The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-03-10
HAWAII MEL" A BOOK.


written sketches of scenery. or the
manners and ways Of the people, ana
if the author had confined herseh 10
these superficial and interesting I'M
u,ress,ons the book would have served
tn entertain the general reader, VINO
hardly cares to think about dry SUD-
,ects and wishes only TO be enter
saine,d for an hour.
n,oa an,tho1. shows no evidence OF
ANY education or preparation Iof 1ho
discussion OF serious questions winch
have arisen in this little Kingdom ana
Renophlic. In these days when so many
women are trained in political science
in the colleges, it would seem 10 De
rather presumptuous for one VINO EVIL
IDENTITY has no knowledge Of the growth
ct communities to venture to instruct
unankind in such subjects. But tine
salthor disposes of our mixed lnstltu-
lions. and the relations of the many
races living here, in short, sharp para
graphs.
She says: When the missionary
could no longer rule in the shade OF
the cloak of yellow feathers, he boldly
threw off the sheltering garment and
took the sceptre for his own
She displays at once the fact that
she is the victim OF 'fo' cas- Nle' yarns,
and has not consulted the authentic
histories of Hawaii. She probably does
not lznow to-day, that nine-tenths of
the Cabinet officers of the Kingdom,
from the day of its existence, were
not missionaries. She has trusted TO
the traditions of the "bummers" that
relate how 1.-The missionaries ran the
government from the beginning" Ii
the few missionaries as against the
many who were not missionaries man
aged to have things their own way,
she utterly fails to notice or explain
the source OF this influence. In fact,
she knows nothing about it. At the
same time she sums up their part in
the growth of this little nation in what
are called snappy paragraphs, which
TO the 'unwashed,' display incisive
political wisdom.
She displays Royalist sympathies in
her treatment of events. She declares
that ''the missionaries found the royal
yoke intolerable' and refused it, when,
if she had examined the public rec
ords, she would have found that where
there was one missionary who active
ly refused to bear the yoke, there We're
fifty men who were not missionaries
who aided in breaking it, because the
woman who held the yoke failed, like
other sovereigns, to see the signs of
the times.
The author charges that mission
(the natives) the necessary cloth for
the garments they were directed to
wear. AS this is utterly untrue, it
simply exhibits the authors spite.
Even men who dislike missionaries
would have corrected her Collins
were. the things, and they sold them
collins" Here again is the 80 castle
story of the bummers, who might ihave
known that the missionaries often
gave, but did not sell this article. 'In-
quire into the ancestry of the island
milhonaires, and you will almost in
variably find missionary pedigree,
she writes While the land in the
Kingdom for nearly fifty years was
drug i'm the market" at $1.00 pei
acre, and the missionary had the frs
innings, the author would have dis
covered, if she had consulted Brad
streets agent here, that only a small
percentage of the millionaires are mis-
sionaries So as the author has gon
OH into romance and landed on TIL
Isle of Lies, with her bridges burn
behind her, she declares that in al
most every missionary family "one o
two feeble minded children form :
blot on the escutcheon." But, of course
she knows nothing about the remark
able number of boys of missionary de
scent that have carried off the highes
Stanford in athletics,-a record I'm
paralleled in the history of any com
munity, containing fifty times tn
number of these missionaries PROBES
sOrs and students in these great Uni
Versitie5 have inquired, with the in
terest of scientific men, into this sin
gular abundance Of physical superior
ity i'm these tropical Islands, as develop
sd ON the athletic fields of the Ameri
can colleges This author does not eve
know OF the existence OF these athletes
Her reflections are those of one VIII
would illustrate the scenery of thi
Island, by taking small kodac PIC
lures from the back OF gallopinl
horse.
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