The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-21
TRUTH is TOLD
A New York Paper is Set
Right on the Island.
Had ClasSed Hawaii with Con
Quered Possessfon-A Journal
is Asked to be Fair
N. Y. Prass.)

To the Editor OF The Press:
Sir:-May I be permitted once more
20 protest against the persistent man
ner in which Hawaii IS misrepresented
in your continued opposition to the ter
ritorial government which is about to
be set up there. The following extract
is from the double Loaded editorial
which appears in The Press today:
Among all the country's new de-
Tendencies, Cuban, Porto Rican, Phil
ippine, there is not one which has not
a claim equal in quality to that of Ha-
wall and infinitely superior IN guam
tity."
For more than two generations Ha
wall has had its own government,
which this country has constantly
recognized as a legitimate Government.
During this period, and under the
.Christianizing and civilizing influences
of American institutions, both relig-
ious and political, Hawaii has passed
from the despotis1n Of Kamehameha l
TO the constitutional monarchy of Ka-
mehameha III, and from that to the
Republic Of January II, 1898. under
President Dole. and that Republic, ac-
knowlefged and respected by all the
great nations, maintained itself against
the two assaults Of Mr.. Cleveland and
his Secretary OF State and the more
despicable attempts Of the eX-Queen's
friends 10 carry out by treason what
MI Cleyeland's diplomacy so signally
failed to accomplish. And all this has
been done without @ single rebel or
traitor being executed, and with the
loss Of less than 3 score of lives in the
trifiing skirmishes that have taken
place at two different times. And
while these changes in the political
life have been going on, the material
veloped that from state Of nearly
naked and absolute poverty to a state
OF commercial and agricultural pros
perity, that is evidenced by the fact
that Hawaii has neither paupers nor
almshOuses, while its money IN circu-
lation is ten times and its export pro-
ducts eight times as much per capita
as our own marvelGusly wealthy coun-
try shows.
Nor have more important things
than good government and the produce
ton of wealth been neglected. Without
aid or interference from the state. min
listers Of the Protestant and Catholic
churches have been so diligent in their
work that not a soul in Hawaii that
has come to the years Of understanding
is of necessity living in ignorance OF
the truth of the Gospel. In the matter
Of educating the people, the Republic
of Hawaii has made provision for
schools SO that every child Of school
age, from the highest to the lowest.
may have q common school education
in the English tongue. Can this last
a assertion be made in truth of New York
city? And can any of these things be
said OF Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines, where Spanish civilization has
had four times as many years in which
TO work out these problems, with the
powerful backing of the home Govern
ment and the authoritative teaching Of
the Catholic Church?
There is no analogy between the
admission Of Hawaii as a Territory and
State and the islands which have SO
lately escaped from Spanish misrule
and oppression. They can well afford
to wait for American civilization to do
its work, and in this connection I would
not for q moment forget the work OF
English clergymen, jurists, teachers,
and others who have ably seconded the
efforts OF our own countrymen in max
ing Hawaii in every way the paradise
OF the Pacific.
NJ. NJ. COVER
New Haven, DecAmbe "a