The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-01-13
,EI..rs4l FROM the New York - R1rui Table" Of Nov. 25l
Not One Dollar for the Bishop.

,El.ar.al FROM the New YORK Rs9ai Table" Of Nov. 25a
EOt One Dollar for the Bishop.
The Right Reverend Bishop Staley. D. D.. is
now in this country asking aid for the Episcopal
Establishment at the Hawaiian Islands. With
this ostensible object we have nothing TO say. The
king requested. several years since, that an Eng
li-h chaplain OF the Episcopal denomination be
Ssni him, and an organized deputatIOn of bishop,
clergy, and retainers responded. \ building
was >et apart Tor their religious services. Can
dies were burned. affairs erected, intunati0ns
made. professions formed. pictures wOrShipTed,
and those physical ailGremvnts adopted which
fascinate the eye. Rightly or wrongly, this
deputation Is known 81 the islands as 3" Pussy
ite." These men landed, and after looking
around for a few days over the glorious progress
Of forty years with the ewes Of cOnnois>-urS in
religious matters, said, - Ii is al a failure. :"
They looked AT American Observation-Disclosures
in the tLanklees task Of Lumani2ing heather
and said. =. These men are fools; They looked
az tie natives, = larger proportion OF whom
read and write even better than many do in the
state OF Vermont. and said, E. These men are not
Teadv for the Bible
But we have no quarrel at present with the
churchluen on the score OF doctrine. Ii PrOtes-
tantism. drawn from the best reservoirs Of New
England, cannot hold its own against then. let
II perish. They have entered a free and tolerant
country, and we commend TO them the " God
speed OF the world 50 long as preach they what i
good and true. But We have a word u say on
the political significance Of their mission ~ the
udwich Islands. Squeeze this new church
establishment, and the !usty voice Of John Bull
VIII respond. crying for a new colony. The
bishop in the EreniHg Past says May" 1t
may be true that these ~clergymen did not pro-
claim. on landing. their intention of securing 10
the islands that blessing of eternal day which Is
supposed 10 be attached to the extended British
Empire. nor did the long drum-beat Immediately
follow but when = BritOn colonies, his pulse
beats by the rule of st. Stephens and his exile *
made sad by the absence OF Thames water. This
might be a PRIOR. Nor has the bishops career
killed the theory. Correspondents from the
Islands speak largely Of the - bishops parity
not religious. but politico-religious. This British
saint, under the genial tropical skies. quickly
expands into a British d~iplOmati>t, and, under
the soft. velyety glove Of melliduOus religious
rites. Is the hard. clammy hand Of Britain feeling
for a naval station in the centre of the great
tranquil sea. The islands are indispensable 10
the United States. vastly convenient 70 England,
and important 10 France but thus far national
strategy has secuted them from permanent cap
ture or the questionable blessings Of a protec-
torate. The bishop has not slept at bis post.
Temporarily, at least, American influence there
i dead.
Americans have been put out Of political Office,
removed from the schools. and Englishmen have
taken their places. The bishop has administered
lA4-AA ~ ~ N-ANA~
and IS already a cabinet minister and privy
counselor, and, if he expects aid, must resign
bis dual Office Of clergyman and self-appoiuCcd
political emissary, lest the islanders interpret his
creed Is demanding, firstly, a love of God, and.
secondly, u love of Great Britain.
The American government Is partly responsible
for the present state Of things. As a government
IL has had little influence. Its representatives
have been with few exceptions, worthless men,
bankrupt politicians. commissioners that got
drunk AT public tables, ministers resident that
sold worthless drafts against salaries not earned,
consulS that swindled sailors and jobbed out
hospitals, in a word, men who took the foreign
missions on speculation, and exhibited 10 q sim
pie race, who had expected better things, the
worst defects OF our political system. Our com
merce opened the way for our missionaries. who
carried American institutions 10 the islands.
The new civilization there i the brightest diad-m
IN the crown of American philanthropy. The
foreign population Is principally American and
the natives are - largely im5ued with American
ideas that they even celebrate the Fourth Of
July.
The TWO thousand Americans on these Islands
gave 10 the Sanitary Commission. in proportion
to their means and numbers, more than any
community in the United States, and when the
Republic became a field of blood. 70 the end that
the Union might live. young girls living near the
line OF the equator. whose eyes had never looked
on the fatherland, patiently worked, in their
island solitude, at mittens and stockings. 10
make Grant : veterans glad IN the lines before
Richmond. Nor did these few people stop there.
When the Republic called for men, they sent
their young men. and there now stands to the
credit Of the islands. on our military record, q
general. a colonel, Northumberland and several
surgeons in the army and navy, mere boys, alien
in birth, who gladly came here TO fight for a
country they had learned to love from the lips of
their American mothers. This Republic has
given 70 the islands it, best civilization. and mas
duplicated New England in the tropics. and it
becomes her 70 see that the field now ripe for the
harvest IS not reaped by an alien power. We
believe that every dollar given TO the bishop
strengthens the influence Of a country that de-
ceiyed q people in rebellion by promising aid,
and insultad a nation by shielding piracy with
inte-nationa! law. These islands are the out
posts from which We shall watch and finally
touch tie lower civilization Of the East. and we
must see 10 it that no untriendly power plants a
fortress across our pathway. Let the bishop
return without q dollar Of American money in
his pocket.