Where Are

The Polynesians of Hawaii?

From Our Own Correspondent Papeete, Aug. 10 THIS writer has been a faithful listener of the proceedings at the weekly de bates of the Honolulu Civic Forum.

He has heard interesting and lively discussions of the various problems of Hawaii, such as: the campaign for State hood; automobile parking in downtown Honolulu: the apparently unsolvable housing shortage; the hoodlums who infest the highways of the metropolis; the insolence toward Europeans of Jap anese shopkeepers; the urgent need for several thousand labourers from the Philippine Islands to work the planta tions; and (during a debate on the honky-tonk question) that immortal phrase, spoken by one of the orators, that refusal to grant liquor licenses to aliens is “unchristian”!

But never on any occasion during the months I have listened, have I heard any mention of or even remote reference to, the Polynesian inhabitants of Hawaii.

Here, before our eyes, is a concrete example of the ruthless blotting out of a noble race, in a whole archipelago, within the space of half a century, by those time-honoured and much ap plauded New England Yankee methods of infiltration, firewater, and eviction.

These honourable methods worked ad mirably in clearing the fertile New Eng land lands of Pequot, Narraganset and other Indians; nor have they failed of complete success in Hawaii.

The modern respectable white resident of Hawaii pays honour to the great Kamehameha; but there remain none of his own blood to do him reverence.