The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-06-05
z PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
SATURDAY. JUNE )
--latest ministerial TacIIc-.

We are glad 10 see the Government organ 20
loudly insisting,-as II docs in it, issue Of this
week-uP0n IT. purpose = 10 publish the truth in
contradiction 70 statements which lead good. just
AMI pbilnthroVic men, astr.y. It i n most
hopeful sign, and we bid il q very hearty =. God
speed" in IT, new AMI hitherto uniricd path.
We c~Dufes. hygcycr,-nuch o. We admire the
! Iraisew0rtLy resJlutiDn-tD some serious fears
lest the attempt b penetrate this tara ineggai'1,
shall not prove the ei-ie-t II thing.
We noticed. indeed. IN tic i-suc Of the IJ;h
ult-, that His EzeclIcney, who does for the most
part. the editorials Of shat IaIcr. Lad taken q,
scripture. AMI had actually, with all q. humility
and reverence" ct upon bis knees and was
shifting or his breast, IN yicw Of thc past. We
thoueht the taLleu evtreHrely booming, and
that. too. ~ -Titr 1f an intrusive suspicion that
il WIS 0qIy a tablelu. Nos. however We have
~''s0mewhat loudly exhibited in THE weeks
issue, the rare spectacle o. fricuIlincss 20 tic
American Missionaries and their work On these
Island-' Our readers who are not wont % eJu-
suit the columns Or our venciJus contemporary.
will hear q this amazing ~insJauc. 1f T-D5c-sel
conversion with 10 little suspicion and doubt.
Yet. we assure them that with our Own eyes we
have seen and read therein professions Ji tender
regard for the very men whom il has been It's
lifc-york % tnducs,
70 cannot be denied. however. that in this mat
ter there are grounds Fr h~esi,ancy in yieIdiug
our full crcdcucr % the aycrrel fact IF removal
ton. We are driven % take counsel os our
fears, despite the display Of newly hclgel attach
mcur for st. iu-t-di-spycrcd iricnIs-thc mission
aries.
We think there Is something very su-Y ici1u--
very like the otl-time organ, ray, in tine tactics
which it chooses 1, employ in the attempt 10
compass It, very aficctiJuaJc ends. For example,
we find n aakUg paraGIfy IN It's tender regards
for the missionaries. Let not our readers for Il
moment fancy that the organ sqGauIers it, pre-
ciDus symIathies upon the actual Puritanic,
Gospel-IDyinS and Go-TcLpreachinS Missionary
Of the times. Nothing Of the kind. On the cor
trary, a. the world knows, It's horror Of these
very men who arc now faithfully engaged in their
legitimate work, is perfectly UnJOuHded. Their
sturdy love Of justice, their inbred hatred 20
political robbery. whether Of constitutions or
other popular rights, AMI their inability to he
wheeled into line, and used for ut least the moral
support Of corrupt governments - against the
people, together with their persistent prOciama-
ton Of = Gospel Of political, God-given equality
to ali, ever has rendered, as it ever Will render
them 70 the last degree the objects OF the govern
ment's hatred, and, - far a. may safely be, Of
It's petty prosecutions. And it, persistent and
most dishDnDraLle effort 10 vent it, spleen against
the American Board and IT, missionaries upon
the head % DR.. Gulick. i c~oniirmatory Of this
view.
Why not come out squarely in it, wonted
manner and traducc the American BOarl and it,
agents here? Why these crocodile tears over the
reputation Of Its .'real missionary" (Which l.
simIly a convenient abstraction for the nonce,)
coupled with these deadly thrusts ut one man. sin
Glcd out by Hamc - tie special object Of it,
WRATH Why does 1t speak Of ga well-knOwn
sourec here,' whence springs MI the missionary
influence ct the islands, that j. adverse u q cor
rUQt g,scrumcus. and whence eInauatcs, too, the
sentiment which gives shape to tie ANNUAL Re
port Of the American Board, And why also
this pathetic appeal % the dear grave and cx-
Terieuccd veteran. OF foreign bir;h. Is against
their younger brethren @! foreign or native par
cntaec? J. divide and conquer tine motto
that rules the hour. with tlc organ and IT. gov
eminent?
To our minis IL seems f!lin that His Exccllcucy
mus, change biz plan If attack upon the Amcri-
can Board AMI IT. missionaries Or lDzc his game.
Neither the B1lrl in Boston nor the grave and
experienced veterans u the missionary body on
the islands VIII be Ut al likely - - Outilaukei
by So shallow q uElucuvcr a< this. Together
they stand oT fall. uVou tire even basis 81 q scrip
tural morality. IN it, brJade-t and bcs. sens.
They llse 10 authority for occupying other and
Srouuf, nor can tHcy d, it, 20 crafty any
man % any government. And IL His Ezegllcucy
= deirorls Of mi-ion1ry influence in AID o. the
rimiH-tfafi.a. iH any ct To- IoTarsmeIt-. ir las
bar Coz 'riu- 90. I.usy 'reE e.. si. IHr .! a