The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-11-04
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.


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erred to, and republish entire the letter c~riticise,
,y the Pofynesian, in response to a genera
equest, as they say, Notwithstanding per
onal illusions to the publisher. That W.
IRE opposed to Mr.. Green's mode OF warfare, wa
,hown in our issue of Nov. 10, 1857, in which
ve maintained that his course in dabbling into
POLITICAL affairs degraded him in the ey-s of al
ensible men, and tended to cast odium on tn,
noble work of missions in which he is engaged
The manner, however, in which the Poiynesior
attempts to gag him by allowing him only an CT
"a te hearing, is mean. to say the least, and un-
worthy of one who sets himself up as gifted with
great critical acumen. In order to give a fail
earring. we reprint the letter in full. In al
ie says about our neighbor, the public will con-
,,de he il not far from the truth:
MAKAwAo, Maui, HAwAnAN ISLANDS,
July 30th, 1858.
EprroRs WKxxLY Pacific:
Allow me to give you another item which ]
ind alluded to in the minutes of the Association,
and which I hear by all who visit US from Homo
lulu. I allude to the Hula or native dance
which has been allowed on the Island of Oahu,
specially 1T Honolulu and vicinity for this long
time. Both of the pastors of the native churches
At the metropolis speak of them in their reports
rs throwing obstacles in the way of success OF the
gospel. The hxla il the native heather dance,
shameful in the extreme, connected with, and
leading TO drunkenness and hcentiousnes. The
leeds of sin and shame perpetrated at those
places cannot be told on paper, and they greatly
facilitate the downward progress of the nation.
I am glad 70 see that the Association chose q
committee to petition government for the sup
preston of these infamous houses OF the result
Of such petitioning l will speak when it shall be
KNOWN. As vet We are saved from witnessing
these shameful doings. Stations remote from
harbors and shipping escape, in a great measure,
the temptations arising from the above source.
You can guess who of our foreign residents and
visitors have a taste for such things. Rum and
beer selling and drinking have a natural affinity
with. if they do not originate such recreations.
If you see the Hawaiian papers for the last
few weeks you will see a considerable sparring
between the Pofynesan, the government organ,
and the c numerical Advertiser, the paper pub
lished by Mr.. Whitney. l think / can read
what falls under my eye through these two cham
neIs with much impartiality- I'm a Hawaiian
citizen-a disinterested friend of the government
and the people for whom I have toiled thirty
wears, and for whom l hope TO toll till i die. L
can appreciate all that is said in these papers,
and 1 mean fearlessly to expose what l think
wrong i'm both Of them. Each of these papers
have criticised my communications for the Pdofc
and other periodicals with great freedom, a
thing which they had a right to do under the
-ame responsibility to God and conscience as l
feel myself to be acting when l speak of them.
In speaking of the sparring between these papers
Of late, / cannot conceal that in my opinion the
Advertiser has greatly the advantage. In MOTTO
ing the report of the Minister of the Interior.
Mr.. Whitney repels the insinuation therein con-
tanned and approved by the editor of the Poly
aesian, perhaps written by him, that less pains
had been taken by the teachers of the Hawaiian
race in intoxicating the duties which fall under
the fifth commandment of the decalogue than
those which fall under the fourth. Nothing
could be more groundless than this insinuation.
I could not tell you in a brief space how much
labor has been bestowed on this part of our
flock, in schools both on week days and ON the
Sabbath, by oral instruction and written. The
insinuation Is rs ungenerous as 1T Is false: and
Mr.. Whitney fully exposes the groundlessness of
the charge. The same governmental organ is in
favor Of suppressing all further printing in the
Hawaiian language, rronouncing such printing
q 80 literary abortion He would thus abandon
the mase Of the nation to hopeless ignorance, as
the adults can never acquire the English lam
guage. For this advice the Commercial forcibly
reproves him. Again you may see in the Com
,nercial of July Is, a long report from the govern
ment organ under the head of :" Hospitals still
wanted giving a pathetic account of the death
of a Young woman. whose death he, editor Poly
nesian, attributes to the want of a hospital. In
remarkiug on this extract, the Commercial tells
the governmental Journal some terribly severe
truths. They are SO much TO the point, and
they will give our California friends 50 much in
sight into some of our trials that l will give you
some extracts. Let il not be asked i1hy We
have no hospital. Let it not be asked why the
inferior coin of the Hawaiian race is being lost, y
"A cut you perceive of the government editor on
account of the color of the people, 'and dying
of at the rate Of 5000 souls per annum As
long as a useless public press is maintained as a
political necessity at an expense of $4,000 a
year, more or less, as it may be, to tickle the
vanity Of . minister, so long will our mountains
and valleys re-echo To the public ear an answer rs
damning, though as unavailing as the moan OF
the poor dying natives. There is money enough
To print one thousand and eleven pages of bien-
NAL nonsense from the portfolio of the foreign
Office, but to heal the wounds of the dying native
there is only an empty treasury" Those dis
eased people," he quotes frum the government
organ again I" who pass their days and nights in
moaning-poor wretches, there is no nightingale
to MARBLE conf TT to them, they have no hospitals
and no dispensaries to which they might crawl
for relief. They must just lay down and bear 1t
in q great proportion of instances, that means to
saw, they must just lie down and de- And. -
adds the Commercial, with as much truth as
indignant eloquence, ''when the last Of the Aliis
(Chiefs) shall have been gathered to the royal
tomb of his fathers, when the SUN shall have shed
its setting rays on the grave of the last OF the
aboriginal inhabitants Of our group, and our sea
girt cornl reef shall re-echo their eternal requium,
when the kingdom shall have passed into the
hands of another dynasty, then will the historian
record with unbiased pen the causes which led
90 the extinction Of a noble race; then will the
rrssent ministry be weighed in the scales and be
found wanting; and the record will still remain,
that one pres dared to point out the causes
which FASTENED . nations extinction and opposed
the blind and vain policy Of q misguided minis
try"
Alas that these things should be there
should be expended on q worthless soldiery some
$l0,O 600 a year, and another $4,000 on a news
paper which scarcely one in q thousand of the
people can read, and which, if they could read,
would do them incomparably more hurt than
good, while, according to its own showing,
nothing is done by the government to save the