Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 10, 21 January 1890 — CLASS PREJUDICE. [ARTICLE]

CLASS PREJUDICE.

As eleetion day draws nearer*tlie goveraDieiit \mriy grows ' stlll iiioie fearfnl lest some of the national re* form newspa]>ers stir up race prejudiees, to the detriuient of the com« promise tieket, whieh is v:rtually lo wfiiskv ; sngnr and pi*ayei;s. *T" ■ • i i* . f V xuo i,j i/i tidj 6UJ.ci4.Uj forgotten that about two months ago the governrnent newspaper wa£ eng;ijTftd in oiiblighing aH i<;*les, whieh •v/orc purpcf,c!y mtended to stir up Havraiian prejndice against the foreigners, Bnt Ms the government party Iluds stjeugth weaker than it was ex])eeted it wonid be at tlns time, it is nw violently in f ivor of not stīrring un race prr-judiees! Q,uite lateiy t l i's of stirritig np raee prejudiee has taken a prorninent plaee jn the ?ninds of the leaders of the government purty.

It isper3ians net_ j dless to iemmd pfo plo tbal if tL»fio was uo foundation for tii6 existence o£ race prejnuice aaiong nn.tive H:iw>iiians ag*iiist foieigueis, t!iere probab!y wouklhe litile or n<jne of it? showing on tlie surface of our politics, The past history and nature of the Hawaiian peopie precludes evēn the possibility of race prejudices springing up without cause. Wc belicve, nioreover» that fear causes the leaders of the governmeut party to exaggerate the nieaning of the term 4 - 4 race prejudice." That whieh the p«rty of proimses is plecised to eall 4i race prcjudiee," sbcn!d be tnorc properl3 7 called cl.*iss prejudice. But her«, as before, the past history and nature of the n t °f ; ve Haw :ian3 precludes the possibility of class pre judice, without good and sufficient cause.

As to there beiug a strong class. prejndice against a miuority of foreign<n*s resid«nt here there ean l>e no doabt; tliere is also no doubt tJmt this same class of foreigners is to biame solely for the. prejudice exist,iag {»g;tinst it. But this prejudice is not confioed to n»tive Hawwiiaus; the independent and more liberabminded foreign elernents, whieh raake up a tinij v -.n tv of $u r c#r mop olitan eom • inunity, have i\ho arrayed lhemselves &gainst this same c]uss on the same general gi'onnds causiug the native Ha\vaiians to oppose it. The c]mss ;tgainst wh-ieh public , preju<lice has beeu just!y raised by* the iliiaueiai record and political policies of its jnerubers and lead.ers, is too well known to the electors of Hawaii to forth detinition or iud'eutifical;ipji now. Suflice il to say that it is the wliieh includes the famlly eompact, the iinaneial ring and the aml)itious political faction. The main 9b|ect «tf tbeso ehunenls Ijhs been at tO «.LiO gO\CiiuliC^l without the interference 01* even the conseut of the people, who represent wealth-produoiug and industrial classes of the kingdom

Au iroh-clad anel unjus!: system of government under the constiintional form has been slowly butsurely bailded aboat this social and political class

in Hawaii, as tlic policy aiul aeliona of its m€cpbers built up publie pre< jiKliee agaiust it amongst tbo out«kle publie, kuown as tbe politieal aud social unelect! So iong as this elas« stands against tlie people' s interests so long will tbere be politieal prejuaiee against it e:ip.ressed by all iiidiis« trial raees domiciled bere, wbo baye personal aud nationul prosperity at beart, But tbis is prejudiee against a politieal elass of taskmasters aud ean not in iiioiiee be ea]lcd raee prejudiee 111 any ui Rje lunii;