The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-04-07

credited to high authority. Had
it appeared in some low town-talk
periodical, it would have been be-
meath notice:
A MISSION PAPER ETC.
"Here goes a line to you at last,
just to say that, as in duty bound,
and with much pleasure. [ called
on Bishop Willis and his wife, more
than a month ago at Honolulu.
l stayed to lunch, and then was
driven to see the new Cathedral, a
nice stone building, at present
about 100 feet long, and, say, 60
feet wide; but which has cost the
the enormous sum already of Rs.
10000. The stone for pillars, ETC.,
was all cut and carried from Eng
land, because artisans, and very
poor ones too, get six Mexican dol
lars-10s. I'd. per diem. Every
thing is on the same scale; SER
wants, rents, clothes, and all, and,
on the whole, l was grievously dis
appointed with the Hawaiian ISL
ands, which have been utterly
ruined by the Yankees who
swarm there, and practically
rule and run the place. Re-
suit: some 10000 aborigines
who ape Yankee manners and rude
ness, dress in perfectly grotesque
imitation of Europeans, and who
will not turn hand to anything,
and are dying out. These people,
who are quite as dark as average
natives of India, apparently live on
what land they still have left,
though the rascally Yankee mis-
sionaries, who taught them consti-
tutional methods, now own most of
the property, for which they ex
changed Bibles, and lent ready
cash on mortgages, which they have
long ago foreclosed on. You are
quite aware that / am not an unbe-
lleving opponentto missions. but all
along my route have found and
heard much to the dlscredit of these
American Congregationalists, who
push trade and religion together,
and, so far as one hears, make a
pretty good worldly speculation.
In Honolulu, anyway, they control
everything, and most of King
CatchmaIioo's ministers of state are
Yankee missionaries, who are
plainly endeavoring both to feather
their nests, and TO bring the ISL
ands under the stars and stripes
The natives just now are making a
bit of an effort against this; but the
Yankees have pretty firm seat
1t looks odd to see white men mend
ing the roads and doing what little
desultory manual labor goes on
whilst the natives, a most sensual
nasty-looking lot of blacks, lol
about their shantees and do moth
ing. People like them, though
somewhat, as they are very gener
Gus and kind. In fact, so long as
they lived under feudal laws, they
were fine people. The Yankees
as the Bishop told me, then started
the free idea-three acres and +,
cow was almost literally obtained
and the cows and acres very sool
fell to the " teachers of the Word,
who lent money right and left a
high rates. The people now, lik
Yankees, are ashamed of acting a
servants. Result: the little Chimes
have stepped in, and seem to b
quite the leading people, and to d.
most of the business and max
most of the money. But Englisl
firms grow sugar, and some lam
yields eight tons of refined suga
per acre. Without them (the Chi
messy the Islands would come t
bitter grief with only non-workin
Hawaiians and drunken-lookin,
English and Yankee laborers o
six dollars per diem.
ITO improve things, then, tn
Yankees have succeeded in passin
a law to exclude Chinese, wit
what result remains to be seem"
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