The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-20

the one remaining missionary, a recog-
nized and paid agent of the American
Board, spread broadcast the vilest ISLANDERS
against Father Damien. He said that
Father Damien was dirty. Much good
missionaries can do among wretched and
degraded people if they hold themselves
aloof from those who are dirty! Did the
! Apostles take care never TO touch the dirty
hands or sit against the dirty clothes OF
their early converts?
"He accused the good father OF vile
practices. But the vileness was in the
| Congregational missionary's mouth, not in
| the Catholic missionary's life, and under
| threats of exposure and legal punishment
the Congregational missionary sneaked
| out of the accusation. Yet, after he had
degraded himself in the eyes of every de-
cent man, he remains, if l am correctly in
! formed, still well-paid, well-housed,
neutrality-suspicious. agent of the Amer
| lean Board in Hawaii. OF course, he is an
ardent annexationist
"And now the very same men who by
hundreds and thousands have protested
with pious indignation against the South
ern States for their practical disenfran-
chisement of the Southern negroes, who
are by the confession of their own best men
vastly below the moral standard which the
Hawaiian missionaries have until lately
boosted as the particular attribute OF their
converts, are full of enthusiasm over what,
with bitter irony, is called the Hawaiian
republic.
can vote unless he has property which
would be equivalent to the possession OF
$4,000 in Brooklyn. and in which no one
can vote for Senator who is not worth
$1,000, which is equivalent to $4,000 in
Brooklyn.
But even with this restriction of the
suffrage our republican missionaries are
afraid to trust their republican voters.
Accordingly they did not care to allow the
people, under any limitations whatever,
to elect the President, but having got con-
troll of the Constitutional Convention, they
appointed Mr.. Dole President, to hold
office for six years, and just so much
longer as the Senate and Assembly should
fail to agree on a successor; restricting the
choice, even then, to such persons as
should be agreeable to a majority of the
Senate, which will be elected by about 200
of the richest men on the islands.
Nor do they stop here. They passed
laws severely Furnishing any one who dares
to speak disrespectfully of any of their
high mightinesses. Any one, whether
native or an American, who dares to say
that this republican government is not re-
publican, or that any OF the missionaries
sons who deign to govern the barbarous
Christians of Hawaii is not well fitted for
his post, is liable to long term of impris-
onment and heavy fine.
And yet, after all, though they
have the Government and the laws and the
courts and the juries all in their own
hands, they are afraid to trust any of
them, and on the first sign of alarm and
before blow was struck they shut up all
the courts and proclaimed martial law.
And this is our pious Congregational mis-
sionary republic. This is the fruit of sew
enty years of Congregational teaching and
missionary government.
Now it is proposed to annex these ISL
do 4Iofy- horI AOla
debased, Congregational heather, Chris
tian idolators and the 100000 Mongolians
and half-breed Portuguese to boot, and to
bring them into our republic as one OF the
States of our Union to help govern us.
Already one branch of Congress has voted
to spend 100000 in beginning to lay
cable for this purpose, which, of course,
will involve us in about 81, 600 more, in
addition to that already incurred, to enable
Hawaiians TO plant sugar at a cost to this
country of $50, 100000, taken out of the
public treasury and put into the pockets of
the planters to enable them to employ
Mongolians and half-breed Portuguese.
''But we are to spend many millions
more in annexing them. We shall have to
build warships to defend our possession
when we get it.
II consider this the most dangerous and
disastrous proposition that has ever been
made in this country. If successful it will
launch MS upon an era of colonization and
of petty disgraceful foreign wars. 1t will
bring into our Union sham republics,
which will still further corrupt our already
corrupt Government and speedily destroy
all reality in republican institutions.
1--WE are on the brink of a precipice and
a very little effort is needed to push us
over. If l were standing alone on this
continent l would oppose and denounce
this whole scheme of foreign wars, annexa-
ton and colonial projects to the very last"
DR.. r. NJ. Raymond said he Endorsed
W hat Mr. Sherman had said, with the ex-
ception of some criticism on the navy. DIR.
Abbott did not agree with Mr.. Sherman
on questions of fact, but he did agree with
Mr.. Sherman in his opposition to annexa-
ton