The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-29
HAWAII AS It APPEARS
To A GLOBE TROTTER
Good Tourist Literature From the Pen of a
Wandering Massachusetts, Mainline Trb-
ute to Hawaii and Honolulu.

I ceeded in making the larger number OF
proselytes, numbered at least, by the
records of baptisms, and I judge they
were generally more loyal to the
crown. The New England Protestant
missionaries, however, accomplished
much more in the way of teaching the
people and improving them materially
and especially in bringing about a
revolution in landed titles. 1t is said
that these missionaries often became
well to do and that their children
are among the rich people of these is
lands. There seems to be no allegation
nor any evidence whatever that this
was the result of unfair dealing. 1t
was rather taking fair advantage of
the opportunities for legitimate enter
prise which then abounded and which,
to a more limited extent, still prevail.
If these missionaries sons have be-
come wealthy, they have done so no
more rapidly in proportion to their
capacities than have the natives whose
interests they espoused.
1t is far different from the results in
all of the western hemisphere south
of the United States, and, as under
stand it, in the Philippines Though I
have not been there) where the Chris
tian church and it's priesthood have Sc
cured so large a proportion Of the real
and personal property and the people
have SO little left.
AT present the Hawaiian people are
practically agnostics and the hand Of
no church rests heavily upon them.
THE REVOLUTION.
It is undoubtedly true that the over.
throw of the monarchy in the Hawai-
ian Islands was aided by the Protest
ant missionaries and the American
merchants, but it was the most logical
and peaceful revolution in the history
been accomplished had not a large
proportion of the most superior native
people been in sympathy. The later
monarchy was not a tyranny and
Queen Liliuokalani is undoubtedly an
estimable woman, but the time had
come when the rights of the people
should have been more fully recog-
nized, and it was the old story of re-
form which seldom comes to either the
government or the church from the
inside but must be forced from with
out
I could never understand the action
of President Cleveland, whom We all
believe to be a patriotic and high
minded man. Mr.. Blount, from Geor-
gia, was sent here during the time of
the provisional government with para
mount authority and he is to this day
called by many here Paramount
Blount.''
Mr.. Blount, within a few days after
his landing, and certainly without time
to investigate the issues or the people,
but acting upon a previous inspiration
or conviction, issued the following or
der, viz:
ITO u. S. Rear Admiral Skerritt,
Sir: You are directed to haul down
the United States ensign from the gov
eminent building and to embark the
troops now on shore in the ships to
which they belong. This will be exc
cuted at II o'clock On April 1st. I am,
sir, your obedient servant.
JAMES H. BLOUNT."
This order was issued March 31st and
it is to be remembered that Mr.. Cleve-
land took his seat on March 4th. I
have not the facts before me, but I am
informed that this order was issued
within one week after Mr.. Blount's ar
rival, although he was sent here to in
vestigate.
The survival of the republic and the
subsequent annexation to the United
States, were but the results of impel-