The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-03-19

| IuS COuIlIIudGlOH VI S0udGOT
Morgan's report on the Hawaiian
question appears below. 1t will
be finished tomorrow morning:
Civilization and constitutional gov
! ernment in Hawaii are the foster
| children of the American Christian
missionaries. 1t can not be justly
| charged to the men and women who
| inaugurated this era of humanity,
| light and justice in these islands that
either they or their posterity or their
| followers, whether native or foreign,
| have faltered in their devotion to their
exalted purposes. They have not
pursued any devious course in their
conduct, nor have they done any
| wrong or harm to the Hawaiian peo-
pie or their native rulers. They have
not betrayed any trust cOnfided to
| them, nor have they encouraged any
vice or pandered to any degrading
sentiment or practice among those
people. Among the native Hawaiians,
where they found paganism in the
most abhorrent forms of idolatry,
debauchery, disease, ignorance and
cruelty seventy-five years ago, they
planted and established, with the free
consent and eager encouragement of
those natives and without the she'd
ding of blood, the Christian ordinance
of marriage, supplanting polygamy; a
reverance for the character of women
and respect for their rights; the
Christian Sabbath and freedom of
religious faith and worship, as foun-
dations of society and of the state;
universal education, including the
kings and the peasantry; temperance
in place of the orgies of drunkenness
that were al1-pervading; and the sep
arate holdings of lands upon which
the people built their homes. In do
ing these benevolent works the Amer
lean missionary did not attempt to
assume the powers and functions of
political government. As education,
enlightenment, and the evident bene-
fits of civilization revealed to those IN
authority the necessity of wise and
faithful counsels in building up and
regulating the government to meet
those new conditions, the kings in
vited some of the best qualified and
most trusted of these worthy men to
aid them in developing and conduct
ing the civil government. AS predi-
cate for this work they freely consent
ed to and even suggested the giving
up of some of their absolute powers
and to place others under the con-
strainU of constitutional limitations.
They created an advisory council and
a legislature and converted Hawaii
from an absolute despotism into a
land Of law. The cabinet ministers
thus chosen from the missionary
element We're retained in office dur
ing very long periods, thus estab-
fishing the confidence OF the kings
and the people in their integrity,
wisdom and loyalty to the Govern
ment. No charge or detection or dis
honesty was ever made against any of
these public servants during the reign
of the Kamehamehas, nor indeed at
any time. They acquired property in
moderate values by honest means,
and labored to exhibit to the people
the advantages of industry, frugality,
economy and thrift.
The progressive elevation of the
country aud OF the people from the
very depravity of paganisu into an
enlightened and educated common
wealth and the growth Of their indus
tries and wealth will be seen at
q glance in the statements of the most
important events and in the tables
showing the most important results |
of their work and influence, which |
are set forth in the evidence accom-
panying this report This array of un- |
disputed facts shows that, with Chris |
tianity and education as the basis, |
there has come over Hawaii the most |
rapid and successful improvement in |
political, industrial and commercial |
that has marked the course
of any people in Christendom.
In the message OF President Tyler to |
Congress he SAYS:
"The condition OF those islands has
excited a good deal of interest, which
is increasing by every successive proof
that their Inhabitants are making
progress i'll civilization and becoming
more and more competent to maintain
regular and orderly government.
They lie in the Pacific Ocean, much
nearer 10 this continent than thr other,
and have become an important place
Tor ths reftment and provisioning OF
American and European vessels.
lowing to their locality and to the |
course of the winds which prevail in
his quarter OF the world the Sandwich
Islands are the stopping place for al
most all vessels passing from con-
inent to continent across the Pacific
Ocean. They are especially resorted
o by the great numbers of vessels Of