The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1862-01-02
Correspondence Of ,he pac. commercial AarertI,er.I

Ed. p. c. ADVERTISER "A Rustic in the PolyRe-
sian of December p, speaking of the Hoku o ka
PGkipika, = Us: What a singular phenomenon,
viewed fairly and quarely, is the universal opposi-
ton with which this first born of Hawaiian literature
meets from the American missionaries"
Though Rustic prefers that "one Of the mission
should help him out of his mysti6cation," perhaps
he will allow one who IS not of the mission to lend
him a helping hand.
In the fourth number of the story of Kawelo, in
the Hoku of November 18th, occurs the following
passage: Kauahoa stopped, and RAJ d his stick.
Kawelo struck Kauaho- with his stick, Kuikaa by
name, and splitting him from the top downwards,
would have separated him into two parts, but Kawe-
~ > sIIcA Ieareu the smeII or his pVstvIIvrs,.- (auus. }
In the same number of the Fl. p. we read eff you
fear lest you, your wives and your children should
be contaminated, how can you keep pure in this
world for God has polluted this earth with very
great sins. We are told in the Bible that God is holy,
but l ask who cau-ed sinin the world' Was Adam
its author? No, God made\it. Does God keep him.
self aloof from sin 80 If God is the Holy one.
why should He be pleased to make a sinful thing 30
We might quote al ~ihyfniium of such language.
Such is the smutty lang age, and such il he
blasriemy W.. an l. 2rincipled Journal. said to be
established and conducted by unprincipled men, is
circulating through the land ! Perhaps these are
the articles which evince, to Rustic's expanded and
learned mind. "such a depth Of thought and power
of reasoning" perhaps not. As to the tpoetical
composition, full of imagery to which Rustic al
ludes, and which has been the subject of much talk
among the natives, though Iull of sly inuuendo, it is
too abominably filthy in its rel meaning to be re-
peated here, and we forbear making quotations., which
might be multiplied. Among the natives its vile
character is fully understood, and cannot be sup
pressed or mistaken. Even now it is passed round
among the young to be the subject of ob.cene jests
and lascivious talk
Is it strange that the good should oppose the cir
culation of such things! But when respectable men,
not missionary teachers only, raise a voice of protest
against the circulation Of such poison, then Rustic
and a host of his fellow rustics, must raise a pious
whine about the "watchmen in Israel who SO exorcice
the Hoku" Surely, this is o phenomenon
But what shall be said Of a p per that p1ndcrs
thus TO the Iusts and appefites What shall be said
Of those who make God responsible for sin, and
who, voluntarily, sow the leeds of corruption and
death among a wasting people, whose last hope of
life is in the pre- ervation of the morals Of its youth .
COrrupters of youth they are. Enemies of virtue.
And when an honest lover of virtue, when a father
who has interests at stake, when an earnest well
wisher Of this Hawaiian race lifts up his voice against
the circulation of corrupt literature, shall he be told
it is none of his busness' Has morality become 20
utterly corrupt, is virtue so entirely lost, that q
warning voice against the circulation of filthy stories
and open blasphemy must be styled "a strange phe-
nomenon ?"
40 shame, where is thy blush ~
Every friend Of the Hawaiian people has a right, nay,
it is the imperative duty of ever me, to diacounte-
nance the circulation, especially amongst the young
of such stuff as is now being published in the Hoku
o kG PdkipikG-stuG, which needs only q free dis
semination, with no counteracting influence, to make
society here more intolerable than was that Of : = mis-
creant Sodom, or thrice polluted Gomorrah ="
One word more. Rustic says at is a fact that
the Haze has time and again published most unmiti-
gated obscenities, -" and not a voice of Warming
sc. How kuoweth Rustic that " no voice Of warn
ing was raised 1t is a fact that one Of the editors
Of the Haze was expostulated with about publishing
improper articles, and he expressed his regret, and
said it was done through OVERSIZE hit on his part.
But even If the Hue was q sink of ~iniquity, that
is no license for the n. p. TO be worse.
December %, 1861. WAILELE.