Life — May 4, 1899 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE DEACON M48 JUST LOST TIS FIFTH WIFE, BUT NE 18 NOT DISCOURAGED, Lo, the Poor Samoan! FRIEND and ally of Lrre, who has had very unusual opportunities to learn tho truth about Samoa, has written to us tho following letter about tho presont row there: The fanit of all this tronble Iles with us; with onr sending Mr. Chambers to Samoa, The Samoans have the right under the Beritn treaty to elect thetr own King, which they did, unant- Monsly, and voted for Mataafa. Then,on account of a protocol to the treaty, that has never been translated Into Samoan, Mr, Chambers refused to recognize him. Mr. Chambers ts very religious, even sanctimonious; belongs to the Christian Endeavor Society; organized a Samoan branch of the Rand of Hope, and aided with the London Mlastonary Soctety (which Is at the bottom of all this trouble, though [1s name has never appeared). They had @ boy, an adopted son of Mattetoa, whom they put forward as King, If he were on ‘the throne the missionaries would rule supreme inSamoa. The great mass of the Samoan people refase to have Tanu as King, and will fight tilt they die for their dearly-loved Mataafa, They have wanted him for King for many years, but, being a law-abiding, obedient people, they have THE LATEST BOGIE, “ ALORR'LL GIT YER MOOFS AND TAIL IF YER DON'T WATCH OUT.” endured Malletoa, and all looked forward to his death to have Mataafa as King. { rece!ve many letters from Samoan people of high position (In thelr own language), and they are most pathet! They ask me to please tell the President to take Mr. Chambers away, and there will then be no more fighting. They say, too, that Mr. Chambers and Mr. Rose quarrel continually, and they don’t know which of them to obey. Each tells them to do contrary things. Our Samoan newspaper ts fall of nothing but contempt of court cases before the Chief Justice. The former Chief Justice, Mr. Henry Ide, was there for five years, and never had occasion to hold # trial for contempt, while ambers does nothing else. Nobody seems to understand the situation at all, and everybody 18 surprised when I tell them that there are only eighteen Americans in all Samoa, and that 18 counting Mormon misslon- artes, Seventh Day Adventists, two half-caste children and a Swede. The most prominent American there, Mr. Moors, 1s on Mataafa’s side, and 1s now tn prison in his own house, while his hotel, the Tivoli, ts mined with dynamite. You have taken the side of the oppressed, 80 T am emboldened to write you this letter, which ts for the xake of my dear friends, the kindest and best people on the face of the earth, the Samoans, Yours, etc,, eeeeo Proverbial Failure. ” 18S GRAY tried for a position I with a collecting agency, but failed.” ‘* What was the objection?” A woman's work is never dun" comicbooks.com