Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-08-03

The whistle blew for loosening 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 berths
and to arouse in the rest Of US the ques-
ton why so rough a 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 a longer walk upon Pa
cifc 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 ta-
bic containing all the luxuries that can
allure a 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 a man have no
expectations for these gems Of tho Pa
cific except that which comes from
human legislation, 1 would think he
would be as despairful as was Kane
hameha, the third king Of the Sand
wich Islands, when on his dying bed he
said: "What is 10 become Of my poor
country? There is no one to follow NE.
Queen Emma 1 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 moequi-
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 a disgusting idolatry, and
in all the islands it would have been o
midnight Of cruelty and abomination
The Annexation Question.
But the missionaries came, and in
eight years 12, 900 people gathered into
the churches and &c, 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 ma
ton is not gigantic is no moro reason
why it should not haze self control
than a 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 1t
hundreds Of miles nearer our American
coast The United States government
is not so hungry for more land that II
needs to be fed on few chunks OF is
land brought from l,S00 miles away
No danger that some other foreign ma
ton shall take possession Of the islands
and give us trouble when we want 70
run into Honolulu for the coaling anc
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, II we be-
come as a nation a great maritime pow
er, and we will, none Of the islands OF
the Pacific would decline us shelterlng
harbor or supply for our ships. What
though they belonged to other nations
they would sell us all we want IL If
not necessary to own a store IN order
to purchase goods from 1t.
Hawaiian Progress.
These are venerable islands Those
who can translate the language OF rocks
andthe language Of human bones say tnAi
these islands have been inhabited J., 4OO
years at least. When found IN l77S'
they were old places Of human habita'
ton. The most unique illustration IN
all the world Of what pure and simple
Christianity can do is here. Before the
supernatural force began infantioide
was common, and not by milder forms
Of assassination, but buried alive DO
mented people were murdered; old peo'
pie were allowed to die OF neglect
Polygamy in its worst form reigned,
and 1t was as easy for man 70 tnro"
away his wife as to pitch an apple core
into the sea Superstition blackened tn'
earth and the haavens
Christianity found the Sandwich Is
lands q hell and turned them into
! .o,othaavan Aa in all the other regions