The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-02

MIR. EDITOR:-I hope the article in
this mornings paper was as interesting
to all your readers as it was to me-.
If read rightly, there is no one here
pI ofessing Christianity or brotherly
love, but must own the truth is told,
regarding the bitter and unreasonable
feeling planted in the breasts of Amer
lean children towards Britain and all
things British. When l lived for a
time in the States 1 often wondered
why that feeling was so strong in the
children after lapse of so many years,
and especially when L thought many of
them were only one generation from
every nation under the sun, and that
their forefathers had no concern with
the American Revolution. But take
those whose ancestors did lick the
Britishers,' as they put it, surely the
mellowing influence of time and the
mere fact of them being the v1ctors
should have buried all bitterness long
ago.
While it is very hard for us at times
to remember, as you say, that there
is but one flag for all races, and that
its staff was raised on the heights of
Jerusalem, still, it is surely very easy
indeed, to lay aside the hard thoughts
regarding those who have offended us,
more especially, if our offenders have
suffered punishment for the evil they
did If Britain did overStep her
rights as the parent country and de-
velOped an unusual amount OF big
head"-to use your expressive Ameri-
can language she has had over a cen
fury to watch the tremendous growth
and rise of a wonderful and mighty
nation which might still have owned
her sway had she been careful and
not Numbered and taken rather more
than a just share of parental authori-
ty. Is not this punishment enough
For we never quite recognize that
punishment is good thing no matter
how much we may have brought it
on ourselves by our misdeeds.
And now that thou shalt see the
difference of our spirit let me tell
you, in Britain there is nothing in !
any school book nor anything the eld-
ers tell the young people to keep up
enmity towards America. 1t is, in |
fact, the other way. We are taught to |
look on America as a wonderful coun- |
try with a wonderful people, and we
certainly look on them as much nearer |
related to us than other white races
nearer home. 1t is the Land of the |
Free" although, now that l have been |
there, 1 have yet to learn or have ex-
planned TO me where there is any more |
freedom than in the old country. How
ever, that has nothing to do with the
subject, and 1 have firmly made up my
mind that we have much too warm a
-egard for America-even TO a secret
admiration for the stand she took for
Ter liberty-in return for all the disa-
,reeable, scurrilous untruths they tell
lbCut "land-grabbing England as
hey are pleased to call it. You say it
nag be asked whether or not the So
,iety OF the Sons of the Revolution"
md other kindred bodies are not. after
III, in some conflict with the principles
# universal brotherhood. Well, that is
low il strikes me, but then 1 am born
British. not raised under the glor-
Gus STARS and Stripes" To me the
mere name has a disagreeable sound
1 suggests war and enmity, and if
hose protesting to belong to the order
re really the Christians we suppose
hem to be, then in the interests of
Christianity, the sooner they choose
mother name for their society more