chinese described a a third and andon andon on the card characterizing a fourth was written Nor Hawaiian or- or Irish Be Besides ides these grafts grats on the Hawaiian stock the population contains conta contains con con- ta ns certain gr groups ups n notably tably the K ans and the Jap Japanese nese wp which c stand apart carefully preserving their racial purity Dr Bunker also gaVe details of an at analysis made of the intermarrying proclivities proclivities proclivities pro pro- of the Hawaiian natives which has bas re resulted in jn the destruction of their race as s a people It shows a racial preference preference preference by Hawa Hawaiian an men Jhen in their marriages marriages marri marri- ages for Hawaiians Caucasian Chinese- Chinese Hawaiians and Portuguese Hawaiian women select the following nation nation nation- in order Caucasian Caucasian Hawaiian American Filipino Korean Portuguese and Japanese of intermarrying intermarrying inter inter- amount oust nt of There is also also a large am between be- be analysis be between shown in this marrying and races European various tween the The the Hawai Hawaiians fans and part part Hawaiians married married married mar mar- Americans records show that mates ried Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian part A were women and of these twenty-six twenty Chinese in of the large percentage Hawaii have married Hawaiian w women men While the demands for laborers to the plantations were work on sugar principally responsible there are other sources to which the extermination of the Hawaiian race is traceable Before the islands were annexed to the United Stat States s ancient and nc pec peculiar liar fishing rights existed throughout the islands The chiefs under a pr proclamation issued by the monarch Kamehameha II as astar far tar back as 1839 enjoyed exclusively fishing runts its adjoining their lands and running for a sp space ce of three miles into the ocean All ll Hawaiian natives were expert fishermen They used outrigger canoes or stood on projecting rocks hurling spears wi with h deadly at the fish as they came to the surface When the American Government ns assumed umed con con- of the islands anew a new law went into effect Affect repealing the exclusive rights and making the sea waters free A complete change in the economic life of many Hawaiians occurred particularly those who depended on fish for their liveli hood They were compelled to seek ec other occupations ashore This had the effect of bringing them into closer contact with the foreigners that had been imported imported imported im im- im- im ported to fo the islands and thereby further encouraging the intermingling of the thern rn races L One of the singular characteristics of the Hawaiian natives from the beginning begin begin- ning has been their apparent lack of race prejudice In British India there are Eurasians half They occupy an anomalous position in the social organization of that country Both the natives and the English refuse to recognize them The natives of Hawaii have never entertained such prejudices and at the present time all the different races congregate in industries schools churches and social gatherings throughout through through- out the islands without restraint The utmost democratic sprit prevails Boys Doys from schools of or- different races play on the same teams meet in football baseball baseball baseball base- base ball and aquatic sports With this conglomeration of the Occident Occident Occident Oc Oc- Oc- Oc and the Orient it is no uncommon sight to behold a uniformed nurse trundling a baby carriage occupied by a eyed blue-eyed infant while across the street strolls a Japanese mother in her kimono and obi wearing wooden clogs and carrying her like doll-like baby on her back In the country districts may be seen 1 rice field with a Chinese plowing a i his water buffalo Passing him on the road appears a Korean lolling back comfortably comfortably comfortably com com- in the seat of the latest model automobile H HAWAII is is' literally the strategic and commercial roads cross of the Pa Pa- Practically all ll of the United States transports and the naval ships of all nations crossing the PaC Pacific fic also nearly all the commercial lines plying between the Pacific Coast of the United States and the Orient make Honolulu a port of call and supply The life of the native Hawaiian before civilization began to swallow him up was a simple one Taro was his chief article of food This is a vegetable with a large pulpy root cultivated in small patches covered with water It was placed in a wooden and thoroughly pounded with a heavy pestle and water thrown upon it to toso so soften ten it The process resulted in a sticky food call called d poi with a flavor resembling sour paste to an American palate I IThe The Hawaiians are stalwart in stature They are generous pleasure- pleasure loving hospitable natural musicians and orators and usually well educated for compulsory education has been in vogue for nearly fifty years They were never savages nor cannibals Their language consists of f twelve letters The vowels are given their values as in Spanish and are always pronounced On infrequent occasions the few remaining natives in Hawaii have started an agitation among themselves to preserve their racial integrity but these movements have died through indifference indifference in in- 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