The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-27
PROFESSOR HOSMER On
OUR MISSIONARY ANNALS
The Work of the Early Fathers in tiawaij---Native
PecuIiarities as They Affect the Use
of the Voting Franchise.


Islands, strong years since, quite oveshadowe
Cuba Porto Rico the Philippines Panama
during present Russo Japanese History ha
making rapidly past years And yet your organ
and for development claim than passing glance
These islands have been for long time only coonync
when American missionaries Asa Thurson and Hiram
Sam OF honored memory LANDED on tose snores from te DIS
addeu and founded there American civilization the Wore
There the Church the schoohouse
by side and the civilization which we enjoy today in Hawaii tn
direct result OF their abors
long ago, English writer. describing islands
pictured the happy life of the natives before the white
He painted Utopan For breakfast the breadfru
palm and the and the Astounding fish supplied food
plenty and task to provide the sany clothing
shelter Life passed the forests sporting
the surf round of pleasure Why should the white
intruder Why change this ideal simplicity for the and bur
dens of modern civilization Even of ignorance is bliss
this assemblage that Engshn1an picture
The early Hawaiian lived under twood tyranny that kings
and chiefs the hand and the other dark gloomy
superstition He had right his little patch his
his wife children, his life The sub
ected though toll
Death the punishment of the slightest breach of etiquette Heavy
clothing labor
the king and his horde OF retaners be supplied The
should When the kings house be
be launched, human victims be
here were no courts and justice worthy the
melted Excessive this OPPRESSION their
cruel The Hawaiians peoped forests
and the with innumerab demons Hideous idols
represented their ideas OF the gods the smallest infringement
whose abus followed by punishment
and misfortune attributed malicious
decmatng the mputy destroying the
A Supplying liquor in and-wha among
barbarianthe maternal instinct weakened mothers often Civ
their children when wearied with their buryng
them alive No wonder then that the population decreasing
before the advent OF the white
When Captain Cook discovered 1873, he
mated the population Later Vancouver made closer
100000 certainly did not exceed 10000
In 1882 when the first taken they 10000
the of 1900 gives $685. Hawaiians.
appearance sailor and trader came the
higher meets
lower Intercourse with the outside world had
many doubt the power OF their gods and at the death of Kane
l. o he
restraints OF the abu thrown off, and idoaty
people of scepcism the following
the American missionaries arrived.
queen regent Kaahumanu woman of remarkable char
early and with others her warmly
seconded the efforts of the missionaries For
men Joined from time to time bv reinorceents from, the limited
States patiently abored
In addition religious instruction they
Bible and practical textbooks the
written language They the trusted advisers of the kings
suppresng evil home resisting
We them upon kings chiefs pro-
mitigation and enforcement of laws for the prevention
and vice bringing themselves the bitter hatred depraved
and laes whites whose hands their lives
from the oppression Of the old reor r. +b i f Ka
meha Ill (830 granted the people
enabled hold small plots OF land fee simple
Wilkes regards this constitution the obvious
fits of missionary abors"
The American public school system introduced than
fifty by the Rev Richard Armstrong, father
Armstrong who address this
To-day the percentage of iteacv is less than in the state Of
New York Under the OF Hon. A T Atkinson
inspector general the schools have attained high order
cheney there fine corps of trained teachers and
ceent buildings with the best of equipments The public
supplemented by private schools which
OF the 10000 pupils of the Territory.
will be in 1868 the with
drew from the islands, For the succeeded
the missionary fathers while results sadly Disappointing
the the outlook for the yght native
encouraging.
The Hawaiian readily of civilization
deceived him short
his genial kindly
disposition His wonderful when consider that he is
babarism There strong and noble
them the of have
pshed their eighty has fifteen