The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-11-27

Of sugar has been the largest yet
madc. Notwithstanding low prices
and failures, business has been gen
orally prosperous, and few counties
are growing so rapidly in opulencc.
Probably the average income has
been Sl25 TO every man, woman
and child. To Portuguese, Chinese
and Japanese, accustomed to hard
toll and scant pay, Hawaii seems a
Paradise. remember the pleasure
we felt in 1887, when Mr.. Ladd's
new plantation at Koloa began TO
pay wages to laborers at so. .129 q
day, in store pay with cotton cloth
at 20 cents yard. Then the COM
mon people were all serfs to the
chiefs, without right to property.
In our atlluence, it is pleasant to
know how generally the injunction
is remembered, "Frcely ye have re-
ceived, freely give
2. We thank God for the high
degree of mental and social culture
in these Islands. For the number of
whites, there are few countries
where there is so largely an average
of highly educated or widely ira
yelled persons. The Honolulu press
is fertile in journalism. Three
weeklies in the Hawaiian tongue are
well supported. The best foreign
periodicals abound in the country
districts. The school system is old
and prosperous, and schools for higher
education abound, while stream of
our young people is constantly going
to colleges and seminaries abroad.
The Portuguese, though skilled
and active, are quite illiterate. Ha-
waiians have books and papers in
every house, but their thought is
still pervadcd by the old heather
meies which the hulas have revived,
and which are saturated equally by
superstition and impurity, COM
bination which paialyzes meutal pro-
gress. Christian instruction had
mitigated the evil, but it was re-
vived by Kamehameha ", who when
Minister of the Interior, caused to
be licensed 800 kahunas, who be-
came active missionaries of super
stition. Under the law passed by
the late session of the Legislature
to license kahunas immense evil is
likely to be accomplished.
3. We have special reason to
thank God for the multitude of pure
and sweet homes in the land. In
my childhood. such home life was
an exotic, painfully maintained in
isolated missionary families. Others
came, and they multiplied, till the
land blossomed with q greatvariety of
such homes. Among Hawaiians,
real family life was unknown. In
no rank of society was chastity
known to be a virtue. Polygamy
prevailed in the higher ranks, and
polyandry was common and reput-
able. The bequest of polluted
morals is even to-day the chief factor
in the decay of the Hawaiian races.
1t is cause of deyout thanksgiving
that there are to-day SO o.many native
homes where chastity is the law, and
the children are trained to purity.
We rejoice in the very large and in
creasing class of women of native
and mixed blood who are white and
clean of soul, true ladies and held in
hoDor. A lerSe band of devoted
women of several denominations are
engaged in training Hawaii's young
daughters in industry and purity.
May they be wise and vigilant to
protect their tender charge from the
breath of the miasma of social pollu'
ton which rises SO high in the land.
Let every parent guard the home
against the ever ready incursions OF
impurity. Paganism will skulk-
abashed, if we have no smile for its
antics,
4. We shonid be thankful for a
code of righteous and wholesome
Jaws, which are efficiently admins
tered. The King has been happy
in his selection of the higher judi.
ciary. The Sunday law has been
wisely modified to conform to the
actual practice of the best Christian
lands. Against public sentiment
retail liquor licenses have been ex
tended to the rural districts, but W.
still have the "high license" system
which Consul Scott transplantet
from Honolulu to Ohio. Ten saloon
are less evil than fifty, though O
little efficiency against illicit traffic
Meanwhile drunkenness increase
, among the natives. A new enact
ment threatens return of the dam
age caused by a formerlaw to licens
, opium.
5. Standing in this Christian
pulpit, / do not hesitate to call OF
you to thank God for pure, vigor
Gus and enlightened Christianity
! 1t has been the religion of this coun
, try for more than sixty years, an
is of ever increasing power. Th
Apostle to the Gentiles rejoiced j
"the riches of the glory of TIL
mystery which had been hid frol
rges and from generations, but no,
was made known among the Gen
tiles, even Christ in you, the. hop
of glory" The Hawaiian peopl
lay brutalizcd and paralyzed in tn
impure worship of their demon gods