The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-02-17

stoned guardian, while he sells sanu-
witches TO respectful young men anu
maidens, and recounts the deafness
fame of the one who lies beneath and
died for his distressing convictions"
A careful investigation of these let
ters reveals the fact that, probably out
of letter number three, the deposed
Queen received, Sin the gloomy re-
cesses of her evil SOUL" the suggestion
for beheading or killing the revolu-
tionists.
In referring to the wickedness of the
revolutionists, Mr.. Davies says In this
letter: "Let me refer to the sentence
pronounced against the Israelites who
violated the treaty which Joshua
had made with the Gibeonites. The
Gibeonites had obtained the treaty by
fraud, and it became very inconven-
lent to the chosen people to keep it,
but they had to learn at terrible cost
what q sacred thing treaty is. (This
may be profitably studied in I'd Sam
uel, 21st chapter, End verse.p On re,
ferring to the Biblical text, we find
that King David, in order to punish
the chosen people for violating their
obligations, handed over five Israel
ties to the Gibeonites for punishment,
and they were hanged before the
Lord. This letter of July Is, 1898, was
undoubtedly read by the deposedQueen
and, upon the unerring authority of
Mr.. Davies ethics, she resolved to
punish her enemies. She took his adj
vice and 'proftably studied his let
ter. Mr.. Davies may claim that he
did not request her to behead anyone.
Neither did the venerable Quaker re-
quest anything when he raised his
window and sadly watched mob who
had seized an obnoxious character.
"Friends,n said he, "thee should be
kind to that man, and / advise thee,
under no circumstances, to put him
under the town pump" And it was
instantly done. These letters are
fertile in suggestions of Infamous
crimes which justify the severest pun
ishment known to man. Now here in
these letters is there any allusion to
any scriptural event where the wicked
are pardoned. Perhaps Mr.. Davies
knew of none. If the deposed Queen
did not read these letters, we have the
singular instance of the similarity of
thought in the savage and the civil
liked mind, especially on sanguinary
lines.
Further examination of these PAM
phlets settles forever, we hope, the
disputed authorship of the term
s'damn missionary" Many exhaust
i've researches have been made in or
der to ascertain who is entitled to the
credit of coming this lurid and sui
phurous term. The claims of so many
have been vigorously pushed, that
modern scholars are reluctant to award
it to anyone, without further re-
search. 1t in said that a gentleman
connected with the forecastle mot the |
family Castle), of a tramp schooner, |
gives a circumstantial account OF q |
period when he, under sudden in |
spiration, used the phrase I'm the pres |
ence of other seafaring gentlemen, |
while attending an elaborate dinner |
of five courses of "lobscouse," on the
forecastle hatch. This, however, is |
only a yarn which may be safely |
repeated to the marines of Captains |
Barker and Nelson's ships. An emil
nent traveller states that he heard the |
phrase, for the first time, some years |
ago while occupying a hack in the J
streets of this city, when the driver |
Informed him that the country was |
over-run with "damn missionaries"
The driver, however, denied that he
used the classic language in the tran
saction OF this business, but did use
the term "bloomin' missionary"
These letters settle the question, if it |
can ever be settled. On page q. Mr.. |
Davies, in referring to the Hawaiian
Evangelical Association, declares that
"the mind stands bewildered in the
presence of such morality and logic, |
and I may add, such profanity"
ing and swearing;" that DIR. Beck
with, DIR. Hyde and Mr.. S. E. Bishop |
are "taking the name of God in |
vain" are whooping up bad lam
guage IN the streets, and thereby !
meriting expulsion from church. And |
on the next page, in writing OF the |
same Missionary Association, he says;
"Those Hawaiians who have sided |
with the doctrine of the transfer of !
Hawaiian nationality to any other |
flag, without consent of the people, |
are traitors" AS profanity and trea-
son justly merit and receive punish |
ment in this world, and especially in |
the next, it is clear that Mr.. Davies |
has another "conviction" that the |
missionaries will be damned, and that |
the term used is only anticipatory. |
Whether the Almighty will have the
temerity to differ with Mr.. Davies |
cannot be ascertained until, in the |
hereafter, an inspection of the occu- !
pants of the hot gridirons is allowed |
by Mr.. Davies. Again, regarding the (
origin OF the term, it is forcibly |
claimed by Professor Whistlerigger, |
of Berlin, that the conception of q !
thought, its mere outline in the mind, /
without definite and outward shape,
entities the possessor of it, under the /.
best rules of criticism, to the credit of !
originating it. Mr.. Davies, with his
really divine knowledge of things,
knew long before the seafaring man
existed that the missionaries would |
be "damned," and therefore the term /,
"dam missionary" must have floated
in a nebulous state in his mind from
the beginning This forcible argu-
ment would seem to be decisive in
the case, and should permit MIR.
Davies, as the original proprietor of
it, to wear it on his hat as conspicu-
GUS trophy, like the wearer of the belt
in the prize ring, until some other and
more deserving claimant establishes
q better title to it.
In closing we can refer only to an