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The Young Cafe is a beautiful,
cool, restful retreat ; and the serving
and attention could not be excelled.
Every want is anticipated
by the manager there.
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A WORD ABOUT OURSELVES
Dr. Robert J. Burdette. in Los
Angeles Times.
We Hawaiians and when you
speak of this island Territory will
you kindly say it and
not offend our rather fastidious
ears, and at the same time will you
try to remember to pronounce Honolulu
with two long "o's," so that
we may not think you an ignorant
race of mainlanders with slovenly
pronunciation? We Hawaiians are
not at all worried over any lack of
Chinese or Japanese or Hindu or
Filipino or Egyptian or Korean
laborers and servitors and arts and
craftsmen.
Well, some of them are artisans,
and some of them are laborers, and
some are near-laborers, and others
again are not-anywhere-near-laborers.
But whatever they are, they
are here under the Stars and
Stripes and our territorial flag,
making a living for themselves and
doing their best to make living
pleasant and easy for us Hawaiian-Americans.
Our territorial flag has
a very English appearance at first
sight, but, all the same, it's as
Yankee as "Dixie." It has eight
stripes, one for each of our islands,
beginning with a white stripe at the
top and alternating white, red and
blue down to the lowest, which is
red; and they read if they begin
with the largest island Hawaii,
Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Mokikai,
Niihau, Kahoolawe, which, being
the smallest island, has of
course the biggest name. The list
sounds like a college yell, but it's a
territorial shout. There t.re a few
other islands, with an aggregate
area of six square miles, but they
are not big enough to be on the
flag. They are not stripes; only
streaks. The field of our flag is the
union jack, a memory of the time
when these islands were called the
Sandwich Islands in honor of His
Lordship, the Earl of Sandwich.
But that sounded too much like a
short order for a "ham and" to
please people with such musical
taste and such a musical language,
so it was changed as soon as we
assumed the authority to name ourselves.
Moreover, the name un
THE HONOLULU TIMES
pleasantly suggested a degree of
depravity falsely attributed by
Christendom to all islands. Our islands
never were cannibalistic in all
our history. The very thought was
regarded by our heathen ancestors
with horror and disgust.
The staff of our flag is surmounted
by a crown and a cross. The
crown, like the union jack, is a
reminiscence. The cross belongs
there. Certainly it is as appropriate
at the top of a standard of a peace-loving
and peace-keeping nation as
a Roman spear head. And flying
from the staff and draping it with
grace and beauty of color are three
leis, red and yellow and green.
This is pure Hawaiian this
decoration is "our very own."
With these floral emblems we garland
the coming visitor with welcome,
and speed the departing guest
with love and prayers. When we
are admitted to Statehood we will
add a beautiful flag to the glittering
constellation of standards that
shine around "Old Glory," as significant
in its historic colors and
emblems as "the Lone Star flag"
of Texas.
And, speaking of Statehood, we
are beginning to think already that
we are rich enough to sit in the
United States Senate and that we
have sugar enough to entitle us to
a chairmanship of a mighty good
committee. What's the matter
with us? Isn't sugar as patriotic
and as "good politics" as copper?
Or have you got sugar enough in
the senate already ? All right, then ;
put another diminuendo stop on the
New York scales and it won't seem
so much.
We have a population of about
220,000. Honolulu, the capital of
the Territory, has a population of,
say, 45,000.
About ten thousand of us are
Caucasians. The other 35,000 are
what Mr. Venus used to call "human
warious." Japanese, Chinese,
Filipinos, Koreans, Hindus the
dirtiest and nastiest of the lot
Egyptians, "Parthians and Medes,
Elamites and dwellers of Mesopotamia,
Judea and Cappadocia,
and Asia, Phrygia and
sojourners from Rome, Cretes
and Arabians." Besides which
there are a few unassorted blends
that challenge classification. When
San Dirisco is ready for the launching
of the great Panama Canal exposition
we can furnish the Midway
Pleasaunce, the Pike, the Trail and
the Pay Streak with all necessary
variety of population and entertainment
right from Hawaiian ports
without going outside of this
United States for human curios.
It's just wonderful what a clutch
American industries are making
upon all the world. We are grabbing
up the peoples of the earth as
our English cousins collai islands.
Speaking of which, we have a couple
of archipelagoes on our own
hands, with another apparently
drifting toward an opening in the
reef buoyed "American Protectorate."
And the difference between
a "protectorate" and "annexation"
is Well, we Hawaiians anchored
to a U. S. protectorate in 1851.
Then in 1892 the Advisory Council
of the provisional government
wrote "finis" to Queen
rather stormy reign and raised
the Stars and Stripes over the government
buildings. Promptly upon
his inauguration the Queen's "good
and great friend," President Cleveland,
sent "Paramount Blount" of
Georgia to the islands, who hauled
down the United States flag. A
few months later came United
States Minister Willis and demanded
that the provisional government
should go out of business, dismiss
the boy, and put up the shutters,
on the 19th of December, 1893,
or
President Sanford B. Dole replied
to the United States minister,
declining his proposition without
thanks, and continued to be his'n
with renewed assurances of his
most distinguished consideration.
The republic of Hawaii was proclaimed
on the 4th of July a great
birthday for republics 1894, with
Sanford B. Dole as the first and
only President, and the treaty of
annexation to the United States
was signed by President McKinley
July 7, 1898. Once more we raised
"Old Glory" at the masthead, this
time to stay, with our territorial
flag a-peak, on the 12th of August,
1898.
And we are the Americanest
Americans ever. True our population
is emphatically polyglot, but the
is emphatically polyglot, but the
men who are leading the human elements
into the melting pot; and the
men who are keeping up the fire
under it, and the men who are skimming
off the scum as it rises to the
surface these are Americans.
And when we pour the refined
product into the crucible of the na-
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