Nuhou, Volume I, Number 5, 11 March 1873 — FORTY-NINE THOUSAND!! [ARTICLE]

FORTY-NINE THOUSAND!!

49,000 WALE 3S T 0 ! AIfVVE KA MAKE ! ī Only Forty-niiie Thousand ; and of these 438 are confirmed lepers, and then add about 300 more noi yet in the sad limbo of Molokai, and we liave at least 700 lepers. Seven hundred living dead Kanakas ! And tlien add to these 17,536 aboye the age of 40, all of whieli being deducted from our forty-nine thoussnd and forty-four, and we have 30,808 Hawaiiaiis in wiioin there may be some hope of future national life. But that hope is still less than even this enumeration woūW make it appear, wlien we observe that there are 321Gjtnorc niales than females; and that in consequenee of of tlie sexes, a large iiumber of our native peoj)le are, as it is well known, led to acquiesce in the unnatural sexual relations of polyandry; and wlieii we reflect also upon another well known fact, that a large portion of tlie people, perhaps one-fourth of this so called liopeful remnant is poisoned with the virus of syphilis, and bear only barren wombs, we have tlius before us in trutli, as tlie last sad ioiioni hope of this people, a healthy remnant of about 20,000 souls ! And yet, we are feasting and wining, and dining, and keeping up tlie parade that belongs to a happiei' state of tliings. We tlaunt our gay feathers of meiaiiiiigiess uni-

forms before ilie moekiiJigeyesof realpo\ver and proBperity. We strut like ixioimtebanks in trappings that do not belong to us, and doff them >vlien the sliow is over, to go back to our real dirt, and cheese and beer. We love pomp ; we !ove all lhe beautiful giamor that true weallh ean give; we have an artistic soul; and if we liad the wealili of a prince we woukl live princely; but we could not sport or spend the emoluments of l>lace in peaee, or moek a laiul with the pomp r and circumstances and paraphernalia of a great

| state, fmm,whieh land goes up an overpow- | ering eliorus of tlie everlastingj ! agonizing wail of death. We would put oursolves in niodest attitude hefore the world. We woukl strip for the jfight witli adverse fortune. We wouhi away witli all useless oUiee, and meanringless parade; we woukl eeononiize on the governnieiit, but not 011 tlie people. We M'oukl reduecMho Cal>inet to one worker, >vith a heart of.love a|nd fire, and with a head tha( eoukl give promptdireetion to th.e able and praetk-ed adepts that are already established in the depa|rtments a;id well iit- . ted to do iheii" vvork;] we wouki liave no

tii|«el x)arude,s for the īuoek of sliips of wai; we w T ould liave iiian go at all times, and imder air clrcumsiances, in as simple attire as our King; axid thus workhig eanues<jly, simply and fi|itlifully, and \vithoui papide or preten.se ; |our faith and intellige|ice wouM be felt, so. tliat the world lookiug upon our real hepie work, and modest assumption, would say approvingly bravo litjtie Forty-Nine Thpusand.