The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1878-01-19

AMID MUCH that has been written concerning
there appears to have been a want of candor
when approaching the subject of which we are
about to speak that has led to a partial if not
Intentional Obscurity of the truth-an obscurity
that does great injustice to the inhabitants of the
rural districts Of these Islands. People from
abroad who have resided for any time here, and
are familiar with the native people need nc. veri-
hcatiOn of the statements to be found below, and
it is but justice to the Hawaiians that the truth
should be placed on record for the information of
PEOPLE abroad. We have lived long on these
Islands, and mingled freely with all classes of
the people; and therefore feel ourselves much
more competent to speak with understanding and
knowledge upon this subject than the /" birds of
passage =" or temporary visitors who write from
mere hearsay, and without any personal kn owledge
We regret to say that there is q class of resi-
dents here who seem to take pleasure in placing
the character OF the native people in the most
uniaVorable light, If not completely misrepresent-
ing them in everything they have to say in con-
v%ersation with strangers, thus being really re-
sponsible for most of the false impressions that
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foreign journals that eagerly admit, if they do
not seek, correspondence from these Islands, so
highly colored that it cannot fail to lead astray
all who read it, so far as the real truth as to mat
tiers here is concerned. People so misinformed
arc not to be blamed, for they may have no other
means of knowledge, and it is more particularly
for their benefit and enlightenment that we pep
these brief remarks.
The Island Of Hawaii, upon which we have
lived for some years, is the home of a large pro-
portion OF the native people, who there show
in the most favorable. because the
natural, light. We have trayersed the
Island in every direction, and mingled with the
people on the most intimate terms partaken of
heir hospitality, and sympathized with them in
heir affections, and have ever found them JOYOUS
% disposition, and easily appeased when offended.
N our intercourse with them we have never
noticed any OF that indelicate forwardness or
familiarity on the part of the women of which
orelgn newspaper correspondents and writer's
ay so much; and we assert that if they relate
their personal experiences, we are at
10 loss to understand the class of natives with
HON they came in contact. But their sublime
IN assuming that such experience rem
ers them competent, or gives them authority to
rite and send abroad SO many absurd AID un-
,uthful statements, so deeply affecting the repu-
Ition and good name of the people at large. is
hat most keenly awakens our reprehenslon.
nd We Will say that the home record of some of
writer's is not to be envied. We allude
ore particularly to the author of .s The Sand ,
lch Islands, by a Haole," published some 7
Ienty years ago, and to the more recent Island I
'rrespondent OF the San Francisco Chronicle,
hose name filled so large a space in the Journals Il
that city a couple OF years ago in connection O.
some scandalous matters in the CITY across
e Bay-Oakland. :,
The Hawaiians are not more prone to Iasci- a
BUSINESS, naturally, than the people from other =
nds who have settled among them: and If Il !.
apparently otherwise, it is owing in a LARGE :.
gree to the solicitations of such foreigners. who
row off all restraint and give a loose rein 70
cir libidinous appetites. The Hawaiians. like IL
i other aborIgInees who are striving after a ,.
gher plane OF civilization, easily place their "
nhdence IN the approaches of the representa-
OF such civilization, and it is not to be won :
red at that their confidence is so often abused "
betrayed, or their frankness stigmatized az r
or mlsrepresented by some more de- A.
aiding epithet. This being so, these one-sided ~
tements, SO many of which are sent abroad, do l
! surprise US; but We feel 1t none the less our u
ty to enter our protest, and endeavor to have
tice done to our people in the estimation of u'
friends and the public in other lands. Y
Many people, in writing Of the inhabitants of G.
sc Islands, indulge in a witty, sarcastic, or CEN =
fous style, attributing faults of character of -
ich they hear, but of which, in the nature of :;
ngs, they can have no personal knowledge; 90
the positive manner in which they make
If assertions is well calculated to, and does
Vitably lead astray all who place confidence in II
N. A partial antidote to this banefuI poison
be easily administered if our residents, in pa
If home correspondence would touch upon ha
Sc matters, however lightly,-and we think it sc
heir duty to do so, and that it would be a -
d policy, for many reasons, if they should.
EMPERANCE LECTURE. Rev. George Morris, 70