The sun., 1895-04-20
The Evening Post and the Mission.
aries Sons.

aries SOub.
Toward the end of February last Mr..
THOMAS G.. SHEARMAN of Brooklyn made
some remarks at a Friday evening prayer
meeting of Plymouth Church, which gave
great comfort to the editor of the Epentng
Post. Up to that time GoDK1N had been
almost alone in his denunciation of the Ha-
waiian missionaries and their sons. With
the malignant and persistent mendacity
characteristic of him, when he has once
staked his personal vanity on any given
cause, the editor of the Eucntng Post
had been endeavoring for months to per-
suade the American people that the Con-
gregational missionaries who converted
the Hawaiians to Christianity, were the worst
gang Of scoundrels and thieves and hypo-
critics that ever infested any archipelago on
the globes surface; and that in the second
generation. that is to say among the mis-
sionaries' sons, the evil qualities of the sires
appeared in an exaggerated form. His
sweeping and reckless abuse of the mission
aries and their descendants is exemplified
by this brief extract from an editorial article
in the EUentng Post Of Feb. 81:
"NothinR that know OF in church annals can
quito equal the dealings OF the Missionaries and their
Sons with the Hawaans. They contain cant, hypoc-
rsy. covetousness. unscrupulousness fraud, Deceit
and gross abuse Of power In about equal proportions
Worse than all, they have their course amid dead
silence or shameless apologies on the part OF the
churches at home and their organs In the press. It
would. however. take Hebrew prophet character
ize them huy."
1t IL notorious that wholesale libel of this
sort is GoDKIN's chief controversial weapon
and the fact is 80 well known that compar-
atively few persons pay any attention to
him when he becomes violently abusive.
This inveterate defamer of good men and
good things, therefore, seized eagerly upon
Mr.. SHEARMAN's surprising remarks at the
Plymouth Church prayer meeting, and he
reproduced them in full in the EUentng Post
under the title. "A Missionary Disgrace"
as new ammunition for his fusillade Of
filth against the missionaries. Mr.. SHEAR
MANS statements carried more weight than
GoDKIN's reckless abuse, because SHEAR
MANS general reputation for truthfulness
is better than GoDKIN's, and he pretended to
give facts, which GODKIN seldom does. Some
of the principal charges brought by Mr.
SHEARMAN, and wildly echoed and applauded
by the EUentng Post, are here stated briefly,
as nearly as possible in his own words:
!. So complete the trust OF the Hawaiian chiefs
and people In the missionaries that practically all
Government was placed under missionary control, and
the missionaries and the had since had the
practical government OF the islands"
2. Tho missionaries found 10000 people there
and now they report that there are only 81. .OOO"
"During the nifty years the Government OF these
Islands was under missionary influence most of the
natives deprived OF their rights In the land ex
cepting about $1,000 and all the was divided
among the King, the chiefs and the families and
friends OF the missionaries Tho missionaries' sons
and their associates boast that they fths OF
all the property OF the Islands,"
The missionary government finding that the ma
tives would not work for less than twenty-five cents
day. complained OF the labor and insisted on
the importation OF OF thousands or the scum of
tho human including Chinese and what are called
Portuguese, mongrol race who never saw Portugal
that country In this manner the missionaries sons
cut down the wages OF the native Hawaiians, and
compelled them To work their sugar plan tatons at
such rates as seemed good TO their masters"
4. The missionaries were responsible for the intro
duction OF Ieprosy, and yet Protestant missionary
would venture among them. noble Catholic priest
consecrated his life TO the service OF the epers Sung
by the contrast OF his example, tho one remal ming
missionary, recognized and paid agent OF the Amer.
lean Board. spread broadcast the vilcst ISLANDERS
against Father DAMIEN. But the vileness was In the
Congregational missonarys mouth, not in the Cath.
ollie nissonarys life. aud uncer threats of exposure