Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-18


fluence; that they Won it to their support;
that they greatly enlarged IL; that they
intrenched IL yet more strongly In the land
and used it to achieve their wicked ends.
kalakaua Made the Pagan Party.
1t may be said that Kalakaua made the
party. When he came to the throne he
gathered the scattered forces Of heatheaism
together and proclaimed himself their high
priest, and led them in the onslaughts he
made against the Christian civilization
which had been so happily founded i'm Ha-
wall He was about corrupt a king as
ever ruled on any throne. His court like
himself, was also corrupt. He himself was
given to the practice Of the grossest i'm
morality. In his wickedness he fomented
the race feeling. He worked through the
heather party to make the Hawaiians Bit
ter against the white man. He who had
been enthroned almost by the white man
became the white mans enemy. Though
he should have been king for all. he reigned
In the interest of but a portion of his sub
jects.
He tried to paganize the country and
heathenize it. He made a deliberate at
tempt TO bring the free church of Hawaii
under his power. He worked to debauch its
ministry. He set himself up as a student OF
society for its revival With a blasphenous
purpose he declared that there was a har-
mony between the Christian and the heath
en- faith. He declared Jehova to be but one
I
thus did his utmost to corrupt the Hawaiian
Christianity. He brought II very low He
gave IL a blow which IL must be the work OF
a generation TO heal. and my charge is that
Queen Liliuokalani followed at last the path
which her brother had so plainly marked
out. She gathered about her throne this
corrupt heather element She allied Il with
her rule as one OF its prominent factors
and when in those last mad DAYS OF her
reign she sought to gain absolute power,
she went through the farce of putting for
ward this bitter heather element as the Pc
tluoners Tor the acceptance at her hand OF
the revolutionary constitution which she
had had her lawyer secretly prepare for her.
| Thus she gathered about her the worst ele-
ments of the land that they might come 20
her support during those last days of her
mad purpose of self-aggrandizement.
The Rum and Opium Tramc.
But again, there were other influences
which these guilty Hawaiian rulers let loose
on their people to their destruction. There
was the rum and opium traffic
No rulers ever so encouraged this nefari-
Gus traffic as did they. Kalakaua legaIized
the sale Of liquor. among his people, ana
sold two opium franchises at $4,000 apiece.
and Queen Liliuokalani signed the distinery
ana opium bills. kalakaua smugIed rum
into his kingdom and set up saloons In in
terest of his own pocket; and Liliuokalani
joined the opium ring and kept in power
and nearest to her on her throne men who
We're engaged in this lawless and wicked
4 traffic.
In the help they gave to the rum and the
opium trafflc, in the commercial gain they
sought out Of it for their private purses
King kalckaua and Queen Liliuokalani are
TO be justly charged with a deliberate at
tempt TO destroy the lives OF their people
The speedy extinction which three tens
That people may be traced largely to the
use OF these poisons. Liquor was the first
potent poison 10 be piled. and then orium
was added to it Not only were the avs
made such that liquor could be easily OBJ
talnable. but such men were kept in of5ce
that opium might come in also, for the
lraoe was profitable to the royal purse. and
on eiecuon days IL was customary TO fur
nlsh liquor to all who voted the royal ticket
W Risky helped the royalist fight his battle az
the polls. and whisky was but a part Of the
Drlbe with which these rulers carried the day
II this traffic in rum and opium we've 70 -
countenanced. encouraged and continued for
announcer twenty years. ss AZ has been for the
twenty Years Just past. the native Hawaiian
on As~
what Would Follow n Monarchy.
Let this wicked rule which was repre-
scented by Kalakaua and his sister. cortin-
ue TO hold the ground for but half the
time 1t has already held il, and the native
Hawaiian Christianity would be all but
dead. for then the generation now coming
up for its reinforcement would be SO ire
! corrupted as to be hardly convertible Even
now the pastors In the field are CRYING out
that the hearts of the people have been so
embittered and alienated as to make f. all
but impossible to reach them. This is what
rum and opium and heathenism has cone
/ under support from the throne. This Is
what bribery and party strife and the TO-
mentlng OF race feeling have done under
the lead of the throne.
The corrupt pagan and heather influence
of the courts of kalakaua and OF Liliuoka-
lani have reached so deeply into the life OF
I that people that its recovery must be slow.
Not only has there been a deliberate at
| tempt to corrupt the church. there has also
been a deliberate and often achieved at
civil and social life of the people has felt
the hurt of this ungodly, wicked court. and
IL there is anything the Hawaiian people
should thank God for IT is for its fnal utter
| overthrow.
Why the White Men Fought.
Had it continued the distillery and opium
laws that We're passed by IL would have
continued. Had IL continued the Louisiana
lottery would have become another factor
of ruin. When it at last was added 10 all
the other iniquities the white man felt that
| he must fight. and when finally, after all
this. as If it were not enough. there WIS .
move TO take away from the white man
his vote. leave him helpless In the hands OF
a wicked court that was not only pagan
and immoral I'm its influence. but actually
I heather and anti-ChriStian, then the white
man felt that he must fight, and he did
/ fight, and has won a victory that every
civilized people must applaud IL was q
victory won not only for that picturesque.
beautiful, monumental outpost or civiliza-
| ton, but also for you
Thus / submit that though during tne
3 last twenty years the Hawaiian CHRIS
4 tianity so far at least the native Ha-
waian churches are concerned, has, be-
cause of a corrupt. heather rule. been she'd
I ding tears by its fertile river sides ana
has hanged its harp upon the WILLOWS the
experience has been helpful one The
good native Christians out there VIII never
sSain want to go back TO that hateful
| idolatry.
No King or Queen Can Ever Again
No king or queen will ever again be able
! TO beguile them into IL. They have come by
their sad experience TO be above the cor
ruption of a pagan court Verify, believe
that the best OF them viii never cry to God
again for a king or for a queen. for they
have been fairly weaned from such rule.
Nor will they be content with anything
that is likely TO stand as a menace 70 their
earnest purpose after a purer Christian life-
| But though that Hawaiian Christianity
has been divorced. as we may believe. nom
any further liking for pagan ana heathen
| WAYS; though there as in Israel 50 long
he LII Nm has hfapD cd