The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-03
Discoveries In Hawaii.

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full things to be found in our "Kanaka"
possessions in the Pacific if one has
time and patience to pursue the inves-
tigation. We need not be surprised if
some bold navigator rises to inform us
that he has found the northwest pas
sage" among the most interesting REM
nant of a once numerous island people.
Concerning many of the yarns that we
hear it may be well to follow an old
sailors advice, float them along side
or tow them astern, but don't attempt
to hoist them aboard" The latest find"
is really terrible, and all the worse be-
cause it comes through the American
board. When I was small they used to
surprise me by telling me that a tallow
candle could be fired from an old fash
Toned smooth bore musket through an
inch pine board, but never felt like
risking a good candle on such an exper-
iment Now comes a Rev. Smooth bore
and makes US sad by telling of the
heathenism and drunkenness chat he
found in those sunny isles, and all in
total population for the whole group OF
10000, just about as many as New Ha-
ven contains. The idol charge is a very
serious one-"bamboo poles in a row
with colored papers fastened to them
and prayers printed on them In myster-
| ious characters! And what of that?
| Don't good many people of this city,
nearly half of them, read the prayers
| that have been made to order and
printed in book for them, many Of
them in an unknown tongue, so long
dead that nobody outside Of the His
! torcal society and the high school ever
reveres it's memory? And don't many
| of these people here worship a bit OF
bread that any good baker can dupll-
cate, and which being eaten goes the
way of all other food, and do we dare to
call these people heather? Well, hard
ly. And those festive Cinnamon who
cooked pig and ate it in memory OF
| their departed friends!' What would
| our reverend friend have them do on
such solemn occasions? Buy a case OF
sandpaper gin and get blind drunk in
order to drown their grief? And what
If they do worship their ancestors?
Don't the historical society continually
remind us of their ancestors and their
old time virtues, as if they should say,
just look at us and see how like we are
to a good hill Of potatoes Of which the
best part is underground! IN. B. This
joke is from the works of Joe Miller,
Edition de Luxe, issued about 3S7 years
before the deluge, or a little more,
about the time that for want Of free
school supplies they performed all
=. At 4t,o
or as it Is somewhere said began to
multiply on the face Of the EARTH" be-
ing another of Mr.. Miller's pleasant
ries) Exit the heather Chinee," after
saying he smokes opium, but rarely gets
drunk by practicing at the saloon keep
erss bar and that one-twentieth Of
them have accepted the Jesus religion
under circumstances not entirely favor
able to them or their very excellent re-
lfgious teachers. But what of the
liquor habit of the mixed multitude of
Hawaii? Keep in mind that the whole
population is Just about the same as
this city and you will find that Honolu-
lu with $4,000 people of all sorts has
just Is licensed saloons, and in all the
rest of the group about as many more,
at one thousand dollars year EACH
as against 400 or more in New Haven,
and the speak easies and blind tigers"
are not more numerous in proportion.
The comparisons of the legitimate
fruits of the saloon and drink habit are
still more striking. This city has $50
regular guests at Springsde Home and |
as many more who are only kept from
that quiet retreat by public and private
charity Not less than $50 criminals |
in the county Jail and state prison, say
ing nothing of several more who ought |
to be there Hawaii six months ago |
had not a single pauper consequently !
no use for an almshouse in all the |
group, while all it's prisoners would not |
half fill the Hotel de Spegel on WhaI- |
ley avenue, and the records of all the |
courts in the islands would fail to dis
close such a mass of Alth as the men, I
women and lads of New Haven have |
listened to in the courts in this city
during this present month. In the year
1897 the arrests for drunkenness in New
Haven reached nearly thirty-fve
hundred more than four times as
many as in Hawaii, with it's har-
Dor and roadsteads filled with passen-
ger SlGdllSHlpS, IItll-Ol-Nd al anu SdlllIS
vessels from various foreign nations,
could record
Let us take another point of view. We
are greatly pleased because the United
States has sent abroad in 1898 products
of the soil to the amount of about elev-
en- or twelve dollars per capita for it's
entire population. Hawaii exported
from it's agricultural products in 1898
more than ten times as much per capt.
ta If this Is what rum and idols do
for Hawaii we can only say more pow
er to it." There is not human being
in Hawaii who Is ignorant Of the bless
ngs of Christian civilization because of
any lack of opportunity to learn them,
but rather because they choose not to
know anything about them, just as
thousands in this university city, with
it's schools and churches, have no use
for religion, and whose devotions con-
sist solely in invoking the wrath of
their Maker upon themselves or their
companions by inviting Him to send
them to perdition, as the Mormon |
preachers used to say across LOTS
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