The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-06-26


those who do not work
Christian patriotism and philanthropy
| is the price OF future homes and security
for our children in every land. have
not forgotten a few examples Of wise and
| thoughtful care of plantation employees
that | saw in 1880. The distance be-
tween the masters and the hands seemed
| great; state of things that, in time OF
| strain, may not be safe, and the strain
will come in time. You will get what
youw DIRK for-if for money you are likely
| to get that; but do not complain If you
| do not get other things that make home
| and country safer and better unless YOU
work for them
have been eager to see the illustra-
trations of Hawaiian nobility -of its
truest nobility-in the Lunalilo home
and in the Kamehameha Schools. Will
the whites and foreigners, with their
thirty millions of dollars, match the pub
lie benefactions of the natives with their
three millions?
believe that this decade, unless one
OF disaster, will see great advance over
the last OF gifts for the public good from
the many conscientious men who are
able to give to the country that has
given them so much. No gift is greater
than that of service.
From over the ocean have heard of
faithful, quiet ministries among these
people. More than one man has done
for the Leper Settlement what he could
Indifferent to praise. That strong, manly
life that was broken from incessant labor
Tor your Chinese populati IN is far more
honor to his country than anything you
can show me of building or improve
ment. The long and tireless ministry of
woman in the temperance cause on
these islands Is ten times more credit to
Hawaiian civilization than her costly
roOps and parades.
But | know too little of the real work
and worthy living here-it is not adver-
tised. Guide books don't point it out. I
hope to learn more of it in the next few
weeks.
Will self-government succeed in Ha-
wall, for she is bound to govern herself?
She is the weakest and the strongest of
the nations. Needing no army, only a
strong police force, she has the fleets of
America and Europe to assure her sta
bility. Her only danger is within her.
self. Can she meet that? Will rum,
opium, RIGHTEOUSNESS and demagogism
conquer the Hawaiian voter or will they
be conquered by him?
Elections are coming and progressive
and non progressive and perhaps dam
gerous ideas will struggle for the mas
terry. Whatever the present issue there
is no final defeat for the right, because
you have too much civilization for that.
Remember that agitation is education !;
that tree discussion which makes men
think is worth as such as the common
schools that teach the children to read
The man who don't think is the most
dangerous of ALL
However disastrous the immediate re-
suit of free suffrage, the reaction of it on
the voter has vital value Men usual
ly accept the estimate we put upon them
and act accordingly; in dealing with
them we gather where we SOW; action
and reaction are equal in morals and
politics as well as in physics. The negro
slave accepted his masters estimate and
gave no sign of his capacities; his fight
ing qualities were ridiculed. Enlisted as
soldier with the blue on his back and
the Springfield rife on his shoulder he
responded splendidly to every duty, and
to-day the black regiments OF the United
States Army are adnirable-in no way
disappointing.
Instead of the predicted helplessness,
the ex.slaves, as citizens, have raised
more cotton in freedom than in slavery
and have accumulated over 5000, OUO, 900 /;
they have met the charge of incapacity
by rivaling their white neighbors in the
school room, at the teachers desk, and
by winning University honors.
Under ordinary conditions the way to
nlya a.f
habiliments of citizenship and to put in
the hand its prerogative, the vote. The
foreign element in the United States is
saved to civilization, and civilization is
saved from it by citizenship. Limita-
tons are of course important and are
neglected at the nations peril. Enfran-
chising the negro was terrible risk in
America, and the danger is not yet over,
but it made possible because it made
necessary the wonderful free school sys-
tenn OF the South, and that is making
that section new and great. The In
dams only hope is full citizenship, I'M
fitted as he is in many ways. Envi-
ronment, next to Gods grace, is the
greatest force in human life; heredity
ID next, strong but not as strong; thir-
teen years of experience with Indians
from the plains has been to me another
clear demonstration of this claim.
The strongest force in society is on the
side of right, and insures its rule when
men and women of resource and in
huence use their power faithfully and
wisely. When nothing else will, danger
drives us to fulfil our duty to the ignor-
ant and lowly and to our country. The
best and broadcast education and the
wisest treatment of her mixed peoples
only will save Hawaii. For that YOU
must unite aud strive.
Never forget that the man who does
not vote is even more dangerous than
the man who does, for little or nothing
will be done for him: he can wait, but
the voter must be looked out for, lest
he do harm. The social or political out
cast is most to be feared in an uprising or
revolution.
The extraordinary conditions of Ha-
waii and my want of knowledge of them,
forbid any dictum as to where the line
should be drawn between voter and nom
voter. Nowhere in the world think is
there such lack of homogeneity. The
disciples of Confucius and Budda out
number the disciples of Christ; they are
peculiar people refusing as a class to
become one with you. What will you
do about it? From money standpoint
you would flood the country with them
for the sake of cheap labor; from a
moral standpoint you keep them out.
Financial ruin without more Asiatics;
moral ruin with them; if l under
stand 1t rightly. God help you
in it all, for it will tax your
pockets and your principles to do
the right thing. A more restricted suf-
frage is hardly to be hoped for; any ex-
tension not, think, to be thought of.
1t remains to make the best of things.
Those who are hopeless disarm them
selves and may as we'll go to the rear;
men and women OF faith, optimists, to
the front! This is the Christian era.
" In hoe signo vinces is the motto of
the faithful, and they are not afraid.