The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-30

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..anti-missionary. factions, the exist
ence of which in Hawaii is more as
sumed than real. is the product of
transftory business and political COM
ditions, and is wholly unconnected.
even by misleading names. with the
civilization and evangelization of the
Hawaiian people The permanent and
successful work OF the Missionaries.
both Protestant and Catholic, is spread
all over the islands If there are twen-
/ ty-six or twenty-seven churches in
Honolulu, the services OF which are
attended by thousands of decently at
tired and we'll behaved men and wo-
men, this fact is to be credited TO the
missionaries. The Asylum for the In
sane, the Honolulu Home for Incura-
/ bles, the Kapiolanf Home. the Kapio-.
lani Maternity Home. the Lunafilo'
Home, the Queens Hospital, and other.
| kindred institutions. which minister to
the necessities ana the comforts and
assuage the miseries of life. are the
outgrowth of the same benefcent in
| fuence The public schools and nu-
merous private institutions of educa--
| ton. more numerous proportionately
than in other parts OF the United
States, had the same origin. The we'll
| ordered homes, to be found IN every
nook and corner of the territory,
| originated in Christian training. Even
the material development, which, not
Notwithstanding the hard times, has been
on the whole beyond ordinary prece- ]
Dent, is a natural conseqv nee of the
practical Iabors of pioneer mission
aries. 1t is a significant fact too that,
in Honolulu. liquor saloons are closed 4
on Sundays, and there is no New Eng \
land village where. upon the day con-
secrated to Christianity. better order
prevails or the evidences of individual |
and social propriety are more APP
parent.
The literary twins had better have
left the missionaries to Hawaii alone. |
They betray their own consciousness
of Misrepresentation after satirizing
the mtghtiest element In human prog
ress and following the practice of the 4
intolerant historians by Identifying the
religion of Christ with the struggles
of vanishing barbarisn, by the admis-
sion that "it was the whaler and the 4
early trader, STEPPED in rum and lust,
that brought disease and devastation Il
to the HaWaiians." The effect of this
concession is to ob1iterate the conc1u-
saonis they had previously expressed
and implied. But they more forcibly /.
manifested their Inconsistency and
their total incapacity for accurate
opinions. and antagonize lheir entire
argument, by the institution of sup
posed comparison between the millions
OF Fflfpinos and the small Hawaiian
populati ton, as nature peoples and
without reference 10 ..the blessings of
cfxiiiz in. siis9hich is designed
parage the latter. Their proposition IS
that centuries of misrule and tempta-
tons to vice failed to degenerate the
Filipinos. who increased fourfold in
numbers, who remained temperate, a.
mong whom RIGHTEOUSNESS never took
special root, and who now refuse to |.
work. not from inherent idleness, but
from statesnnan1ike determination
not to feed the vampires and .tte
beasts of prey, sent forth from the
United States. whose enterprise threat 1
ems TO become dominant in the Philip f
pine archipelago. On the other hand I
they Claim that the Hawaiians yielded
to every solicitation to vice, that. gem
erations ago; when trading vessels ar
rived. all the inhabitants of villages
fell into "a state of helpless drunken
ness, that the liquor habit entaile,a
all the evils with which it is asso-
eiated, and that, in this way, that H.
through their own inherent weakness
as ma ture people" and not, as other
wise specified in the article under re-
view, from The hypocrisy or narrow
nindedness of the missionaries, their /
numbers fell from four hundred thous-
and to thirty thousand.
+ ! i y
Thus. by false premises, by nom
sequiturs. and through malicious at
tack upon American civilization. it is
sought to exaft the F,ilpfnos to a.
height they have never approached, I
and to lower the natives of these is
lands to a depth they have never
reached The fact of Hawaiian sius-
eeptibility to certain forms of disease
is undeniable- The reduction of their
numbers is tendency which their own
intelligence and growing morality. not
impeded but aided by American insti-
tutions and by American example are
In a fair way to arrest. The moderate
consumption of LIQUOR. often of most
nernicinl1s mn It.