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Title: Beneath Hawaiian palms and stars
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goodhue, E. S. (Edward Solon)
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Publisher: Cincinnati: Editor Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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of money. As aresult they were in want, and the kind citizens of Hono-lulu were sending them home. Those that expected tofind large openings for their small means, were dis-appointed as well, and disgustedly sailed home again.They will help to give the islands a bad name. Huttheir coming may have the good effect of preventing thu BENEATB Hawaiian PALMS AND STABS arrival of more of their kind; for it i- true that Hawaiiis not the place for any person thai has only enoughmoney t get there. Everything in tin- islands is on a limited scale, anda few personi satiety all demands for Labor of the kindthat may he don.- by the new comers. lint slowly asdevelopment occur- in all direction-; as lands are openedup. and industries expanded, room will be made for themen required. As to the patriotism of the Americo-Hawaiian weneed have no fear, for, already, His country La his pride and boast, H« 11 ever prove true blue, sir;When called apon to give his toast,lis Yankee doodle, doo, sir/ M
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CHAPTER II. LOCUS INSULA SACR^E. In just what words it does not matter, some one hassaid that he who would know the position of anothermust first find out his own. On investigation it will be found that it is not always an easy thing to statewhere you are, especially in religion and in politics;and, like mariners without a compass, men are oftensurprised to find themselves far from their moorings.But there is no doubt concerning Hawaiis geographicalposition. Long ago its latitude and longitude becamematters of certainty. The trouble must lie with our trans-Pacific cousins,who, whether friendly or otherwise, have failed to get aclear conception of the Hawaiian Islands, their size,number, names and location. In regard to nomenclature it appears as if each onehad mouthed Shakespeares contemptuous phrase, andforthwith set about to give the archipelago any sort of aname; from Cook, who had some excuse for his badspelling, to the penny-a-liner of Sydney or San Fran-cisco. Nothing provokes M

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