Show american colony in tahiti grows and points out mistakes of F france rance by JEAN in journal des debats we must not forgot forget that eliat tahiti has a unique place among our colo oies flies while oil all other oversea territories yielded to our military force the ancient kingdom of came by its own free will under our sovereignty and why should the bonds of affection between the tha french ani andi the people of tahiti be broken yew few races are as kindly and as good natured as the tahitians Tahiti ans it would have been easy to preserve the affection which they once felt for us frenchmen the mistake of the last governors with rare exceptions was to regard the natives as a population of negroes or who were conquered by force our british friends have long since given up any claims upon the society islands but the american colony in tahiti grows every day numerous travelers come from san feancisco Fian cisco to stay for a while on this south sea island of course they point out our mistakes and praise the superiority of the united states the old settlers in tahiti are alarmed alamed at the decadence and the reaction in this colony may their protests be heard in paris I 1 |