Chairman. it will be an evil day whenever we confuse military considerations with our civil policy in dealing with the Hawaiian Islands. In saying this I do not intend the slightest reflection upon the patriotism or the good citizenship of either the native population or the small group of American citizens who have cast their lot among them and who constitute an overwhelming percentage of the professional and commercial classes. My remarks are not uttered in *an unkind spirit. but the presence of those Americans must not blind us to the fact that the island population is overwhelmingly Asiatic and that Hawaiian institutions are as unAmerican as the people who make up the bulk of the population. In saying this. Mr.