The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-08-03

KILAUEA.
ing Of all those from the ships decl
who did not expect to accompany us.
The whistle blew for loosening from
the wharf, and the screw began tC
whirl, and the ship moved out toward
the Golden Gate.
The Pacific ocean met us with waves
high enough to send many to their berths
and to arouse in the rest of us the ques-
ton why SO rough sea should be called
the Pacific. And for two days the roll,
the jerk, the rise, the fall, the lunge, the
tremor, the quake, spoiled the appetite
and hid from sight the majority of the
passengers. But after the third day the
ocean and the ship ceased their wres-
Ting, and peace smoothed the waves
and hushed the winds, for the same
Lord who took short walk upon rough
Galilee takes longer walk upon Pa
cific seas.
Different from most voyages, there
seemed no disagreeables on board
enough passengers to avoid loneliness,
not SO many as to be crowded. What
difference between a sea voyage now,
with all comforts afforded and the ia
BILE containing all the Injuries that can
allure weak appetite, and those days
when the missionaries crossed to Hon.
olulu in vessels greasy and rude and
with food rancid or stale and with
sail full of whims, now full curbed, and
now limp and idle!
Politics has never done much for the
Sandwich Islands. If man have no
expectations for these gems of the Pa
oifio except that which comes from
human legislation, l would think he
would be as despairful as was Kane
hameha, the third king of the Sand
witch Islands, when on his dying bed he
said: "What is to become of my poor
country? There is no one to follow me.
Queen Emma l do not trust, Lunalilo
is drunkard and Kalakaua is fool. ,"
All that has been done for the Ha-
waiian Islands has been done by our
gracious God and the missionaries A
foreign ship brought them the mosqui-
toes. The foreign sailors brought them
the leprosy. American politics brought
them the d il. Had it not been for
thO SOopCl l4IOSO AS1dDNlS NOu4u udNO
been putting to death women for eating
bananas when forbidden to do so and
bowling to disgusting idolatry, and
in all the islands it would have been a
midnight of cruelty and abomination.
The Annexation Question.
But the missionaries came, and in
eight years IL, 900 people gathered into
the churches and 26, 900 children into
schools proposing Christian civilization,
which now holds beautiful supremacy
over the Sandwich Islands. There are
two great parties in the Hawaiian Is
lands-royalists, who want the queen,
and annexationists, who want to come
under our eagles wing.
Neither of them will triumph. The
final result will be a republic by itself,
of which the present government is an
antepast. The Hawaiian nation is strong
enough to stand alone. Because a ma
ton is not gigantic is no more reason
why it should not have self control
than man with limited resources of
physical or financial strength should
be denied independence If God had
intended Honolulu to belong to the
United States, he would have planted it
hundreds of miles nearer our American
coast. The United States government
is not so hungry for more land that it
needs to be fed on a few chunks of is
land brought from 1900 miles away.
No danger that some other foreign ma
ton shall take possession of the islands !
and give rs trouble when we want to |
run into Honolulu for the coaling and |
watering Of our ships. With some iron
sides from our new navy and the aid of |
our friends on the islands we would |
knock into smithereens such foreign |
impertinence. Besides that, if we be- |
come as a nation great maritime pow
CT, and we will, none of the islands of |
the Pacific would decline us sheltering |
harbor or supply for our ships. What |
though they belonged to other nations |
they would sell us all we want 1t is
not necessary to own a store in order /
to purchase goods from it
Hawaiian Progress.
These are venerable islands. Those
who can translate the language Of rocks
andthe languageof human bones saythat
these islands have been inhabited /, 400
years at least When found in 1878.
they were old places of human habita-
don. The most unique illustration in
all the world of what pure and simple
Christianity can do is hare- Before the