A DYING RACE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1585, 31 October 1912, Page 8

A DYING RACE

THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE DOOMED.

"In twenty years," said Dr. W. T. Brigliam, of the Demiice Pauahi Bishop Museum, of Honolulu, "there will not be a purc-blnodcd Hawaiian in Honolulu. Thc.v aro dying out fust through various causes—consumption for one thing, encouraged by drinking and wearing European clothes, and inter-marriage. At present they out-voto us by 5 to 1, in tile election of the Legislative Assembly, and wo consider ourselves lucky if we get W or two white men in to help them to sleer a steady legislative course; Hut that will not bo for long. They aro a dying race—the spirit to exist as a race is gone—they are, as the Americans say, down and out.' As 0110 old Hawaiian U. » t° me: 'o ,lr kings are gone, our chiefs aro gone, and our beliefs shattered —what hopo is there for the race?' I could not help agreeing that thore was very littlo national hope for the Hawaiian, nud could feel for tho old man. You tnav train the finest boat's crew of Hawaiian; to row a race, but if their opponents get half n length ahead they would throw down their oars—done! Yet nover lias a peoplo been more kindly treated than the Hawaiian?. They have always been placed on an equality with whito people, and at one timo you would see as ninny Hawaiians at functions, balls and parties as whites, but you don't see that now. At one timo t.luy loved tho white niau—now their feelings aro exactly the reverse." J