The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-01-20

hsh officer who has been visiting the
Caroline islands gives some interest
ing facts in regard to the recent con-
tlicts between the natives and the
Spanish military forces in that local
ity. He declares that the whole
trouble may be charged to the Am
erican missionaries in the islands,
who are for various reasons hostile to
the Spaniards. There is first, he
says, the natural jealousy between
the Spanish Catholic and Protestant
American missions, but this plays
only a subordinate part in the dilll-
Guilty. The Spanish missionaries
confine themselves to religious
work, and do not NEEDLE with the
temporal affairs of the people. There
is n crowd of hangers-On, he says,
around the American missionaries
whose sole object seems to be to
prey upon the natives. How far the
missionaries themselves are RESPONSE
bic for the doings of these persons
he was not prepared to say, but allie
cations were freely made in the ISL
auds that some missionaries pay
more attention to their own aggrand-
izement than to the welfare of the
people among whom they are sup
posed to be laboring in the cause of
religion.
Many missionaries have laid up
goodIy stocks of treasures which
moth and rust may corrupt, and have
introduced business systems in their
dealings with the guiIeIess natives
under the operation of which the
lands of the people are rapidly pass
ing inlo the hands Of foreigners.
This has aroused considerable dis
content among the natives in several
/ portions of the islands, and is to a
large degree responsible for the out
break. The natives do not stop to
discriminate too nicely between the
nationaities of foreigners. In fact,
thy have been cunningly led to be-
lieve the Spanish invaders alone are
to blame for the changed condition
| of their affairs; hence the attacks
upon Spaniards and other foreigners
together.
The officer further alleges that the
American missionaries knew before
hand that the massacre of July last
Nas to occur. They were cognlzant
of il the day previous, but refraned
from notifying the proper authori-
ties, with whom they are on bad
terms and whom they did not object
TO seeing taken unawares. The mis-
sionaries took good care, however,
to protect themselves by removals or
/ barbados
CLEAR PROOFS OF OUTRAGEs BY THE
sPANIARDS.
Boston, Jan. 10.-The disclosures
made of the indignitie5 suffered
by American missionaries in the
Caroline islands at the hands of
the Spaniards have created much
talk here, and the officers of the
American Board of Foreign Missions
have been importuned to divulge
additional particulars
Missionary Rand, in letter writ
ten November 9th, describes the
destruction of mission property at
Qua as follows: The firing we heard
on Friday was at Qua. There were
four war vessels around there. Shells
destroyed great many breadfruit
and cocoanut trees. On Saturday
two or three Spaniards landed at
| Qua.
After a severe battle, most of it
being on the flats while they were
tying to land, they succeeded in
burning most of the native houses,
the church and school house, also all
the mission houses. They then hur-
ried on board their ship, pulled up
anchor and were off for the colony,
with report that they had killed
] hundreds of natives, Paul the king,
and most of the leaders of the trouble
included. They only killed three
natives and wounded several. From
all we can learn it seems that they
maliciousIy destroyed every yestige Of
mission property. The houses were
badly shattered before they applied
the torch. Mr.. Rand's opinion is
that the Spaniards will eventually
give up the task of conquering the
islands.
BLAINE WILL DEMAND SATISFACTION.
Washington, January 10.-Secre-
tary Blaine has taken up with the
Spanish Minister the matter of the
alleged indignities offered the Ameri-
can missionaries on the island of Po-
nape. Captain Taylor of the United
States steamer Alliance, recently re-
turned from the Caroline islands, in
an official report confirms in all i'm
| pOrtant details the treatment alleged
to have been imposed upon the mis-
/ sionaries.
Secretary Blaine will see that the
treaty stipulations between Spain
and the United States in regard to
these islanders are observed in the
future and reparation made for the
treaty if, after investigation, it is
shown to have been violated.
THE GOVERNOR OF MANILA DOEsN T
BELIEVE THE REPORTS.
Madrid. January l0.-The Gov