Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-16
The Administration Wars Upon Re-
ligion and Good Government.
AIDING A DISREPUTABLE GANG.
Testimony Of Charles Nordhoff and
"Mark Twain"
ABOUT THE MISSIONARIES.

| There is nothing more remarkable IN the
extraordinary policy Of the administration
In its support of a rotten monarchy In Ha-
wan than its attitude of hostility TO the
predominating American interests In the
islands. and TO the grand missionary ele-
ment that has built UP these interests and
established all there is i'm Hawaii of re-
ligion, education. morality, good govern
ment. good laws, and good society. At the
same time that our government has given
the cold shoulder to the missionary PARTY
IL mas afnliated with the lawless gang of
ahens, the gamblers, the lobbyists, the
| lottery promoters. the coolie runners. the
| opium smugglers, the hula dance pimns
and the whole unwholesome crowd. the
onscour1ngs of the earth gathered at Homo
lulu, and who are missionary haters be-
cause the missionaries have stood in the
way of their schemes of immoral money!
making. To this gang Paramount Minister
blount seems TO have applied at Honolulu
Tor information in regard to the situation
there
one of the most loud-mouthed of the mis-
sionary haters, who bears the sonorous title
OF Caesar Celso Moreno, seems TO have
secured me ear of the Secretary OF State:
ana the New York Herald. in its zeal in be-
half or its latest sensational fad, the
restoring of deposed opera bouffe queen
w sLNes Ine use OF Its columns to Moreno for
tne most atrocious villification of the mis-
sionaries. Here is one Of the latest of
| Herald:
"Due TO the Mfssionarfes.-
Probably the happiest man i'm WASHING
ton over the Presidents action in the Ha-
/ waiian matter is Senor Celso Caesar Mo-
reno. Senor Moreno has ardently espoused
the cause of Queen Liliuokalani. From the
ilrst day the sensational tidings of her
| overthrow were received here he has heen
IN close correspondence with the members
oi the queens former cabinet and proba-
| ply knows as much about the incident
Wnlch brought about the queens overthrow
a any man now in Washington outside
OF the President and his cabinet
All of Hawaifs troubles" said Nr No.
reno. rs Que to the missionaries and their
aescendants now residing in that country.
Ihey nave been the disturbing element for
years. The great majority of them or. =,
American birth. but seeing the adyantaees
| TO be gained by becoming Hawaiian citi-
lens, they quickly took out natura liza tIon
| papers. They Identified themseIyes WIFI
trade and commerce and also t.ecama
| prominent in politics
s,oaaI hing kalakaua often said that the mis-
sloharles were at the bottom of the troubles
IN ms kingdom. 1 told him that he ought
10 get nd of them or they would eyentnailv
uesu9y 1t ooth his government and peo-
PIE. 1 also expressed myself freely TO the
queen on this subject. They replied thai
such thing would never hanran I,,, a.
There was a revolution in Hawaii r,.
missionaries bribed ex-Minister Stevens 70
| help tnem by calling the marines on shors
ana 10 ald them in deposing the queen. This
! hiI ho" 10 oe fact through correspondence
which L have conducted with tbe ,o,,a'.',
ca binet. VA Nef iorner
| VINO the Missionaries Are.
NO" II the Herald had a longer menorv
"ouiu De aware OF the fact that no
ser testimony TO the high character OF
the Missionaries and the great valna =,
their work in the Sandwich Ts,.ras %
ever been given than that wrt,tan s,,
Charies Nordhoff. whose discradi,ahIa r,t-
,''iL sron IL now Is. by order of the Herald Ia
enaeaVor TO undo the noble worl, OF thoss
same missionaries. " Nose
Nordhon-s Trtbute I'm a.. >.,
mere Is what Charles Nordhofr saws abou,
the missionaries in his book ON Hou,aU
Honolulu, being the capital Of the pt,.-
oom, contains the government Offices ana
you VIII perhaps be surprised as 1 was to
hnu an excellent public hospital a reform
school and other proper and well managed
charities. As you ride about the suburbs
OF Honolulu, and later as you travel about
the islands, more and more You will be
impressed with feeling of respect and ad-
mlratlon Tor the missionaries. Whatever
or material prosperity has grown up here
Is built on their work. and could not have
existed but for their preceding labors; and
You see in the spirit Of the people, in their
often quaint habits. in their universal edu-
cation. in all that makes these islands pc
cullar and what they are. the marks of
the Puritans who came here but fifty years
ago to civflize savage nation. and have
done their work so thoroughly that, even
| though the Hawaiian people become ex-
tinct il would require a century to OBJ
lterate the way-marks of that handful of
determined New England men and women.
Their patient and effective labors seem
to me. now that have seen the results. TO
have been singularly undervalued at home.
No intelligent American can visit the is
lands and remain there even a month with
out feeling proud that the civilization which
has here been created in so marvelously
short time was the work of his country
men and women: and IL YOU make the ac-
quaintance of the older missionary fami-
lies, you will not leave them without deep
personal esteem for their characters. as
well as admiration Of their work They
did not only form written language Ior
the Hawaiian race and painfully write Tor
| them school books. a dictionary. and a
translation OF the Scriptures and OF hymn
book: they did not merely gather tne people
| in churches and their children into schools:
but they guided the race, slowly and with
| immense difficulty. toward Christian CIV
ilization; and though the Hawaiian Is no
more a perfect Christian than the New YORK
| er or Massachusetts man. and tnouen tnere
are still traces of old customs and super,
stitions. these missionaries have eradcateo
| the grosser crimes of murder and theft 80
| coupletely that even in Honolulu people
leave their houses open all day ana un-
locked all night without thought or tneln; t:
and there Is not a country in the world
where the stranger may travel in such apso-
mte safety as in these islands
| In 1890 the first MISSIONARIES ianoe1 on
the shores OF these islands. and Mrs Lucy
I ~ Tburston one of those who came IN
! tho, YEAR still lives a bright, active old
lady, with a shrewd wit OF her own. Ihlr,y
three years afterward- in 1893, the Amen-
| can BOARD of Missions determined that the
| ..Sandwich Islands, having been Chr1stian-
| ized shall no longer receive aid from tne
board. and in this year, 1873. the natives OF
| these islands are, there is every reason 10
| believe, the most generally educated peo-
| nIe I'm the world. There is scarcely
| Havaiian-man, woman OF child-of SUIT
able age but can both read and write. All
the towns ard many country locanues
/ possess substantial stone or, more o1teh'
! framed churches OF the oldest New Eng
I gland pattern: and compulsory education
law draws every child into school, while
special tax of 50 on every voter. and an
/ additional general tax, provides schools ana
| teachers for all the children and youth.
| Nor was exile from their homes and KIN