The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-08-10

country? There is no one to follow me.
Queen Emma do not trust, Lunalilo
Is a drunkard and Kalakaua Is a 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 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 tho islands it would have been q
midnight of cruelty and abomination.
The Annexation Question.
But the missionaries came, and in
eight years ~, 900 people gathered into
the churches and 30, 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 aunexationists, 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 a ma
ton is not gigantic is no more reason
why it should not have self control
than maa 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 30 hungry FOR more land that it
needs to be fed ON few chunks of is
land brought from l, 800 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 smithereens such foreign
impertinenee. Besides that, if we be-
come as nation great maritime pow
en- and we will, none of the islands of
the Pacific would decline us sheltering
harbor or 81 pply 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 arc venerable islands Those
who can translate the language of rocks
and the language of human bones say that
these islands have been inhabited /, 400
years 1t lest When found in 1878,
they were old places of human habita-
ton. The aost unique illustration in
all the world of what pure and simple
Christianitv can do is here. Before the
supornatteal force began infanticide
was collnlol, and not by milder forms
of assassination, but buried alive. De-
mentcd people were murdered; old peo-
pie we're allowed to die Of neglect.
Polyga,ay in its wort form reigned,
and it was as easy for a man to throw
away his wife as to pitch an apple core
into tho sea. Superstition blackened the
earth aud tho heavens.
Christianity found the Sandwich Is
lands he'll and turned them into a
scmiheaven AS in all the other regions
where Christianity triumphed, it was
maligncd by those who came from other
lands to preach their iniquities. Loose
foreigners were fingered because they
we're Lindered in their dissoluteness by
Q, new element they had never before
confronted
tThare is Honolulu" cried many
voices this morning from the deck OF
the Alameda. These islands, called by
many an archipelago, I 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 floralized, the orcharded, the forest
ed, the picturesque Hawaiian Islands
They came in upon us as much as we
came in upon them in the morning.
Captain Cook no more discovered them
| in ITS than we discovered them today.
He saw them for the first time for him
self, and we see them for the first time
this morning for ourselves. More fortu.
nate arc we than Captain Cook. He
looked out upon them from a filthy boat
and wound up his experiences by fur.
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of a savages breakfast. We from g
graceful ship alight amid heritage and
arborescence and shall depart with the
good wishes and prayers from all the
islanders.
| High Official Courtesies.
As you approach the barbor there il
in sight long line Of surf, rolling ovel
reefs of coral. High mountains, hurri
cane cleft and lightning split, but theil
wounds bandaged with the green o.
perennial foliage. In few minute!
after landing chamberlain Of the
queen called to invite us to her mansion
and Chief Justice Judd called with {
delegation to ask mo to preach thai
afternoon. accepted the invitation
brought by the chamberlain and wa
beautifully entertained by the queen
With President Dole of the provisional
government and Chief Justice Judd
went to the executive buildings, which
were formerly the palace.
The council of the president were al
ready assembled in what was original,
the thronerooE, and taking the chat
on the platform he called for order ant