The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-24
UNRECONSTRUCTED FILIPINO LEADER
DISCUSSES THE WHITE VAMPIRE "

tween the TWO. out between ana
prince, pariah and pariah.
Nevertheless, Darwin's theory is ap-
pIicabIe TO the Hawaiian situation, but
not in the form of a contest between a
superior and an inferior race, and not
in a manner that will ease the Anglo
Saxon's conscience or prove creditable
to his pretentions. Thus, the contest
of the survival of the fttest is not
only for food and area but in the
avoidance of enemies and beasts of
prey. And here we reach the real solu-
ton of the Hawaiian problem. 1t is
the beast of prey that has caused the
downfall of the Hawaiian. It was not
due to the contest of an inferior with
a superior race, but to the contact of
a primitive race with the poisonous
dregs of an advanced race. 1t was the
Whaler and the early trader, STEPPED in
rum and lust, that brought disease and
devastation to the Hawaiians; and it
was the trader and the planter, pos
session some of the intellect OF the adj
vanced race, but lacking it's moral
qualities, that continued the work and
consummated the final overthrow of
this once vigorous people. A superior
race indeed If the Hawaiians had
come in contact with such their history
would have been very different. A
superior race would have healed, not
spread disease; it would have protect
ed, not rebuffed it's newly-found fellow
man; it would have confirmed him in
his territorial possessions and given
him of it's religion, it's wisdom, it's
morality and its law, protecting him
from the vampires of its own race A
superior race would have lived its re-
!.
morality would have been of everyday
practice, not something merely to point |
to in a book containing 10 command |
ments. But instead of all this there |
was the missionary, who, though self |
denying and devoted, was usually mar |
row minded, without knowledge of the |
world and its larger problems, and |
quite unconscious of the mischief he
was working. BY his zeal without |
knowledge, he gained for the white
man the confidence of the native popu-
lation; he unwitting1y became the
'confidenceman" of the vampire who
followed him. The vampire was in
turn succeeded by the wolf in sleeps
respectable trader and |
scorned to indulge in pet
ty fraud, and so took the whole coun-
try, in order that there should be no
more defrauding of the nativesl
These are the processes which have
gone on ir Hawaii for the last century.
and whica are now going on in the
eastern and southern seas. In order
to succeed in such a contest the Ha-
Naiians would have had to evolve not, |
mark you, a higher or a more moral
type, but a new type OF vampire
vampire capable of withstanding rum
and the disease of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and
In equal or superior in every form of
1eviltry condemned between Genesis
Ind Revelationst Besides, there is this
important poinS; the contest is never
I fair one, foz if the vampire be over
brown by the rough and ready meth
IDS OF the primitive race, the advanced
ace sends a warship TO his rescue The
contest might be simp1ified If the prirn-
tive race were allowed to treat the
vampire according to his deserts. But
the advanced race viii not
protect primitive races from the vann-
oire, it protects the vampire from the
race. It is therefore, not the
of the f1ttest but the survival
IF the worst owing to the protection
# the strongest.
But in any case, responsibility can
aot thus be avoided by an appeal to
natural lay. Leprosy and smallpox are
natural products: do we bow resignedly
o Nature in these cases? Do we al
ow leprosy to wither, and smallpox to
I'M riot and then wait for the survival
II the httesta Nature might indeed. +,
'yoive a type of being which would be
immune to these diseases; 1t would be
he 1ttest, but would it be the best?
Ne know that it would not necessarily
'e a high or a moral type, for the set
Il conditions which evolve an immune
re not the same as those which evolve
! moral or an intellectual being The
philosopher and the divine are just
g likely to fall q victim to these dis
'ases as are the farm laborer or the
burglar. Accordingly, we apply our
'est energies to isolate, to prevent, to ~
uFe and to eradicate disease. But we
70 not isolate our moral leper; on the !,
ontrary we turn him loose and protect