The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-24

| him while he works destruction upoT
those whose confidence has been gain
ed by missionary enterprise and by the
| preaching Of religion which, if lived
would not result in the determination
| of a race or the seizure of its territory
| A comparison of the Hawaiians and
| the FiIipinos is interesting as showing
the different effect of the blessings OF
| civilization upon the two peoples
| Since the days when Magellan sailed
| into the eastern seas the Philippines
| have been visited by every evil inf1u-
ence inflicted upon Hawaii, and in an
| even more objectionable form They
| had a worse type of vampire-the ad-
| venturers Of an earlier period. At the
| time of the discovery of Hawaii the
world had become little more civil
| lied; but for the two preceding GEN.
turtles the Fflipinos had had to suffer
intercourse with Europeans of the
| lowest type. They had an affliction,
too, which the Hawaiians never suffer-
ed; the incubus of a foreign govern
ment which drained the country of it's
resources and took of it's revenues to
found and maintain other dependen-
cies, such as Fernando Pc. Yet not
W1thstanding all these evils the results
in the Philippines have been very diff
ferent to those in Hawaii. Whereas,
in Hawaii the population decreased to
1-13th of its original number the Fill
pinos increased about fourfold The
worst disease of the white man had
every opportunity of spreading in the
Philippines, for Spain sent all her own
diseases, both moral and physical, to
her eastern possessions; but although
this disease decimated the Hawaiians,
1t never took special root in the Phil
ippines, nor did it produce even as in
furious effects as it did in Europe and
other countries.
The excessive use of alcohol has had
a most injurious effect upon the Ha-
Waiian population. 1t is said that in
the early days, when a trading ship
visited Honolulu, it was a common oc-
currence to find whole villages, men,
women and children, in a state of help
less drunkenness. But although the
Filipinos had the same or even greater
opportunities of procuring strong
drink from the trading ships of every
cline and nation, they have remained
strictly temperate people. The fol-
lowing testimony to this fact is given
by President Schurman of Cornell uni
Yersity and of the first Philippine COM
mission: II have never seen a Filipino
drunkard. They will take a small
wine-glass of liquor, and be content
with that; and this temperance in
drink is characteristic of their moder-
alton in many other things. Probably
no one thing has damaged the Amer
lean people in the eyes of the natives
more than this great vice of ours of
indulging too freely in drink Judge
Ide of the present Philippine commits
sion bears similar testimony to the
sobriety of the Filipinos. notwithstand-
ing the example of their conquerors.
In religion, too, a smaller contrast is
observable. It is a matter of pride |
with the Filipinos that they accepted |
the Christian religion voluntarily; it |
was not thrust upon them by their |
conquerors, nor was it adopted in im1- |
tation of their rulers; and there has
been no disposition on the part of the |
people to return to previous forms of |
Whereas, in Hawaii the |
Christian missionaries made little prog |
ress in converting the natives until the |
embraced the new faith, and |
then it was adopted by the people also |
largely in Imitation of their chiefs |
This was nearly a century ago, and |
yet a tendency to return to former !
practices forever ynanifests
tself, and at the present time the Ka-
huna, or medicine man, secretly pos +
sesses a powerful influence over the
people.
IN other spheres-in education, in I
trade, and in the accumulation OF .
wealth. All have a similar meaning
and serve to show that the Filipinos
are an older and more advanced
ace than the Hawaiians. This is es-
pecially evident with regard to the
xanlTire: until a people has reached a
certain stage in racial evolution the
only way in which it could contend
with the vampire would be to I
become vampires. But when this un-
stage is reached in morals, Il
n intellect and in self-respec
AN only come with age and accum1l-
ated experience-the vampire can have
no more Ill effect upon such a race
han he can upon the race that pro-
iuced him and turned hiyn adrift 1t II
s because of this that the Filipinos
Ind the Japanese have not become the
,rey of vampires. Nor have the wolves
n Sleeps clothing been more success
I'll; Japan had the wisdom to exclude
he vampire; and in the case of the
Filipinos, hanging, deportation, irn-
con1scation-these were
he only means of laying unlawful
lands upon their wealth. But these
Methods were destined to failure in the
nd and instead of the Filfpinos sue
umbing, as did the Hawaiians, it was
he wolf who was Drought to his
lnees, and finally "dethroned.'
Even at the present time the charge /