The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-03

enquire "Eha. goes on :" in this, that or the other
department, and whether there may be any poor souls
in any ways afflicted OF distressed to whom 4 little
balm personally and mildly administered. might not
be eomfortingr Do our jails. like the Voleano House,
keep - visitors books in the snte-room. and IL so,
what il their recordi The people, the foreign pOpu-
lation OF these Islands, have been marked for gener-
osity and hberality, but IL ever it took the turn my
letter indicates l have failed TO see it There is said
TO be a R~eformatory School - somewhere, and so
far so good. | have not been able TO observe any Of
Its effects in Hilo. Something like q MAgialen Asy-
lum, IS within range Of my Imagination, but nothing
Of that sort has ever been instituted here. and 80
long as the present prejudices Of caste remain as
strong ss they are | fear that the foreign ladies will
hardly be brought 70 that tenderness Of charitable
consideration which must be the chief foundation
stone Of any such good work 1t Is the very height
of wrong TO look At this people from = puritanic point
OF view. Virtue, a. we cOnstrue II, Is unknown to
them. No native woman loses caste from a lspse.
There may be some who from prudential motives,
from fear Of the church or something like that, pre-
serve the appearance. whilst in their inner heart they
despise the restrictions 81 foreign imposition. The
great trouble is that the native women have no con-
genial. national, useful and profitable occupation, and
surely it was a great and most serious omission on
the part Of the Missionaries who almost from their
first teaching here have had such entire control. that
they did not introduce and enforce this essential Gle
ment Of true success. The slip-shOd senoritas Of
South America--tbe cigarita smoking enchantresses
Of Manila,-the very low caste Indian women Of
Canada are better of in this respect than Hawaiian
women. These can make mats, but they won't. and
even that is aboriginal The habit of industry so
severely enforced by the old chiefs was abandoned by
the mission, and the singing of such foltherol as this
" AoIe msiksi publ baka,-
Hama inc maOli no.
introduced as useful and exemplary occupation.
have heard, and partly seen that SO far from en-
cOuraging wholesome and profitable industry, the
old mission was not even passive, but discomfort
anced its practice with unaccountable energy. So
that when one Of their number opened another path
and went forth with his people into the fields and
taught them the mysteries and pleasures of agrcul-
ture, working day by day at the pillow alongside Of
them, until he had succeeded in making the district
Of Kan smile with ripening wheat, standing among
his people as their . guide, philosopher and friend,''
his sober minded brethren clad in smoothest black
remained solemn at home shaking their disseDtient
heads and frowuing Down their over-wordly brother,
and in their disapprovsl of his novel courses, well
nigh "sent him TO Coventry" At any rate. he
died out of their way, and Kau went back to Ortho-
dox ~lazyness and pull picking privacy. singing
psalms by the way that Satan might not net them
with other idlers who are said TO be his legitimate
90 hands" l tell the tale as twas told to me, and
do not repeat it in any spirit of malice. HqienesS
and horses are the bane Of this people, for if any
thing will cure them of their hereditary taints, In
dustry / verify believe comes first and is indispensi-
bic.
II is pitiable to see a whole people without a spark
of public spirit passively submissive to any imposi-
lion and utterly indifferent TO their own rights,
privileges and powers. Were it otherwise, the ire
sponsibility aud audaciOus assumptions of a few for
eign Adventures whose individual aims are neither
strictly phianthrOpic nor patriotic, and whose SYM
pathies with a race whom they may be said to have
ousted are at least questionable, could not exist. A
unity of public sentiment may lave q sleepy sort of
existence, but there is no spirit in it,. And it is n
very plucky thing. and very becoming, for the in
science of Office, nowhere better illustrated, to ex-
press contempt and defiance of the popular desire,
rs it has been expressly shaped out for q sham.
Audacity is the ripened fruit of security, and the
hopefullest patriot in the Kingdom I fancy can see
nothing for IT but resignation, with the solsce of
history hereafter. Yours truly,