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    
   
 
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