Home Front
Under the new administration the Government was made more restrictive, including denying citizenship to Chinese immigrants. The Hawai'i Department of Education drove the Hawaiian language, which rivaled the English language, to near extinction. They also restricted voting from 14,000 under the Bayonet Constitution to 4,000 people, most of them politicians in power of the population of approximately 100,000. James Henderson Blount would comment on this disproportion of voters and population in his report Blount Report.
The testimony of leading annexationists is that if the question of annexation was submitted to a popular vote, excluding all persons who could not read and write except foreigners (under the Australian-ballot system, which is the law of the land), that annexation would be defeated.’’
(from page 599 of the Blount Report)
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