The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-05-23
Reviewer Finds Good Example in
Recent Publication.
LIBELs UPON MISSIONARIES,
Hatred for President Dole-Obscenity
In Poetry-Congressiona Investigat-
ing Committee the Only Good Sug-
n-Misrepresentation of BawaiI


in literature is a noticeable event.
Especially so when it takes the ambi-
tfous form of a monthly periodical,
which presumes careful preparation.
On glancing. over the pages of the
Hawaiian, we notice at once that it is
only the Holomua in a new and
monthly issue. That defunct concern,
by a happy TRANSPORTATION of soul,
reappears in.a more ambitious form.
The bowling of the editor to his au-
dience is singularly polite. He writes
Remember that scurrility, rancor
and spite are never to be tolerated in
any dignified discussion of differ
ences." He then proceeds, in nearly
all OF the remaining pages of the
magazine, to evolve scurrility, rancor,
spite and, finally, Obscenity. He re-
minds us of the Arizona editor who,
in his first issue, announced that
"onIy the most refined language of
modern civilization will be found in
our pages" and then follows with an
editorial, beginning with: "If that
bulldozing skunk, who edits rival
paper around the corner, don't come
off his perch" etc.
The editor of the Hawaiian hates
missionaries, and he hates the present
Government. He wants to kick mis-
sionaries, pull their noses, bite off
their ears, wipe the floor with them.
He thanks God that the torch of in
dignation against them, which was
first lighted here many years ago by a
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calaboose for getting drunk and being
noisy, has been handed down to him
for holy keeping. He will keep it,
and waive it above his head on these
sunny shores. He has abandoned his
rich coffee plantations on Hawaii, his
great law practice in Honolulu, and,
after recruiting his means from novel
sources, will see to it that the torch of
Indignation never goes out. He even
abandOns ''The Isles of Champagne"
which he did not create, to settle in
these Isles of Hawaii, and adopts a
business occupation, the hatred of
missionaries. Poor missionaries!
Crushed missionaries! Bleeding and
torn missionaries!
Naturally, he engages Captain
Julius A. Palmer, Jr., as an assistant
in his new occupation. Captain Pal
mer is the author of q treatise titled,
Lee & Sheppard. A more desirable
person could not be had to aid in Gull
tivating this mushroom literature OF
the Pacific. It was a sorry day for
the missionaries, and Mr.. Dole, when
these "twin relics of barbarism" sat
down here to hate in common. AS
the locomotive said when two bull
calves squared away at it on the track,
81 must hope for the best" The mis-
e,io Of
hope against hope when these bull
calves face them, and throw them off
the track of the new civilization. It
is, of course, useless to seriously con-
slider the matter contained in the Ha-
waiian. It is the old story, the old
accusation repeated for seventy years
in every forcastle, by every man who
has been on "the reef" by every one
socially Ostracised here, by every
beach-cOmber.
All OF these men have grievances,
and must get even with somebody.
The Hawaiian says: "But are the
missionaries to be charged with hav-
ing destroyed the Hawaiian race, as
well as with having converted their
property? Most assuredly yes"
''The titles to a large portion of the
tillable lands of the kingdom had
found their way into the hands Of the |
being love and affection"
OF President Dole it says, "He sys- |
tematically elaborated a falsehood in |
1892 which his subsequent conduct |
has impeached."
Not content with this stuff the Ha-
waiian drops the missionary and goes
in for free fight. 1t attacks every |
one without distinction.
"Do not allow any cloak to cover its |
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man cronesian-Half-white and ALL |
ROTTEN civilization"
Here all claeses-royalists, republic |
cans, indepeHdents-are classed in an |
sail rotten civilization" There are |
many more pages to the same effect. |
The editor is dreadfully depressed be-
cause the missionaries did not seek the |
kingdom Of heaven, instead OF the |
lands of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Mr.. |
Moody, the revivalist, once said that |
the most annoying man he ever dealt |
with was an inebriate who constantly |
rose during the meeting and ex- |
claimed: why don't yer per-shOO |
right-us-nuss?" Here we have Mr.. |
MOody's man, crossing the seas, to ask |
us here, in and out of season, why we |
don't "per-shoo right-us-nuss2n
Prose is quite insufficient to express |
the burning thoughts of the editor of |
Tue hd"dlIau, he WHO ulu not Write /
the 'Isles of Champagne. He jumps |
into verse and rivals Joaquin Miller at !
his worst. Perhaps the doggereI of |
the Hawaiian is its best feature. GA |
rotten civilization" will take any
thing. On page IS it becomes doubt |
full whether the editor kneels at the |
feet of Oscar Wilde or Oscar Wilde |
kneels at his feet. However, that is !
not of much consequence. The editor is
in the position of the boy who said TO
the school ma'am: ''pve got myself
dirty; you can't spank me without !
getting your own hands muddy"
The editor especially hates President |
Dole. He does it in prose and verse. |
Why shouldn't he? That's what he Is !
here for. Bob Wilcox hates Dole, too; |