The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1893-10-23
Politics and Gospel.
EDITOR BULLETIN:-

The political missionaries of Ha-
waii are Just now spreading them
selves all along the line of populous
centers in the United States, bidding
the American people to come in and
partake of their gospel feast of steal
ing nation, and robbing the child
rem of their patrimony, whom they
we're supposed to cherish and de-
fend. The latest 'laborer" in this
plundering business is Parson Baker
of Hilo, who at latest dates was
holding forth in Chicago on the
same old weary, wornout, thread
bare lies, such as, "Hawaiians have
recently asked for annexation" cha
waii requests Columbia to help her
to secure civilized government" to-
gether with string of scriptural
phrases distorted, and parable, the
honest meaning of which is pervert-
ed from the doctrine of doing as
you would be done by.
have said much lately in illustra-
tion of how the church and the
world have amalgamated, that is, if
we were to take the annexation
political parson as proof; but kind
heaven forbid that the belief should
gain currency among any consider
able number of people, native or
foreign, that Christianity sets up
money bags as Ruler, for nothing is
made more plain than that the mon
opolist who aims to Control" the
avenues of industry and sources of
wealth is not even believer in the
religion that was founded in Judea
some 1900 years ago.
The sort of political Christianity
} which is just now devoting itself to
the salvation of the annexation club
and the resurrection of Pearl harbor,
has Gland boom" and syndicate and
bayonet written all over it, and the
fact that it can engage nearly all the
American parsons of the Hawaiian
Evangelical Society, proves that it
can employ number of politicians
who have jawbone for hire by the
night or month, and as their
churches at Hilo and elsewhere can
spare them for the annexation
stump, it would surely be hard
ship to allow them in future to
waste their holy sweetness and light
on the heathen land, where they
confess to their labors having been
in vain, and syndicate of the peo-
pie might raise the required amount
to buy out their land acquired by
mortgage from the natives, and re-
quest the lot to experiment on the
Sontag and Evans type of heather
nearer home. Too much milk and
honey and fesh-pots, and corner
lots on their hands for higher rates,
are beginning to surfeit the anoint-
ed teacher, and when The whole
army of political preachers throw
themselves into the annexation
breach as "forlorn hope," thei,
unanimity becomes too oppressive
for the aboriginal who desires only
sufficient of his own earth to live on
The political religion of the Hawai-
ian Evangelical Association is ar
ever changing quantity, and if il
must come to question of whether
the native is to chose between its
creed and chaos, it is probable
that he would accept the unknown
as something which could not bt
more intrinsically immoral and un
just than the political parsons lat
tice work of SANDER and robbery.
The curious spectacle is presented
of the press of the United States
calling the Rev. Mr.. Baker and hi
mission by uncomplimentary bu
appropriate names, but that doe
not disconcert Mr.. Baker and hi
tribe in the least.
The moral of it all is, that th'
aggressiveness of the party know
here as missionary" is live reality
and that their cheek is bigger thai
the mammoth, and their efforts t.
own other peoples rights prov
them eminently fitted to dwell oil
the largest of all continents in pre-
ference to these small islands, ant
as for their so-called religious teach
ers-now stumping the United State
the free press of that country ha
shown them up in such light as t.
convince the reader that thes
apostates have not enough moralit
for themselves, and their furthe
influence would only contaminat
any average community of pagans.
MAKEE AupUNI.