The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-07-30

time, under the same protection OF law as Win d
former employer-and the bondage OF a human oelng
for life, and in which his descendants are involved,
subject only to the will and passions of his master !
Yours truly, JONATHAN S. GREEN.
Pastor at Makawao.
REMARKs.-There are some men who have such
an inmate fondness for appearing in print, that
they take every occasion to ~ventilate their views,
no matter on what subject, or in what way it is
handled. In their verdancy they think that
unless they express their ideas in print, on them
will rest a fearful responsibility, if the world
goes wrong. To tins class evidently belongs our
correspondent, who, according to his own letter,
corresponds gratuitously with at least four
periodicals.
Whatever Mr.. Green may have meant when he
published the fact to the world that the repre-
sentative from Makawao did not vote on the
Master and Servant bill, all who read his letter
to the Gazette could form from it but one opinion
that Mr.. Kapihe was taken to task and pub
licly arraigned for not doing what was expected
of him Whether he meant it to be so understood
or not, it was a mean, unwarrantable and unmanly
attempt to bring the representative back to what
Mr.. Green supposed to be his duty in the matter. If
he was ignorant of what his language meant, all
the more reason why he should not have uttered
it. The Crown Minister who boldly offers a
reward to a representative if he will do so and SO,
is no more reprehensible than u clergyman who
publicly holds him up in order to influence his
actions. 1t only affords another instance to show
that when ministers of the gospel dabble in
politics, they NEEDLE with what is beyond their
legitimate sphere.
We have no where charged Mr.. Green with
acting dishonesty in any fduciary capacity, nor
with accepting brides of any kind nor have we
ever limited, as he imagines, that any editors
would offer to pay for his illusions. He knows,
as well as we and every one of our readers, that
the Grown Ministers are using the liberal funds
and patronage placed at their disposal in every
possible way that they can to purchase the services
and support of missionaries and others whom a
few years ago they sought to set aside, as worth
less trash, unworthy of notice, friendship, or
social distinction. The public have not forgotten
how like dogs they were treated at the funeral of
has been done, we need not particularize. for our
correspondent knows as well as the public. At
that time Mr.. Green himself was as bitter in his
denunciations of what he supposed to be a cor
rupt and ungodly crown ministry, as he is now
lavish of praises on them. Had we the files of
the Mirror Ito which he refers) even for the past
two years, we could instance articles over his sigma
ture which would humiliate him to publish now.
These are among the remarkable changes of this
very remarkable age, and shoWnthat a writer's
ideas of men and things mays wonderfully
warped by the color of the glass they are viewed
through.
We blame Mr.. Green for writing in such a
way as to furnish to INSCRIPTIONS men testimony
in their support of a drowning cause. which he
did not design for that purpose. No one can
doubt that the extract from one of his letters
quoted in the Legislature does endorse the present
labor system of these islands. He probably did
not intend it to endorse the coolie system nor the
unrighteous penal clause but it was used to
sustain the whole. These features of our labor
system are as wicked as ever slavery was. and
their abolition, like that Of slavery, is only a
question of time. To see the language Of a man
of his years, experience and known philanthropy
used to support it, might well rouse, as it did,
the Indignation Of every friend of freedom. For
the good he has done or may do, all must respect
him ; but when he lends himself, willingly or not,
to sustain a corrupt and wicked system, he must
not blame those who condemn himself for this.