The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-11


cry, and that flooding the country
with Asiatics, aliens in blood, III
language, in civilization and man
ners, is not conducive to its pros
perity, while it is positively des-
tructive to its interests as one of
community of civilized states.
Christians are enjoined to love
their enemies. Surely they may
learn from them also. There is
much to be learned from the enemy
here. One truth more or less
bitter is the fact that the Chris
tian people of this country are
themselves in q considerable meas
ure responsible for the gradual
alienation and consequent race feel
ing which has grown up between
Hawaiians and HAoLEs, and in gen.
eral between labOrers and capital
lists. The Hawaiians were very
foolishly supposed to be converted
and saved and the native churches
were thrown on their own re-
sources. In the meantime the for
eigners began to devote themselves
to the perfectly legitimate business
of developing the industries of the
country, and making money. An
unscientiic conception of human
nature prevailed,-the fruit of
ignorance of social and psy-
Geological laws. It's result is the
fact that the large majority
of Hawaiians stand outside of the
churches altogether, and that most
of those who are in the church
bring it little honor. a loose man
ner of living, Il low type of piety,
are the the sign manual of Hawaii
an Christianity. A further fact
which may be mentioned is that
the attitude of the non-Hawaiian
laborers is also one of hostility or
Indifference to religion, while as
third and final feature of the stu
alton may be added the prevalent
distrust and hostility between the
two great social classes, employers
and employed-capital and labor.
Whatever the cause, the fact re-
mains that the war of the classes
and the masses, the struggle of the
moneyless many against the
monied few, which is the distinc-
tive mark of our time, is growing
into prominence here. While COM
plicated no doubt by conditions
merely local in their application, its
underlying causes are deeper and
belong to the industrial features of
the age. It's remedy here as every
where can only be found in a radi-
cal change of attitude by the prop
erty class. It is of no use to i'm
port missionaries, to be active in
church work, to spend money on
Y. NJ. G. AS. These things have
their place and value, but
they cannot effect a cure in this
disease. A more liberal policy
on the part of employers, greater
sympathy with the feelings and
needs of the laboring class, an ac-
tive effort to secure better indus
trial conditions q disposition to
remedy, as far as any remedy is
possible, the very serious abuses
under which the country is
suffering, these things will do
more to bring about q last
ing peace than anything else that
can be devised. Everything which
evidences such disposition on the
part of capital, whether 1t is an ex-
pertinent in cooperation and free
labor, or the establishing of reading
rooms and other cOnveniences for
employees, or any of the countless
beneficient things which might be
done, or at least attempted, will be
accepted as the token of concilia-
tory spirit by the class which such
efforts are intended to benefit.
Then, and then only, will it be pos
sible, not indeed to return to the
patriarchal simplicity of Kauai, but
to reach q harmony resting on a
higher and better principle, on the
recognition by employers and en-
ployed of common sympathies and
interests, and of mutual obligations
and rights.
The Illustrated Tourists Guide.