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

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that most despicable of all lar
cenists the literary thief
1t is not my intention to write
a critical review Of the Hawaiian
that has been done by ADLER pens
than mine, Mr.. Lyons having
dealt with the subject of land
holdings by the missionaries in
his usual mastery manner that
leaves nothing to be said, and
Reviewer has in caustic ar
ticle attended to other inconsist :
encies, but I wish to quote one
selection from Mr.. Haynes prin.
cipal article; The Hawaiians
are not fit to-day for repre-
sentative government. They never
were"
L have often heard that asser-
ton made by supporters of the
present Government. And Mr..
Hayne reasserts the same fact.
May ask the gentleman whose
cause he is championing7 If bis
postulate is correct what possible.
fault can he find with the military
sujection of a race who, he assures
us, is not fit for representative
governments And now / wish to
call Mr.. Haynes attention to
few patent facts.
If a family arrives in our midst
destitute and sick without rela-
tives friends, church or lodge
connections who is it that
provides the needed necessaries,
the nurse, physician, provisions
home, etc.? Not the infdelfs-not
your, class, nor mine, Mr.. Hayne.
confess with shame that neither
here nor elsewhere is there
any organized effort among the
opponents of the church to
relieve the poor, minister to the
sick, or rescue the criminal
"brands from the burning"
1t is the man and woman of
refinement; the church members,
whs voluntarily leave their pleas
ant homes to 80 to places that
cannot but be abhorrent to
their whole moral and mental
sense. To 60 into homes
reeking with filth and infested
with disease, "where the lurid
fire of fever creeps across the
rotted floor, and the crowded
couch of incest in the warrens of
the poor"
They establish fruit and flower
missions and visit the hospitals
with their gifts of love and
brighten with their presence the
closing hours of many misspent
lives, when it would be ever so
much pleasanter, Mr.. Hayne, to
follow the example of such as you
and l and dream away the
drowsy hours in this island
eden" over a fascinating novel or
in writing diatribes against "mis-
sionaries." They visit the lowest
slums and meet from the lips of
painted bawds, the ready railery
at virtue, and are RECALLED in
prison corridors with rude jests
from ruder men. How very
much pleasanter it would be, Mr..
Hayne, to sit in the soft glow of
an electric chandelier in a nice
easy chair or On a comfortable
couch or in gently swinging
hammock, in a room furnished
with taste and elegance and listen
to the prattle of children who are
never rude and always neatly
clad and clean
Then it is these same people
who build and maintain Y. M. G.
AS with libraries lavatpries,
gymnasiums, and night schools
whose curriculums embrace bust
ness courses for young men, and
frequent lectures and elevating
entertainments.
Also they are the head and front
of the opposition to the liquor
traffic-to the evils of the ciga-
rette habit-to obscene literature
to cruelty to animals--in fact
they arefor the moral and intellect
tual elevation of their fellows, and
though you or / may like beer