The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1880-10-09

pagans, it is held, and wear peculiar dress.
Is it the queue which you object to? George
WASHINGTON, BENJAMIN Franklin and John
Hancock wore it. The American costume
often more than eclipses Chinese wearing
apparel. Have you forgotten the crinoline
monstrosities of years ago? Think of this
! and be lenient as to Monaghan eccentricities
of dress. We are finding out now that
mans religious belief is to be interfered with
in this country. We have it incorporated
in the platforms of both political parties. |
was not surprised at finding it in the plat
form of the Democratic party, because the
Democrats have always considered the ques-
ton of color and race a reasonable question.
But when | saw the Republican party,
which had fought four horrible years of war
for the sake of establishing the principle that
all colors and races are equal before God,
and then remembered that they had paid
500, 900 precious human lives as the pur-
chase price of that principle, and then sur.
rendered for the yellow man what they had
demanded for the black man, | was amazed,
and | wondered whether the sceptre had de-
parted. If our Government is to continue to
Stand, it will be because it defends alike the
ioss-houses of the Chinese, the temples of
the Roman Catholics, the meeting-houses of
the Quakers, and the churches of the Pres
byterians. If am to choose between the
religion which insults and stones man be-
cause of the color of his skin and the length
of his hair, and the industry and economy of
his habits, on one hand, and the paganism
which patiently bears all this, toiling right
on until death comes-if | must choose be-
tween such religion and paganism, give me
~paganism. In closing, TalmageI said this is
a question higher than your City Hall
higher than the heather goddess on the
Capitol in Washington City, so high that it
is on a level with the Throne of God. And
the same power that controls the tides of the
Atlantic and the Pacific oceans will control
the tide of human navigation. If God says,
" Come" they will come if He says, 60"
they will go. Do not be nervous and build a
high, strong wall that will keep the Chinese
out while you let others in. Such a wall
Gods earthquake would shake from beneath,
and Gods thunder-bolts Of wrath would
strike from above, and it would rock and
heave and fall on the demagogues who con-
structed it and the nation that favored it,
and the Christianity that was too cowardly
to denounce it, and God would say, " | built
that American Temple for civil and religious
liberty. | founded it in the blood of the
Revolutionary fathers. The arches of that
temple went up on the shoulders OF men
who died for their principles. Its baptismal
fonts were filled with the tears of exiles who
had come here to refuge. The sword of a
patriot ancestry was the trowel which NOR
ticed its foundations. But you have sacri-
feed on its sacred affairs the swine of pas
sion and hate. Its columns have been de-
faced by unholy hands, and the temple must
come down, column and capital, arch and
dome, and in some other land and among a
more generous people, and a brighter age
of the world, I will demonstrate before earth
and heaven, how l would have all men equal
and free 80 '4i H'
The closing hymn was, "Jesus shall
reign where'er the sun doth his successive
journeys rum"