The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-13
ELECTION WAS UNANIMOUS
A NEW WEEKLY INTERESTING
HONOLULU PEOPLE.
Missionaries and Their Ru1e-It Has
Been Stern, But Has Accomplished
Wonders-Notes About Soldiers.
(special Correspondence.l

Especial correspondence
Honolulu, Feb. PA senator has
been elected for the local legislature
and only seventy mine men voted out
of more than 600 that appeared on the
registration list. There was only one
candidate, and his election occurred by
a unanimous vote.
A weekly, the Sunday Volcano, has
dared to make it's appearance in the
streets of Honolulu for the last three
Sundays. People were amazed. No
such thing has ever happened before
in the town, and excitement ran high,
but it soon subsidized. People even read
the paper and enjoy it, for the Volcano
is scattering brilliant sparks. while the
dailies chronicle events with a mo-
notonous tameness. That the Volcano
did not meet its death on the day of its
birth is a noteworthy index of the drift
of public thought.
Surely, a new time is coming. The
irresistible sway of the missionaries
is receiving a check. Pious laws will
soon become obsolete and the citizen
will be a free man even on Sunday A
missionary on the Hawaiian Islands, it
may be necessary to explain, = sed not
be man whose business it is to, preach
the gospel to the natives; the term has
here acquired a wider meaning. 1t
covers all that part OF the population
for which the spirit of the missionaries
eXacts laws and forces. reforms that are
calculated to transform the heather
barbarian of yesterday into a Christian
saint of tomorrow, a pretty big con-
tract The party is composed of the
foremost men of the islands INCLUDING
President Dole), and it has brought
about annexation Its rule is stern and
uncompromising. 1t is the rule of ia
~ ~
its methods have worked wonders. The
missionaries have civilized a people of
the most primitive barbarism in less
than three generations Such success
has no parallel, but it seems that the
first lessons to barbarism must be ad-
nlinistered with force, but not with
brutal force.
The critical time for the reformers is,
however, in sight. American princi
pies Of government will hardly permit
Interference with the rights of indivi-
duals on this island any more than they
permit it at home. Last week the
missionary" bishop attacked the mis-
sionary" president, Dole, as. unfit to be
governor of these islands, for the rea-
son that he is asiolially seen in a
box at the theatre. Intolerance such as
is exhibited in this case is bred of the
same spirit that keeps the natives
puts forth an argument like that as a
citizen of the United States he will hear
a shout of mirth that will sound from
San Francisco to New York, and will
resound in Honolulu, and Mr.. Bishop |
will have to hide his face and blush. !
Yet it is not certain that Mr.. Bishop |
is wrong. He might be wrong in later !
years, when civilization and good NOR !
ala have struck a firm root in the minds |
DIT hot hoe 1Nf
yet come The natives, men and women, |
are still devoted TO "sWipes" and gin, |
in spite of prohibitory laws. They still !
secretly dance the hula attired in |
smiles, and the women smoke pipes and |
publicly. 1t is true civilization
has taught them to wear clothes, but it !
is only a Mother Hubbard" and a
thin one at that. The freedom of an
American citizen may do them harm,
sionary. The United States will have
many a difficult problem to solve in its
newly acquired territories.
Annexation has sent prices of real es-
tate up 10 the sky. and the last few |
days have inaugurated a wild furry in
all kinds of stocks. Everybody talks
stocks" and fortunes are being made. |
new Judd" building is offered for s35
pect. Building material is very expens-
i've. Brick and lumber have to be i'm
ported from the states. The only native
stone is a heavy. blush lava rock, re-
sambling in appearance our blue lime
rock. 1t is good material but eXpens-
i've to quarry and hard to work. Ma
tive wood is hard and beautiful. but
valuable for ornamental work only.
On the 23d inst. a heavy rain in Nuu-
ann valley sent a flood into the town.
fan was over, seven inches, AS is usual