Democratic messenger., 1894-08-04

ing of all those from the ships deck
who did not expect TO accompany us.
The whistle blew for looscning from
the wharf. and the screw began to
whirl, and the ship moved out toward
the Golden Gate.
The Pacific ocean met us with waves
high enough TO send many to their bcrths
and to arouse in the rest of us the ques-
tion why so rough a sea should be called
the Pacific. And for two days the roll.
the jerk, the rise, the fall, the lungc, the
and hid from sight the majority of the
passengers. But after the third day the
ocean and the ship ceased their wres-
tling, 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 disagrecablcs on board
enough passengers to avoid loneliness.
not SO many rs to be crowded What
difference between a 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 i'll 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. II 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 Kame-
hameha, the third king of the Sand
wich 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 i do not trust, Lunalilo
is Il drunkard and kalakaua is fool. 1"
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 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 disgusting idolatry. and
in all the islands it would have been u
midnight of cruelty and abomination.
The Anncxatio Question.
But the missionaries came. and in
eight years IL. 900 people gathered into
the churches and GO, 900 children into
schools proposing Christian civilization.
which now holds a 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 republic by itself.
of which the present government is an
antepast. The Hawaiian nation is strong
enough to stand alone. Because 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. II God had
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 he fed on u few chunks of is
land brought from /, 500 miles away.
No danger that some other foreign ma
ton shall take possession of the islands
and give us 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 smithcreens such foreign
impcrtincnce Besides that, if We be-
come rs nation great maritime pow
er, and we will, none of the islands of
the Pacific would decline us sheltering
harbor OF supply for our ships. What
though they belonged to other nations,
they would sell us all we want. 1t is
not necessary To own u store in order
to purchase goods from it,
Hawaiian Progress.
These are venerable islands. Those
who can translate the language of rocks
andthe language of human bones say that
these islands have been inhabited /, 400
years at least When found III 1878,
they were old places of human habita-
tion. The most unique illustration in
all the world of what pure and simple
Christianity can do is here. Before the