Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-02

KILAUEA
ne Oh all those from the ships deck
Elio lid not expect to accompany us.
The whistle blew for loosening from
he wharf, and the screw began to
whirl and the ship moved out toward
.he 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-
don why SO rough sea should be called
the Pacific. And for two days the roll
the jerlI the rise, the fall, the lunge, the
trenor, 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 a 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 sea voyage now,
with all comforts afforded and the ia
BILE containing all the luxuries 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
cific except that which comes from
human legislation, | would think he
would be as despairful as was Kane
witch Islands, when on his dying bed he
said: "What is to become Of my poor
country? There il no one to follow me-
Queen Emma l do not trust, Lunalilo
is a 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
thom the devil. Had it not been for
the gospel those islands would have
been putting to death women for eating
Bananas when forbidden to do so and
bowling to a 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 12, 600 people gathered into
the churches and 20, 600 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
entepast. The Hawaiian nation is strong
enough TO stand alone Because ma.
tion 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 II God had
intended Honolulu TO belong TO the
United States, he would have planted it
hhndreds of miles nearer our American
&hast. The United States government
N pot so hungry for more land that 1t
N| eds 10 DE fed on "A few chunks Of is
|&pd brought from !, 500 miles away
~ danger that some other foreign ma
IN shall take possession Of the islands
~ give us trouble when we want 10
~ into Honolulu for the coaling and
Altering Of our ships. With some iron
pc from our new navy and the and of
~ friends on the islands we would
#nck into smithereens such foreign
Mpertinehce Besides that, il We be-
lne as a nation a great maritime pow
aud We Will, none Of the islands Of
~ Pacific would decline us shelterng
rbor on supply for our ships What
ough they belonged 20 other nations,
ICY would sell US all we want II Is
necessary 20 own store IN order
purchase goods from it
Hawaiian Progress,
These are venerable islands Those
ho can translate the Language of rocks
the languageof human bones say thai
ese Islands have been inhabited /, 4OC
fars az least when found ip l776,
~ were old places ~ human habita.
ep' Tho most antique illustration Ia
lhe world " what pure and simple
lsEislianiiy can DO is here, Before tho