. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . een clashed with the interests inHawaii. The king preceding her had discov-ered that the king wasnt very much of a king-any more and he had sought to gain l)ack someof the lost power. The queen, too, set about todo the same thing, to proclaim a new constitu-tion and to reorganize. Too late! The islandhad, we might say, fallen into other hands. Civ-ilization, as we call it, was introducing- democ-racv into the islands. There are those Avho WITH WORLDS PRESS CONGRESS 211 claiiii tlint ilic new (Iciiiocrncx was rcall\ anautoc
. A Trip to the Hawaiian Islands with the Press Congress of the World . een clashed with the interests inHawaii. The king preceding her had discov-ered that the king wasnt very much of a king-any more and he had sought to gain l)ack someof the lost power. The queen, too, set about todo the same thing, to proclaim a new constitu-tion and to reorganize. Too late! The islandhad, we might say, fallen into other hands. Civ-ilization, as we call it, was introducing- democ-racv into the islands. There are those Avho WITH WORLDS PRESS CONGRESS 211 claiiii tlint ilic new (Iciiiocrncx was rcall\ anautocracy foiiiulcMl u\)()\\ the wish to exploit theresoTivees of the ishiiuls. Be tliat as it may,the fact develoiis tliat (^)ueen Jjil was dethroned,the islands were made a repiiljlic and hnter on,as we all know, became a part of the UnitedStates. It is f-aid that there are still living inIlonolnhi men, very prominent in the financialaffairs of the islands n])on whose lieads ())neenLii had set a price and whose physical annihil-ation would have given her great joy. Some. NATIVE HAWAIIAN BOYS Dressed up, all ready to go to Sunday School. Thepicture was taken late in the fall and the youngstershad their heavy clothes on. They are splendid singers. in the islands still say she w^as right; that sheand her people were greatly wronged. We are not here to pronounce injustice has been wrought in the nameof civilization. Does the end justify thesometimes imjierfect and erring means? Whichwould be best for the good of the worldin general: that 200,000 natives should live onthe Hawaiian islands as they did prior to civ-ilizations appearance thereon, or that 200,000])eo])le should live there as they do today? Or, 212 A TRIP TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS does it make any particular difference liow tlieylive, since all ninst qnit living so soon, anyway? There seems bnt one answer, regardless ofthe possible imperfections of today. The ter-ril)le slavery of the snbjects of savage, super-s
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