The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-06-01
REAL MISSIONARY" RULE,
In Point of Fact There Has Been
Very Little.
Sectarian Feuds Revived TO Kill Annex
atfon-Professor Alexander
States Some Truths

Mr.. EDITOR: The enemies of an
nexation are making desperate efforts
to start side issues, to revive old secta.
Rian feuds and personal animosities.
"Anything to beat Grant" AS has
been truly said, "To prove that any
story was q Islander has never been
considered a reason for discontinuiDg
its publications; and no one is sur
prised to see old, blind, World-weary
bats of calumny fappirg their foul
wings about the ears of the unwary in
all their youthful vigor and with their
olden sting Of hate and pain-they
never die"
One of these undying falsehoods is
the following: "FOr more than sew
enty years the missionaries and their
descendants on these islands have
been the governors and rulers of this
land"
The school history contains list of
all the cabinet ministers who have
ever held Office in these islands. After
the death of Kamehameha III, in
1854, no "missionary" was appointed
to any important position in the Gov
eminent till 1873, when Messrs. E. o.
Hall and A. F. Judd held portfolios in
Lunalilo's Cabinet for one year. 1t is
well known by all old residents that
the policy of the administrations
during those twenty years was dis
tinctly opposed to the American mis-
sion, as well as to American political
ideas. AS for the two following reigns,
although it is said that Walter Murray
Gibson came here as a Mormon mis-
sionary, and that the Marshal of the
Kingdom during the last reign is the
grandson of an English missionary,
yet it will not be claimed by any one
that either Kalakaua or his sister,
Liliuokalani, were dominated by the
influence of the missionary" ele-
ment.
Besides, the American Board ceased
to send out missionaries to these
islands fifty years ago, and finally
withdrew from the field in 1868, ex-
cept as an auxiliary.
The only period during which there
was a strong missionary influence in
the Government was the twelve years
from 1912, when Mr.. Richards and DR..
Judd came to the rescue OF the native
Government, till the death of Kane
hameha Ill, in 1854. The record of
those twelve years is one of which any
statesman might be proud. Aided
after 1845 by Mr.. Wyllie and Judge
Lee, they twice saved the in
dependence of the country, they
helped to emancipate the poor, down.
trodden serfs, and to make them owners
of their own homes; they brought order
out of the chaos of land claims they
organized the machinery of the gov
eminent nearly as it has been run
ever since they established reliable
judiciary and a system of common
schools; they paid off the national
debt in full and freed the country from
"exterritOriality' and consular courts.
The main features of their work dur
ing those twelve years were never I'M
done during the succeeding forty years
of "non missionary" rule.
It may be that the Constitution of 1852
erred in granting manhood suffrage,
but the time for irresponsible power
had already gone by forever. The
policy of the Land Commission was
endorsed by Bishop Maigret in pub
lished letter addressed to Mr.. Wyllie,
and by all friends of the native race,
of whatever sect. Without their kule-
anas the native Hawaiians today
would be in the condition of the In
dams of Southern California. In spite
of the imprOvidence of the natives,
the census of 1890 showed that nearly
ten per cent. of them, of both sexes
and all ages, were still owners of land.
1t might be interesting to show who
have been the chief land grabbers of
Hawaii nei; but, cui bono? Besides,
to be large landowner is not in itself
a crime. Let me add that it was
Kalakaua who advocated unlimited
Asiatic immigration, while every re-
striction upon it has been urged by
-oall16 GO missionaries
w. D. ALEXANDER.