The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-09-26
I" Missionary Children"
EDITOR BULIETIN.--

EDITOR BULLErIN:-
In recent number of the New
York Herald, that eminent writer,
Chas. NordhoG, devotes several
pages to the attitude and character
istics of the missionaries who landed
here since 1920, and who are at pre-
sent thrusting themselves into
prominence before the world.
The Bible, which the early mis-
sionary had, taught that "The earth
is the Lords and the fullness there
Of" But the latest political bible
of the "missionary children" states
that seven-eighths of the land be-
long to the annexationists, of whom
the missionary children, being the
financial head and front, control and
engineer generally, and that they
own the "fullness thereof in gold
coin, mortgages and other kinds of
solid filthy lucre is undeniable.
Much could be said of the unset
fish character of the early mission
aries, but they found a field profit
able and easy to work in a double
sense. They found people with
out religion and their toll was
easy. They found people generous
and trusting, with an ardent enthusi-
asm for the higher ideal of life and
manhood. There was a free inter
change of ideas about heaven and
earth, and as the years rolled by the
unselfishness and trust of the Ha-
waiian were seen in his foolishly pre-
senting his new found friends with
land, until the Hawaiian can now
see, when it is rather late, that he
has been largely the victim of
misplaced confidence during the
religious fervor of several years ago;
and had his fathers looked less into
space for heaven, and more stead
tasty to the solid earth, they would
not to-day be tainted by the hire
ling scribes of the missionary chill
dren, that they-the natives own
but little land in their own country.
There is no doubt that the lesson
taught by the enterprising children
of the American missionary in Ha-
wall will have a salutary effect in
warning small independent nations
similarly situated.
The mode by which the simple
guileless Hawaiian found himself,
hemmed in by imported legal and
social conditions tending to improve
IRISH and degrade him, is an object
lesson on missionaries" for the
world. Notwithstanding all the
generosity of the native people, by
which Hawaii became such fnan-
cially fruitful missionary field, the
missionary children seem to delight
in the refinement of cruelty towards
the Hawaiian. Not content with
flooding the country with arms and
every destructive implement of war
and the armed parading, as on re-
cent occasions of the children of a
UNCONVENTIONAL college, they taunt
the natives with being unarmed, and
unable to do anything but listen to
missionary war talk.
These missionary children are
leaving nothing undone that mean
ness could devise to stir up national
animosity-long unknown in this
country. They have hired venomed
pens dipped in bitterest gall driven
by would-be desperadoes whose
glory is to exhibit the lowest in
stincts of human barbarity in which
neither sex, age, nor station is sacred
from the jibes of vulgar cowardice.
Such are the tools employed by the
; missionary children who travel so
largely on their piety and powder
just now, and of such is the king
dom of their heaven.
Is it any wonder that the "abori-
gines," having fairly sampled the
latest edition Of shotgun mission
airy, should "fall from grace"
That there may be no hereafter,
should be "consummation devout-
ly to be wished" for the missionary
scion who crowded out the native
with degrading labor, and by SO do
ing rooted the degrading vice OF
polyandry-2O Chinese males to one
female-all over the islands, besides
, few other venial sins such as rob
bling laborers, ETC., for which sack
cloth and coarse ashes-well rubbed
in-should command full rates in
The missionary child of Hawaii
wants a monopoly of everything in
sight where there is dollar to be
made. In the field Of grab they
could not be duplicated anywhere
on earth, but when they cried fol
: the whole Hawaiian earth and PEG
pie they just overreached themselve:
for once. The Hawaiian missionary
child recognizes certain "pious'
vices, foremost of which stands the
sale of a glass of beer or pocket O.
cornstarch on the sawbath; but the
violation of every command in the
decalogue can be legalised into +;
peculiarly holy vice, when the lofty
purpose is to add quarter sheke
to his corporation dividend.
That there are few noble excep
tions to this general Indictment goe!
without saying. Make AUPUNI.