Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-16

safe; so debauched in their common con-
sersation that the earlier missionaries were
obliged for years rigidly to forbid their own
children not only from acquaintance with
the natives among whom they lived, but
even from learning the native language
because to hear only the passing speech OF
their neighbor was to suffer the grossest
contamination
tary and academic, where you will see the
young Hawaiian at his studies and learn
TO appreciate the industry and thorough
ness with which education is carried on
all over these islands. What strikes you,
when you have found your way into Homo
lulu society and looked around is a GER
tam sensible moderation and simplicity
which Is in part, / suspect, a remainder of
the old missionary influence; there is a
certain amount of formality, which is ne
cessary to keep society from deteriorating,
put there Is no striving after effect; there
are, SO FAR as a stranger discovers, no
petty cliques or cabals or coteries, and
there is very high average of intelli-
gence; they care about the best things.
Finally. society in Honolulu is respecta-
Die IL is fashionable to be virtuous, and
II You were fast" 1 think you would con-
ceaI It. L do not know, in short, where
else In the world you would ind so kind
~, so gracefully hospitable, and at the
same time. SO simple and enjoyable a So
cfety as that OF Honolulu.
The native population is admirably cared
Tor by the authorities. The islands are di-
siucu, lOT VARIOUS governmental PURPOSES
into districts, and in every district where
the people are so much scattered the gov
eminent places physician-a man of skill
ana character. Attendance at school is /
suspect, more general here than in any
other country in the world Under this
system there Is scarcely a Hawaiian of
proper age who cannot both read and write
IN tnese Islands a state. society has
Deen created within quarter of a century,
and IL has been very ably done. i am glad
tnat IL has been done mainly BY Americans
Iney We're the organizers who supplemented
tne iabors OF the missionaries. and. fortu-
nateiy Tor the native people, they were men
OF honor, of self-restraint of goodness of
heart What they have done would have
given them fame had IL not been done 2 900
miles from the nearest continent and at
are made
What there is happy about the natives
HE ne owes to the fine climate and the
missionaries
Is as complete as the commercial In the
present cabinet all the ministers except one
are Americans. This was true also of the
cabinet OF the late king. OF the supreme
court two of the judges are Americans and
one Is German Almost all the executive
and administrative offices are in the hands
OF Americans or Hawaiians
Nor can any foreign power rightly find
iauit with this state of things. What the
Islands are they are because of American
enort. American enterprise, American capi-
tai American missionaries civilized them
americans gave them laws wisely adapted
10 the customs and habits of their people /.
American enterprise and Boston capital
established the sugar culture and other of
the important industries"
SHARK Twain" Upon the Missionaries.
Mark Twain who cannot be charged
with any undue reverence for missionaries
has the following hearty testimony to their
good work in the Sandwich Islands, in
describing his visit there:
Those were savage times when this
old slaughter house was in its prime. The
king and the chiefs ruled the common herd
with rod Of iron; made them gather all
the provisions the masters needed build all
the houses and temples; stand all the ex-
penses. of whatever kind; take kicks and
cuffs for thanks; drag out lives well favored
with misery. and then suffer death for tri-
Hing ofenses, o. yield up their lives on the
sacr1tcial affairs to purchase favors from
the gods TO- their hard rulers. The mis-
sionaries have clothed them, educated Them
broken up the tyrannous authority of their
chiefs and given them freedom and the
right to enjoy whatever their hands and
brains produce, with equal laws for all and
punishment TO- all alike who transgress
them The contrast is so strong-the benefit
conferred upon this people by the mission
unquestionable-that the frankest compli-
ment can pay them. and the best, is sim
ply to point to the condition of the Sand
witch Islanders of Capt. Cooks time and
their condition today. Their work speaks
for itself"