Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-07-03

In late Honolulu paper, the
name and date of which ! forget. and
have mislaid, read a statement at
tributed to Rev. A. s. Baker of Kea-
lakekua, about as follows:
"In my district nearly all the
white people are English, and un-
naturalized at that"
feel sure that DR.. Baker could
not have made such an uncalled for
and unkind remark. He would not
have said "unnaturalized," anyway,
except in joke, and ! am certain
that he would not be guilty of cast
Ing such slur upon the pleasant
and friendly people who reside in his
two districts.
But such remarks are made by
Americans who ought to know bet
ter, and I might as well preach from
this text.
Ours is a broad country, with room
in It for the peoples of many differ
cnt lands. There is no reason why
an Englishman who is not ready to
become an American, but who con-
forms to our laws, should be made to
feel that he has no right to his prin-
ciples, though he lives among us.
The first elements of good taste
and courtesy require us to treat him
with Difference as our guest.
admire man who is loyal to his
own government, and who will not
sell his birthright for mess of pot
tage.
II is crying shame that. any
where In the States, the subject of
another country who leads respect
able life among our people should be
IN any way made to suffer for his
lack of conformity. This old trick
has been tried religiously. IL Is the
old spirit. The exceptional disscntcr
must conform to the dominant belief.
If Mr.. John Bull who comcsc among
MS. does not at once take mp our
manner Of life, our way of thinking.
our cut of dress, Wen make him un-
comfortable.
Well make II so hot for him, by
the g pluribus unum, that he will be
glad either to cit his papers or git
himself"
Personally I never pay any atten-
+ ton to the matter of race. religion
or politics. II the man no congenial
he is my friend and my brother.
Where race, religion or politics make
man Objectionable to the run of his
fellows, he will soon be dropped any
where.
The same sectional spirit of preju.
dice carried to extreme has put
shameful laws in force against the
Chinese In California. II is all preju-
dice and has no place In the heart
of one who processes to be a follower
of Christ.
So far as KOna Is concerned Cor
elsewhere for that matter), our So
called English residents are among
our best people, most of them are,
like the Greenwells, native-born
Americans, several are citizens by
naturalization, like the Woods, Wal
laces, etc.
II my memory serves me right,
there are as many native Americans
in attendance at the Episcopal
church as British. and, again, IL / am
Informed correctly q have never
paid much attention to the matter OF
formal citizenship, and don't care a
, farthing whether man Is an Ameri-
can or Turk, provided he is A
MAN ALL THE WAY THROUGH,
there are only two or three non
naturalized British subjects In Kona,
These are foreigners, II you will, but
good, honest, respectable, non-mcd.
dlesome citizens of the community
which cannot be said of some Others
WHO have taken out their ''papers. y
Some of the very best citizens VIC
have are English by inheritance;
and II some of the Americans ! know
were subjects of the King of Asian.
tee and could talk nothing but Choc.
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for their neighbors and for the coun-
TRY at large.
This idea that the minute you turn
u man into an American by process
of law, you make an adequate citi'
zen of him, Is one with the idea that
by taking any old renegade into the
church and having him subscribe tC
u few cobwebbed creeds, you make
u saint Of him, and insure his en-
trance into the fields of Elysian.
Neither have anything to do with
the manhood and the usefulness oI
him.
or course, II a man lives lonr
enough in n country to become at
tached to It's institutions, he will
want to identify himself with the
place and the people; and when he
does n will no time enough IN cytpni