The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-08-27

ship brought them the mosquitoes. The
foreign sailors brought them the lep-
rosy. American politics brought them
the devil Had il not been for the
gospel those Islands would have been
putting to death women for eating
bananas when forbidden to do 80, 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 $1,000 people gathered into
the churches and $4,000 children into
schools proposing Christian civilization,
which now holds a beautiful supremacy
over the Sandwich Islands. There are
two great parties in the Hawaiian
lslandS-royalists, who want the Queer,
and anneXationists, who want to come
under our eagles wing.
Neither of them will triumph. The
final result will be IA republic by itself,
of which the present Government is an
antelope. The Hawaiian nation is
strong enough to stand alone. Because
a nation is not gigantic is no more rea-
son 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 be-
long to the United States, he would
have planted it hundreds of miles
nearer our American coast. TheUnited
States Government is not so hungry for
more land that it needs to be fed on a
few chunks of island brought from
1900 miles away.
No danger that some other foreign
nation shall take possession of the
islands and give us trouble when we
want to run into Honolulu for the coal
ing and watering of our ships. With
some ironsides from our new navy and
the aid of our friends on the Islands we
would knock into smithereens such for
eign impertlnence. Besides that, if we
become as a nation a great maritime
power, and we will. none of the islands
of the Pacific would decline us shelter.
ing 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 the
rocks and the language OF human bones
say that these islands have been inhab-
tied 400 years at least. When found in
l77S, they were old pieces of human
habitation. The most unique illustra-
ton in all the world of what pure and
simple Christianity can do is here. Be
fore the supernatural force began in
fanticide was common, and not by
milder forms of assassination, but
buried alive. Demented people were
murdered, old people were allowed to
die OF neglect. Polygamy in its worst
form reigned, and it was as easy for a
man to throw away his wife as to pitch an
apple core into the sea. Superstition
blackened the earth and the heavens
Christianity found the Islands he'll
and turned them into semiheaven
As in all the other regions where Christ.
ianity triumphed, it was maligned by
those who came from other lands tc
preach their iniquities. Loose foreign
ers were angered because they were
hindered in their dissoluteness by new
element they had never before con-
fronted.
"There is Honolulu" cried many
voices this morning from the deck of
the Alameda. These islands, called by
many an archipelago, l call them the
Constellation OF the Pacific, for they
seem not so much to have grown up as
alighted from the heavens. The bright
the redolent, the outrageous, the floral
lied, the orcharded, the forested, the
picturesque Hawaiian Islands. They
came in upon us as much as we came in
upon them in the morning. Captain
Cooke no more discovered them in 177s
than We discovered them to-day. He
saw them for the first time for himself
and we see them for the first time this
morning for ourselves. More fortunate
are we than Captain Cooke. He lookt d
out upon them from a filthy boat and
wound up his experiences by furnishing
his body as the chops and steaks of q
savage's bro akfast. We, from a grace.
full ship, alight amid heritage and arbor.
escence and shall depart with the good
wishes and prayers from all the islanders
HIGH OFFICIAL CoURTEsIEs.
As you approach the harbor there is
in sight long line of surf roofing ovel
reefs of coral. High mountains, hurri
cane-cleft and lightning-split, but theil
wounds bandaged with the green of per.
ennial foliage. In a few minutes after
landing, a chamberlain of the Queen
called to invite us to her mansion, and
Chief Justice Judd called with delega
ton to ask me to preach that afternoon
l accepted the invitation brought by the
chamberlain and was beautifully enter
tanned by the Queen. With President
Dole of the Provisional Government and
Chief Justice Judd / went to the execu.
tive buildings, which were formerly the
Palace: The Council of the President
were already assembled in what was
originally the throne room, and taking
the chair on the platform he called fol
order and then rose, and all the Coun.
cillors arose with him, saying, as neal
as can remember; 80 Lord God OF
nations, we ask thy direction in the