The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-06-17
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estant missions in the Hawaiian Islands
was proclaimed as the greatest and most
| trlu mi hant, hardly less than miraculous
/ achievement of the kind since the con-
version of the Roman empire under Con
: stantine. 10 the American Board OF
missions and its principal constituency,
| the American Congregational churches,
was ascribed, under God. the glory of this
wonderful work. Scoffers at missions
| were shamed into silence by this one
lndisputable proof, that within the life
tiine OF single generation an entire race
OF people had been rescued from savagery
| ana moral degradation too deep to be
depicted, and had become an orderly.
devout, moral and intelligent people
among whom the civic ties were prac-
ticed to degree that might well serve
as an example for countries Christian
lHeu ages ago. How well the natives have
proved their fitness for self-government,
under the merely nominal monarchy
prevailing; how wisely they exercised the
rig OF franchise and how much lower
was the percentage of illiteracy in Hon.
olulu than in Boston-these were themes
Tor unceasing missionary eloquence at
the meetings of the board and in the
documents issued by it to be used in con-
nection with missionary efforts in the
churches. What Mr.. Sherman tells the
leaders and promoters of the cause of
missions about the inexpressible folly,
not TO say mendacity. of turning round
and Tor political purposes. denying all
these things. and vilifying the shining
examples OF che power OF missions. is
every word true; and is written in Ian
guage no more scathing than the &C.
caslon warrants.
Some new, very new, political litera-
ture is being scattered over the country
primarily amongst the Republicans, de-
signed to make up strong policy for
1886, which shall save the tariff issue and
not drive away the free silver men. 1t
will be remem bered that ex -Speaekr Reed
broadly limited at this nearly a wear ago,
and that it has been Don Cam eron s
creed tor many years. Concerning this
new floating literature and its purpose
the Boston Advertiser has the following
significant editorial.
The intelligent observer has not failed
to observe that in Pennsylvania deter
mined movement is on foot to ally silver
and protection. The dominant Republican
forces In that state are outspoken for
Doth. In the south the same Is true.
we 90 not mean necessarily free coinage,
but as much of the reconciliation OF sill
yer as 1t IS possible to secare. A man
would be simply Oblivious to facts il he
did not also notice in New England that
at least respectable minority of the Re-
publlcans is in favor of silver. The adj
vocates OF protection claim that upon a
silver basis we would render ourselves
more and more independent of England
ana become the commercial EN- porium of
all the silver countries of the orient and
South America. Every day almost brings |
TO our desk some form of pam phleteering |
intended to show how necessary to each |
other are protection and silver.
Inns movement is worthy of note, |
although it strikes at the accepted condi-
tlon OF things which has il many sections |
OF the country made free trade and free !
silver almost synonymous. Whether the |
tendency which we have noted will take |
a definite form in political organizations |
before the presidential election is prob
lematical.
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Everything is changed, everything goes |
by CIRCLES. now up and now down, all
wheels and nothing positively new. In
WIS GU i',,--', Ccto la ao throo CON.
turtles old, .and simply-meant "befooling.
In dress. too. as well as in speech, we
are simply elm bling the old treadmill.
Thus the big sleeves of this year of grace
ara only reproduction of what worried !,
the good people of New England about |
two centuries ago, a will be seen by an |
old Dedham (Mass.) ordinances:
And be 1t further enacted that hereafter
no person Whatsoever shall make gar
ment for women or any other sex with
sleeve more than half an ell wide in The
widest part. and so pr0portlonate LOT Dig
ger or smaller persons. And for present
reformation of immoderate great sleeves
and some other supertiuites which may
easily be redressed without much pre-
JUDGE or spoil of garments, 1t is ordered,
etc.
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On the whole, perhaps it ought to be
consoling to us that we are no better and
no worse than those who have gone before
us.
The Cornhill Magazine has the bright
est ard altogether the most delicately Sc
we're article on the New Woman which has
yet appeared in England. The writer
entities it 'Novissima." and takes the
well remem bered French saying for his
text: "The wit of the majority Of women
serves more to 1ortify their folly than
their reason" Novisslma's chief char
acteristic is her unnounded self-satisfac..
ton. She is dark. and one feels that II
she were fair she would be quite diner
ent person. For fairness usually goes
with an interest in children and other
gentle weaknesses of which Novlssima is
conspicuously innocent. She dresses
simply in close-ftting garments. technl-
cally known as tailor made. She wears
her elbows well away from her sides. 1t
has been limited that this habit serves to