The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-08-19
HONOLULU SUFFERS FROM A
NEWSPAPER ISLANDER BUREAU

q ONE little time ago the Advertiser
~ reprinted an article from the New
York Tribune, under a Honolulu
dateIine, in which the press of Hawaffs
was declared to be debased in it's lnfor-v
ais and criminal in it's practices. There
follows an. article from the same pre-
tended origin which is quite as shame
full in it's misrepresentation Of the gem
eral community The Advertiser does
not believe that these articles were
written here, but is inclined TO credit
them to some of the slanderous women
of the transient Cougar type who have
gone away from here in a rage because
they were not accepted at face value.
The following is widely printed in a
Middle West syndicate Of papers:
HONOLULU, July 26.-In annexing
the Hawaiian Islands the United
States acquired a country morally
doomed, and whether or not the ac-
QUESTION involves the moral doom OF
the United States is a question which
will become more and more serious In
the march of time.
1t has always been admitted that the
main sociological feature. of the Ha-
waiians has been immortality just as the
most striking physiological character
istic of the inhabitants has been lep-
rosy. But it has never been considered
that this one communicating spot on
the national body of the United States
would lead to general corruption. This
phase of the annexation, which in the
past was utterly ignored as a subject
of dispute, will at it's present rates OF
development soon become OF great sig
nificance.
The monetary interests of the United
States which have the Hawaiian ISL
ands as their field of exercise are Of SO
great weight in the United States
proper that they are able, unless stub
bornly resisted. to subject the entire
nation to the same conditions as pre-
vail in Hawaii
There has been no doubt that the
immortality existing in the Hawaiian
! Islands has long since arrived at the
lowest stage in human or animal life.
And now that it can go no lower it is
certain that it will go further on all
sides than heretofore. 1t is owing to
the adjustment of the stockades that
, the immortality can go no deeper, but
must become more extensive.
InSa SIOckdQeS HONOLULU were
types of the third, or civilized. class of
slavery. OF the other classes, the chief
representatives are that of the first
class, the English prison pens or stock
ades of Africa, where the captive Ma
! tabeie chiefs are confined for life in a
| sitting posture exposed to the weather
night and day with their hands mana
cled behind their backs and chained to
posts, and. that of the second class,
| the slave marts Of central Africa. The
| two classes belong to barbarian slav-
cry, the first, promoted by the British
army, being designated as involuntary
slavery aggravated by constant tor
ture, and the second Involuntary siav-
cry mitigated by fair treatment for pc
cuniary reasons. But there is no doubt
that the third, or civilized. class OF
slavery, represented by the stockades
| of Honolulu. afforded more misery
than the other classes combined. This
third class might be designated as val
untary slavery, aggravated by the sac
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