Dole and Burgess letters: "place the government in the hands of the
Teutons"
The PDF file linked below has three pages from
The Pacific Historical
Review from March 1936 reprinting letters
between Sanford B. Dole and Prof. John W. Burgess, dean of the faculty of
political science at Columbia University.
Dole describes the "many natives and
Portuguese who had had the vote hitherto, who are comparatively ignorant of the
principles of government, whose vote from its numerical strength as well as from
the ignorance referred to will be a menace to good government," and notes that
educational and property qualifications for voting are proposed as "the only
plan by which the government can be kept out of the control of the irresponsible
element..." Dole asks Burgess for his advice on this proposition.
Burgess responds, noting the
composition of the population of Hawaii in which only small minority are
"Teutons, i.e. Americans, English, Germans, and Scandinavians," and saying, "I
understand your problem to be the construction of a constitution which will
place the government in the hands of the Teutons, and preserve it there..."
Burgess then gives recommendations for how this may be accomplished.
(h/t to steve
laudig)7burgess&dole.pdf
Posted: Fri - September 29, 2006 at 02:29 PM