The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-10-21
A ISLANDER
On Christian Missionaries by a
Kansas U. S. Senator.

The following dispatch was sent out
last week from the capital of Kansas:
Topeka, Kan, October IA United
States Senator Burton arrived here to-
night preparatory to entering the State
campaign. He ha, just returned from
Hawaii. "The HAwaiians are fine peo-
pie, he said tonight, s'but they are in
hard lines just at present Their con-
dition Is the result of the work of BOs-
ton missionaries A number of mis-
sionaries have been over there recently
and have given many Of the natives
certificates guaranteed TO admit them
to heaven in exchange for their lands.
A number of the more ignorant natives
have been swindled In this way. Those
Who h.ve learned their mistakes are
naturally . trine suspicious OF all
Americans"
1t is . shame that such stuff as this is
scattered over our land by the press.
We found the above dispatch in the
Urbana Citizen of last week, with large
headlines to it. 1t Is . slander on the
Christian church. No such mission
aries were ever sent out by the Chris
tian church from Boston or anywhere
else in Christendom. The men and
women sent out "a missionaries by the
Christian church, to foreign lands, are
of the most upright self-sacri6cing,
pure, just and God fearing people thai
can be found In this or any other land
The Senator from Kansas has beer
either misquoted or misrepresented, ol
he is an ignorant, disreputable man
who is unworthy to represent 9 Chris
tian State.
Christian missionaries did 60 from
the United States to the Sandwich
Islands nearly an hundred years ago
and they found the inhabitants of thos
islands In . degraded savage condition
converted them to be Chris
tians, and elevated them TO be q civ
Iilized, upright amiable people. The
brought the nation out of barbarisr
into the light of the Nineteenth Ger
tury-"a nation born in day."
Wicked white men, from Americ
and Europe, who deride Christianity
followed the missionaries. for gold an
trade and lust, and carried the vices {
civilizstion into the islands, spreadin
evil diseases that carried OF nearl
half the population. But this was M
the work of Christians.
Al And 1t may be that among othel
, that have gone to the Hawaiian islan'
l.s-o- sh.v -o~o .&,ocbod ~ tho TInie<
Q States there have been Americans wi
4 have swindled the childish natives vii
8 some Of the iniquitous schemes th
have become old In the United State
but We do not believe the story th
{ even these swindlers have been able
J, impose upon the people there the swi
r die that they can get to heaven on CT
J. tificates obtained as the purchase pr.
of their lands. For these people we
II educated in the Bible by Protesta
B. missionaries, and that story would Z
n take any more readily among the
Of than IL would among the people Of {
United States.
The story Is discreditable to any m
10 who started IL, or imported it to Il
,e country. whether he be United Sta
1t Senator or q government pauper.
is The story is q shameful one to tell
" the people of Hawaii; it Is many tin
v. worse that missionaries from I
United States are accused of 81
shameful and wicked practices.
~ Senator Burton should put on
,e seven league boots, and start at once
the track of the man who tells 81
- Q story in his name.