The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1895, 1895-05-25
EDITOR INDEPENDENTS

critioises the Hawaiian ano
its editor, but it seems tc
the writer that much has been
left unsaid that ought to be said
concerning the church people Of
Hawaii things that could moi
be written Of by the missionaries
themselves without mourning the
charge of conceit or immodesty.
1t seems, therefore, fitting,
that one who has never been q
communicate of any church, who
has, from early atheistical asso-
Citations, and somewhat familiar
acquaintance with the works of
materialistic authors been prone
to regard the church power - Of
whatever denomination - as the
avowed and aggressive enemy of
human progress and enlighten :
ment, should endeavor, with such
poor power as he may possess to
do an act Of tardy justice to the
objects of Mr.. Haynes vituper-
alive attacks.
The writer is an American
citizen. He did not become either
citizen or denizen of the Ha-
waiian Monarchy; he has taken
no oath to the P. G. or the pre-
sent government Of the Hawaiian
Islands; he has believed and does
still, that the former monarchy
was subverted by the landing of
American marines from the Bos-
ton, and he think that the machi-
nations of American diplomatic
and naval officers, prior to such
subversion, against weak, pos
sibly faulty, but still friendly
government, have stained the
pages of American History with
blot of dishonor that even the
erasive hand of Time. can never
efface.
1t cannot therefore be said that
these lines in defense of much
maligned class have emanted from
one controlled by either religious
or political bias. This 1 have
thought necessary to say by way
of preface.
1t cannot but be regarded as
most unfortunate for the cause of
religion that certain members of
religious bodies on these islands,
even ministers of the Gospel, have
descended to the use of SANDER in
| past newspaper controversies re-
garding the former queen and her
people, but it is not believable
that the persons who have so far
forgotten their duty to their creed
and their fellowmen represent the
thoughts or the wishes of any
considerable following of thei,
class. 1t has been chiefly owing
to these ill-advised writer's that
mulch of the existing social and
political bitterness is due = that
has made Mr.. Haynes Hawai-
lam a possibility, that has giver
this literary fanfaron, an unde
served notoriety.
The initial number of Mr.
Haynes magazine exemplified the
wisdom of the old axiom: "a
stream cannot be purer than iti
source" During his former re-
sidence here he claimed the au-
thorship of a comic opera and ht
had the shameless assurance tc
publicly persist in such claim
after the press had exposed hin
as liar and wo1ld-be plagiarist
In the present number of the Ha
waiian appears the following
signed II.
This have found, and all my heart 1t fill
with dread
That all must, some day, whatso'er, the life
| they've led
Grow old, unlovely, weak, bowed down by
weight of years;
And though we lock up love and life sc
| close as fears
| And conjure, 80 that night and day theii
| breaths are one
| Yet time will come and fitch, for Time
moves on,
And thus steals passion, grace and youth
| away,
As black night steals the rose CLEAN from
the hills of gray .I
Which fade to darkness. d. And I wonder
how dear love ltI'
Might save her sweetness-f
In book III p. ia of The Light
Of Asia, by Edwin Arnold is the