The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-08
HAWAIIAN CHRISTIANITY.
U.-INDUSTRIAL STATUS.

II. In Ut 81 Rial - / y L I
The Hawaiian has not had time to
develop the commercial habit. How
long it took other races, who possessed
the advantage OF contiguity with one
another, to do this Is worth remember
ing in this connection. There are al
most no successful merchants of pure
Hawaiian stock in this Territory. This
is due primarily TO the cause just
stated, also to the fact that others have
done al tl-Gt was needed in this line, as
well as to the existence of other de-
mands for the exercise of the Ha-
waiian s powers. \ large number of
this people till successfully the soil
which they own At the last census in
1900 more than 43 per cent of the
homes occupied by Hawaiians were
owned by them, while only IS per cent
Of the homes occupied by Caucasians
in this Territory were owned by their
occupants. The figures are lacking for
1900, but in 1896 one adult Hawaiian
in every five owned real estate. Better
figures probably prevail today. When
Christianity came here none but
chiefs were land holders. Further
more, race must never be ex
pected to possess what their en-
vironment has not required them to
own. The absence of winter IS cold, or
of devastating hurricanes, demanding
the cultivation of thrift, explain much
that the Anglo Saxon, trained by grim
starvation to hoard the products of his
toll, condemns. The Hawaiian works,
often works hard, bat systematically as
Mother Nature through long centuries
taught him to do. He is learning slow
" our way of steadier toll because
stern competition has reached this
Paradise and is successfully fighting
Mother Nature In the care of stock,
in many clerical positions and more and
more in the trades and professions Ha
waiians are doing fine work. The |
trouble with US white Americans is our |
impotence. God has given US ten thou |
sand years of temperate zone, CONT |
mental development, which He has with |
held from the Islander, yet we COM /
plain because the brown man does not
overtake us in a paltry century.
III.-EDUCATIONA STATUS.
DO they progress after adde's
cence?' 1t is impossible to give a
answer to this question. OF
a number of favored Hawaiians, whose
opportunities have been
good and whose environment after
has been educative, one
can unhesitatingly say eyes There
is vast difference among white people
in this power of continued intellectual
A dead line exists for every
individual past which no real growth
is apparent. With the advance of
the human race manifests
4 steadily lengthening period of pos
sible Individual mental growth. 1t is
true that the average
white man tends to progress more after
than the average Hawaiian.
If with all that he has inherited he
lid not, the evolutionary theory would
nave lost a leg. But this capacity to
progress after adolescence while not SO
marked as with us exists in the Ha- ,
vaiian, instances of its presence in GER
ain individuals of this race to a degree
beyond that which characterize certain
of our own race may I'M
luestionably be found, and finally as ,,
,etter environment presses in upon the
oul of the native it is slowly length |
ming this period of possibility Never d,
heless it is true that the Hawaiian
lives to careful students the impress
ion of childishness He is still in the
arly stage of development, exactly
where science inexorably demands that :
because of his racial life history he :
hould be. But the important thing !;
bout him is that where conditions ia
oring his advance from this stage ex
st he is not standing still. He moves :
n and creditably. In this discussion
must not be forgotten that this Ter y
tory is not the mainland. The envir-
nment here is not nearly so stimulat-
ng to large growth. This is as it should 6
e. The Hawaiian is responding to his :;
If the white man only =
Tould try honestly to keep his terrible
ices of lust, greed for gold and drunk
mess out of these surroundings, the y
esponse of this nature man would as
Dnish the world. y
In this connection the really marvel
us development of the Hawaiian in e
lusic must not be left out of account.
s late as 1S41, twenty-one years af
er the coming of the missionaries, the =
;atus of the natives, unsteady, might q
ell be described as DR.. Lyman does in y
is Hawaiian Yesterdays, Sometimes q
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