The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-07
are the observations of the Rev. DR..
DWinell, mentioned above:

DWinell, mentioned above:
at has been long observed that a
plant or tree that is vigorous and full of
vitality is not 80 likely to be attacked by
parasites or disease, and when attacked
Roots in good rich soil and fine dress
against the enemies OF the garden and OF
the farm or plantation.
"The way in which the recent civil
disorder in this city has been thrown off
by the community shows the vitality of
its civil and political institutions. Gov
ernments whose roots do not go down
into the intelligence and virtue OF the
people, and that do not rest on a public
sentiment of law and order, respect for
property and personal rights, when as
sailed by political Adventures and that
element in society that feels it has
nothing to lose and everything to gain
by revolution, must take the cOnse-
quences. There is no inherent energy
in them instantly to rise and throw Oft
the menace. The factions must be left
| to fight it out, not along the lines of law
and order, or the public good, or of the
| rights involved, but of partizanship, per-
|
mad passions and lusts. The trouble
begun, no one can tell when it will end.
| 1t may become chronic, and the whole
| civil condition be one of interminable
wars and feuds of party with party,
clique with clique.
mo other organizing social force is SO
good to furnish vigor and vitality to civil
| institutions as Christianity. This is the
| no
most controlling. It creates in the com
munity around it, far beyond the circle
of it's protested subjects, civic virtue and
integrity-men of principle and patriot
ism, ready to spring into the breach anC
meet any public danger at the peril O.
their lives. In Christian communities
only a part-a small part will say
speaking of numbers, not Of aggressive
force-only small part of Christianity
is in the acknowledged disciples. A
large part has foated off, without visible
connections, into the humanities, the in
tegrities, the loyalties to the things socia
and political of the public at large.
is this emanation from Christianity
which makes all the difference between
the social and civic atmosphere of 6
Christian land and of pagan land.
"The events of Tuesday show very
clearly what an inlay of solid politica
worth Christianity with it's associate
forces has put into this land. While i
carries with it elements which wicked
ness may appropriate and use, as in THU
case, it also carries with it the means TO
the speedy expulsion of the mischief
This young man, thrown up by yer.
benevolence of the influences he tried t.
overthrow, finding the possibilities O
mischief in the worth of the system ht
assailed, having his own time to mature
his plans and extend the ramifcation
of his plot and to swell the number o
followers bound to him by fiery appeals
and by oath and stimulated by the in
fuence of the native press, finds only
small following when he comes to thu
) overt act The enterprise dwindles tt
miserable fasco. 1t does not reach il
form the dignity of an attempted revolu
ton. He issues no proclamation. HC
| does not announce a government. Ill
does not formulate his demands. 1t il
simply a case of outlawry, and he does
not mitigate it by throwing over it pub
licly the color of political revolution
And almost as soon as he has taken ar
attitude of hostility to the government
he and the few retainers who dared fol
low him are hedged In by the rifles ant
other conservative forces, and compelled
to hide and skulk like self-confessed out
laws. 1t is clear case of public virtue
begotten of Christian faith, stampin,
out crime. While, therefore, good mel
must lament the occurrence, they may
well take courage from the reelection
that the civil and political system tina
has sprung up on these islands is not {
football to be played with by politica
adventures but has substantial and abid
ing foundations in the virtue of the
people"