The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-04-06
A CLERIC IN JUDGMENT.

: that against my will-to these conclu-
sions: the political constitution which
4 the native race received was more ad-
nnirable for the missionaries and their
/ children than for the natives; the Ha-
waiian laws were made and admins
tered by the missionaries and their
descendants for the advantage of them
selves. rather than for the good of the
natives.
by the ancient Hawaiian laws the
natives were. in general. secure in pos
session Of their homesteads-"
When DR.. Daniel. of the American
Board. visits the Bishop Museum, he
should meet Mr.. EIkin in the chapel.
Here is a person who charges the early
and later missionaries with utter sell
fshness. greed, and political fraud in
their dealings with the native race.
His language is clear, distinct, and
ringing with criminal Indictment
There are no qualifications in it. Yet
he occupies a pulpit erected by the
generosity of those who were the close
and intimate friends of these mis-
sionary frauds" for such they were.
IL the charge is true. Mr.. Ellxin states
nothing which is new. He has Joined
the crowd of disgruntled critics who
for half century have been denounc-
ing the missionary" This crowd, the /
majority of whom stand. with berry |
eyes. on the sidewalks, from which they |
chronicaIly depart in pursuit of 'Jags;"
many of them from those delightful /
homes of religious culture, the forecas- !
ties of whale and merchant ships;
many of them romantic beach-combers,
with extremely picturesque biographies
7-all of them unite in one common pro-
tracted yell against 1.-THE damned mis-
sionary." Their language, deprived of
it's profanity, and paraphased, is the
language of the Reverend Mr.. EIlxin,
who breaches in the Kamehameha
chapel: that "the missionaries and
their descendants made and admins
tered the laws for the advantage of
themselves in other words robbed the
poor kanaka. Though these men have
been challenged time and again, have
been even offered large sums of money
for actual proof of these charges. they
have never responded, but have stuck
to the sidewalks. or reinforced them
selves with more alluring "jags." The
foremost of these critics repeatedly
and ferociously assailed the missionary, !.
using always as his text, almost the
very words quoted above. But he was
sent in 1896 to Sing Sing prison in the
State Of New York. for gross swind-
ling. and his crusade against the mis-
sionary ceased.
Now as to the assertion, evidently
made to minimize the benefits done by
the missionaries in securing home
stead law for the natives, he declares
hat under the ancient Hawaiian
avs. the natives were. in general Sc
cure in possession of their home
'teads.' This curious student of his
DRY never read the words of Chief Jus
ice Lee, the intimate friend and COM
,anion of Mr.. c. r. Bishop, a pupil of
Judge Story, and one of the men, not
who secured the land laws:
Until the last year QS49) the Hawaiian
leld his land as a mere tenant at suf-
erance. subject to be dispessessed at
ny time it might suit the will or ca
rice of his chief. I thank God .
hat these things are now at an end
thank God that He has moved the
cart of the king and chiefs of the
stands to let the oppressed go free"
by the homestead act).
The same sentiments are repeated at
lrge in Prof. Alexander's history
pages 81, 229), who declares that the =
atives had no rights under the, ancient
Tvs.
Probably no one can more correctly
lform this clerical person than Mr.
: r. Bishop. who had, as the COM
anton of the damned missionary"
nd of Judge Lee, a personal knowl- I'M
ige of these matters. We hope that of
lie schools official will address Mr.. in
ishoD on the subject, and will also 30
ermit US to publish the reply That la,
ply will indeed be lively reading.
What has been said. has no reference
the men, who honestly criticise the
visionary methods. The missionaries -
ade mistakes. but from no source
hich is really responsible, and willing
offer proofs. has the charge been TT,
ade against them Of causing laws to
), enacted, and administered for their r
vn selfish benefit. The Rev. Mr.. FL lul
n should re-write Hawaiian history, up
he wishes to give his interpretations hes
~ standing and to do so he will find IT.
necessary to correct such man as pa
.rvis, Bingham, Alexander, Bird and BET
host of writers. as well as the his c.
~ of the Islands. as contained in the
dicial reports of the courts. All of =
csc are opposed to his view. -