"the natives are an indolent, but good-tempered and hospitable, race of people, who live only for today, giving no thought for tomorrow, and caring very little for anything except their present enjoyment. they are rapidly decreasing in numbers, and will soon become entirely extinct. . . . all the best people will stand by the present [counterrevolutionary] government . . . and are strongly in favor of annexation to the united states. what honolulu needs at the present time is a sewer system and cable connections" with the united states.