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

Aside from the commercial and political
considerations which have been discussed
In connection with the Hawaiian distu:-
bance. there Is one phase of the imbroglio
that has received much less attention than
* deserves. Ex-Minister Stevens touched
upon it when he said that "all that
American piety, American benevolence,
American schools and American patriotism
have accomplished in Hawaii in the past
seventy years are now centralized in the
provisional government, and stand in it's
support 1t is a government honestly and
ably administered, and the best govern
ment that Hawaii ever had 1t is just
such a government as might have been ex-
pected Of men whose intelligence and moral
strength are a direct result of the Christian
izinS influences set in motion and sustained
by the religious liberality of American phil
anthrepists. Missionary effort alone has
brought a considerable proportion of the
Hawaiian population out of the darkness of
heathendom into the sunlight of civiliza-
ton. Missionary teaching gave to the best
native elements the yirtuous and self-re-
specting sense that rebelled against Liliuo-
kalanfs RIGHTEOUSNESS and tyranny. Mis-
sionary energy set the example by which
50 many Of the missionary-educated
kanakas achieved business success And
now it is not merely proposed. but DELHI
Rrately planned by the government of the
United States that all the good done in
many years of earnest Christian endeavor
shall be shocked even to possible destruc-
lion; that the vicious and lawless are to be
set up on high and that honesty is to suffer
humiliation and venomous persecution.
That the conspiracy against the good gov
rnmcnt of Hawaii may be frustrated is
xba
cans. With Liliuokalani or any other can
can monarch on a throne at Honolulu
there would be no peace for those who have
undertaken to give a good government to
the Islands. and as these men-native and
American-own most of the property and
control nine-tenths of the commerce they
need no excuse for offering forcible resist
ance either to the official piracy that seems
TO have been ordered by our national ad-
ministration, or to the expiring effort of
thoroughly disreputable aggregation of
swindlers headed ostensibly by the dis
credited woman whom our government has
endorsed. Bishop John P. Newman of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, visited Hawaii
In his Official capacity shortly before the
dethronement Of Liliuokalani He is Salts
fed that the people of the islands will not
permit President Cleveland to restore the
monarchy. He says that at the time of his
visit the people were ripe for indepen-
dence," and that the leaders of the revo-
luton were the cream of the intelligence
and dignity of its residents" Bishop New
man declared in the interview-printed re-
Gently in The Star, that but for American
influences the islands would now be in a
state Of mental and moral decadence: a
conclusion easily and naturally reached by
any one who has studied Hawaiian tenden-
cies, and watched the degrading efforts of
the so-called monarchy. The testimony on
this point Of Correspondent Nordhoff him
Self, given disinterestedly, before his serv-
Ices were ordered by the New York Herald
In behalf Of the opponents of the missionar-
les, n prir ted elsewhere in The Star. This
testimony, like that of Mark Twain, who
Is not to be suspected of any ELUSIVE adj
miration for missionaries in the abstract.
Is heartily and unreservedly in their favor.
But all these facts ard this reasoning are
not taken into account by those who would
inject partisan considerations into our for
eign policy. A blow is dealt both to
Christianity and patriotism, century of
soul-saving and educative effort is rebuked
by force of arms; American religious senti-
ment Is contemptuously disregarded and
the feminine vulgarity who blasphemously
terms herself ''the Lords Amounted" is
encouraged to resume her corrupt and de-
grading rule. And it is all done by the
PRESIDENT of a nineteenth century republic,