The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-06-21
CORRESPONDENCE.

4 cork OF the American MISSIONARIES In
80 islands has received another re-
.snt addition. according To the last
--ssk,s report OF the discussion in the
u.uaiian Evangelical Association. The
,ravisions introduced. according to the
s,-ssr;o;nal vote by the American mission
.-;ss in founding the association, that
10 the annual election OF members OF the
uauaiian Board. -one-third should be
uawaiians. has been denounced as a
.w.one and dishonor, an attempt TO
-.a;ntain a two-thirds majority Ia the
tands OF others than Hawaiians But
he most superficial investigation of the
,aro.6s will show that the true signifi-
eanee is exactly the reverse. The Ha-
.,.;;an Board was founded by the Amer
Ian missionaries as the Executive
fso.nrnittee of the American Mission, and
they arranged, as mark OF confidence
and respect, that one-third of the Board
ss,opld be Hawaiians. sharing in the
cannon duties and responsibilities.
last year, IN carrying on the work of the
Raard. there was an expenditure of $25.-
anl Toward this amount, the Hawaiian
esnrches contributed 800. About $I7.-
M, Was contributed by few individuals.
rrost!y descendants of the old mission
ary families. Yet, when il was proposed
thss Hawaiians, who contributed less
iran one-twentieth part of the expendi-
ture. should have, a they have had
rom the beginning, one-third OF the Off
eial responsibility there arose this sense
: 1ess cry about robbing Hawaiians of their |
lights.
Tn this months number of the Mis- |
sionary Herald, an editorial paragraph |
calls attention to some letters, published |
IN the daily New York Herald, written |
nv some correspondent of that paper at
mat date April 81 resident IN Honolulu.
Il has been reproduced in your yester-
davis issue. 1t is tissue of iridescent
iabrications, vilifying the American
missionaries for planning and executing
great robberies against the Hawaiians.'
They are said to have involved the whole
people in debt TO the amount of million
dollars, 1.-THE chief items being looking
gizsses, which were sold for sums
ranging from $50 to $1,000 each -
One may reasonably doubt the
sanity of an editor, who would allow the
insertion of such utterances of malig
nant stupidity. Why not revamp the
old story OF the missionary, alleged to
have pied with liquor the native car
penters whom he employed? The items
OF the bill were published, so many
glasses at such a price: while toe fact
was sublimely ignored, that these were
cheap looking glassess valuedsin trade at
twenty-five or fifty cents each. With as
much reason and truth might one de-
nounce the luxurious living and extra
VACANT expenditures of the mission
a
tanned with kind hospitality, who adj
vised his Eastern friends on his return
to the States, not to give any more
money to the missionaries IN the Ha-
4aiian Islands, who had mahogany
doors IN heir houses. He did not think
Is nsedful TO add the additional fact, that
their houses had mahogany shingles;
for koa, or Hawaiian mahogany, was
easily obtainable In those days, and pine 2
was almoet out OF reach y
The fact is, and the truth needs to be
reiterated again and again, that no pee-
nles hasever had so much done for their
welfare, comfort. and improvement as
hss this Hawaiian people No native
race. either, has been more ruinousiy
mised by evil-minded foreigners, who
have busted themselves In making it
appear that evil is good, and good is
evil: that darkness, which hides, is the | 4
sfeasure-house of pleasure, not the light, 7
which reveals. The late queen and her
people would have been in very dis-
lerent condition today, if she had been
wiling to listen TO the advice of her true
trends, instead of relying upon those
whose interest it was to fool her with -
salse hopes, and fatter her with ''strcHg -
delusions TO believe lie."
Tbs easy-going good 1atured Hal n
$16
he burden of increased responsibilities,
hat come with increasing privileges and
opportunities. But who of as will con-
1emn his folly, without condemning
also, many of Us, for abusing,
Wasting, or throwing away our oppor-
uHifies or goodi It has taken Amer
can Christians more than twice
even decades TO begin to find
ut what Individual and official
esponsihility is and means. At the
cent meeting of the Hawaiian Histor-
al Society, the story was told of Kama ar
aneleia, a kahu or treasure-keeper, as
rs father Lo, and grandfather KiiIau,
40 been for Kamaholelani, Kauai e
niei. 1t the time the Russians occup-
ID Kauai, this chief became the posses
OF OF much valuable property. brought
the islands by the Russians. This was
.ared awav IN q cave, OF which only this nj
hawaiian, knew the secret. When the
nlef died, Kanakaiaeleia, oppressed
an anxiety lest the property should MI
stolen, carefully carried out to sea the
words, guns, pistols, hardware of all
ofs, and dropped them overheard from ga
Is canoe into the oceans unfathomable
sptns. Then he returned to the cave, pli
20 burned up the silks, satins, and or,
.ner combustibie articles. He had rid
en- himself of all anxiety about the pro- er
etsss and was no longer responsible for
&c SAFE Keeping of all these treasures
:. people should be judged by its high So
,. most advanced type, not by the poor as
es.aded specimens that have come to
,.si 10 the struggle for "the survival of we
= nstesf" There must have been
Ahetning attractive about the North
Meilcan Indians, that could make full
' !, a Edwards, of peerless intellect on,