The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-11-05

Island have not promoted disorder,
nor have they disturbed the resi-
dents in the neighborhood. On the
other hand, they have attracted
large number of most respectable
people. who are not able to attend
evening concerts during the week
days. Any one who watches the
people attending these Sunday con-
certs, will notice many men with
their wives and children, who Sc
cure a pleasant, quiet and healthy
outing, with the refining charm and
education of music added.
The experiment, therefore, OF
the Sunday band concert is success
full, just as it is successful in every
country, because music is most civ
liking.
We are told, however, that the
expense of taking a family to Ma
kee Island, even in the tram cars,
is burden on a poor man. In adj
dition, there is always scramble
at the end of the concert for seats
in the cars, which largely disturbs
the restful feeling which the
change of scenery, and air, and the
music induces.
For these reasons, the expert
ment of a Sunday concert in
Thomas Square should be tried, or
even in Emma Square.
A poor man with three children
said on the tram car, ''the mission
aries drive us off to Waikiki, while
they ride in carriages and burn
money" There is only partial
truth in the statement, but it shows
feeling which ought not to exist,
especially in community which
now has, and will hereafter have
more need of the aid of every re
spectacle working man in the town,
in building barriers against hostile
forces.
There is umquestionably, a gulf
between a very large number OF
respectable white men here, and
the missionaries" and it should be
closed up, and would be closed up,
if there was better knowledge on
one side and more iberality on the
other. There are surely many lib
eral minded missionaries, but few
very bigoted missionaries will
create as much talk as the noise of
a couple of pigs squeezing through
a gate.
The missionaries should be the
first to move in making the best
use of the Sunday concert. II
should not be left to the poor men
to insist on them and then, when
refused, carry their grievances into
politics. The missionary should
take the lead. 1t is the severe in
dictment which that noted Ameri
can, Andrew d. White, brings
against the Church, that reforms
and progress in civilization are
made outside, and not inside the
Church. There is a partial truth
In it.
The question of Sunday concert;
is not one of principle, but the APP
plication of principle. The use OF
tram cars, on Sunday here and IL
the United States, was at first made
a question of principle. But after
much most unseemly wranglins
among good people, it was decided
that the principal of Sunday obser
vance did not forbid the use OF
Sunday tram cars, and here and
elsewhere, the use of animals on
Sunday is general, in spite of the
Commandment that the working
of animals ON the Sabbath day is
specially designated as an offense.
Those who use horses and mules
on Sunday, though positively for
hidden by Divine law, should not
object to the refining influence of
music on that day, especially as
Moses carefully omitted any refer
ence to band concerts In the Law.
This would be a world less con-
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