If you’d like to know more about how the Kingdom of Hawaii became the Territory of Hawaii, the University of Hawaii has an excellent collection of primary sources. The Dole fruit and sugar fortune had not a little to do with it. A church here in Brooklyn has a saying: “Our missionaries went to Hawaii to do good, and they did very well.”
Sanford Dole, the “Sugar King”
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Sanford dole makes great pineapples!
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I hate doing a f’n report on this f’n guy
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uuum actually Sanford had nothing to do with the pineapples Teryn. He was the cousin of J.D. Dole who introduced the pineapple to hawaii though. He had no hand in running the business or helping it, etc. He was busy with his administrative rolls…
heh sorry – must be weird getting a comment from some weird stranger. I’m actually a member of the Dole family and was looking for a particular article about Sanford for my grandfather.
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Hmmm… administrative rolls, I guess that is the term the old money caucasian families in Hawaii use for “Inciting Insurrection”. Considering that Sanford was instrumental in the “stealing of Hawaii” and was recalcitrant to relinquish control of the islands even after a directive from US president Cleveland to do so, Fortunately for Sanford…. William McKinley saw the strategic value of the Islands…To McKinley, that was worth more than sugar. So I can concur that Mr Dole had little time to be planting pinapples or sugarcane for that matter, Oh where is Mr. Peabody’s wayback machine when one needs it? I know about several thousand Hawaiians that would like to go back and give Sanford a little tug on his beard, from photos of the time there was more than enough to go around. I guess we can sit with our upside down flags on the northshore beaches until the end of time and it will so no good, and in the end one cannot even blame Sanford or any of the others involved, Hawaii was destined to be absorbed it was too small and too well placed not to be. It was just a matter of time. I would still like to tug his beard though, just to make me feel a little better about it.
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posted by Gunnar: “The Dole fruit and sugar fortune had not a little to do with it.”
Gunnar, can you write this more clearly?
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