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Mulinuu。  And certainly; if people at home desire that money should 

be thrown away and blood shed in Samoa; an effect of a kind; and 

for the time; may be produced。  Its nature and prospective 

durability I will ask readers of this volume to forecast for 

themselves。  There is one way to peace and unity:  that Laupepa and 

Mataafa should be again conjoined on the best terms procurable。  

There may be other ways; although I cannot see them; but not even 

malevolence; not even stupidity; can deny that this is one。  It 

seems; indeed; so obvious; and sure; and easy; that men look about 

with amazement and suspicion; seeking some hidden motive why it 

should not be adopted。



To Laupepa's opposition; as shown in the case of the Lauati scheme; 

no dweller in Samoa will give weight; for they know him to be as 

putty in the hands of his advisers。  It may be right; it may be 

wrong; but we are many of us driven to the conclusion that the 

stumbling…block is Fangalii; and that the memorial of that affair 

shadows appropriately the house of a king who reigns in right of 

it。  If this be all; it should not trouble us long。  Germany has 

shown she can be generous; it now remains for her only to forget a 

natural but certainly ill…grounded prejudice; and allow to him; who 

was sole king before the plenipotentiaries assembled; and who would 

be sole king to…morrow if the Berlin Act could be rescinded; a 

fitting share of rule。  The future of Samoa should lie thus in the 

hands of a single man; on whom the eyes of Europe are already 

fixed。  Great concerns press on his attention; the Samoan group; in 

his view; is but as a grain of dust; and the country where he 

reigns has bled on too many august scenes of victory to remember 

for ever a blundering skirmish in the plantation of Vailele。  It is 

to him … to the sovereign of the wise Stuebel and the loyal 

Brandeis; … that I make my appeal。



MAY 25; 1892。









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